Second Spring: Houston Menopause Summit
About this Event
About this event
Most women see three or more doctors before anyone says the word perimenopause.
Second Spring is Houston's menopause summit — one Saturday morning bringing together the physicians, specialists, and practices who work with women in midlife every day. Four main-stage sessions, audience Q&A after every talk, a closing panel with all speakers, and an exhibitor floor of Houston practices you can talk to directly.
Houston has no shortage of skilled practitioners who treat this stage well. Second Spring puts a room full of them within reach in a single morning — so you can hear how they think, ask what you've been meaning to ask, and walk out knowing who to call.
What the morning covers
Hormone therapy and what the evidence says. Bone density and why menopause is a bone health event. Pelvic floor health, bladder changes, and intimacy. The mind-body connection and the mood, sleep, and stress changes of this stage. Plus the symptoms most women are told to simply live with.
Speakers
- Dr. Mila McManus, MD — Functional Medicine Doctor, The Woodlands Institute for Health and Wellness
- Tracy Southwick, ND (Trad.), HHP — Traditional Naturopath, Founder of Heights of Health
- Dr. Christi Pramudji Dawe, MD — Board-Certified Urogynecologist and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, LifeSculpt by ChristiMD
- Bryana Burken, PharmD, RPh — Doctor of Ph*rm*cy, Physicians Preference Ph*rm*cy
Additional mini-session speakers to be announced.
On the exhibitor floor
OsteoStrong, Heights of Health, beem Light Sauna, Elevate Spine & Sport, Core Health & Wellness, and more to be announced. Fifty minutes of dedicated floor time is built into the schedule across three breaks, so you don't have to choose between a session and a conversation. Many exhibitors take appointments on the day.
Who it's for
Women in perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause — most attendees are between 40 and 65. Partners, friends, and adult daughters are welcome, and one short session is dedicated to the people alongside. Clinicians who want to serve midlife women better are welcome too.
Good to know
Full details, speaker bios, and free menopause guides at secondspringsummit.com
This event is educational. No diagnosis or prescribing takes place at the summit, and Second Spring does not endorse any individual practitioner or practice.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
Opening announcements
Host: Jamie Knotts, OsteoStrong Owner
🕑: 09:10 AM - 09:40 AM
Beyond Symptom Management
Host: Mila McManus, MD · The Woodlands Institute for Health
Info: Functional medicine's approach to the menopause transition: looking for underlying causes rather than managing symptoms one at a time, and what that means for hormone care.
🕑: 09:40 AM - 09:50 AM
Break — walk the floor
🕑: 09:50 AM - 10:05 AM
Pelvic floor health
Host: Mini Session
Info: A short session on what pelvic floor changes look like in midlife and what can be done about them.
🕑: 10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
Stress, Hormones, and Healing
Host: Tracy Southwick, ND (Trad.), HHP · Heights of Health
Info: Stress, the nervous system, and emotional wellbeing through the transition — and why the physical and psychological symptoms of this stage are harder to separate than they look.
🕑: 10:35 AM - 10:45 AM
Break — walk the floor
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
The partner's perspective
Host: Mini Session
Info: A short session for the friends and family in the room — and for the women who brought them.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Bladder, Pelvic Floor, and Intimacy After 40
Host: Christi Pramudji Dawe, MD · LifeSculpt by ChristiMD
Info: Bladder leakage, prolapse, painful sex, recurrent UTIs. A board-certified urogynecologist and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner on the symptoms women are least likely to raise and most likely to be told are simply part of aging.
🕑: 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Break — walk the floor
🕑: 11:40 AM - 11:55 AM
Bone health after menopause
Host: Mini Session
Info: Why bone changes faster during this stage than any other, and what a baseline scan tells you.
🕑: 11:55 AM - 12:25 PM
Compounded Hormones, Explained
Host: Bryana Burken, PharmD, RPh · Physicians Preference Pharm
Info: What compounded hormone therapy actually is, how it differs from standard prescriptions, and the questions worth asking your prescriber before you start.
🕑: 12:25 PM - 12:30 PM
Break
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Closing panel — all speakers
Host: Dr. Mila McManus
Info: Every speaker on stage together, taking questions from the floor. If a question didn't get answered earlier in the morning, this is where to ask it.
Where is it happening?
USD 58.60 to USD 151.00
