Menopause Society Certified Practitioners in California
519 practitioners have an office in California, and 126 more can see patients here by telehealth. 386 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in San Francisco, Newport Beach and San Diego.
Gliss Wellness is a virtual-only OB/GYN practice Dr. Walsh co-founded with a second board-certified OB/GYN, and menopause care is its main focus. Care starts with a 30-minute video consultation about your symptoms, and if hormone therapy suits you, you leave with prescriptions for the first three months. A follow-up at three months keeps refills going for the rest of the year, and refills in between happen by message through the patient portal. There is no membership, and you fill prescriptions at your own pharmacy. The doctors can't examine you in person but can order labs and other tests. Dr. Walsh's own interests include pelvic pain, endometriosis, fibroids and weight loss, and a free 15-minute call lets you meet the team before booking.
Jerusalem Makonnen sees patients at One Medical's Grand Lake office in Oakland, a membership primary care practice rather than a menopause clinic. She lists peri/menopause as her area of expertise and otherwise sees patients of all ages for general primary care. Most contact runs through the One Medical app, where members message their care team and use on-demand video visits around the clock. Scheduled visits with her, in the office or by video, are booked on top of the membership and billed to insurance, and the office takes same-day and next-day appointments. One Medical publishes nothing about which hormone treatments its providers use, so what she prescribes for menopause is not stated on the site. She trained at Yale, writes that she wants to create a safe space for everyone, and says she runs, does yoga and gets out to the California beaches with her family.
Anna is a nurse midwife who sees patients through Midi Health, a national virtual clinic. She came to menopause care at Stanford Health Care, where she found midlife patients had stopped raising their symptoms because they had been dismissed so often. She earned her Menopause Society certification and says she learned most by listening to her patients. Her stated area of expertise is vaginal health, including dryness and painful sex. Every visit is by video. A new patient fills in a short questionnaire that the clinician reads before the first visit.
Gennev is an all-virtual menopause clinic owned by Unified Women's Healthcare, and care starts with a 30 minute video visit with a menopause-trained doctor. Dunsmoor-Su is Gennev's chief medical officer and she also carries her own patient list. The areas she names herself include premature ovarian insufficiency, breast cancer risk and survivorship, endometriosis, and weight management with medication. Her background is clinical epidemiology, and she still runs women's health drug trials as a medical director at a Seattle research centre and teaches OB-GYN residents. She says she treats each visit as a chance to explain the current evidence so the decision about treatment is a shared one. Doctors here prescribe FDA-approved hormone therapy when a patient is a candidate and non-hormonal medicines when she is not, and the clinic tells patients to steer clear of compounded weight drugs made outside FDA oversight.
Beyer is a Midi clinical leader and sits on the company advisory board, and she still sees patients by video. She trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, then dropped obstetrics to work on gynaecology and hormonal health only. Weight is her second focus and she holds a diplomate from the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She talks openly about gaining weight before her 50th birthday and losing 35 pounds over five months, and she uses that with patients who are struggling. Care runs through Midi only, so visits are by video and anything needing an exam or imaging goes to an outside clinician. Her page has no booking link of her own, so the Midi sign-up does not let a new patient choose her by name.
Jennifer Tagatz sees patients through Midi Health, a national virtual clinic for perimenopause and menopause, and every visit is by video. She spent 20 years providing OB/GYN care at Kaiser Permanente before joining. She says she saw menopausal patients there who had no good source of education, and then went through her own hormone transition in her forties. Her mother was an OB/GYN nurse and her father a fertility specialist, so women's health was dinner table talk. Care at Midi can include hormone and non-hormone prescriptions, labs, supplements and weight medication. New patients book a half-hour first visit online, with short follow-ups after.
Sarah Wallis is a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner with twenty years in women's health, seeing patients by video through Midi Health. Her focus is health and wellness in midlife and the menopause transition. She speaks English, Spanish and Arabic and describes her care as culturally sensitive. In her own words, many of her patients have felt dismissed by a health system that does not grasp how big the changes of midlife are. She wants every patient to understand how her own body works, so she can take charge of her well-being. Midi lists her as a clinical leader and her page has no booking link of her own, so the sign-up does not let a new patient choose her by name.
Ratelle is a women's health nurse practitioner in the obstetrics and gynecology office of Montage Medical Group, the physician group owned by Montage Health in Monterey. The office covers gynecologic care at every age alongside full pregnancy and birth care, and it lists menopause symptom management among the services at that location. Her own bio says she treats sexual and reproductive health as central to overall health, and that she spends time on education so patients can decide for themselves. She moved to Monterey from Vermont in 2020. Care runs through the health system rather than a private office, so you book by calling the office or by requesting a visit in MyChart. New patients print and fill out a registration form plus a separate obstetrics and gynecology history packet before the first visit, or arrive fifteen minutes early to do it there.
