In 1993, The Sinclair Intimacy Institute™ formed the Sinclair Advisory Council composed of well-known sex educators, therapists, and researchers from across the country. The Advisory Council helps guide the development of Sinclair products and policies to ensure each video reflects the concerns and needs of healthy, monogamous couples who want to enhance their intimacy.
The Sinclair Intimacy Institute™ is proud to be affiliated with the following professionals who serve on our Advisory Council.
Eli Coleman, Ph.D. - Chairman of The Sinclair Advisory Council
Eli Coleman is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Practice and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, Minn. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the topics of sexual orientation, compulsive sexual behavior, gender dysphoria, chemical dependency and family intimacy and the psychological and pharmacological treatment of a variety of sexual dysfunctions and disorders. Professor Coleman is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Psychology of Human Sexuality and The International Journal of Transgenderism. He is one of the past presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and is the current president of the World Association or Sexology.
Linda Banner, Ph.D.
A licensed sex therapist specializing in marriage and relationship counseling, Linda Banner is also an outspoken educator on the topic of the medical and emotional aspects of erectile dysfunction. Certified as a sex therapist by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), she is currently the only sex therapist in America with a grant to study the combined effects of Viagra and cognitive behavior therapy on sexual dysfunction.
Lori Buckley, Psy.D.
Dr. Lori Buckley is a licensed clinical psychologist whose passion as a therapist, speaker, and educator are evident in her dynamic, life changing work. The focus of her practice is working with individuals and couples who want to improve, heal, and transform their relationships, embrace and enjoy their sexuality, and improve their overall quality of life. Dr. Buckley has extensive training and experience in relationship issues, women’s issues, and sex therapy. Her nurturing, open and direct style help create a warm, safe environment to discuss concerns, which people often find difficult to talk about.
In addition to practicing as a psychotherapist, Dr. Buckley is a professional speaker, and an adjunct professor at Whittier College, where she teaches Human Sexuality. She also conducts group therapy, seminars and workshops. Dr. Buckley is a member of The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), The Society of The Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), The International Society for The Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), and The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation (TWSHF).
Clive Davis, Ph.D.
As a professor, researcher and board member for a number of psychology associations, Clive Davis has devoted his professional life to the study of human sexuality. Davis currently serves as associate professor for the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University, where he pursues research on the relationship between sexually-related attitudes and behaviors. He also studies the impact of sexually explicit materials on beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. Davis is a respected member of the scientific community and was honored in 1993 for "Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Human Sexuality" by the Eastern Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
Marian Dunn, Ph.D.
Marian E. Dunn is both director for the Center for Human Sexuality, SUNY/Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and clinical associate professor for the Department of Psychiatry, SUNY/Health Center at Brooklyn. She is also consulting editor for the Journal of Sex Education and Therapy. Dunn has served as intake supervisor and senior staff therapist for the Center for Human Sexuality, Downstate Medical Center; clinical instructor for the Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center; and psychotherapist - individual, marital and family therapy in private practice. Dunn has published numerous articles and serves on a variety of professional committees.
Joseph LoPiccolo, Ph.D.
Joseph LoPiccolo is internationally recognized for his research, education and clinical treatment. An author of more than 100 scholarly articles and books on human sexuality, LoPiccolo co-authored "Becoming Orgasmic," a program to help women achieve orgasm. LoPiccolo is a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Psychology and director of Psychological Services, Sexual Medicine Center at Boone Hospital, Columbia, Missouri. Currently researching the assessment and treatment of sexual dysfunction, and the treatment of adult survivors of incest, LoPiccolo has given more than 250 international presentations on all aspects of human sexuality.
Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles, M.D., Ph.D.
Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles is a licensed sex therapist and professor of sexual medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico. He is a graduate of the Ph.D. program in human sexuality at New York University and attended postdoctoral training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In 1987, he founded the Mexican Association for Sexual Health and initiated a training program for sexual medicine and sex therapy. He also coordinated the production of the Antologia de la Sexualidad Humana, a three-volume, 900 page collection of papers on scientific approaches to human sexuality. In 1997, Dr. Rubio-Aurioles was elected as secretary general and treasurer of the World Association for Sexology.
Louise-Andrée Saulnier, M.A.
is a sexologist from Québec, Canada. She has her own daily television show, Sex Confidential. In her private clinical practice, she works principally with couples. Through consultations with hospitals, universities, pharmaceutical companies and community organizations, she has given hundreds of lectures and workshops for medical students, professionals, and lay people throughout Canada and the United States. She has written several articles in popular women’s magazines as well as in scientific journals. She is the co-author of two books translated into four languages: “The Sensuous Lover’s Guide” and “Massage for Couples”, she was also the head consultant for an encyclopedia on sexuality (“Corps à Corps”;1992-93) and a national survey on the Québec’s sexual behaviors and attitudes (“Les habitudes sexuelles des québécois”1993).
Herb Samuels, Ph.D.
Herb Samuels is a board-certified sexologist specializing in the study of African American sexuality. His research on the relationship between race and sexuality has been published in The Journal of Sex Research, SIECUS Report and The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality. He has contributed to several stories on the impact of race on sexual behavior for Heart and Soul, Jet and CNBC. He is an associate professor of human sexuality at LaGuardia Community College in New York where supervises program development in health and sexuality education. Samuels currently serves as the president elect of the eastern region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
Sandra Scantling, Psy.D.
