Women’s hormones, challenges, and Solutions!

Topics

  • Define hormones and their use in the human body 
  • Identify the production of hormones 
  • Define estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone 
  • Define the various stages of menopause 
  • Discuss the importance of hormones during premenopause, perimenopause, and menopause  
  • Define bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT)
  • Review the use of BHRT at Welltopia Pharmacy  

Omar Eliwa

Owner & Manager of Welltopia Pharmacy

Omar Eliwa has always had a passion for patient care working with patients as family members.

With over ten years of experience as an independent pharmacist, Omar enjoys exploring personalized medicinal options for patients, working closely with practitioners creating specific compounds for patients’ needs or tailoring pharmacy services to suit the client’s needs: hospice care patients, senior citizens and managing urgent patients’ requests in a timely manner.

Added to his set of skills as an educator, health coach and leader, Omar always works with top professionals to fill the gap of healthcare always thinking solutions finding best ways to achieve patients’ health goals.
Omar lives in Franklin with his wife and three children.

Asia Lee

PGY-1 Community Based Resident

Asia Lee, PharmD is a current PGY-1 Community Based Resident with the Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. Her pharmacy practice site is Welltopia Pharmacy, located in Thiensville, WI.

Asia completed her PharmD degree with the Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy in May 2022.

With the residency year coming to an end, Asia will be continuing her pharmacy career as a retail pharmacist with Walmart Pharmacy. She aspires to continue providing direct patient care and building relationships within her community as a pharmacist in the retail setting.

Dr. Rose Kumar

Founder and Medical Director of the Ommani Cente

Dr. Kalpana (Rose) Kumar graduated from Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York in 1986, completed an internship in Internal Medicine at UC San Francisco, and a residency at Stanford University in 1990. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, has been in medical practice for nearly 30 years and is the founder and director of The Ommani Center for Integrative Medicine which has established a new standard in Integrative Medicine for the past 20 years and was one of the first green and sustainable health care clinics in the U.S.

She is the author of Becoming Real: Reclaiming Your Health in Midlife. She is a prolific speaker, has keynoted and facilitated numerous talks and workshops, interviews, appeared on several television and radio shows, authors a prolific blog entitled “Medicine on the Edge”, published hundreds of articles in the Huffington Post and Medium.com. She was voted top doctor in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine in 2011 and 2013 and was the winner of the Healthcare Hero Corporate Achievement Award in 2006. She was the YWCA Woman of the year in 1992 and voted Woman of Distinction in 1992.

She has revolutionized Women’s health by creating an evidence-based safe and effective protocol for natural hormone balance, is one of the few Plant-Based Physicians in Wisconsin and has an unprecedented success rate in reversing disease through her unique Integrative approach to health and disease.