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Libby Edwards, M.D.
Dr. Edwards is in private practice in Charlotte, N.C. She is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem. Dr. Edwards received her medical degree from Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1976. Her professional memberships include the American Academy of Dermatology and the Women's Dermatologic Society. Dr. Edwards is also currently the Secretary-General of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD) and was the program chairperson for the Fourth ISSVD World Congress.
David Foster, M.D.
David Foster is medical director of OB/Gyn Ambulatory Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He received his medical degree in 1976 from Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in Gynecology and Obstetrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed his fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology with Dr. J. Donald Woodruff at Johns Hopkins. After a stint in private practice, Dr. Foster returned to Hopkins as an assistant professor from 1989 to 1995. He completed a Masters in Public Health at Hopkins in 1995 and was promoted to associate professor at Hopkins in1996. He is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as an active member of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD), where he participates as a member of the Committee on Terminology. Dr. Foster has published several articles and chapters on vulvar pain and has worked extensively with vulvodynia patients.
Howard I. Glazer, Ph.D.
Dr. Howard I. Glazer is a Clinical Psychologist in New York City with a professional practice limited to the use of surface electromyographic feedback in the treatment of pelvic floor muscle dysfunctions and vulvovaginal pain syndromes. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Cornell University Medical College and Associate Attending Psychologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Glazer graduated from the University of Toronto with a Honours B.A. in 1969, and The University of Texas at Austin in 1972 with a doctoral degree in neurophysiological psychology. He did his postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the chronic pelvic pain section for OBGYN.net. His background combines neurophysiology/ neurochemistry, learning theory, sex therapy, behavioral medicine and electromyography. Dr. Glazer provides individual clinical services, training workshops, in-office speciality training and he is actively involved in several multidisciplinary and multinational research projects.
Bernard Harlow, Ph.D.
Dr. Harlow is Professor and Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His recent research has focused on psychiatric disorders and their relation to reproductive function and gynecological morbidity, as well as etiological factors related to vulvodynia.
Stanley Marinoff, M.D.
Dr. Marinoff is now retired from clinical practice. Formerly, Dr. Marinoff served as the medical director of the Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders in Washington, D. C., senior attending physician at Columbia Hospital for Women, and clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D. C. He received his medical degree from The Chicago Medical School and a Master's degree in Public Health from Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Marinoff is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease, and numerous other societies and committees. He has published many articles on vulvodynia, pudendal neuralgia, vulvar vestibulitis and the use of interferon in treating vulvar vestibulitis.
Paul Nyirjesy, M.D.
Dr. Nyirjesy is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine and the Director of the Drexel Vaginitis Center. After completing a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Jefferson in 1989, Dr. Nyirjesy completed a two-year fellowship in Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Temple University Hospital. In 1991, he established the Temple Vaginitis Referral Center, a program whose goal is to evaluate and treat patients referred primarily by their gynecologists because of chronic vulvovaginal symptoms. This program moved to Jefferson in 2001. Because of the nature of his clinical practice, his academic interests have included vulvodynia. He has published many articles on a variety of topics in this area of medicine.
Elizabeth Stewart, M.D.
Dr. Stewart works for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a large multi-specialty medical group in Boston. She is also Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Stewart graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1981 and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is also a member of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease. Her recent book on vulvovaginal health, The V Book, was released by Bantam in July 2002.
Justin Wasserman, M.D., F.A.A.P.M.R.
Dr. Justin Wasserman, M.D., F.A.A.P.M.R., is the Medical Director and President of The Pain Treatment Center of Greater Washington in Bethesda, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine with a medical degree in 1993. Dr. Wasserman interned at The Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati, and completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Chicago/Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago, Illinois in 1997. Since graduating from his residency, Dr. Wasserman has been engaged in medical practice specializing exclusively in the treatment of chronic pain disorders. He has board certifications from both the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and The American Board of Pain Medicine. He is also a member of several professional associations including the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the International Society for the Study of Pain, and the American Myopain Society. He has a specific expertise in the pharmacologic management of chronic pain, and is planning on participating in a variety of research projects.
Ursula Wesselmann, M.D.
Dr. Wesselmann, M.D., is a graduate of the Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, and completed her post-doctoral studies at The Medical College of Wisconsin, Northwestern University and Harvard Medical Schools. She trained in Neurology at the University of Chicago. She is currently Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurological Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. She conducts research on the pathophysiology of visceral and neuropathic pain syndromes, with emphasis on pelvic pain and vulvodynia.
Jerome M. Weiss, M.D.
Dr. Weiss is the Director of the Pacific Center for Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction in San Francisco, California. He is an associate clinical professor of urology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Weiss received his medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine and his post graduate training at UCSF. He has served as a consultant to the Vulvar Pain Clinic at UCSF. His practice is dedicated to the treatment of pelvic pain problems secondary to myofascial dysfunction, including vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis and urinary urgency/frequency syndrome. His center offers a holistic approach to treatment utilizing physical therapy, acupuncture, biofeedback, and psychological counseling. Dr. Weiss is the president of the International Pelvic Pain Society and a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, the American Pain Society and the American Urological Association.
Steven S. Witkin, Ph.D.
Dr. Witkin has been in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University since 1981, where he is currently Professor of Immunology and Director of the Division of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Witkin has over 200 peer reviewed publications in areas related to women's health. In the past several years, the research in his Division has focused on genetic, immunologic, and infectious aspects of preterm birth, gynecologic infections and vulvar vestibulitis syndrome. His laboratory is also a New York State licensed clinical laboratory for genetic and immunological testing.
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