Rhonda Voskuhl

Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl is a Professor of Neurology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), faculty neurologist for the UCLA Comprehensive Menopause Care Program, holds the Jack H. Skirball Chair and is the Director of the UCLA Multiple Sclerosis Program. Dr. Voskuhl was recently featured on NBC's the Today Show by Maria Shriver and will appear on Oprah's Prime Time Special "The Menopause Revolution" on March 31.

She is the UCLA inventor on over 15 U.S. and European patents for an innovative hormone treatment for cognitive issues of menopause, including "PearlPAK" by CleopatraRX.com available nationwide. Dr. Voskuhl received her M.D. from Vanderbilt University, completed neurology residency at the University of Texas Southwestern, and did a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research at UCLA determines how sex hormones and sex chromosomes cause sex differences in neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Voskuhl has over 200 publications, including in prestigious journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Voskuhl's career was profiled in 2024 in Lancet Neurology, the #1 Neurology journal in the world. In the UCLA Neurology Clinic, Dr. Voskuhl sees menopausal women with cognitive issues as well as patients with multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Voskuhl has won numerous awards: The R35 Research Program Award from the NIH (2023-2031) to one of only ten neuroscience researchers per year across the U.S.; the John Dystel Prize in MS (2024) from the American Academy of Neurology, the most prestigious award in the field (U.S., Canada, Europe); and the Rachel Horne Prize for Women’s Research in MS (2023) from the European and American Committees for Treatment and Research in MS (U.S., Canada, Europe). She received the Berlin Institute of Health Excellence Award for her research on the effect of being female versus male on health and diseases in 2018 (Global).