Scientific and Clinical Advisors

Non Clinical Advisors and Clinical Advisors by Field and/or Affiliation
No individual on this list is responsible for the opinions and projects of the foundation.

Executives in Associations and Foundations:

Nancy Frankel BS, MBA
Director of Operations and Strategic Development, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, AL

Tracey O Fremd NP
President, California Association for Nurse Practitioners - CCCNP
El Dorado Hills, Ca

Lisa Martinez RN, JD
Executive Director, The Women's Sexual Health Foundation, Cincinnati, OH

Jonathon Marx MBA
Founder and CEO
Starfish Health Partners
Marin, California

Laurie E. Scudder MS, NP
Vice President, Nurse Practitioner Alternatives, Inc.; Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, George Washington University Health Science Department, Columbia, MD

Mitchell S. Tepper PhD, MPH
Founder and President, The Sexual Health Network, Shelton, CT

Wulf H. Utian MD PhD
Executive Director, North American Menopause Society
Professor Emeritus, Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University
Consultant Gynecologist, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Susan Wysocki RNC, NP, FAANP
President and CEO, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH), Washington, DC

Editorial/Women's Health Advisors:

Bets Davis MFA
Scientific/Medical Writer & Editor
Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Judy Orvos ELS
Editor, Contemporary OG/Gyn, Washington, DC

Ursula Snyder PhD
Editor/Program Director, Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health; Section Editor, Ob/Gyn & Women's Health, Medscape General Medicine, New York, NY

Information Technology, Education, and Communication Advisors:

Annie H. Gardiner MA
Marketing Communications Consultant, Gardiner Communications
Oakland, CA

Lillian Arleque EdD
Educational Consultant, Arleque and Associates,
Boston, MA

Ellen Detlefsen
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences; Core Faculty, Center for Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine; Chief, Information Dissemination Unit, Intervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Project Director, Highmark Minority Health Link

Marlene M. von Friederichs-Fitzwater PhD
Professor, Communication Studies, CSUS
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCD School of Medicine,
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology
Founder/Director, HCRI (501, c, 3 non-profit)

Endocrinology, Internal Medicine

Rosemary Basson MB, BS, MRCP
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Martin Birkhaeuser MD
Professor for Gynecology Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland

Christine Bodmer-Hindermann MD
Director, Menopause Clinic Universitäts-Frauenklinik, Inselspital, Berne, University of Berne, Switzerland

Henry Burger AO, FAA, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FCP(SA), FRCOG, FRANZCOG
Professor, Prince Henry's Institute Of Medical Research, Monash Medical Center, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Thomas B. Clarkson D.V.M.
Professor of Comparative Medicine
Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Susan R. Davis MB, BS, FRACP, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical Center, Melbourne, Australia
Director of Research, The Jean Hailes Foundation, Clayton, Australia

Katharina Modelska MD
Associate Medical Director, Clinical Research and Medical Affairs, Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA

Brigid McCaw MD, MS, MPH
Clinical Lead, Family Violence Prevention Services
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and Partner, KPMG
Oakland, Ca

Nursing Advisors:

Nancy Fugate Woods PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean, School of Nursing; Professor, Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Patricia Barthalow Koch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Women's Studies, & Nursing
The Pennsylvania State University
Adjunct Professor of Human Sexuality at Widener University
President of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (Nov. 2005 - Nov. 2006)

Additional listing of nursing under associations/foundations above

Nutrition Advisors

Jerry Cott PhD
Pharmacologist, International Expert on Omega 3 Fatty Acid Research, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Division of Anesthetics, Critical Care and Addiction Drug Products, Rockville, MD (this activity represents his own opinions and not those of the FDA)

Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Gynecology and Endocrinology Advisors

Tara Allmen MD, FACOG
Assistant Professor of Gynecology
Columbia Presbyterian's Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders, and Women's Health
New York City, NY

Alan M. Altman MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Sheila Yafai Bolour MD
Women's Health Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Alessandra Graziottin MD
Director, Center of Gynecology and Medical Sexology, Hospital San Raffaele Resnati, Milan, Italy
Consultant Professor and Co-Director
Post-graduate Course in Sexual Medicine
University of Florence, Italy

