Archives of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Kristi Tough DeSapri

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Northwestern University

USA

Academic Editor

Biography

Dr. Kristi Tough DeSapri is a board certified women’s health specialty internist, and clinical assistant professor of Ob/GYN and Internal Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is the director of the Northwestern Women’s Bone Health program.  Her career started in Ob/GYN,  followed residency in internal medicine and then a women’s health fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She has an exclusive consult practice treating midlife women’s issues such as perimenopause, menopause, osteoporosis/bone health, and sexual medicine. In addition, she lectures nationally and has published on both contraception and bone health.  With her expertise as a NAMS (North American Menopause Society) certified practitioner and ISCD certified clinical densitometrist (CCD) she is also very active in the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) Recognizing that osteoporosis and menopause management are both underdiagnosed and undertreated, she has fostered a clinical interest and taken responsibility for treating midlife women.

Research Interest

Perimenopause, Menopause, Osteoporosis/bone health, and Sexual medicine