Leonore Tiefer

Leonore Tiefer, PhD, author, educator, researcher, therapist and activist is a well-known sexologist. She began with a Psychology PhD on hormones and hamsters (University of California, 1969) and an academic position and animal laboratory (Colorado State University, 1969-1977). She later respecialized in clinical psychology (New York University, 1988) with a focus on sex and gender problems. She taught at Downstate Medical Center, Beth Israel Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center where from 1988-1996 she was in the Urology Department and co-directed the Sex and Gender Clinic . She is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Tiefer has published over 150 articles, often about the medicalization of men's and women's sexuality. She has been interviewed by news media around the world as the foremost critic of "disease-mongering" trends in the management of women's sexual problems. The website of her anti-medicalization campaign, http://newviewcampaign.org, is a major resource for students, journalists, scholars, and the public.

Dr. Tiefer has received awards and has been elected to offices within sexological and feminist organizations. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition against Censorship (ncac.org) and the steering committee of the Shelter for Homeless Men at her New York City Unitarian Universalist Church (bjsplace.org)

Dr. Tiefer is well-known as a public speaker, having keynoted scores of conferences from London to Lausanne, Montreal to Osaka, Istanbul to Calcutta. She has given provocative grand rounds at many medical centers and spoken to countless university and college clubs, classes, and public audiences. The highlight of all this, so far, came in 2003, when she was a platform speaker at the Chautauqua Institution, speaking to an audience of over 4500, standing in the same honored spot as Susan B. Anthony and Eleanor Roosevelt.