Menopause, It’s More Than a Hot Flash

Dr. Sneha Shrivastava is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hostra/Northwell, Director of Women’s Health Education at the Division of General Internal Medicine and an associate program director director at the Internal Medicine residency program at North short/LIJ. She is a practicing general internist and a women’s health clinician. She is a menopause society certified provider, practices at 865 Northern Blvd, S102, Great Neck and accepting new patients. She earned her medical degree from St. Georges University and Master of Medical Education from Hofstra University. She completed her internal medicine training from Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and general internal medicine fellowship with a focus on WH education from Northwell Health. She has WH related publications in the medical literature, written book chapter on PCOS, has given many talks on menopause and have been a part of the menopause collaborative from KIWH. She recently received a grant from Zucker School of medicine to improve menopause education and is creating a microlearning-based menopause curriculum for Internal medicine residents.  Dr. Shrivastava is passionate about providing WH care clinically and WH education for med students, residents and fellows and faculty.

Dr Vanessa Soviero is a board certified OB/GYN physician who has been in practice since 2005. In her current role, she is the Site Medical Director for OB/GYN of Islandia which is a practice comprised of 6 other OB/GYN physicians and 5 Nurse Practitioners. Her office is a certified Quad A facility, where she performs minor surgical procedures under in office sedation.

Dr Soviero is affiliated with South Shore University Hospital as well as South Shore Surgical Center. She is an associate professor of the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr Soviero’s focus is gynecological care along all phases of a women’s reproductive life with special attention on perimenopause and menopause care. She is a Menopause Certified Practitioner with The Menopause Society. She is also an active member of the Katz Institute of Women’s Health. She is bilingual speaking English and Spanish.

She sees patients 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, and she is accepting new patients. She performs minor gynecological procedures. She is passionate about womens care and she is an advocate of women’s empowerment to seek the care they need, require, and deserve.