Michael Goodman MD
Private Practice, Gynecology and Perimenopausal Medicine, Davis, CA

Robert A. Greene MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, Davis, College of Family and Preventative Medicine
Redding, CA

Jan Herr MD
Partner, Permanente Medical Group of Northern California
Clinical leader, Menopause Practice Guidelines, KPNC, 1999-present
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Forum Advisory Board, 1997-present
Obstetrician and Gynecologist San Raphael Kaiser Permanente Department
San Raphael and Oakland, Ca

Risa Kagan MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Science, University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Co-medical Director of The Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education (FORE), Oakland, CA

Bruce Kessel MD
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Faculty Chair, Reproductive Endocrinology
Queen Emma Outpatient Center
Honolulu, HI

Barbara Levy MD
Medical Director, Women's Health Center, Franciscan Health System and
Clinical Assistant Professor of Ob/Gyn at University of Washington

Rogerio A. Lobo MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

Mary Jane Minken MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine

Morris Notelovitz MD, PhD
Consultant, Adult Women's Health and Medicine, Boca Raton, FL

Kate O'Hanlon MD
Private Practice, Gynecologic Oncology Associates, Portola Valley, CA

Ricki Pollycove, MD, MHS
Breast Diseases, Menopause, Integrative Medicine California Pacific Medical Center,
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department Ob Gyn Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco Medical School, San Francisco, CA

Mary Lake Polan MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Marcie Richardson MD
Co-Director, Menopause Consultation Service
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Boston, MA

Jillian Romm RN, LCSW
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, Center for Women's Health, Portland, OR

Nanette Santoro MD
Professor and Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Philip Sarrel MD
Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Ruth Shaber MD
Director, Northern California Kaiser Permanente Women's Health Services
Partner, Permanente Medical Group
Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Kaiser South San Francisco
Oakland, Ca

Lee P. Shulman, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Reproductive Genetics
Northwestern OBG Department
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Susan E. Sklar MD
Private Practice, Gynecology
Director, Alamitos Center for Women's Health
Associate Clinical Professor, Volunteer Faculty, University of California, Irvine, Vice-President of Career Development, American Medical Women's Association
Alamitos, Ca

James A. Simon MD
Medical Director, The Women's Health Research Center; Clinical Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

Leon Speroff MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Maida B. Taylor MD, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Wulf H. Utian MD PhD
Executive Director, North American Menopause Society
Professor Emeritus, Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University
Consultant Gynecologist, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Michele Warren MD
Medical Director, Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women's Health
Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Wyeth Professor of Women's Health
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY

Susan Willman MD
Reproductive Endocrinology Group Private Practice, Orinda, CA

Urogynecology:

Talli Rosenbaum PT
Co-Founder, Institute for Marital Enrichment in Jewish Life, Urogynecological and pelvic floor rehabilitation at clinics in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel

Amy E Rosenman MD
Co Director, Pacific Continence Center and Assistant Clinical Professor of Urogynecology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Urology:

Jennifer R. Berman MS, MD
Assistant Professor Urology, UCLA Medical Center
Director Female Sexual Medicine Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Jean L. Fourcroy M.D., PH.D, M.P.H.
U.S.U.H.S./Walter Reed Army Hospital - Urology Department
Bethesda, MD

Ridwan Shabsigh MD
Associate professor of urology, Columbia University
Director, New York Center for Human Sexuality
New York, NY

Pharm D:

Ron Ruggiero, PharmD
Clinical Professor and Pharmacist Specialist in Women's Health
Departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, Ca

Psychiatry/Psychology:

Jeanne Leventhal Alexander MD, FRCPC, FAPA, FACP
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford
Director, Northern California Psychiatry Women's Health Program, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

David Baron DO, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Jack Bonner MD
Medical Director, Behavioral Health Services, Greenville Hospital System and Marshall I. Pickens Hospital, Greenville, SC
Academic Chair, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatric Services, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Louann Brizendine MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. UCSF Medical School, San Francisco, CA

