International Menopause Society (IMS)
Founded1978
Location
  • 13 Leechwell Street, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5SX, UK
Area served
Global
Members
500+
Key people
Prof Susan Davis, current President, Rebecca Cheshire, current Chief Executive Officer
Websitewww.imsociety.org

The International Menopause Society (IMS) is a UK based charity. The Association was created in 1978 in Jerusalem during the second Menopause Congress and currently has members in 62 countries. In addition to organizing congresses, symposia, and workshops, the IMS owns its own journal: Climacteric, the Journal of Adult Women's Health and Medicine, published by Taylor & Francis.

Resources and publications

The Society's official journal, Climacteric, the Journal of Adult Women's Health and Medicine, was founded in 1998 and is listed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE.[1] The Editor-in-Chief is Rodney Baber Australia. It publishes international, original, peer-reviewed research on all aspects of aging in women, especially during the menopause and climacteric. The content of the journal covers the whole range of subject areas relevant to climacteric studies and adult women’s health and medicine, including underlying endocrinological changes, treatment of the symptoms of the menopause and other age-related changes, hormone replacement therapies, alternative therapies, effective life-style modifications, non-hormonal midlife changes, and the counselling and education of perimenopausal and postmenopausal patients.[2][3]

World Congress on the Menopause

The IMS hold a biennial World Congress in the different regions of the world, the 18th being held in Lisbon, Portugal in 2022 to be followed by Melbourne Australia 2024[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Understanding Weight Gain at Menopause". Climacteric. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  2. ↑ "The British Menopause Society: For UK health professionals". Thebms.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  3. ↑ Kelland, Kate (20 December 2011). "DHEA hormone may help women through menopause: study". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  4. ↑ "IMS Lisbon". IMS world congress. IMS. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
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