37 practitioners have an office in Alabama, and 55 more can see patients here by telehealth. 56 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Huntsville, Birmingham and Dothan.
Dr. Waddell is one of three board certified obstetrician gynecologists at Montgomery Women's Health Associates, a long established obstetrics and gynecology group on Taylor Road in Montgomery. The practice publishes a hormonal and women's health service that covers menopause management, hormone replacement therapy, and osteoporosis evaluation and treatment. For menopause it treats hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbance and mood changes with individual plans, and it reviews medical history and symptoms before deciding whether hormone therapy is right for a patient, then monitors treatment closely. Surgery is done by the group itself and includes hysteroscopy, endometrial ablation, laparoscopic hysterectomy, robotic surgery and pelvic reconstructive surgery. A medically supervised weight loss program runs alongside the gynecology care with a staff nutrition coach who guides patients on lifestyle changes and weight loss medication options. One thing a reader should know is that Dr. Waddell is currently taking new patients only if they are pregnant, while her two physician partners take new patients generally.
Sherri Franklin is a certified nurse midwife and women's health nurse practitioner who sees patients as part of Dr. Karen Raiford's team at Tennessee Valley OBGYN, an obstetrics and gynecology group that has cared for Huntsville women for more than 27 years from a main office downtown and a second office at Crestwood Maternity Center. She spent over 20 years in the Army caring for women, first as a labor and delivery nurse and later as a certified nurse midwife, and she earned a post masters degree as a women's health nurse practitioner in 2023. Her own biography says she has a newfound interest in helping women through perimenopause and menopause, and she is the only provider on the team whose page mentions either. The practice lists menopause management among its gynecology services alongside routine exams, contraception, osteoporosis care, urinary incontinence treatment and surgery, but it does not name any specific hormone or non hormonal treatment anywhere on its website. There is an in house full service laboratory for diagnostic testing, and the practice is affiliated with Huntsville Hospital and Crestwood Medical Center. Appointments are arranged through the scheduling department rather than an online calendar, and the request form lets a patient ask for one of the physicians or the first available provider.
Online Benign Gyne is Dr. Todd's own telehealth practice, and every visit happens by video. She sees women for contraception, breast concerns, vaginal and vulva problems, menopause and facial skin care, and consultations and referrals are part of what she offers. Her site carries long plain-language explainers on hormone therapy, PCOS, urinary infections and breast exams. She is a New Orleans native and a military veteran who served during Operation Desert Storm and later at Walter Reed Medical Center. She says she especially enjoys caring for older women because she has faced the same changes herself. New patients can pick a video slot through the practice's own online scheduler.
Dr. Swing is a board-certified OB/GYN whose practice is built around hormone care for women in perimenopause and menopause. A first-person account on the site describes going through menopause in the mid forties, finding that the regimens taught in residency did not work, and then taking extra training in bioidentical hormone therapy. Hormone patients join an annual cash-pay program, and the practice will only fill hormone prescriptions for women enrolled in it. Testosterone pellets are placed in the office in a procedure that takes ten to twenty minutes, written up in the first person down to how long the paper strips stay on. Routine gynecology runs on a separate track and is billed to insurance. A nurse practitioner joined in 2025 and covers much of the general gynecology.
Kirby Plessala runs a solo gynecology and fertility practice in Mobile and has been seeing patients there since 1994. He is the only clinician in the office, supported by nurses, sonographers and administrative staff. His hormone work covers the pre, peri and post menopausal stages, and he provides hormone therapy as pills, patches, creams, vaginal products, injections, sublingual troches and pellets. He describes himself as the only provider in Mobile certified in bioidentical hormone therapy, and he holds pellet certifications through Biote and Evexias. The practice also handles general gynecology, PCOS, fertility care without IVF, and evaluation after pregnancy loss, and it does hysteroscopy and endometrial ablation in the office. He grounds the practice in faith and family and belongs to the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
