Susan D. Reed MD, MPH, MS, MSCP, FACOG is Professor Emeritus and past Vice Chair for Research in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with an adjunct appointment in Epidemiology at the University of Washington. She is a past president of The Menopause Society. Her undergraduate and medical degrees are from Stanford, and her master’s degrees are from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Washington. She did her obstetrics and gynecology residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Reed’s research focuses on women’s health issues related to reproductive hormones and she is internationally known for her expertise in menopause. She is the past Research Director for the National Institutes of Health funded Women’s Reproductive Health Research program at the University of Washington and a principal investigator for the NIH funded grant, MsFLASH, performing clinical trials on the treatment of menopausal symptoms. She has over 180 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Reed was the Division Chief at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle from 2008-2018 and has 40 years of clinical experience.