Vivien Burt MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Founder and Director of The Women's Life Center, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

Andrea Braverman
Director of Psychological Services, Pennsylvania Reproductive Associate, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA

Regina Casper MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Women's Wellness Clinic and Medical Student Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Anita H. Clayton MD
David C. Wilson Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia Health Care System, Charlottesville, VA

Robin Dea MD
Chair, Chiefs of Psychiatry and Regional Director, Mental Health, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, Oakland, CA

Lorraine Dennerstein AO, MBBS, PhD, DPM, FRANZCP
Professor, Personal Chair, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Office for Gender and Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia

Ellen Freeman PhD
Research Professor, Departments of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Lori A Futterman RN, PhD
Psychologist and Clinical Researcher
San Diego, Ca

Jodi Halpern MD PhD
Fellow, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Division of Health and Medical Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, CA

Leslie Hartley Gise MD
Chairperson, APA Committee on Women, Psychiatry Practice, Maui, HI

Uriel Halbreich MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn; Director of BioBehavior Research, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY

Victor W. Henderson MD, MS
Professor, Departments of Health Research & Policy and Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Enid Hunckler
Co-Associate Director (Acting) Health Care Effectiveness, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, Ca

Hadine Joffe MD
Director of Endocrine Studies, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Gail Knudson MD, MPE, FRCPC
Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Consultant Psychiatrist, BC Centre for Sexual Medicine
Vancouver Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Pauline M. Maki PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Cognitive Medicine Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Bruce S. McEwen Ph.D.
Afred E. Mirsky Professor, Head, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller Univeristy, New York, NY

Charles Nemeroff MD PhD
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Thomas Neylan MD
Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA

George Nurnberg MD
Professor of Psychiatry; Executive Vice Chair; Director of Clinical Research Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM

Teri Pearlstein MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI

Jackie B. Person PhD
Director, San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

Bonnie R Saks MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Alan Schatzberg MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA

Lesley A. Schroeder MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of CA-Davis; Private Practice, Sacramento, CA

David Spiegel MD
Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Diane Thompson MD
Director, Quality of Life Program, Hawaii Pacific Health/Straub Hospital, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

Julia "Jill" K. Warnock MD, PhD
Professor and Director of Clinical Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Tulsa. Tulsa, OK

Kimberly Yonkers MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, PMS and Perinatal Treatment Research Program, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Public Health and Epidemiology

Krista Kotz PhD, MPH
Consultant, Kotz Health Policy Consulting, Orinda, CA

John Swartzberg MD, FACP
Director, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Chair, Editorial Board, UC Berkeley Wellness Letter
Clinical Professor of Medicine
School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA

Sexual Therapy and Sexual Health (note many others listed above could also be listed here):

Stanley E. Althof, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Case Western Reserve University Medical School
Executive Director
Center for Marital & Sexual Health of South Florida, West Palm Beach, FL

Laura Berman LCSW, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Gynecology and Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Director, The Berman Center, Chicago, IL

Christopher Fairley, MD
Professor of Sexual Health, University of Melbourne
Director, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Sheryl A. Kingsberg PhD
Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

Jean D. Koehler PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Human Sexuality, University of Louisville Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Louisville, KY

Michael Krychman MD
Assistant Clinical Attending
Department of Surgery, Division of Gynecology
Co-Director of Sexual Medicine program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Sandra Leiblum MA, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Sexual & Relationship Health, Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

Lawrence C. Maguire MD FACP
Medical Director
Sexual Wellness Group
Lexington, KY

Annette Owens MD, PhD.
Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder
The Sexual Health Network
www.SexualHealth.com
Founder and Director, Charlottesville Sexual Health and Wellness Clinic
Charlottesville, VA

Michael Perelman PhD
Co-Director, Human Sexuality Program; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine and Urology, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

P. Michele Sugg, MSW, LCSW, CST
Private Practice
AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, AASECT Conference Co-Chair
Branford, Connecticut

Beverly Whipple PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