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Karen E. Adams MD, FACOG, DipABLM, MSCP

Clinical Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - General

BioDr. Adams is doubly board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN) and Lifestyle Medicine, a Menopause Society-certified menopause specialist, and fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. She is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University where she is Director of the Stanford Program in Menopause & Healthy Aging. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center on Longevity and a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Women's Health and Sex Differences Center.

She has been practicing for over 30 years with focused expertise on menopause management, female sexual dysfunction treatment, and lifestyle medicine to decrease the risk of chronic conditions associated with aging. Prior to her arrival at Stanford Health Care, Dr. Adams was Professor Emeritus and director of the Menopause and Sexual Medicine Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She also served as Vice Chair for Education and Residency Program Director at OHSU for 14 years.

Her deep-rooted dedication to women’s health is evidenced by her leadership in numerous professional societies, committees, and boards and by the many awards she has received, including the Mentor of the Year Award from the American College of OBGYN. Dr. Adams is a recognized leader in medical education, having served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and on the national Review Committee for Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. She is an in-demand speaker on menopause, lifestyle medicine, and sex medicine to both medical and lay audiences nationally and internationally. Her TEDx talk entitled “Sleep, Sex, and Menopausal Zest” has received over 165,000 views https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_karen_adams_sleep_sex_and_menopausal_zest

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Leslie Adams

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Public Mental Health) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics

BioLeslie Adams, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Mental Health and Population Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she focuses on addressing mental health disparities among people of African descent and marginalized communities. As a behavioral scientist, her research emphasizes the role of structural racism, gender norms, and psychosocial stressors in influencing mental health outcomes. Dr. Adams employs mixed-methods approaches, including ecological momentary assessment and passive data sensing, to explore real-time stressors like racial discrimination and their link to depressive symptoms and suicidality. Prior to her role at Stanford, she served as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.