Experts' Biographies
About "NWHRC Healthy Sexuality Experts Panel"
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"NWHRC Healthy Sexuality: Ask the Experts" is a question and answer column produced by the National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC). The questions submitted to the service are answered by the NWHRC Healthy Sexuality Experts panel, a team of medical experts with extensive research and clinical experience in the field of sexual function and related fields. Members of include:
Jennifer Fariello, MSN, RNC, CRNP,
Susan Kellogg-Spadt, CRNP, PhD, Sheryl A. Kingsberg, PhD and Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN. Their biographies are below:
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| Jennifer Fariello, MSN, RNC, CRNP |
Jennifer Fariello, a certified nurse practitioner in women's health, is adjunct clinical faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is on staff at The Pelvic and Sexual Health Institute at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, where she specializes in female and male sexual health and urogynecology. Ms. Fariello has worked in women's health for the past 11 years, first as a registered nurse and then as a nurse practitioner at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BSN from Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia) and her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania.
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| Susan Kellogg-Spadt, CRNP, PhD |
Dr. Susan Kellogg-Spadt is an assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She is a frequent lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and the Planned Parenthood Federation.
She is the co-founder of The Pelvic and Sexual Health Institute at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia where she functions as the Director of Vulvar and Sexual Medicine. In this capacity, Dr. Kellogg-Spadt performs direct patient care and consultative services as a vulvovaginal specialist, colposcopist, researcher and sexual dysfunction consultant.
Dr. Kellogg-Spadt received her PhD in Human Sexuality from The University of Pennsylvania, her post-masters certificate as an OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner from The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Professional Development and The Planned Parenthood Federation, her MSN as a Maternal-Child Clinical Specialist from Loyola University, and her BSN from The College of St. Teresa.
She has published more than 50 articles and two books, and is a featured columnist in Women's Health Care, a medical journal. She lectures and appears nationally and internationally on topics related to women's sexuality.
Sheryl A. Kingsberg is a clinical psychologist and associate professor in both the Departments of Reproductive Biology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH. Since 1991, she has served as staff psychologist of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University Hospitals of Cleveland. In this capacity Dr. Kingsberg directs inpatient and outpatient psychological care, as well as providing clinical supervision to medical students and psychiatry residents. She also devotes significant time to conducting clinical research and teaching medical students and residents.
Dr. Kingsberg's main research interests are in female sexual function and the psychological aspects of infertility and menopause. In addition to numerous professional presentations, she is well represented in the current literature including publications in journals, including Fertility and Sterility, Menopause, The Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Women's Health & Gender-based Medicine, the International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine, and the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. Dr. Kingsberg has authored numerous chapters on topics including, perimenopause and sexuality, oocyte donation, infertility and aging, sexual aversion disorder, and the treatment of psychogenic erectile dysfunction. She has been the principal investigator on a research grant to enhance the sexual health curriculum of the Case Western Reserve University Medical School, and is currently the principal investigator for two clinical trials on the treatment
of hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Dr. Kingsberg received her PhD from the University of South Florida in Tampa (1989). She is an active member in numerous national and international organizations, including the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), the International Society for Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH), the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology (NASPOG), and the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM). She is currently the chairwoman of the ASRM Sexual Health Special Interest Group, the scientific program chair for the 2005 annual meeting of ISSWSH and sits on the editorial boards for the journals Menopause, Sexuality Menopause and Reproduction, and the International Journal of Impotence Research.
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| Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN |
Dr. Beverly Whipple, a certified sexuality educator, sexuality counselor and sex researcher, is the co author of the international best seller, The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality, which has been translated into 19 languages and was re-published as a classic 23 years later in 2005. Her other books are Safe Encounters: How Women Can Say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex, Smart Women, Strong Bones, Outwitting Osteoporosis and The Science of Orgasm (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Dr. Whipple has appeared on over 250 radio and television programs, and has been featured in many magazines. She has delivered over 600 talks and keynote speeches, and has published over 160 research articles and book chapters. In 1982 and 1983 The Philadelphia Magazine named her one of the People to Watch.
She is the recipient of many awards, including the Hugo Beigel Research Award for research excellence and the best article published in the Journal of Sex Research, the NJ State Nurses' Association Award for Excellence in Research, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, the Public Service Award and the Kinsey Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) and the Professional Standard of Excellence Award from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). She is also a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. The New Scientist has named her one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world (2006).
Dr. Whipple is a Professor Emerita at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). She has a BS in Nursing from Wagner College and a Masters in Counseling, a Masters in Nursing and a PhD in Psychobiology, with a major in Neurophysiology, from Rutgers University.
Her concern with women's health derives naturally from her over forty years of helping women to feel better about themselves, as a nurse, a nurse educator and researcher. Her research focuses mainly on women's health issues and the sexual physiology of women.
Dr. Whipple is a member of a number of honor societies and received the Alumni Achievement Award from Wagner College in 1983. Dr. Whipple was the President of AASECT (1998-2000), the Vice President of the World Association for Sexology (2001-2005), on the Board of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (2002-2004) and the President of SSSS (2002-2003). She is now the Secretary General of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) (2005-2009) and is on the Board of the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (FSSS).
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