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Dr. Streicher is a clinical professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s medical school, The Feinberg School of Medicine, and is the founder and medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and the Northwestern Medicine Center for Menopause in Chicago. Dr. Streicher is a Fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, Inc., The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health and The Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer. She is also a Certified Menopause Practitioner of The North American Menopause Society. Dr. Streicher has authored multiple scientific papers and book chapters and is a sought-after speaker. She has written two books: Sex Rx: Hormones, Health and Your Best Sex Ever, and The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy.

Her clinical interests include all aspects of women’s health but Dr. Streicher has a particular interest and expertise in menopause and sexual health. In addition to her interest in consumer outreach and education, Dr. Streicher is considered an expert in the academic world. She does research, publishes in the scientific literature, lectures at medical conferences, and devotes significant time to teaching residents and medical students. A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dr. Streicher completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. Castle Connolly, US News and World Report, and Chicago Magazine have consistently recognized her as one of the “Top Doctors” in the United States.

Dr. Smith is an OB/GYN and a fierce women’s health advocate in Texas and nationwide. She is a board-certified Fellow of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a certified menopausal health practitioner by the North American Menopausal Society, and clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center. Dr. Smith is also the founder of Charleston House Gynecology, which she created to provide a truly personalized healthcare experience for women beyond childbearing.

Prior to opening Charleston House, Dr. Smith co-founded Magnolia OB/GYN at Baylor University Medical Center. After graduating from Texas A&M, Dr. Smith served as a healthcare policy advocate in Washington, D.C. and then moved on to do so at the state level in Austin, TX. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor University Medical Center in 2007 where she continues to practice today.

Dr. Singer’s clinical areas of expertise are women's primary care, osteoporosis, bone densitometry, osteoporosis, secondary fracture prevention, menopause, sexual health and medical and gynecologic disease. She is board certified in internal medicine and is a certified clinical densitometrist for interpretation of bone density testing. Dr. Singer is also clinical director of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, and medical director of VIP Health Check. In addition, Dr. Singer has established a post-fracture care program and serves as director of Bone Densitometry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

Dr. Rachel S. Rubin is a board certified urologist with fellowship training in sexual medicine. She is an assistant clinical professor in urology at Georgetown University and practices at IntimMedicine Specialists in Washington DC. Dr. Rubin provides comprehensive care to men and women. She treats issues such as pelvic pain, menopause, erectile dysfunction, and low libido. Dr. Rubin is currently the education chair for the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and an associate editor for the journal Sexual Medicine Reviews. She was named a Washingtonian Top Doctor in 2019 and 2020.

Susan Pinsky, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician with more than 30 years of experience. She graduated from the University of Toledo with degrees in Biology, Chemistry, and Dance Theatre and attended The Ohio state University College of Medicine for her Medical Degree. She holds a master’s degree in Public Health from UCLA, and completed residency alongside a Women’s Health Fellowship at UCLA and an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at The University of Arizona. Dr. Pinsky has worked as the Medical Director for several health systems and has always had a personal mission to care for the uninsured and under-resourced.

She aims to provide compassionate care, healthy living, and is passionate to pursue healing through diverse pursuits founded in evidence-based outcomes. Dr. Pinsky listens attentively to piece together a patient’s unique narrative and create a tailored plan for health and wellness. She aims to make patient’s lives better and cares deeply as a receiver of their story- their pain, their symptoms, and everything they share. Together, with an open heart and trusting relationship, patients will build a path to better health utilizing her knowledge and resources to become the best version of themselves.

Dr. Pederson is the Director of the Medical Breast Program at Cleveland Clinic and Associate Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

She maintains Board Certification in Internal Medicine. Dr. Pederson completed a clinical genetics fellowship at Cleveland Clinic in 2008 under the direction of Dr. Charis Eng and the City of Hope Intensive Course in Cancer Risk Assessment in 2017.  She is actively involved in clinical research and is co-appointed in the Lerner Research Institute.

She serves on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian and Pancreatic Committee and speaks nationally with a focus on management of high risk patients. She has developed an internal fellowship curriculum for the training of Medical Breast Providers, a program which she helped to create.

Dr. Sharon J. Parish is a Professor of Medicine in Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the director of Medical Services at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division. She received her medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University, completed her residency in Internal Medicine at George Washington University Hospital, and behavioral medicine fellowship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Parish is an internal medicine physician, a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), and a North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner. For 22 years, she was a clinician educator on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the clinical staff of Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY, where she had a large primary practice and an array of teaching and administrative responsibilities. Currently, her internal medicine practice focuses on behavioral health, menopause, and sexual medicine for female and male patients at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Dr. Parish has a special interest in practice, training, and research in behavioral health, sexual medicine, and menopause. She has designed many educational programs on sexual health, menopause and more. She has authored many publications and online materials on an array of related topics. Her academic activities have also included participation in international and national society committees and consultantships; lectures, symposia, and web-based educational programs; and national and international society leadership roles.

