CAMS - Australasian Menopause Society (AMS)

AMS President

Dr Sylvia Rosevear BA Dip SEM MB ChB MD FRCOG FRANZCOG

Dr Sylvia Rosevear is a New Zealand Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Auckland in 1980. She was a registrar at National Women’s Hospital, when National Women’s had an international reputation in Obstetrics. She obtained the MRCOG in 1986 and did research at King’s College Hospital London.

Dr Rosevear then went to Oxford and completed an MD on ‘The Computerised Analysis of the Foetal Heart Rate in Labour’. She was a senior Registrar in Bristol and returned to New Zealand in private practice in 1993, practicing both Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Latterly, she completed a Diploma in Exercise and Sports Medicine in recognition of the therapeutic efficacy of exercise in health promotion. She joined the AMS board by appointment in 2017 and became President in September 2023. She is interested in the endocrinology of the menopause and the maintenance and optimisation of middle-aged health rather than just prevention of pathology.

AMS Past-President

Dr Karen Magraith BMBS FRACGP

Dr. Karen Magraith graduated from Flinders University and spent 6 years in Darwin before returning to Adelaide, where she worked until 2007. She currently works in general practice in Hobart, where she is involved in registrar training. Karen has had a longstanding interest in women’s health and has been a member of AMS since 2004.

Karen recognises that most menopause medicine occurs in general practice, where the GP is in a unique position to manage the medical, gynaecological and psychosocial issues in an integrated way.

Karen is keen to promote the role of the AMS in educating and supporting a wide variety of GPs, to enable them to provide high quality health care to women.

AMS President-Elect and QLD Director

Dr Christina Jang MBBS MD FRACP

Dr Christina Jang graduated Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Monash University in 1994. She undertook advanced training in Endocrinology in Melbourne and received her Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 2004. She received a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Scholarship to carry out studies towards her Doctor of Medicine which was conferred in 2008.

She has undertaken research in women’s health and won the Young Investigator Award at the Australasian Menopause Foundation in 2003.

She is a consultant endocrinologist at The Mater Hospital Brisbane and Greenslopes Private Hospital, and honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland.  She has a clinical interest in female reproductive endocrinology.

AMS Treasurer and WA Director

Dr Ashley Makepeace MBBS, FRACP

Dr Ashley Makepeace is a clinical Endocrinologist and completed her Endocrinology training in Western Australia and in Oxford, UK.

Her public appointment is at Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals. She consults in private health with interests in type 1 diabetes, bone health and women’s health and works as an Endocrinologist within a fertility clinic.

She is a guest lecturer for the medical curriculum at Notre Dame University, Fremantle.

She is the chair of a local interest group of Endocrinologists and Clinical Biochemists with a focus on women’s health.

NSW/ACT Director

Dr Elina Safro MB BS, BSc (Med)Hon, Grad Cert SA

Dr Elina Safro is a general practitioner with expertise in sexual and reproductive health and over 12 years clinical experience across the full procedural scope in this area of medicine.

Elina practises clinically at Family Planning Australia and Marie Stopes clinics, as well as at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital where she has a Visiting Medical Officer appointment in the medical and forensic management of sexual assault. She also serves as Chair, Education Subcommittee of the Board of Australasian Menopause Society and Adjunct Research Fellow at the HER Centre, Monash University. She is a clinical examiner for Australian Medical Council.