About the Society:Board & Committees
Board of Directors
Board members
The Society is governed by an elected board of twelve directors with staggered six-year terms.
President - Jerilynn Prior
is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of British Columbia and Scientific Director of the new Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research. Her specialties include ovulation, perimenopause, progesterone, and a feminist approach to women's health.
Judith Berg
[JBerg[at]nursing.arizona.edu ]
is an Assistant Professor in the University of Arizona College of Nursing. Her specialities include women's health promotion and symtom management across the lifespan.
Chris Bobel
is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her specialities include women-centered social movements, including menstrual activism.
Giovanna Chesler
is a filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of Communication at University of California-San Diego.
Joan Chrisler
is a Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. Her specialties include pms, attitudes toward menstruation and menopause, sociocultural aspects of menstruation, and cognitive and behavioral changes across the menstrual cycle.
Paula S. Derry
[paula.derry[at]gmail.com]
is a health psychologist who works independently. Her specialties include theoretical and analytic work in a broad range of areas pertaining to the biology and psychosocial aspects of menopause, including a holistic model of menopause.
Heather Dillaway
is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Wayne State University.
Mary Anna Friederich
Christine Hitchcock
Ingrid Johnston-Robeldo
[Ingrid.Johnston-Robledo[at]fredonia.edu]
Elizabeth Kissling
[Elizabeth.Kissling[at]ewu.edu]
is a Professor of Communication Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University.
Phyllis Mansfield
is a Professor of Women's Studies at Penn State University and Director of the Tremin Trust. Her specialties include menstrual bleeding patterns in perimenopause, sexuality changes related to menopause, and social support during the menopausal transtion.
Maria Luisa Marván
[mlmarvan[at]gmail.com]
is a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and belongs to the Mexican Research Association. Her specialities include sociocultural aspects of menstruation, pms, and attitudes toward menarche and menstruation.
Margaret (Peggy) Moloney
is Associate Professor of Nursing at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests are the experiences of women with migraines; Internet-based research; finding ways to help women prevent and control migraine headaches; and women's experiences in the perimenopause.
Agatha (Tracy) Quinn
is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing. Her specialties include women's natural menopause and the aging women's role as caretaker.
Margaret L. (Peggy) Stubbs
is Associate Professor of Psychology at Chatham College in Pittsburgh PA. Her specialties include psychosocial aspects of menstruation; attitudes towards menstruation, pubertal development; and menstrual education throughout the lifespan.
Diana Taylor
[diana.taylor[at]nursing.ucsf.edu]
is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of California-San Francisco and Adjunct Professor in the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health Policy. Her research interests include testing non-pharmacologic strategies for perimenstrual symptoms and translating research into practice.