Faculty Members

Dimitris Hatzicristou, MD, PhD, FECSM, is Professor of Urology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also President of the Institute for the Study of Urological Diseases (ISUD), a non profit organization, dedicated to education and awareness on Urological conditions. He received his MD and Ph.D. degrees and completed his training in Urology at […]

David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist and leads a national outpatient and residential unit service for people with severe treatment refractory Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) at the South London and Maudsley Trust and for inpatients at the Priory Hospital North London. He is a Visiting Professor in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapies

David Stuart is a social worker, community activist, and chemsex expert. David was the first to name and identify Chemsex as an emerging gay cultural phenomenon. He developed the world’s first chemsex support services, and he fought relentlessly for greater chemsex awareness by encouraging and stimulating cultural dialogue and discussion within our international gay, bi

Professor David Ralph is Professor of Urology at UCLH and UCL, London since 1996. His training included General surgery at St Thomas’s and St Mary’s Hospitals London, and Urology at Leeds and the St Peter’s Hospitals London. He is a Fellow of both the London and Edinburgh surgical colleges and has also obtained a BSc

Since 2009 Claas de Boer is an employee in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Sexual Medicine of the Hannover Medical School (MHH). He received a diploma in psychology in 2011, followed by the official license to practise as a psychological psychotherapist in 2014. Since then he has been working as a psychotherapist in the

Prof. Carlo Bettocchi, MD, FECSM is currently Director of the Department of Andrology and External Genital Surgery and Associate Professor of Urology at the Hospital-University Company “Ospedali Riuniti” in Foggia. From 1995 to 2021 he worked in the Department of Urology, Andrology and Kidney Transplantation at Policlinico – University Hospital of Bari, Italy, and he

Dr. Bruno Nascimento is a physician, surgeon and urologist trained at the USP School of Medicine as a Fellowship in Sexual Medicine and Andrology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Nova Iorque (USA). His work and studies focus on all aspects of male sexual health and sexual rehabilitation of cancer patients (Survivorship Programs). Dr. Nascimento

Deputy Editor Journal of Sexual Medicine and President Elect International Society for Sexual Medicine mMD, Ph.D, FECSM, Professor Giraldi is Senior Consultant in Psychiatry in the Sexological Clinic at Psychiatric Center Copenhagen and Professor of Clinical Sexology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she also received her medical degree and PhD. Professor Giraldi has

Alex has a BSc Hons in Psychology and Education and has received special training in sexual medicine. Alex Cowan is an educator, writer and performer, giving talks, presentations, workshops, and peer advice to promote a holistic understanding of disability and sexuality. Alex encourages us to think beyond the prescriptive, disablist limitations by which we live,

Johannes Bitzer, MD, is Former Chairman and Professor em of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Hospitals of the University of Basel. He is former president of the European Society of Contraception and of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the