She is past president of ISSWSH, chair of the ISSWSH Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, and was chair of the ISSWSH Education Committee from 2002-2014. She is a member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Board of Directors and Education and Corporate Relations Committees. Dr. Parish is an associate editor for Sexual Medicine and previously associate editor for CME and assistant editor for Female Medical/Surgical for the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Dr. Kagan is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, a graduate of New York University and the Albany Medical College of Union University. She completed her internship-residency at the University of California San Francisco in 1982 and thereafter was on the full time faculty at UCSF. Subsequently, Dr. Kagan was in private practice in Berkeley, CA and since 2005, she has been practicing gynecology and doing clinical research with the Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation. Dr. Kagan continues to teach medical students and residents and is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. In addition to her gynecology practice, she was previously co-medical director and principal investigator (PI) for multiple clinical trials at the Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education (FORE) in Oakland, CA, and now serves on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of American Bone Health (ABH). She is also a PI on numerous women’s health clinical research trials with the Jordan Research and Education Institute (REDI) of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Sutter Health Research Institute. Dr. Kagan is the author or co-author of numerous publications in peer reviewed journals and is on the editorial board of Menopause. She is often an ad hoc reviewer for many other journals including the Journal of Women’s Health and The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

She is a North American Menopause Society (NAMS) certified Menopause Practitioner (NCMP) and is certified by the International Society of Clinical Densitometry (CCD). She specializes in gynecology with particular focus on gynecologic surgery and women's health issues including menopause, bone health, female sexuality, and female cancer survivorship. She serves on many committees developing standards for many of these women’s health issues. She is actively involved in many professional organizations including the North American Menopause Society, where she served as treasurer and a member of the NAMS Board of Trustees 2006- 2012 and continues to participate as a committee member. She is also on numerous committees of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and the International Menopause Society (IMS). Dr. Kagan is well known as a communicator and teacher and is often approached by media, public forums and colleagues for her expertise. She enjoys teaching and is frequently an invited speaker at numerous national and international scientific meetings

Dr. Kagan has been listed for many years as one of the best Bay Area physicians in San Francisco and Oakland Magazines and nationally listed in US Best Doctors.

Thomas Herzog, MD, is the deputy director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute and is professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UC College of Medicine.

Dr. Herzog graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1986. He completed his residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati in 1990 and a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, in 1993, before becoming a faculty member at Washington University and then director of the gynecologic oncology fellowship program. In 2004, he became the director of the division of gynecologic oncology at Columbia University.

Herzog is a National Institutes of Health- and American Cancer Society-funded researcher with over 200 published manuscripts. He’s also been a member of a number of national professional societies including the American College of Surgeons, for which he is also on the elected board of governors, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, among others. Herzog is also editor-in-chief of the journal Gynecologic Oncology Research and Practice in addition to being the editor and on the editorial boards for a number of other peer-reviewed journals.

A professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of Gynecologic Ultrasound at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Goldstein also serves as the president of The International Menopause Society. He is past president and Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and a past president of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). He is a past chairman of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), New York Section. Dr. Goldstein’s pioneering work in menopausal and perimenopausal ultrasound led him into the design of uterine safety studies for several Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators. He was author of THE ACOG Technical Bulletin “Ultrasound in Gynecology” as well as the author of their practice guidelines on SERMs (Selective Estrogen Receptor Moderators). He has served as the liaison physician from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology to the Women’s Health Imaging Panel of the American College of Radiology. He has been an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 2016 he received the Clarkson Award from NAMS for lifetime achievement in menopause research. In 2019 he received the Joseph H. Holmes Clinical Pioneer award from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Dr. Goldstein has published seven books on women’s health topics and authored more than 60 chapters in textbooks as well as over 80 original research articles. He is one of the most highly recognized and regarded individuals in the field of vaginal probe ultrasound worldwide and has been a guest faculty member, invited speaker, visiting professor or course director over 400 times throughout the United States and the world.