Giese has been an OB/GYN at Kaiser Permanente's Delta Fair Medical Offices in Antioch since she finished her residency in 2003. She works only in the outpatient clinic now and does outpatient gyn procedures, after years of labor and delivery and gynecologic surgery in the hospital. Menopause and midlife health is one of the topics she names as common in her practice, along with hormone therapy for menopause symptoms. Kaiser prescribes FDA-approved bioidentical estradiol and progesterone from its own pharmacies and advises against compounded hormone prescriptions, so that is the route to hormones here. She grew up in the East Bay and sees patients in Spanish, and she is board certified in lifestyle medicine on top of obstetrics and gynecology. She is also the physician site lead for the Delta Fair building, which means she works with every department in it.
Banner Peak Health is a four physician concierge practice in Walnut Creek, and Klein is the one who carries the Menopause Society certification. Care runs on an annual membership that covers unlimited visits and direct access to your own doctor by cell phone at any hour. New members start with a phone call to the practice director, then an unhurried meeting with the physician they would see, then a baseline assessment that can run two hours. Writing about perimenopause, Klein says she rules out thyroid problems, IBS, SIBO and gastroparesis before she looks at hormones, because the symptom cluster gets missed for years while a woman is sent from one specialist to the next. For treatment she describes an estrogen patch with oral progesterone, sometimes a progesterone IUD for endometrial protection, and a small amount of testosterone when it helps. She spent ten years in internal medicine at John Muir Medical Center and left because that setting gave her no time to be present with patients.
Sacramento Women's Health is a seven-physician OB/GYN partnership on Fair Oaks Boulevard, running in the same practice line since 1960. Dr. Mikacich joined in 2009 and is the one the practice names as its menopause and weight loss specialist, and she is also a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. The services list says menopause management here uses FDA approved bioidenticals. She finished a master's in public health at UC Berkeley in 2024 focused on food and nutrition, and she describes her own practice as centered on menopause and metabolic health. She has been a medical consultant for Grey's Anatomy since 2005 and co-founded a perinatal mental health program in Denver before moving home to Sacramento. New patients call the office and bring a completed paper packet to the first visit, and she speaks fluent Spanish.
Dr. Meagan runs a virtual-only menopause practice for women who live in California. She turned to perimenopause care after nearly 20 years in medicine, when more and more patients, friends and family kept asking her about it. Care starts with an hour-long video visit where she goes over your symptoms, past care and prescriptions, then sets a plan with follow-up visits to adjust it. She prescribes hormone therapy in whatever form you prefer. She also offers weight care with DEXA scans and GLP-1 medication, plus ketamine and psychedelic medicine for sleep, anxiety and mood. She does not act as your primary doctor or gynecologist, so you still need your own for exams and pap smears.
Dr. Coe is a UCLA-trained gynecologist and has been a Menopause Society certified practitioner since 2012. Menopause care here means systemic and vaginal hormone therapy, with lifestyle changes, pelvic floor physical therapy and psychological support added when they fit. She also does general gynecology, sexual health and preventive primary care, and she is trained in vulvoscopy for vulvar conditions like vulvodynia. She stepped back from practice for years to look after her family, living in Montana and London, and finished a master's in health policy before reopening her Newport Beach office. Visits can be in the office or by phone or video, and new patients request an appointment through the office and get portal access before the first visit.
Dr. Beddow runs a solo OB/GYN office in San Mateo and has been practicing in the Bay Area for over two decades. She was on faculty at Stanford before returning to private practice. The office covers the full range of obstetrics and gynecology, so menopause and hormone evaluation sits alongside pregnancy care and surgical gyn work rather than being the whole practice. She is a mother of twins herself and says that gives her a particular bond with other twin mothers. New patients book online and the office confirms the appointment the next business day. Video visits appear on her schedule for established patients only, so a first appointment means going in.
Dr. O'Neill is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who also holds the Menopause Society's NCMP certificate. Menopause is one of several services at her small practice, alongside general gynecology, fertility, obstetrics and acupuncture. This is a general ob-gyn office, not a menopause-only clinic, and she admits to two San Jose hospitals for surgery and deliveries. The office is in a historic house in Campbell, and new patients fill out a history questionnaire before the first visit. Appointments are booked through an online scheduling page. The site does not say which menopause treatments she prescribes.
Trinitas is a small primary care practice for the whole family, and Dr. Yanni is its physician. She is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, so one doctor can see a mother and her children. Menopause care sits inside the women's health visit, with hormone therapy as one of the options. She writes that she has been a cancer patient herself, and that it taught her how much being listened to matters. The practice bills insurance as a regular office, and an optional concierge membership for PPO patients adds longer visits and same-day or next-day access. Video visits are listed only as a concierge perk and only within California.
