Team

• Stacy Lindau, MD

  Director and Principal Investigator

  Stacy is an engineer of solutions to injustice. As a medical student, Stacy visited a witch in Salem, Massachusetts who correctly prophesied that she would one day be a “vaginacologist.” Stacy was inspired to create WomanLab because every woman needs to know what she knows about female sexual function – how it works, what things do and don’t change with age, what can go wrong and how to fix it. She knows that the path to salvation of female sexuality must be led by women who know firsthand what it’s like to live without sexual function. As a tenured professor of obstetrics and gynecology and medicine-geriatrics at the University of Chicago, Stacy also directs the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine for Women and Girls with Cancer. Her scholarly work, much of it funded by NIH and other federal agencies, has been published in the highest impact peer-review literature and covered widely by media. She is an Aspen Institute Health Innovator fellow and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

• Emily Abramsohn, MPH

  Stakeholder Engagement

  Emily Abramsohn is a passionate public health researcher, partner and (self-described) “cool mom.” She came to the Lindau Lab at the University of Chicago in 2009 for its cross-cutting research efforts in women’s health and community health improvement. As the current Director of QA and Data Governance, she oversees primary data collection and the security of our datasets. For WomanLab, she curates content and distills research findings into “what every woman needs to know.” Emily spent three years as a rape victim advocate and researched community organizing efforts to reduce inefficiencies among domestic violence service providers. During her time in the Lab, she has been a Patient Educator, and trained others to provide this education. Emily received her BS in psychology from the University of Iowa and her Master’s in Public Health from San Diego State University.

• Monica Christmas, MD

  Assistant Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology

  Dr. Christmas is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and a mentee of Dr. Lindau’s. You might see her on the Wednesday afternoons of the System Science or Standing WomanLab meetings. Her series of menopause and sexuality blogs are some of WomanLab’s most popular!

• Amy Siston, PhD

• Anna Kheyfets

• Ann Jackson, DPT, MPH

• Camille Bacon

• Chenab Navalkha

• Danielle Grubb

• Deborah Siegel

• Gillian Feldmeth

• Jazmin Aceves

• Jennifer McComb

• Judy Florendo, PT, DPT

• Kelsey Paradise

• Kiersten Crouse

• Kristen Carbone

• Leilani Douglas

• Lilly Lerer

• Mary Clare Bietila

• Megan DePumpo, AM

• Sarahann Callaway

• Shilpa Iyer, MD, MPH

• Senxi Du

• Shirley Baron, PhD

• Suzanne Badillo, PT, WCS