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Ask Anything - Monthly Menopause & HRT Q&A

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You ask and our two expert healthcare professionals answer!

Join Dr. Thacker, Founder of the Cleveland Clinic Specialized Women’s Health Fellowship and Professor and Director of the Center for Specialized Women’s Health at Cleveland Clinic along with Dr. Fiffick, a Specialized Women’s Health Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Specialized Women’s Health as they answer your questions about menopause. This 60 minutes is dedicated to taking questions from the audience.

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Dr. Holly L. Thacker

Founder of the Cleveland Clinic Specialized Women’s Health Fellowship and Professor and Director of the Center for Specialized Women’s Health at Cleveland Clinic

Holly L. Thacker, MD, FACP is nationally known for her leadership in women’s health. She is the founder of the Cleveland Clinic Specialized Women’s Health Fellowship and is currently the Professor and Director of the Center for Specialized Women’s Health at Cleveland Clinic and Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Thacker is also the Executive Director of Speaking of Women’s Health and the author of The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause. Her special interests and areas of research including menopause and related medical problems including osteoporosis, hormone therapy, breast cancer risk assessment, menstrual disorders, female sexual dysfunction and interdisciplinary women’s health.

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Dr. Alexa Fiffick

Senior Clinical Specialized Women’s Health Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Specialized Women’s Health

Dr. Alexa Nicole Fiffick is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician. She is a Senior Clinical Specialized Women’s Health Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Specialized Women’s Health. Dr. Fiffick graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2012 with a Bachelor’s in Sociology with minors in Dance and Chemistry. She achieved a Master’s in Biomedical Science at The Commonwealth Medical College in 2013. She spent a year working in research at the Cleveland Clinic. Then, she went to medical school at Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating in 2018. Dr. Fiffick graduated from Doctors Hospital Family Medicine program for residency, with a certified focus on Women’s Health. Dr. Fiffick is also a NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner. She spent time working with underserved communities via Mobile Medicine in residency. Through this she fell in love with caring for underserved women and women in mid through later life.