Yacov Reisman

In 1998 he defended his Ph.D. research thesis on electronic diagnostic tools and objective medical decisions with the European Clinical database. Since 2002 he has been registered as a urologist allied to the Amstelland Hospital in Amstelveen and, from 2006 till recently, chairman of the Dutch Men’s Health Clinics network. In 2011 he became a registered sexologist by the Dutch Society of Sexology (NVVS) and, since recently, director of Flare-Health. He is an honorary and visiting Professor of urology at the Russian Federal Institute of Urology, Moscow, and of the Shanghai Institute of Andrology of the Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an active member of the European Association of Urology (EAU), Past-President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM), and Ex-President of the Multidisciplinary Joint Committee on Sexual Medicine (MJCSM), for which he receives Silver Decoration of Honour from the UEMS, and co-director of ESSM School of Sexual Medicine. He is a senior lecturer of Clinical Sexology at the RINO-Amsterdam, Netherlands. His special interest and publications are a.o. on cancer and sexual dysfunction, sexuality in chronic conditions, shockwave therapy for ED, lifestyle, and sexual function. Dr. Reisman is, among others, co-editor of the Manual of Sexual Medicine, the Syllabus of Clinical Sexology published by the ESSM, Cancer, Intimacy, and Sexuality, and the Textbook of Rare Sexual Medicine Conditions.