Elaine trained at St Bartholomews Hospital London and qualified in 1982. She has worked within the menopause field since 1986 . She is the senior Specialist Nurse within the menopause service at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital running two specialist menopause clinics per week. She is a Member of the British Menopause Society Council and administrator for the West Midlands Menopause Society.

She has been involved in education both locally and nationally for the last twenty years, teaching at all levels on all aspects of Menopause Health.