Dr. Goldfarb is an attending physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with dual academic appointments on the Breast Medicine Service in the Department of Medicine and in the Health Outcomes Research Group in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She clinically manages, treats and provides comprehensive cancer care, education and research for breast cancer patients. She has an expertise and interest in young women with breast cancer and the unique challenges they face. Dr. Goldfarb also performs survivorship research to improve quality of life in women with breast cancer and survivors of the disease with emphasis on long term health and quality-of-life issues. Specifically, her research focuses on characterizing and improving the negative effects of breast cancer therapy on women's reproductive and sexual health. By studying the impact of treatment on fertility and sexual function, she hopes to enhance the scientific understanding of these important issues leading to improved outcomes for patients. Dr. Goldfarb is the PI on several ongoing clinical trials and served as the past Chair of the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer.

Dr. Fitch is board certified in obesity medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. She became a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2012, and prior to that practiced primary care full time before switching to obesity medicine. Dr. Fitch was medical director of the Weight Center, the Executive Health Program, and vice president of Primary Care at UC Health in Cincinnati before moving to Boston. She currently is serving as vice president of the Obesity Medicine Association and previously served as a trustee and secretary treasurer. She was the 2015-2016 chair of the clinical management section of The Obesity Society. Dr. Fitch is the winner of the 2017 Clinician of the Year Award from the Obesity Medicine Association.

Dr. DePree, a gynecologist in practice for over 30 years, specializes in midlife women's health. Certified through the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), she was named NAMS Certified Menopause Provider of the year in 2013. That same year, Sharecare named her a Top 10 Social Healthmaker for Menopause. Affectionately known as Dr. Barb, she currently serves as director of Women’s Health Services at Holland Hospital in Holland, MI.

Finding that products helpful to her patients’ sexual health were not readily available, Dr. DePree founded MiddlesexMD to share current, practice-tested, clinically sound information and products for women, including guidance for working with partners and caregivers.

Dr. DePree is a frequent spokesperson for women’s sexual health, quoted in Self, Everyday Health, and Huffington Post, among others, and has been interviewed for radio, television, and documentaries.

Dr. Clark is a board-certified physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS) at Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW), and a senior affiliate investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. She is also a NAMS-Certified menopause practitioner, an editorial board member for the journal Menopause, and was recently invited to be on the education committee for NAMS. Dr. Clark held a full-time faculty appointment at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) from 1985-2007 and now continues as an affiliate associate professor. She has been principal and co-investigator on various studies in urogynecology and menopausal health, and has served on an NIH Study Section. Dr. Clark has 35 years of experience teaching OBGYN residents, and broad experience in curriculum development and assessment. She was the director of the OHSU OBGYN medical student clerkship from 1985-1992 and the founder and a director of the FPMRS fellowship from 1995-2017.

Dr. Brightman is a Board Certified OBGYN and Nams Certified Menopause Provider (NCMP). She has been in private practice in Manhattan since 1990 CB and is passionate about women’s health particularly menopausal medicine. Dr. Brightman is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and frequently discusses women’s health matters in the media. Dr. Brightman is regularly listed by Castle-Connolly as one of the top physicians in the New York Metro Area. Dr. Brightman is married to an Ophthalmologist and has two young adult sons. Her passions include: spending time with her family and friends, fitness, reading, and fashion.

Laurie Birkholz, MD, NCMP, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and fellowship-trained Women’s Health specialist practicing in Southwest Michigan.

Dr. Birkholz received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed her residency in family practice at St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee, WI, and her women’s healthcare fellowship with Aurora Health Care, in Milwaukee, WI.

Certified by the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) as a menopause and women’s health practitioner, Dr. Birkholz is a frequent lecturer on women’s health issues in the community. Her advanced training in women’s health allows for additional focus in areas that include menopausal medicine, sexual health and gynecology.

Dr. Bernick is co-founder and chief scientific officer at TherapeuticsMD, an innovative pharmaceutical company committed to advancing women’s health, and a practicing, board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist with over 25 years of clinical medical experience. TherapeuticsMD is a NASDAQ traded pharmaceutical company with prescription drug products ranging from prenatal care, contraception and menopause. Dr. Bernick was the Department Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boca Raton Regional Hospital and served on that hospital’s Medical Executive Board as well as the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach Medical Society and VitalMD Group Holding, LLC, the largest physician-owned and managed obstetricians/gynecologists group in Florida.

Dr. Bernick is the recipient of several national and regional awards, including recognition by his peers as one of the top doctor’s in his specialty by Castle Connolly as well as the recipient of the American Medical Association Foundation’s Leadership Award. Dr. Bernick has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as having presented original research at numerous medical conferences.

Dr. Bernick holds over 40 patents focusing on drug therapies and analysis, and serves as an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Northwestern University, received his Doctorate in Medicine from the Chicago Medical School, and completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania.