Advocacy
At this practice, you get more than a physician - you get an advocate.
We not only develop care plans for our patients, we educate them and help become advocates for their own health.
We work tirelessly outside of the practice to help advance changes to medical guidelines and medical school curricula. We speak at conferences and meetings to educate other physicians about the conditions we treat and help them learn to treat them. We also advocate with decisions makers to make changes to treatments to make them more easily accessible to our patients.
We do this because we care - because sexual health matters!
Vaginal Estrogen Black Box Warning - Outreach to the FDA
Want to help us send physical letters to the FDA? Help us in the fight to remove the harmful “black box” warning on vaginal estrogen products!
Physical letters to the FDA can make a impact and may make a larger splash than email letters. Here’s a video from one of our medical assistants, Grace, talking about why your letter matters and the impact it could have!
You can download the PDF of the template letter linked here, sign it, and send it to the address in the header.
Let's Talk Menopause - Unboxing Menopause
Women are not getting the treatment they need or deserve for the chronic, progressive, and highly prevalent Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM). Symptoms include increased UTIs, urinary incontinence, vaginal dryness, and pain with intercourse.
Women and medical practitioners are deterred and needlessly scared by an outdated, misleading “boxed warning”—that overstates the risk of local vaginal estrogen products. It’s time for the FDA to remove these warnings so that women get the care they need and deserve.
Click below to urge the FDA to remove the outdated, misleading “boxed warning” on local vaginal estrogen products.
Tight Lipped
Tight Lipped is a grassroots movement by and for people with chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain. Their first campaign advocates for OB/GYN residency programs to make diagnosis and management of common vulvovaginal and pelvic pain conditions a standard part of OB/GYN training. They sent a letter to the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research advocating for research in vulvovaginal and pelvic pain conditions.
Dr. Rubin serves on the Tight Lipped’s Medical Advisory Board which is responsible for providing medical and scientific guidance in support of patient advocacy and community organizing work.
National Menopause Foundation
The National Menopause Foundation is committed to providing women with the information and resources they need to thrive during their journey to and through menopause. We surveyed hundreds of women to determine how best to support this journey and almost 60 percent said they would be interested in discussing menopause anonymously online with peers/women who are going through menopause or have been through menopause.
They hosted a summit in March 2024 to create the Women’s Midlife Health Policy Institute’s (WMHPI) report and action plan.
