Dr Karen O’Reilly

Karen qualified in 1984 from St Marys Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College). She worked as a GP in Hampshire for 34 years before leaving General Practice in March 2022 to concentrate on supporting women through the menopause and help educate others to do the same.

Her driving passion has always been to provide a service to patients that is of an excellent quality both in technical competence but also in a person centred holistic manner and to help nurture, train and support an up and coming generation that can continue to provide this level of care in a way that is both achievable and rewarding.

Karen therefore has spent a lot of her career not only supporting patients but also supporting both medical students and GP trainees, being a GP Trainer, an Examiner for the Royal College of General Practitioners and a previous Clinical Teaching Fellow at Southampton University. She is a Fellow of the RCGP and has a Diploma in Medical Education from Winchester University.

Having experienced an early menopause herself at 42 she knows what it feels like to think the world is crumbling underneath your feet to then have experienced the benefits of good care herself in replacing those essential female hormones.

She loves a colleagues analogy that for women in the 21^st century the menopause is merely “half time in the football match of life.” It represents a new beginning with new opportunities to be enjoyed and once you had the first half to warm up the second half can be even better!

Karen is married and has 3 grown up sons. She keeps fit by walking and enjoys all things creative.

GMC number 2937650