Sarah Norris works in the Women's Health department at Fairchild Medical Clinic, the outpatient arm of a small nonprofit community hospital in Yreka, in far northern California. Her own provider page names menopause management as one of her areas, alongside pregnancy, cervical and breast cancer screening, contraception and sexual health, so menopause care sits inside a general women's health practice rather than being the whole of it. She came to nursing after working as a birth doula and childbirth educator in the Bay Area, and she started practicing in 2012. Before moving to Yreka in 2021 she served with the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation and then at Pine Ridge in South Dakota. New patients start by signing up for the hospital patient portal or by calling the clinic. The site does not describe what her menopause visits involve or which treatments she uses.
Lim Women's and Urologic Health is a small virtual practice run by Dr. Lim out of Santa Cruz. Her site says she is the first and only fellowship trained female urologist and urogynecologist in Santa Cruz County. Care is built around longer visits and direct contact with her instead of a packed clinic schedule. The focus is menopause and hormonal health, recurrent urinary tract infections, vaginal and pelvic health, and preventive urologic care. She says plainly that the practice is not for emergencies or for anything that needs an in person exam right away. The practice has not opened for booking yet, and new patients join a waitlist.
Dr. Correia is a board-certified OB-GYN who runs a small private clinic that also sees men and offers primary care, weight loss and longevity medicine. Menopause care is one of several services, with its own program built around bioidentical hormones in cream, patch and oral forms. A first visit starts with a hormone panel and a review of symptoms and history. Follow-up labs come about six to eight weeks later, and doses are rechecked every three to six months. The clinic does not take insurance and does not offer online booking, so new patients call to schedule. Visits can be in the Pismo Beach office or by video, and a nurse practitioner also sees patients there on Thursdays.
Millie is a Berkeley and San Jose women's health clinic that grew out of maternity care and now runs a perimenopause and menopause service open to anyone, not only its pregnancy patients. Erin is a family nurse practitioner with more than ten years in primary care and women's health, and she is one of a handful of clinicians at the Berkeley office you can pick by name when you book a menopause evaluation. She also sees women through Midi Health for menopause and midlife care, and she has done extra training in women's integrative medicine. Most menopause visits can be done by video, and you come into the Berkeley office when lab work, imaging or an exam is needed. The clinic was started by a patient who landed in the ER with postpartum preeclampsia and the midwife she called afterwards to ask what had gone wrong.
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Molly Jacobs is one of four clinicians in Open Door Gynecology, the gynecology service that runs out of the Plaza clinic in Arcata. That service treats menopause symptoms and prescribes hormone therapy, and it also handles contraception, heavy or irregular periods, pelvic pain, prolapse and PCOS. Open Door is a nonprofit community health center network on California's North Coast, so new patients start by calling its Member Services team rather than booking online. Income is checked at the visit for a sliding fee discount, and it applies even to patients who have insurance, which is part of why no fee list is published. Jacobs is also on the Plaza clinic's pregnancy and delivery panels, and the clinic runs its own lab with drop-in hours. Visits can be done by video through the patient portal, and providers can order tests and prescribe medication during a video visit.
Dr. Dombo is a board-certified OB-GYN who is going through the menopausal transition herself. She says starting hormone therapy and changing her nutrition and supplements took her from exhaustion and poor sleep back to enjoying life, and that is why she does this work. She trained in the early 2000s, when hormone therapy was widely feared, and now calls it the gold standard for symptom relief. The first visit runs 60 minutes and covers medical and gynecologic history, medications, nutrition and exercise, then a personal treatment plan. The visit also lists a nutritionist assessment, an exercise plan and mindset coaching, and follow-ups run 25 minutes. She writes publicly about why menopause hits Black women harder and how often they face barriers to care.
Nancy Siskowic is a nurse practitioner who has focused on perimenopause and menopause since the early 1990s, working on her own out of a single office. She prescribes estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, and a hormone consult also covers nutrition, supplements, exercise, stress and osteoporosis prevention. She is a board certified psych and mental health nurse practitioner as well as a licensed psychotherapist, so she treats anxiety and depression and prescribes those medications herself. Her own writing makes a strong case for staying on hormone therapy long term, prefers the patch and other transdermal forms over pills, and rejects the lowest dose for the shortest time in favor of the lowest effective dose. She writes openly about her own breast cancer, which is the subject of her book. The office sees patients on Tuesdays by appointment only and you call to schedule rather than booking online.
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Churn Creek Healthcare is a tribal health clinic in Redding and part of the Redding Rancheria Tribal Health System, and Cooper is one of its family practice clinicians. It opened in 2015 and serves Native American and non-Native patients across Shasta County and Trinity County. Care runs as ordinary family practice with same-day urgent care alongside it, and the clinic stays open into the early evening on weekdays. Getting in works differently from most practices. A new patient has to be assigned to this clinic as their primary clinic by their health plan before the clinic can take them, so the front desk is not where you start. The clinic publishes nothing about menopause or hormone care and Cooper has no bio on the site, so what she does for midlife patients is not described anywhere.
