Paula Briggs is a Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health based at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust.
She is Immediate Past Chair of the British Menopause Society.
Paula qualified from University of Glasgow in 1987.
She trained as a GP before moving to Liverpool in 1993 and worked in General Practice and Sexual Health until 2012.
She is now devoted to delivery of women’s health care, research and education. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Her main interest is menopause management with a particular interest in urogenital atrophy.
She has co-edited 3 books, (one second edition), co-written an undergraduate textbook in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a revision guide for MFSRH and a book specifically for men about female hormones. She has also written a patient booklet on menopause (second edition). She co-authored a myth busting book on contraception for the lay public and is working on a similar menopause patient book with colleagues currently. She also has 2 new patient booklets, one co-authored on sexual and reproductive health after gynaecological cancer and the other on urogenital atrophy.
She is married with four children and enjoys golf, reading and cooking.