Dr. Sandra R. Scantling is a sex therapist and licensed clinical psychologist with more than 20 years experience in private practice, counseling couples on how to improve their loving relationships. She is the author of the recently released book Extraordinary Sex Now: A Couple's Guide to Intimacy, and also created the successful Sinclair Intimacy Institute™ video series Ordinary Couples, Extraordinary Sex. She developed the LoveProgram, an online intimacy program, available at http//www.drsandy.com, in cooperation with the Sinclair Intimacy Institute™. Dr. Scantling is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and serves as the director of the Farmington Psychotherapy Center in Farmington, CT, where she is in private practice.
Julian Slowinski, Psy.D.
Julian Slowinski has been working in the field of human sexuality for more than 30 years as a clinician, educator, lecturer, consultant, author and researcher. Now in private practice in sex and marital therapy in Philadelphia, Dr. Slowinski is currently Senior Clinical Psychologist at Pennsylvania Hospital and is the former Director of Child & Family Outpatient Mental Health Services at the hospital. He has been a clinical faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for more than 20 years. He is currently teaching courses in human sexuality and sex therapy at LaSalle University in Philadelphia.
William Stayton, M.Div., Th.D.
William Stayton is a marriage and sex therapist in private practice with a background in both theology and psychology. He serves as adjunct associate professor for the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania; adjunct professor for the Graduate Psychology Department, LaSalle University; and professor of sexuality and religious studies, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco. Throughout Stayton's postgraduate training, fellowship appointments and clinical training, he served as a minister at several churches. Stayton is a certified supervisor, sex therapist and sex educator through AASECT and a certified sexologist through the American College of Sexologists. He is currently president of AASECT.
Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D. M.P.H.
Dr. Tepper is Founder and President of The Sexual Health Network and SexualHealth.com as well as the Managing Director of the Health and Science Advisory Board of www.loveandhealth.info. Dr. Tepper is a pioneer in the delivery of sexual health information online and a nationally recognized sexuality educator, researcher, author, and advocate dedicated to ending the silence around issues of sexuality and disability. His years of research at Yale University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania have served as the basis for numerous professional, academic, and public presentations, articles, and chapters. Publications include the forthcoming four volume set, Sexual Health, In J. Kuriansky (Series Ed.) Sex, Love, and Psychology. Westport: Praeger Publishing, Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Care in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Continuing Education and Training for Health Professional, Lived Experiences that Impede or Facilitate Pleasure and Orgasm in People with Spinal Cord Injury, and Love Bites, a monthly column in New Mobility magazine. Dr. Tepper currently serves on: the National Advisory Council to the National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, led by former US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher; the Board of The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation, and the editorial boards of the Journal of Sexuality and Disability and the American Journal of Sexuality Education. Most recently he has served as Board Member, Chair of Communications Steering Committee, for the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and was responsible for overseeing Contemporary Sexuality, the monthly membership publication. He has also served as President of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of Connecticut, Chair of Online Services for AASECT, and on the Board of Directors of The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. He was a regular guest lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine over a five year period and currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physician Assistant Education at Quinnipiac University. Dr. Tepper has a Master's degree in Public Health from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to academic credentials, Dr. Tepper, who grew up with Crohn's Disease and acquired a spinal cord injury at age 20, brings a lifetime of first-hand experience with chronic illness and disability to his work. Dr. Tepper has been featured on CNN, Discovery, PBS and in popular press, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and GQ.
Beverly Whipple, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
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 (October 2006, Johns Hopkins Univ. press). Dr. Whipple has appeared on over 250 radio and TV programs and has been featured in many magazines. She has delivered over 500 talks and keynote speeches, 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 and the Public Service Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), and the Professional Standard of Excellence Award from the American Association of Sex 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.
Dr. Whipple is a Professor Emerita at Rutgers University of NJ. She has a BS in Nursing from Wagner College, 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), was the Vice President of the World Association for Sexology (2001-2005), was on the Board of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (2002-2004), was the President of SSSS (2002-2003), is now the Secretary General of the World Association for Sexual Health (2005-2009) and is on the Board of the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
Michael A. Werner, M.D.
Dr. Werner is a well-known practicing urologist with a specialty in the diagnosis and treatment of male erectile dysfunction. Dr. Werner completed his specialized fellowship training in male sexual dysfunction at Boston University Medical Center and currently teaches this topic at New York Medical College. Dr. Werner completed his urology residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan and received his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco. He holds an undergraduate degree in Biology from Harvard College.
Dr. Werner serves as the Regional Medical Advisor for New York and Connecticut, for the Impotence World Association and the Medical Director of M.A.Z.E. Laboratories. He is a co-author of numerous publications on the subject of male sexual dysfunction, but his practice will begin to treat women with sexual dysfunction as of the summer of 2001. Patients cite his "easy style" and considerable communication ability, especially regarding the impact of sexual dysfunction on relationships.
Shirley Zussman, Ed.D.
Currently serving as co-editor for the Sex Over Forty newsletter and director for the Association for Male Sexual Dysfunction, Shirley Zussman has positioned herself as a knowledgeable, media-friendly expert on human sexuality. Often called upon to appear on national TV and radio programs, Zussman has built her relationship with the media by serving as a columnist on sex and health for Glamour Magazine; as a scenes, script and casting consultant for HBO's award-winning show "Sex is a Three Letter Word," and as a feature reporter on human relations and sexuality for the NBC News and Information Service. Zussman is the author of "Getting Together: A Guide to Sexual Enrichment for Couples," and frequently lectures internationally for professional and lay groups.
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