Ashley Winter is a urologist and sexual medicine specialist at Dr. Rachel Rubin's practice, seeing patients in Pasadena inside a pelvic physical therapy center. She treats perimenopause and menopause with hormone therapy and prescribes testosterone for women as well as men. She speaks out often for vaginal estrogen to protect the urinary tract, so she is a strong fit when recurrent UTIs, dryness or painful sex are part of the picture. New patient visits run an hour and a half to two hours, and follow-ups can be done by video. New patients join an interest list first, and the wait for her Los Angeles area schedule is shorter than for the practice's Maryland office. The practice prescribes FDA-approved treatments unless no approved option exists.
Chronis is a family medicine doctor at the Cedars-Sinai primary care office on South Fairmount Avenue in Pasadena, which sits inside Huntington Health. Her group's list of doctors taking new patients marks her as a certified menopause practitioner, and she is the only one of the six doctors at that office carrying that note. A colleague at the same office is marked as a hormone replacement specialist, so midlife patients there have two doctors to pick from. She sees patients in the office and by video, and a new patient can book an office visit, a physical or a video visit online. Her Cedars-Sinai profile carries no biography and no list of conditions, so nothing is published about how she handles hormone therapy. Her online booking showed limited availability for a first visit.
Fair Oaks Women's Health is an eight-physician OB-GYN group in the Huntington Pavilion beside Huntington Hospital, and it became part of Huntington Health and Cedars-Sinai in 2023. Jick is its medical director. He joined in 1989 and ran it as the solo doctor before it grew into today's group, and he is the only clinician the team page tags as a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. Hormone consultations are arranged by calling the office and can be done by video or in person. He also performs the Valayza vaginal laser for dryness and painful sex after menopause, which the practice lists under his name. New gynecology patients print a forms packet and send it back ahead of the first visit, and the practice keeps a menopause resources page he writes in his own voice.
