Menopause Wise

This is a Vibrance Associates, LLC, web site. We are headquartered in Bowie, Maryland, USA. The web site directors of our company are Myron Murdock, MD, a urological practitioner, surgeon and medical clinical trials authority, and Stan Felder, a founder and president of Vibrance Associates. He is a long-time journalist, editor, writer and educator.

Site medical directors: Dr. Andrew Goldstein of Johns Hopkins, an author, educator and practitioner, is medical director of our gynecological web site. Dr. Murdock is an educator, urological surgeon, and clinical trials Principal Investigator. Karen Giblin is an educator and heads the nearly quarter million large RedHotMamas national educational program. She is a sought-after guest on TV and radio and has written two cookbooks on eating to defeat menopause. Dr. James Simon is a past president of the North American Menopause Society Dr. Marianne Brandon is an author and Diplomate of Sex Therapy and author of two books and many articles. Other Vibrance specialists are Dr. Alan Altman, the President of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH) 2011, one of the foremost academic and clinical research societies dedicated to women's sexual function and dysfunction, a member of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and Dr. Michael Krychman. author, educator and specialist in sexual medicine.

Dr. Krychman is the executive director of the Southern California Center for Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine and the medical director of sexual medicine at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California. He formerly served as co-director of the Sexual Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and as an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical School, both in New York City.

Dr. Krychman has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, served as a reviewer and editorial advisor for many publications, and authored several textbook chapters and books, including 100 Questions and Answers About Women's Sexual Wellness and Vitality: A Practical Guide for the Woman Seeking Sexual Fulfillment. He has been featured in The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Health magazine, and many other publications.

The Vibrance sites are www.hisandherhealth.com, www.clearmindsbettersex.com, www.ourgyn.comHe , and www.redhotmamas.org. The Vibrance sites are members of the Health on the Network (HON) and Internet Health Care Coalition (IHC) and we urge all visitors to review their guidelines and the principals we proudly adhere to. Our vision and mission are to present timely, accurate, useful education and information in the areas of menopause, male and female sexual function, prostate health, gynecological issues, male and female incontinence and male and female fertility to empower the visitor with information. We do not diagnose nor prescribe. We make every effort to inform and educate,powerful tools for empowering those who visit our sites.

Further, this site has a panel of reviewers/consultants/writers who provide much of the material found here. Information about them and links to their biographies or CVs can be found at www.hisandherhealth.com/consultants.shtml. All advertising is clearly labeled advertising, as provided for in the HON/IHC codes. We provide financial disclosure of our authors as provided by traditional AMA standards.

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  Hope E. Ashby, PhD     Bruce Bekkar, M.D.     Jerry G. Blaivas, M.D.

  Arthur Burnett, M.D.        Stephanie Chisolm PhD          Francois Eid, M.D.

             
 
Andrew Goldstein, M.D.             Karen Giblin             Gary E. Leach, M.D. 

Terry Mason, M.D.      Alvaro Morales, M.D.     John J. Mulcahy, M.D.

Jonah Murdock, M.D.     Carl A. Olsson, M.D.    Cappy Rothman, M.D. 

Amy Stein, MPT          James A. Simon, M.D., CCD   

Philip Werthman, M.D.      Beverly Whipple, Ph.D.

     Aline P. Zoldbrod