Outliving Your Ovaries: An Endocrinologist Weighs The Risks And Rewards Of Treating Menopause With Hormone Replacement Therapy: Volume 1 - Softcover

_______________ Marina Johnson, M.D., F.A.C.E. is the Founder and Medical Director of the Institute of Endocrinology and Preventive Medicine® located in Irving, Texas. She sees pre-and postmenopausal women many of whom are accomplished CEOs and celebrities who want to be proactive about achieving optimal health. While the majority of her patients are in Texas, she also sees women from all over the country and three continents. Dr Johnson is board-certified in endocrinology and metabolism and in internal medicine. While she has a special interest in menopause, she also treats patients with disorders related to thyroid, growth hormone, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), testosterone, and hyperlipidemia. Dr Johnson earned her MD from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed an internal medicine residency at UCLA/St Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach, California. She completed her fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. After two years at the City of Hope research hospital she returned to Texas. After one year at Kaiser Permanente in Dallas, she set up her private medical practice. In writing her book, Outliving Your Ovaries, Dr Johnson has utilized her skills as an endocrinologist, pharmacist, and medical writer to research over 450 articles from main-stream peer-reviewed medical journals so that women and their physicians can see there is a sound, scientific basis for her recommendations. Adding her wealth of clinical experience from over two decades of medical practice gives clinical relevance to the book. Dr. Marina Johnson was an invited speaker at the Cleveland HeartLab Annual Symposium; "7 Strategies For Prescribing HRT & Cardiovascular Implications.- " A new 'STANDARD OF CARE') This represents AMA Category 1 CME for Physicians. Silver Network Blogger for EmpowHER.com - Launched in 2008 they are an award winning, HON-certified health content website for women. EmpowHER provides credible, evidence based health information from over 400 distinguished health care professionals, providers, and experts. They are the third most visited women's health and wellness destination on the web. EmpowHER.com is in the top 5 of women's health and wellness sites and they are listed in the top 30 of all Women's sites and in the top 7% of all health sites.