Michael Perelman:  

Dr. Michael A. Perelman is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, and Urology at the NY Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is the Co-Director of the Human Sexuality Program, Payne Whitney Clinic of the N Y Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. In 2012 he founded the MAP Education and Research Fund [a 501(c)(3) public charity]. mapedfund.org's mission is to educate healthcare providers about the importance of maintaining a bio psychosocial behavioral and cultural approach to the diagnosis, and treatment of sexual disorders. At that time he donated the registered trademark of his Sexual Tipping Point® Model to the Fund, so that it could be made available gratis to healthcare professionals upon request. A National Institute of Health Fellow, he received his MS, M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, where he wrote the first sex therapy dissertation in Columbia's history. Dr. Perelman was Chief Intern in Medical Psychology at Duke University Medical Center and was next a 1974 Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Medical Center. As an international leader, Dr. Perelman has served on several professional society boards of directors and was the President of The Society for Sex Therapy and Research. He has been elected a Fellow of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, the International Society for Study of Women’s Sexual Health, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. He is also a member of over twenty-five other professional associations (serving on and/or chairing numerous committees. He was appointed and served on the Sexual Function Advisory Council of the American Urological Association. He was appointed and served on the Standards Committee of the International Society for Sexual Medicine. He was appointed and serv...Expand for more