Sharon J. Parish

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.