Keynote Speakers

in presentation order:

Ronald Lewis is currently Professor and Chief of Urology at the Medical College of Georgia, USA. Prior to this position, he was Professor of Urology at the Mayo Clinic Medical School and Associate Professor of Urology at Tulane University School of Medicine. He also served as co-Director of the Fertility and Male Sexual Dysfunction Clinic at Tulane University School of Medicine. As an expert in the field of sexual dysfunction, Ronald presides on several medical and scientific committees and is a past-president of the International Society for Impotence Research.

Ira Sharlip is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Urology. He is Clinical Professor of Urology at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr Sharlip is in an internationally recognised authority on sexual medicine and reproductive urology. Author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and/or book chapters, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. In February 2004, he served as the urologist on a team of 25 doctors from the USA which travelled to Baghdad to assess healthcare needs in Iraq and to advise leaders of the Iraqi medical community on the reconstruction of their healthcare system.

Koichi Nakajima graduated from Toho University in Japan and has been an Assistant Professor at the University, since 2002. He did his general training in urology and anaestheology at the Omori Hospital and from 1999 – 2001 was a research fellow at the University of California in San Francisco. Koichi is a member of The Japanese Urological Association, The Japan Society of Fertility and Sterility and is a Councillor of the Japan Society of Adolescentology, The Japanese Society of Endourology and ESWL. He is also a Councillor of the JSSIR.

Gerald Watts is a graduate of the University of London and received his medical training in London and other university teaching hospitals in the UK. He is Head of Internal Medicine, Director of The Lipid Disorders Unit and Chair of The NHMRC Centre for Training in Cardiovascular Disease at Royal Perth Hospital and Professor of Medicine within the School of Medicine and Pharmacology (RPH) in the University of Western Australia. His research interests include lipid disorders, diabetic vasculopathy, the metabolic syndrome and new methodologies for the study of vascular disease. Gerald is actively involved in acute medical care and in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.

Luca Incrocci is a radiation oncologist and sexologist at the Erasmus MC-Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is a member of several scientific societies including the European Association of Urology and the European and International Societies for Sexual Medicine. He is actively involved in the teaching and research of oncology fellows and students and is the chief editor of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Newsbulletin and the author of 60 plus peer-reviewed papers, reviews, book chapters and abstracts. Luca is Guest Professor at the University of Pisa, Italy, lecturing on Cancer and Sexuality, since 2004.

Han-Sun Chiang is Professor at the Department of Urology, Taipei Medical University and the Department of Urology, National Taiwan University, and was recently appointed Dean of the College of Medicine at the Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei. A former President of both the Taiwanese Association of Andrology and the Taiwanese Continence Society, Professor Chiang is a member of the executive committee of the Asia-Pacific Society of Impotence Research, the Asian Society for Female Urology and the Asian Society for the Study of the Aging Male. Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Second Asian ISSAM meeting on the aging male.

Zhong-Cheng Xin is Professor and Vice Chairman of the Andrology Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China. He has been engaged in clinical practices, teaching and research on Urology and Andrology for more than 20 years and has published over 50 research papers, edited 5 books in Urology and Andrology in Chinese, invented a new drug SS-cream for premature ejaculation and Icariin for erectile dysfunction. Professor Xin is an Executive Community member of the Chinese Society of Urology and Andrology, China Doctor’s Society, APSSM and a WHO consultant of Sexual Medicine.

Margaret Redelman trained in the USA in sexuality and worked in Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinics and Family Planning Clinics for many years in Australia and England. Margaret practices in private practice in Bondi Junction and at the Sydney Centre for Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Bondi Junction as a sex therapist and relationship therapist. She is actively involved in research for treatments for female sexual difficulties. Margaret is President of the 18th World Association for Sexology Congress to be held in Sydney in 2007, President of ASSERT National and Vice-President of ASSERT NSW.

Sae-Chul Kim is Professor in the Department of Urology at Chung-Ang University Hospital in Seoul and General Director, Chung-Ang University Medical Center. He was President of the Korean Urological Association 2004; President, Korean Society of Female Sexual Health Research 2001; Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 8th International Congress of Andrology 2001 and is the current President of the Asia-Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine (APSSM).

Lorraine Dennerstein holds a Personal Chair at The University of Melbourne, Australia, where she is Foundation Director of the Office for Gender and Health and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She established and directed the first academic centre for teaching and research in women’s health and also the first inpatient mother-baby psychiatric unit in an obstetrics hospital. For 30 years she has researched the relationship of ovarian steroids to women’s sexual functioning. Her population based study of women through the menopausal transition has been able to document prospectively the relative importance of hormonal to psychosocial factors in women’s sexual functioning.

John Conaglen is Associate Professor in Medicine in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
He is also Director of the Endocrinology Unit at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, and has over 25 years experience in the field of sexual dysfunction. A major focus for his clinical work and research is the multi-disciplinary approach to understanding and treating sexual dysfunction in both males and females, with an emphasis on the effects on couples of these problems. He is a Director of the Sexual Research Charitable Trust, which fosters research and education in the area of sexuality.

Ganesh Adaikan is an Associate Professor and Head of Reproductive Pharmacology / Sexual Medicine and Clinical Sexologist, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, National University of Singapore. He is a world renowned expert in the field of ED and is recognised for his pioneering contributions to the physio-pharmacology of penile erection and pharmacological treatment for ED. Professor Adaikan is the Founder Executive Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Society for Sexual Medicine (APSSM) and the current President of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM).

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Ganesh Adaikan (Singapore)
Han-Sun Chiang (Taipei)
John Conaglen (Auckland)
Lorraine Dennerstein (Melbourne)
Luca Incrocci (Rotterdam)*
Sae-Chul Kim (Seoul)
Ron Lewis (Augusta)*
Koichi Nakajima (Tokyo)
Margaret Redelman (Sydney)
Ira Sharlip (San Francisco)*
Gerald Watts (Perth)*
Zhong-Cheng Xin (Beijing)

*also giving a Symposium presentation

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS
Arif Adimoelja (Surabaya)
Srilatha Balasubramanian (Singapore)
Edsal Gatchalian (Manila)
Michael Gillman (Brisbane)
Yasusuke Kimoto (Fukuoka)
Apichat Kongkanand (Bangkok)
Sudhakar Krishnamurti (Hyderabad)
Man Kay Li (Singapore)
Doug Lording (Melbourne)
Wah Yun Low (Kuala Lumpur)
Ken Marumo (Keio)
Chris McMahon (Sydney)
KwangSung Park (Seoul)
Peter Sutherland (Adelaide)
Rudi Yuwana (Semarang)