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Volume 1 Issue 2 Fall 2008
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Letter from the Chair in Sexual Health
Our world has changed significantly since our newsletter in mid-August. The financial crisis and recent elections both have the potential of positively and negatively affecting sexual health.
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The Trojan Evolve National Tour visits the U
On September 5, 2008, the Trojan Evolve Tour Bus spent the day parked on the Mall of the University of Minnesota campus. Trojan staff members were busy handing out condoms and challenging students in sexual health games
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Global and regional expert consultations on HIV in MSM and TG populations
There is an urgent need to address the emerging and re-emerging epidemics of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender individuals around the world.
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Bean Robinson is talking about low sexual desire
Couples may experience a lull in their sex life. Recently experts and couples spoke publicly about low sexual desire. Get insight from Bean Robinson, PhD.
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Promoting sexual literacy through sexuality films
Mark Schoen, PhD, is building a virtual library of sexuality films, SexSmartFilms.com. "Without films and photos your only frame of reference for sex is your own sexual experience," says Schoen. Enjoy your complimentary 10-day pass to the Sex Smart Films library.
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PHS alumni gather to reconnect, reminisce, and record history
PHS has a long list of distinguished alumni and advocates. This summer many of the early pioneers from the 1970s gathered at the home of Dorothy Boen to reconnect with each other, reminisce about the early days, and to record the history of PHS.
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PHS launches annual appeal
PHS looks to you for new contributions. In recent years you have helped to guarantee our strong foundation by contributing to the endowment for the Chair in Sexual Health. When we started fundraising we did not realize that our critical need for this endowed fund would come so quickly. Our need continues.
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Research & Education
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Are sex offender classifications effective?
"A Multi-state Recidivism Study Using Static-99 and Static-2002 Risk Scores and Tier Guidelines from the Adam Walsh Act" will be the first comprehensive investigation of risk assessment procedures and their predictive validity with samples of American sex offenders.
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Meet the PHS postdoctoral fellows
PHS currently has seven postdoctoral fellows. Meet Cesar Gonzales,
Rae Hoesing, Alex Iantaffi, Scott Jacoby, Sara Prescher, Katie Spencer,
and Zach White. PHS is accepting applications for clinical postdoctoral fellows.
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PHS trainings, presentations, and publications
PHS faculty and postdoctoral fellows have been busy giving trainings and presentations as well as publishing articles this quarter.
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Free access to Sexual Medicine in Primary Care
by William L. Maurice, MD
The Kinsey Institute is hosting an electronic version of the award-winning book Sexual Medicine in Primary Care (2006 SSTAR Health Professional Book Award). The author, William L. Maurice, MD, has the copyright and you have permission to photocopy the material.
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People
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PHS honors advocate, mentor, and friend Neal Gault, MD
Neal Gault, MD, has been a long time advocate of sexual health education, especially to medical students. Gault spent his career and much of his retirement educating physicians.
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Dutch scholar, Marieke van Eijk, MA conducts her research at PHS
Marieke van Eijk, MA, is a medical anthropologist currently visiting PHS to conduct her PhD research comparing transgender healthcare practices in the United States and Western Europe.
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Welcome new PHS staff
PHS welcomes the newest additions to our team: Heidi Fall and Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH.
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Upcoming Events
You are invited to a PHS faculty research presentation
You are invited to attend a PHS faculty research presentation on Wednesday, November 26, 2008. Margretta Dwyer, MA, and Rebecca Swinburne-Romine, MA, will present “Thirty year follow-up of recidivism.” This study examines the case histories of seven hundred and fifty sex offenders. Join us at noon at PHS, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, Room 142. Lunch will be served; RSVP to phsresearch@umn.edu. If you are not able to join us in November, mark your calendar for the next faculty research presentation on January 28, 2009—details will follow.
World AIDS Day 1988-2008
Twenty years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) declared December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day. The day marks an opportunity for individuals and organizations to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic with the hopes of reinvigorating efforts to stop the spread of HIV. In the original resolution WHO recognized that AIDS “has assumed pandemic proportions affecting all regions of the world and represents a threat to the attainment of health for all.” Twenty years later, significant work remains as the World AIDS Day slogan resounds, “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” On this December 1 participate in a World AIDS Day event in your community.
SSTAR 2009 conference Politics and Resarch in Sexuality
The Society for Sex Therapy and Research 2009 program Politics and Research in Sexuality: Toward Greater Understanding of Cutting Edge Issues in Sex Therapy is full of cutting edge research that will be examined through the lenses of politics and ethics. PHS faculty Brian Zamboni, PhD, and Eli Coleman, PhD, are the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee for the 34th annual meeting on April 2-5, 2009, in Arlington, Virginia. Save $50 by registering before March 2, 2009.
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Do not miss Michelle van Ryn at the NIH Summit
If you are attending the NIH Summit: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities in National Harbor, Maryland over December 16 – 18, 2008, make time for Michelle van Ryn’s poster presentation titled “Formative evaluation of an intervention targeting the impact of unconscious racial and ethnic bias on clinical judgment and decision-making.” Coauthors on this project include Diana Burgess, PhD, Sean Phelan, MPH, and Mark Yeazel, MD, MPH, from the University of Minnesota, and Jack Dovidio, PhD, from Yale University.
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