 David William Sturdee
MB BS (Lond), MD (Birm), DA, FRCOG
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
Solihull Hospital,
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust,
Solihull, B91 2JL, UK
He qualified from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London in 1969 and has had a special interest in the menopause and hormone therapy since 1975, when he was appointed as research fellow and took over the running of the first menopause clinic in England at Birmingham University. He was awarded MD from Birmingham University for a thesis based on research, particularly of the hot flush and the effects of hormone therapy on the endometrium and bleeding. He has continued research in these and other areas and has published extensively, including 40 original articles in peer-reviewed journals and 7 books. He has
lectured all around the world, including at every IMS World Congress. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Women's Health for the Committee on Safety of Medicines of the Department of Health in London.
He was a founder member of the International and British Menopause Societies, a past honorary treasurer
and chairman of BMS and was elected to the IMS executive committee at the last World Congress in Berlin. He has been involved in all the executive initiatives during the last three years and especially the position statement and guidelines for the use of hormone therapy. He is currently General Secretary and President-Elect and has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of Climacteric, the journal of the IMS, since it was launched in 1998.
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