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About Melinda S. Hall MD

Dr. Melinda Hall, the founder of The Menopause Center, is a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist who received her Doctorate of Medicine from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1981. Her internship was completed at Charity Hospital of New Orleans in 1982.

Dr. Hall moved north to Washington DC in the mid1980s to complete her residency training in OB-GYN at George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC. In her last year of residency training, in 1987, she served as the Chief Administrative and Teaching Resident at GW.

After completion of her residency program, Dr. Hall stayed in the area with her husband and has practiced Gynecology in Northern Virginia for the past twenty-nine years. Since 2008, Dr. Hall has had a subspecialty interest and certification in Menopause Management and since 2011, she has specialized in functional medicine and functional gynecology, bio-identical hormonal replacement therapy for menopausal management, as well as other female hormone disorders.

Dr. Hall has been an active member of the medical staff at INOVA Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA since 1987. She is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine, INOVA Fairfax Hospital campus.

Dr Hall is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and she is Board Certified in her field. She is recertified annually by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Although certified in both, Dr Hall only practices Gynecology and Women’s Healthcare and does not practice Obstetrics.

Menopausal medicine has become a specialty in itself and Dr. Hall is certified by the North American Menopause Society as a Certified Menopause and Women’s Health Care Practitioner. This certification was awarded due to her advanced training in treating menopausal woman. Dr. Hall is an active member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine and recently received her Certification in Advanced Endocrinology through many hours of course work. She is one of the few gynecologists in the area to use bio-identical hormonal therapy to treat hormonal imbalances.

Over the past ten years, Dr. Hall has had an interest and has been active in treating vulva and vaginal disorders in women.

She treats dryness due to hormonal dysfunction and has a special interest in lichen sclerosis of the vulva. She treats this disorder hormonally and surgically. She is trained in the use of PRP (platelet rich plasma) for lichen sclerosis and for sexual dysfunction. Dr. Hall is an active member of the International Society of Vulvovaginal Diseases and is one of the only practitioners who treat these disorders with Platelet Rich Plasma and with Bio-Identical hormone Therapy.

Dr. Hall is married, has three children and two dogs. Her oldest son Chris, age 29, lives in Brooklyn, NY and works in creative advertising in Manhattan. Her middle child, Lindsay is age 27 is an RN in Pediatric Oncology at NYU in Manhattan. Both are proud graduates of the University of Virginia. Her youngest son, Jason, is age 20, and is a second year student at UVA. He is not sure yet of his career choice, but he is certain it will not be in medicine.

Lucy is her 16 and 1/2 year old Bichon, and Rose is her 8 and 1/2 year old Bichon. The family lives in Mclean, VA.