The rename from PCOS to PMOS landed in May, and the substance of it is the part worth your time. Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome names what the old term obscured: a lifelong cardiometabolic condition that happens to involve the ovaries, affecting roughly one in ten reproductive-age patients, most of whom are managed as though the problem is irregular cycles and fertility.

Dr. Basma Faris came to gynecology from clinical nutrition — she practiced as a registered dietitian first — and has spent two decades on this condition specifically. She joins WNDG to work through what comprehensive care looks like when you treat PMOS as chronic disease management: what to screen for and how often, where nutrition counseling actually changes outcomes versus where it just adds shame, how to handle the patient who arrives with a TikTok supplement protocol, and what the rename should change about how you frame the diagnosis in the room.

Basma Faris, MD, MS, FACOG, CCMS, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist, and Assistant Professor in the Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she also practices as a laborist at Mount Sinai West. She began her career as a registered dietitian and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in nutrition science, and her clinical work sits at the intersection of nutrition and gynecologic care. She runs a virtual membership practice devoted to comprehensive PMOS and hormonal health care, holds leadership roles in the American College of Culinary Medicine, and teaches a PCOS/PMOS video series for clinicians. She was named a New York SuperDoctors Rising Star in 2022 and 2023.