Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Sexuality and Disability, Sexual Pleasure, Orgasm.
HSAB Affiliation: Managing Director.

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Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the founder and President of The Sexual Health Network and SexualHealth.com, and Managing Director of the Health and Science Advisory Board (HSAB.org). Dr. Tepper, an AASECT-certified Sexuality Educator and Counselor, is a pioneer in the delivery of sexual health information online and an internationally recognized 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.

Dr. Tepper currently serves on the editorial boards of the journal Sexuality and Disability and the American Journal of Sexuality Education, and on the Boards of Directors of the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability and The Women's Sexual Health Foundation. He has served as Board Member and Chair of the Communications Steering Committee for AASECT and was responsible for overseeing Contemporary Sexuality, AASECT’s 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 Boards of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH).

Publications include the critically acclaimed four-volume set Sexual Health, from Praeger; Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Care in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Continuing Education and Training for Health Professionals; 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.

He was a regular guest lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine over a five year period and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physician Assistant Education at Quinnipiac University. Dr. Tepper has a Master of 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 conditions 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.

	Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Care in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Continuing Education & Training for Health Care Professionals
	Sexual Health