Dr. Sharon J. Parish is a Professor of Medicine in Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the director of Medical Services at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/ Westchester Division. She received her medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University, completed her residency in Internal Medicine at George Washington University Hospital, and behavioral medicine fellowship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Parish is an internal medicine physician, a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), and a Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner. For 22 years, she was a clinician educator on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the clinical staff of Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY, where she had a large primary practice and an array of teaching and administrative responsibilities. Since 2014 her internal medicine practice has focused on behavioral health, menopause, and sexual medicine for female and male patients at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.⁠
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She is the past president of ISSWSH and former chair of the ISSWSH Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (2016-2023) and the ISSWSH Education Committee (2002-2014). She was a member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Board of Directors (2018-2022) and is currently active in leadership roles in multiple sexual medicine and women’s health organizations.