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Meet the Experts
Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D.,Speciality: Sexuality and Disability, Sexual Pleasure, Orgasm
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Website: sexualhealth.com
Biography: Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D. M.P.H. is the founder and President of The Sexual Health Network and SexualHealth.com; Managing Director of the Health and Science Advisory Board (HSAB.org), Assistant Project Director, The Center of Excellence for Sexual Health at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), under the Satcher Health Leadership Institute; and Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Series II at MSM.
Dr. Tepper is a pioneer in the delivery of sexual health information online and a nationally recognized sexuality educator, researcher, author, and advocate dedicated to ending the silence around issues of sexuality and disability. His years of research at Yale University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania have served as the basis for numerous professional, academic, and public presentations, articles, and chapters. Publications include the four volume set, Sexual Health, In J. Kuriansky (Series Ed.) Sex, Love, and Psychology. Westport: Praeger Publishing; Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Care in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Continuing Education and Training for Health Professionals; Lived Experiences that Impede or Facilitate Pleasure and Orgasm in People with Spinal Cord Injury, and Love Bites, a monthly column in New Mobility magazine. Dr. Tepper currently serves on the editorial boards of the Sexuality and Disability and the American Journal of Sexuality Education and on the board of directors of the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability and The Women's Sexual Health Foundation. Most recently he has served as Board Member, Chair of Communications Steering Committee, for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and was responsible for overseeing Contemporary Sexuality, the monthly membership publication. He has also served as President of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of Connecticut, Chair of Online Services for AASECT, and on the Board of Directors of The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. He was a regular guest lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine over a five year period and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physician Assistant Education at Quinnipiac University. Dr. Tepper has a Master of Public Health from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to academic credentials, Dr. Tepper, who grew up with Crohn's Disease and acquired a spinal cord injury at age 20, brings a lifetime of first-hand experience with chronic conditions and disability to his work. Dr. Tepper has been featured on CNN, Discovery, PBS and in popular press, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and GQ.
Click here for more information on Dr. Tepper's studies on SCI. The password is "participant" without the quotation marks.
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