 Dr. June Machover Reinisch, Ph.D. served as director of The Kinsey Institute and Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Indiana University from 1982 - 1993. Following her retirement, she was named Director Emerita and a member of The Kinsey Institute Board of Trustees. Dr. Reinisch now resides in New York City where she is the President of R2 Science Communications, Inc. and the Director of Acquisitions and Future Exhibitions of the Museum of Sex in New York City. She continues her research as Senior Researcher at the Danish Epidemiology Science Center, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark and as the Senior Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute. She also serves on the Board of Advisors, National Advisory Council, Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, University of California San Diego. She consults to business, public and private agencies, and the legal profession, while maintaining her commitment to public and professional education with numerous lectures, television and radio appearances and scientific and popular writing.
Dr. Reinisch has focused her scientific work on the study of sexual and psychosexual development with a special interest in behavioral endocrinology and behavioral teratology. Adult and adolescent sexual behavior, menopause and sexuality, and sex and aging are also areas of particular interest. Her psychobiological research investigates the effects of drugs and hormones, prescribed for pregnant women, on the physical and behavioral development of their offspring including the development of sex differences, gender role and sexual orientation. Her developmental research includes studies on the long-term effects of breast feeding, smoking during pregnancy and the relationship of wine- and beer- drinking to health. She has studied the nature and prevalence of high-risk sexual behavior in women, adolescents and young adults as these relate to relationship status, sexually transmitted disease and the AIDS crisis. Since returning to New York, she has focused on sexuality in early adulthood and the psychological, sexual and physical changes women and men experience during midlife, the early post-reproductive years and the effects of aging on sexuality in both men and women. Dr. Reinisch has been awarded research grants from a wide range of governmental and private agencies including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Education, and The Ford Foundation.
Dr. Reinisch has published numerous scientific papers, including articles in such journals as Science, Nature, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The American Psychologist, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, The Archives of Internal Medicine, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Hormones and Behavior, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and has served as an editor of four scientific monographs published by Oxford University Press. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Sexuality and Religion and the International Academy for Sex Research. Among her awards are the Morton Prince Award from the American Psychopathological Association, the 9th Dr. S. T. Huang-Chan Memorial Lecture Medal in Anatomy from Hong Kong University, Regents Lecturer at The University of California, Los Angeles, the Dr. Richard D. Cross Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and similar commendations for her contributions to the field of human sexuality from The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Asociacion Mexicana de Sexologia, A.C., The Japanese Society for the Study of Human Sexuality, and the International Conference on Orgasm, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Reinisch travels extensively in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and Central and South America and each year presents many scientific and public lectures both in the United States and abroad on topics addressing American sexual behavior, sex and aging, sex differences, relationships, menopause, child development, sexual orientation, erotic art, sex and gender in the workplace, sexuality education, parenting, and medical education. She believes that teaching should be a major responsibility for every scientist and is committed to presenting research findings in a way the general public can understand and find useful for their own lives. Her radio and television appearances reflect this commitment to public education. She has appeared repeatedly on such programs as Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS This Morning, 20/20, and NBC, ABC, PBS and BBC news programs and science specials, and has served as both guest host and expert on CNBCs Talk Live and Real Personal. In addition, for nine years, Dr. Reinisch authored the internationally syndicated newspaper column, The Kinsey Report, written thrice-weekly for the Institute and distributed throughout the world by United Feature Syndicate/United Media.
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