Perimenopause: Women’s Misunderstood, Confusing and Long Midlife Transition

Seminar Title: Perimenopause—Women’s misunderstood, confusing and long midlife transition

Presenter: Dr. Jerilynn Prior, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UBC

Jerilynn C. Prior BA, MD, FRCPC is a Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of British Columbia working on women’s health. She studies menstrual cycles, the effects of ovulation and its disturbances on women’s later life osteoporotic fracture, heart attack and breast cancer risks. She is the British Columbia Centre Director of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos), a 20-year prospective 9-centre population-based bone and general health study and the Scientific Director and Founder of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (www.cemcor.ca).