Rewriting the Rules of Midlife Women’s Health
Board-Certified Physician | Speaker | Thought Leader
Our bodies aren’t broken.
They are responding to a world that taught women to take up less space.
I write and speak about what that costs us, and what changes when we stop.
Triple-Certified Expertise
One of only a handful of physicians in the US dual board-certified in OB/GYN and obesity medicine AND menopause-certified
Clinical + Lived Experience
Over twenty-five years experience treating midlife women + personal navigation of perimenopause –> menopause
Systems-Level Reform
Bridging clinical medicine with workplace policy and health system design
Not another wellness voice – a reformer.
Who I am:
I’m a dual board-certified physician in obesity medicine and obstetrics/gynecology, and a certified menopause practitioner – one of a very small group of physicians in the US with this combination of expertise.
I’ve spent over twenty-five years in clinical medicine, but I’m also an entrepreneur and systems thinker. After building Kansas City’s first single-specialty, insurance-based obesity medicine clinic and navigating its transition to a fully self-pay model, I became obsessed with transforming the entire healthcare space.
I used to think the healthcare system was broken. Now I realize it’s working exactly as it was designed – to allow big business to profit from sickness.
I’m on a mission to help build something better for women in midlife. I believe we’re stronger when we collaborate and connect the dots.
Whether through clinical practice, speaking, or consultation, I help organizations and individuals rewrite the rules around midlife women’s health.
Previous Engagements:
Keynotes and Conversations on Women, Bodies, and Midlife
I speak to audiences ready to question what women have been taught to believe about their bodies, and what it costs us.
Health ≠ Morality
How shame-based health narratives teach women to shrink, in their bodies, careers, and voices, and how medicine, workplaces, and culture can stop reinforcing them.
→ Ideal for: women’s leadership events, professional associations, health-system leaders
Designing for Strength
Women in midlife are experienced, high-value talent. Most are hungry to contribute, yet they are leaving the workplace at record rates.
Understanding what’s broken in the systems they are working in and how to redesign them is the key to optimizing our current and future workforce
→ Ideal for: benefits leaders, executive retreats, women’s leadership events
Fade or Rise: Rewriting Midlife
Why midlife is when women are taught to disappear, what the biology actually asks of us, and what happens when we refuse to wait to be taken seriously.
→ Ideal for: women’s leadership events, retreats, association keynotes
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