The 2026 Women's Health Summit: Setting the Standard for Clinical Excellence
From Perimenopause to Power Years: Join the Next Chapter in Women's Health
The Women's Health Summit brings together leading clinicians and healthcare professionals for three days of innovative education focused on women's health, hormone balance, menopause, perimenopause, and healthy aging. Explore emerging clinical strategies designed to improve patient outcomes across every stage of a woman's health journey.
Real conversations.
Real connections.
Who Should Attend the Women's Health Summit?
Designed for clinicians advancing the future of women's health: physicians, NPs, PAs, OB-GYN clinicians, functional medicine providers, hormone specialists, longevity medicine practitioners, and other healthcare professionals focused on midlife, metabolic, and longevity-centered care.
What You’ll Master
The summit curriculum is built to help clinicians sharpen their understanding, strengthen decision-making, and leave with practical insight they can use in patient care right away.
Key Topics Include
Our Speakers
Learn from leading voices in women's health
Hear from respected clinicians and educators bringing practical insight, real-world experience, and forward-thinking perspectives to today's most important conversations in women's health.
Schedule
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- Describe the hormonal and physiologic changes that define the perimenopause transition.
- Identify common symptom patterns and diagnostic pitfalls in midlife women.
- Apply a practical clinical framework for evaluating patients with suspected perimenopause.
- Explain how changes in estrogen, progesterone, and androgens influence brain function, mood, sleep, and cognition in midlife women.
- Recognize common clinical presentations associated with hormonal transition.
- Discuss individualized strategies for supporting neurologic, emotional, and hormonal health during perimenopause.
- Identify cardiometabolic changes commonly seen during perimenopause.
- Explain the relationships among insulin resistance, weight gain, inflammation, and cardiovascular risk in midlife women.
- Apply practical strategies to support metabolic flexibility, weight management, and cardiovascular prevention.
- Identify key metabolic challenges women commonly face in midlife.
- Discuss practical nutrition, movement, and lifestyle strategies that support energy, body composition, and resilience.
- Translate metabolic health concepts into clear, actionable recommendations for patients.
- Recognize overlapping symptoms of perimenopause and thyroid dysfunction.
- Identify thyroid patterns that may be overlooked in midlife women.
- Apply a systems-based approach to evaluating fatigue, weight changes, mood shifts, and metabolic symptoms.
- Describe how nutrition and phytochemicals influence hormonal signaling, inflammation, and metabolic health.
- Identify food-based strategies that may support perimenopause symptoms and long-term resilience.
- Apply practical nutrition recommendations for midlife women in clinical practice.
- Identify environmental exposures that may influence hormone health, inflammation, and bone health in midlife women.
- Explain how toxin burden can affect menopause-related symptoms and long-term health risks.
- Apply practical strategies to reduce exposure and support patient education.
- Explain why hormone patterns during perimenopause can be variable and difficult to interpret.
- Identify appropriate testing strategies and common interpretation pitfalls.
- Apply clinical reasoning to connect lab results with symptoms, timing, and treatment decisions.
- Describe how conventional gynecology and integrative care can work together in perimenopause management.
- Identify strategies that support patient agency, shared decision-making, and individualized care.
- Apply a whole-person framework to common midlife concerns, including symptoms, risk, and quality of life.
- Describe common emotional, relational, and psychosocial factors that influence desire in midlife.
- Identify communication strategies that help normalize patient conversations around sex and desire.
- Apply practical counseling approaches to support confidence, intimacy, and sexual well-being.
- Identify common sexual health concerns during perimenopause, including desire changes, pain, and genitourinary symptoms.
- Discuss evaluation strategies for sexual pain, libido concerns, and hormonal contributors.
- Apply practical treatment pathways that support sexual function and patient quality of life.
- Describe how hormones, tissue health, and aging influence sexual vitality in midlife women.
- Discuss regenerative and integrative strategies that may support sexual health and confidence.
- Apply a patient-centered framework for addressing sexual vitality, aging, and treatment expectations.
- Explain how estrogen, perimenopause, and risk factors intersect in breast health counseling.
- Discuss screening considerations and patient-centered risk communication.
- Apply practical strategies for supporting breast health and informed decision-making in midlife women.
- Explain how health coaching can improve adherence, behavior change, and patient engagement in perimenopause care.
- Identify coaching strategies that support lifestyle change, resilience, and sustainable outcomes.
- Discuss how clinicians can integrate coaching principles into a whole-person care model.
- Identify disparities in access, diagnosis, communication, and treatment for midlife women.
- Describe how culture, race, socioeconomic factors, and identity can shape the perimenopause experience.
- Apply more inclusive and patient-centered strategies to improve perimenopause care.
- Audience Q and A and clinical pearls from faculty.
- Explain how circadian rhythms, environmental exposures, and nutrition influence midlife health in women.
- Assess circadian disruption, environmental burden, and metabolic function during the menopausal transition.
- Apply personalized nutrition and lifestyle interventions to support sleep, mood, and cardiometabolic health.
Registration
Lock in your early bird rate—the best pricing closes July 31.
*Ondemand will give you access to the recorded content post event.
Recordings available approximately 4-6 weeks post-event
CME & Continuing Medical Education
Earn CME credits while gaining practical, evidence-based education in women's health, menopause care, hormone replacement therapy, healthy aging, and preventive medicine. Programming is designed to support real-world clinical application and improved patient outcomes.
As a national thought leader dedicated to advancing women’s health and promoting research on sex differences to optimize women’s health, the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) plays a critical role in identifying clinical and research gaps; raising awareness of diseases, conditions, and life stages that differently, disproportionately, or exclusively affect women; and promoting policies that could positively shape health outcomes for women. Over its more than 30-year history, SWHR has been advancing women’s health through its core functions of science, policy, and education.
Venue
La Cantera Resort & Spa
16641 La Cantera parkway
San Antonio, TX 78256
La Cantera Hotel has rooms available October 8-10, 2026. For the night of October 7th, guests will have to book at one of the participating hotels below. Complimentary shuttle service will be provided at the Embassy Suites by Hilton and the Courtyard Marriott on the morning of October 8, 2026.
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Best Housing Options
Embassy Suites by Hilton San Antonio Landmark
Landmark Parkway,
San Antonio, TX 78249
Room Rate: $178/per night
Group Name: A4M Womens Health Summit
Group Code: 90R
Deadline: 9-07-26
Phone: 877.840.8236
Complimentary shuttle service will be provided on the morning of October 8th.
Courtyard by Marriott San Antonio Six Flags at the RIM
5731 Rim Pass,
San Antonio, TX 78257
Room Rate: $129/per night
Deadline: 9-07-26
Phone: 210.558.7774
Complimentary shuttle service will be provided on the morning of October 8th
Residence Inn by Marriott San Antonio Six Flags at the RIM
5707 Rim Pass,
San Antonio, TX 78257