Dr. Patricia Hennessy
is a family physician working in the field of public health. She received her M.D. from Georgetown University in 1975, and interned at the United States Public Health Service Hospital in San Francisco. Her family practice training was at the Community Hospital of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, CA.

Dr. Hennessy’s Master of Public Health is from the University of Washington. While she has over a decade of public health experience in epidemiology, health planning and applied community research, her current focus is women’s health during the menopause transition. At her clinic, “Women of a Certain Age,” Dr. Hennessy places special emphasis on health risk appraisal and preventive strategies to maximize health and well being at mid-life.