Optimising hormones and deprescribing

Speaker: Faiza Kennedy – 31 July 2025 7-8pm
1 hour CPD

Join Pharmacist and Menopause Specialist Faiza Kennedy for an enlightening webinar where she will explore how optimising a woman’s hormones may help to reduce prescribing cascades and inappropriate polypharmacy.

This CPD event will:

• Empower you with the confidence to consider deprescribing certain medication groups, such as pain medications and antidepressants, which may not be appropriate to manage menopause symptoms – and how this can be managed safely
• Using patient stories, discuss how to approach consultations in a person-centred way, ensuring shared decision making and individualised care
• Share how when patients are on the right dose and type of HRT, it can help to reduce the medicines burden, medicines waste and avoidable adverse drug reactions

About Faiza Kennedy

BPharm(Hons)

Pharmacist and Menopause Specialist

Faiza is Pharmacist Clinical Lead at Newson Clinic who has worked as a prescribing advisor and practice pharmacist in England and Wales for over 25 years. Listening to Louise’s podcast inspired her to change her career and specialise in menopause care.

Faiza feels strongly that women should be empowered to recognise the symptoms of menopause in themselves and their friends and family so that they can seek help early and avoid needless suffering. She finds it a privilege to be able to help women feel better and live more.

Faiza says: ‘Working in GP practices for many years, I saw so many women struggle with symptoms despite taking multiple medications including antidepressants and pain medications.

‘I didn’t join the dots until I went through the perimenopause myself- it hit me like a train and it affected my husband, my children and my work. After listening to just one of Dr Newson’s podcasts, I knew I needed to work in menopause care. Now I spend a lot of time learning, thinking and talking about preventing disease and promoting health in women. Throughout my career, I have been lucky enough to have tried different roles and enjoyed them, but I finally feel like I have found a place where team members are like family and where we all have a strong sense of being on a mission to stop unnecessary suffering.’

Session price: £20.00

ADHD, hormones and the brain

Speaker: Dr Sumi Rampling – 25 September 2025 7-8pm
1 hour CPD

Join Dr Sumi Rampling for an enlightening CPD webinar for healthcare professionals on how hormones can impact the wellbeing and functioning of women with ADHD, as well as management strategies.

Using a patient case study, Dr Rampling will explore factors including ADHD diagnosis, and how oestradiol, progesterone, and testosterone may impact the brain.

This webinar will also cover:

• The interplay between ADHD, PMS and PMDD
• ADHD in perimenopause and menopause
• The potential impact of synthetic contraception
• The role of HRT and other measures to manage symptoms and improve quality of life for women with ADHD.

About Dr Sumi Rampling

Mb BCh DCH MPH MRCGP FFPH DFSRH Dip G-U-Med

GP and Menopause Specialist

Dr Rampling studied medicine at UWCM in Wales. She worked in global health in several different countries and specialised in public health medicine in the UK before qualifying as a GP. She also spent some years working in a sexual health clinic in Soho, London.

She now lives in Warwickshire with her husband and three young children, where she works as a GP and menopause specialist. She holds several postgraduate healthcare diplomas as well as a master’s degree in global health from Yale University USA.

Dr Rampling is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health medicine at the Royal College of Physicians UK and is also a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Sumi strongly believes in high quality menopause care, both for personal wellbeing and for the benefit of public health.

Session price: £20.00