Sandra Risa Leiblum (1943–2010) was an American author, lecturer, and researcher in

sexology Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, Human sexual activity, behaviors, and functions. The term ''sexology'' does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as social crit ...

Biography

Leiblum was born in

Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

, earned her B.A. from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

and graduated with a Ph.D. in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the

University of Colorado The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver, and the U ...

Medical Center, Denver, Colorado. In 1972 she joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry of UMDNJ,

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a medical school of Rutgers University. It is one of the two graduate medical schools of Rutgers Health, together with New Jersey Medical School, and is closely aligned with Robert Wood Johnson University ...

. During her career she studied sexual issues in many circumstances addressing among others

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

situations,

infertility In biology, infertility is the inability of a male and female organism to Sexual reproduction, reproduce. It is usually not the natural state of a healthy organism that has reached sexual maturity, so children who have not undergone puberty, whi ...

, and

menopause Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when Menstruation, menstrual periods permanently stop, marking the end of the Human reproduction, reproductive stage for the female human. It typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 5 ...

. She was on the editorial board of the '' Journal of Sex Education and Therapy'' and the '' Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services''. Among the honors she received were the ''Masters and Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award'' (awarded by the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in 2001) and the ''Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award'' (awarded by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex for distinguished contributions to sexuality research over a lifetime in 2003). She was the first president the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health in 2000 and a past president of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, as well as a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. In 2001, Leiblum described the Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder as a new syndrome. On January 28, 2010, Sandra Leiblum died in

Edison, New Jersey Edison is a Township (New Jersey), township located in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Situated in Central Jersey, Central New Jersey within the core of the state's Raritan River, Raritan Valley r ...

, eight months after suffering a stroke and bicycle accident. The Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) subsequently named an award in her honor.Society for Sex Therapy and Research
(SSTAR) website.

Bibliography

Books written or edited include: * 'Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy' (now in its fourth edition), * 'Treating Sexual Desire Disorders', * 'Erectile Disorders: Assessment and Treatment', and * 'Case Studies in Sex Therapy'.

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