Dr. Douglas is an emergency medicine physician who also practices at a San Diego hospital serving some of the county's sickest and most underserved patients. Her clinic is a functional medicine practice, so menopause care sits alongside gut health, sleep, mood and inflammation. A new patient can start with a free 15 minute phone call. There is also a single perimenopause and menopause consultation for women who want a treatment and testing plan without joining a longer program. The longer programs run six months, with monthly contact from her and sessions with a health coach and nutritionist. Visits can be in the office or by video, and her approach leans on lab testing before treatment.
Gina Woods is an endocrinologist at UC San Diego Health and directs the system's osteoporosis program. UC San Diego Health lists her among the specialists in its menopause health program, where her named role is bone health. Her own provider page names that program next to osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Bone is the center of her practice, so the midlife patient she sees most is one worried about fracture risk or a falling bone density score. She works out of the Perlman Medical Offices in La Jolla, and care runs the way it does at any large academic system, with new patients registering before a first visit and messages and records going through the patient portal. She teaches as well, as associate program director of the endocrinology fellowship and medical director of UC San Diego's bone densitometry course for other clinicians.
Dr. Oberg is a naturopathic doctor who runs a concierge practice from an ocean-view office in La Jolla. She has practiced since 2003 and was the founding medical director of Bastyr University's California campus. Hormone care starts with a symptom and history review and a hormone test, then moves to bioidentical hormones when they fit. She says hormones are not required and may begin with botanical or non-hormone support first. Care runs through fixed-length programs or a year-long membership, with a health coach on the team and a covering doctor when she is away. She also sees patients by video and keeps small offices in Arizona and Washington.
