Advisory Board
The advisory board for the Institute represents some of the most distinguished professionals in the fields of urology, vulvar pain, urogynecology, colorectal surgery, sexual medicine, public health, and nutrition. Their clinical knowledge and expertise will ensure that the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute will consistently address the most current information and treatment considerations for pelvic floor and pelvic girdle dysfunctions.
Our mission is to foster an interdisciplinary approach toward patient care, multi-site research and use of consistent outcome measures. We have some of the best practitioners and researchers in the country supporting the Institute.
Holly and Kathe are pleased to introduce the following members of the advisory board.
Rosemary Agostini, MD
Rosemary Agostini, MD is Medical Director for the Virginia Mason Sports Medicine High School Outreach Program for the Seattle Public Schools. She specializes in sports medicine, women’s health issues and high altitude travel medicine. She joined Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington in 1987, and currently maintains a family practice at the Virginia Mason Sports Medicine Clinic. Dr. Agostini received her MD from New York Medical College, New York, New York in 1981. She completed her family practice residency at the University of Rochester Family Practice, New York, and went on to complete her sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Primary Care Sports Medicine in Ohio.
Dr. Agostini is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, American Academy of Family Practice, American Medical Women's Association and American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. She has served as the Medical Officer for the 1990 Goodwill Games, as a Volunteer Physician for the 1996 Summer Olympics and as Team Physician for Cleveland High School in Seattle, Washington.
Additionally, Dr. Agostini authored three books on Women's Sports Medicine. Her certifications include American Board of Family Practice, 1984 to the present, and the Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine, 1993.
Tamara G. Bavendam, MD
Tamara G. Bavendam, MD is Medical Director and Team Leader for the US Detrol team at Pfizer. Dr. Bavendam received her medical training at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and fellowship training in Female Urology and Urodynamics at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She was a full-time faculty member in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington for eight years prior to relocating to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining Pfizer in April 2002, she was Director of the Centers for Women's Health and Center for Pelvic Floor Disorders at MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. She was an Associate Professor of Surgery Division of Urology with a special expertise in the treatment of bladder disorders.
Dr. Bavendam is past President of the Society for Women in Urology and is a Founder of the American College of Women's Health Physicians. She contributes to numerous books, journals and seminars on women's health.
Richard Berger, MD
Dr. Richard Berger received his MD degree from the University of Chicago, surgical training at the University of Colorado and urology training at the University of Washington and thereafter joined the staff. He has published extensively in the areas of impotence, infertility and infectious diseases, and together with his wife, published a national bestseller on male sexual function. He conducts an active clinical and research program in prostatitis, male impotence and infertility. He has extensive experience in the surgical treatment of Peyronie's Disease and vasectomy reversal. Dr. Berger is currently the Director of the Male Reproductive and Sexual Medicine Clinic at the University of Washington.
Sally Deane, EdM, MPH
Sally Deane, EdM, MPH has been a consultant for the past decade assisting integrated healthcare delivery systems, community based healthcare provider organizations, managed care corporations, healthcare manufacturers, public health policy and educational leadership organizations.
Sally has been named as a Marquis Who’s Who in American Women every year from 1988 to 2004. She is on the faculty of Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) where she also received her MPH in Health Services Administration. She received an Excellence in Teaching Award from BUSPH in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. Ms. Deane has been a member of the Board of Visitors of Boston University School of Public Health from 1999 through the present. In 2001, she became and retains the title as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Inc., the authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves. In 2002, she became Chair of the Board of Directors, New England Eye Institute, a position she continues to hold.
Irwin Goldstein, MD
Dr. Goldstein, MD was on the faculty of Boston University School of Medicine for 25 years where he was a professor of urology and gynecology. He is the founder and former director of the Institute for Sexual Medicine at BUSM. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Brown University, with an honors thesis in biomedical engineering. In 1975, he graduated from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in his hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970's. Dr. Goldstein's interests include penile microvascular bypass surgery, surgery for dyspareunia, physiologic investigation of sexual function in men and women, and diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in men and women. He has authored more than 300 publications in the field of sexual dysfunction, and his research in this area was funded by the National Institutes of Health for 20 years.
