Founded 1978 Members 500+ | Area served Global | |
Focus To promote knowledge, study and research on all aspects of aging in men and women Location PO Box 98, Camborne, Cornwall TR14 4BQ, UK Key people Prof Rodney Baber, current President
Lee Tomkins, current Executive Director | ||
The International Menopause Society (IMS) is a UK based charity. The Association was created in 1978 in Jerusalem during the second Menopause Congress and currently has members in 62 countries. In addition to organizing congresses, symposia, and workshops, the IMS owns its own journal: Climacteric, the Journal of Adult Women's Health and Medicine, published by Informa Healthcare. The IMS has three sub-organs: CAMS, the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies, the WSSM, the World School for the Study of the Menopause and the CPP, the Council of Past Presidents.
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Aims
The aims of the IMS are "to promote knowledge, study and research on all aspects of aging in men and women; to organize, prepare, hold and participate in international meetings and congresses on menopause and climacteric; and to encourage the interchange of research plans and experience between individual members."
Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies (CAMS)
CAMS is one of the Organs of the International Menopause Society. It was created to provide a democratic forum with equal membership and voting rights for all national societies affiliated with the IMS regardless of their size. There are currently 48 national or regional menopause societies on the board of CAMS.
World School for the Study of Menopause (WSSM)
The aim of the WSSM is to promote knowledge among health-care providers on menopause-related issues. It provides courses, educational programs and lectures in the field of adult women's health and menopause in liaison with national or regional menopause societies when requested.
Council of Past Presidents (CPP)
The CPP is made up of all living past presidents of the Society, with the immediate past president acting as chairman and taking a seat on the current board. Their role is to act in an advisory capacity to the board.
World Congress on the Menopause
The IMS hold a biennial World Congress in the different regions of the world, the 15th being held in Prague, Czech Republic in 2016. The aim of the congress is to provide a global forum to promote the core IMS ideals of education, collaboration and dissemination of research based knowledge on all aspects of aging in men and women.