This is Menopause

Neda Frayha, MD, FACP

Audio Editor-in-Chief, Hippo Education

Physician Volunteer, Shepherd's Clinic, Baltimore

Assistant Professor, Part-Time, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Neda Frayha, MD, is a board-certified internist and former assistant dean at the University of Maryland, where she earned multiple teaching awards and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies. Now Hippo’s Audio Editor-in-Chief and host of Primary Care RAP, Neda combines clinical wisdom with great storytelling. Outside Hippo, she writes, produces public radio stories, and travels with her family.

Micaela Bowers, MD

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Physician, Erie Family Health Centers

Medical Editor, Hippo Education

Micaela Bowers has always been drawn to caring for patients with complex conditions, so it’s no surprise she chose Internal Medicine and Pediatrics as her specialty. After completing her training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she also served as chief resident, Micaela brought her talents to Chicago. Now, she splits her time between treating adults and children at Erie Family Health Centers, being a medical editor at Hippo Education, and spending time with her family, which is where she truly recharges.

Matthew Zeitler, MD

Associate Professor and Associate Program Director for UNC Family Medicine Residency

Medical Editor, Hippo Education

Matt Zeitler, MD, is a clinical assistant professor and Associate Program Director for UNC’s Family Medicine Residency. He practices full-scope family medicine across outpatient, inpatient, and maternal-child health settings, and teaches procedures like vasectomies and point-of-care ultrasound. A former chief resident and current contributor to Primary Care RAP, Matt brings curiosity, clarity, and calm to every teaching moment.

Tom Robertson, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network

Medical Editor, Hippo Education

Tom Robertson is on faculty at Allegheny General Hospital, where he’s the Associate Program Director and Director of Ultrasound Education for the Internal Medicine residency program. After medical school at the University of Maryland, Tom completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on global health and underserved communities. He also co-directs the RIvER Post-Incarceration Clinic, with clinical interests in bedside ultrasound, medical education, and improving care for marginalized populations.

Jen Gunter, MD

Dr. Jen Gunter is a Canadian-American OB/GYN, pain medicine physician, and two-time New York Times bestselling author. She's known for debunking health myths and advocating for women's health. 

Rana Malek MD

Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Rana Malek is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is the Fellowship Program Director for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Dr. Malek earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program at Emory University and her Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Inter-Institute Endocrinology Fellowship.

Stanley Liu, MD

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Stanley Liu is a non-invasive cardiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He attended medical school at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine prior to completing his Internal Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. He then completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Maryland, where he has stayed on ever since as a faculty member.

Aisha Lofters, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Women's College Hospital

Dr. Aisha Lofters is a Family Physician with the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team in Toronto, Canada. She is also an Assistant Professor and Clinician Scientist at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, where she conducts primary care research on cancer screening, immigrant health and health equity, using a broad range of methods.

Rebecca Kasper, MD

Dr. Kasper is a family doctor who started training in the OBGYN world which provided her with a nice blend of procedure skills with her family med bedside manner. She loves providing care across the reproductive health spectrum, and across all topics in family med. Rebecca is menopause certified and she has a masters in public health in metrics and evaluation so she envisions health problems big and small, individual and community wide. In her non clinical time, she loves cooking, hiking, gardening, and spending time with her family.

Kirsten Berggren, PhD, APRN

Kirsten started her academic career at Harvard, and after a side tour through ski bumming, returned to academia with a PhD in Anatomy and Neurobiology from the University of Vermont. Her career bushwack continued with a stint in neuroscience software and technical writing, a few years as a consultant with the Vermont Department of Health working on breastfeeding promotion, certification as a Lactation Consultant, teaching in the UVM college of nursing, and finally a masters in nursing to become a nurse practitioner. She has been in clinical practice a baker's dozen of years, with experience in Pain Management, Adult Primary Care, and Urgent Care. She continues to teach in continuing education courses on a wide variety of topics relevant to primary care and urgent care.

Stephen Biederman, MD

Clinical Hospitalist, Virginia Commonwealth University