Lecture: Bone Health After Breast Cancer

Our guest speaker:

This lecture will cover the following topics:

•Learn how breast cancer treatments, menopause, and aging affect bone health and osteoporosis risk.
• Understand the most effective strategies to prevent bone loss through screening, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle.
• Explore the evidence behind medications, supplements, and strength training for maintaining healthy bones and muscles.
• Leave with practical, actionable steps to protect your bone health and support healthy aging after breast cancer.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Serota completed training in primary care medicine in Canada. Her clinical duties and research focused on general women’s health, osteoporosis care, contraceptive technologies, and access to same. She then went on to complete a Fellowship in Women’s Health with an emphasis on gynecology and internal medicine relevant to the health of women at centers of excellence throughout Ontario. She was certified as a Menopause Practitioner by the North American Menopause Society in 2002.

Dr. Serota’s second fellowship was in osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease at the Hospital for Special Surgery. This further focused her interests to the study of bone health in women and men from the late teenage years onward. Her current clinical interests include maintenance and improvement of bone health throughout life, especially premenopausal and perimenopausal women, and optimization of bone health and healing before, during, and after surgical orthopedic procedure. She is committed to a patient-centered, biopsychosocial approach to the care of osteoporosis and metabolic bone issues.