Dr. Goldstein is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine; official journal of The International Society for Sexual Medicine and its regional affiliate societies. He is Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, past President of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, a member of the International Academy of Sex Research and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists.
Kathleen Hummel-Berry, PT, PhD
Dr. Kathleen Hummel-Berry, PT, PhD is a professor and Director of Physical Therapy at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Hummel-Berry received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Washington in 1975, her Master of Education from the University of Washington in 1978, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington in 2001.
Dr. Hummel-Berry has extensive and varied experience as a physical therapist, with particular depth in adult and pediatric orthopedics in a hospital-based setting. Her research interests center around the effectiveness of physical therapy interventions in increasing patient function. A frequent presenter at national meetings, Dr. Hummel-Berry has published in the Journal of Obstetrical and Gynecological Physical Therapy (now called the Journal of the Section on Women's Health), Rehabilitation Oncology, and Medical Problems of Performing Artists.
Lennox Hoyte, MD, MSEE, FACOG
Dr. Lennox Hoyte, MD, MSEE, FACOG is an attending Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and maintains an active clinical practice specializing in all types of female pelvic floor disorders; including prolapse, incontinence, bladder, and pelvic muscle dysfunction. Dr. Hoyte received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, his MD degree from Stanford, and completed four years of residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital joint program. He completed formal fellowship training in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at Loyola University Medical center in Maywood, Illinois. He is currently a board certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist, a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and an elected member of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons.
Dr. Hoyte is a senior clinical researcher in the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital. He directs the female pelvic floor disorders research group in the departments of OB/Gyn and radiology. He also maintains a busy clinical practice in urogynecology and female pelvic reconstructive surgery. In his research, he is seeking to better understand why some women develop pelvic floor dysfunction after childbirth and others do not.
Susan Kellogg-Spadt, PhD
Dr. Susan Kellogg-Spadt received her PhD in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania, her MSN as a Maternal-Child Clinical Specialist from Loyola University in Chicago, and her post-masters certificate as an OB-GYN Nurse Practitioner from the University of Pennsylvania, Center for Professional Development.
Dr. Kellogg-Spadt is the co-founder of The Pelvic and Sexual Health Institute, Graduate Hospital, where she functions as the Director of Sexual Medicine. In this capacity, she peforms direct patient care and consultative services as a vulvovaginal specialist, colposcopist, researcher and sexual dysfunction clinician. Dr.Kellogg-Spadt is on the adjuct faculty of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Nursing and The Planned Parenthood Federation Colposcopy Program. She has published on topics related to female health and sexuality and makes frequent appearances on television and radio. Dr. Kellogg-Spadt speaks nationally and internationally on vulvar disorders, gynecologic infections and women's sexuality.
Carolyn “Libbey” Livingston, ARNP, PhD
Dr. Livingston, ARNP, PhD has been working as a sex educator and therapist since 1975. She is a clinical specialist in adult psychiatric nursing. Dr. Livingston received her BSN from Wayne State University, an MN from the University of Washington and a PhD in Sexology from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She has a clinical faculty appointment with the University of Washington, School of Nursing. She has co-authored 10 chapters on sexual health for college text books. Dr. Livingston is a popular presenter at conferences and workshops for teachers, health care professionals and the general public in the western United States. In 1993 she was selected as “Nurse of the Year” by the Northwest Psychiatric Nurses Association. Dr. Livingston also received the “Excellence in Nursing” in 2002 from the Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses – Washington State. She is a provocative presenter who is dedicated to sexual health and sexual literacy for all. She knows how to humanize sexuality.
Elizabeth Gunther Stewart, MD, FACOG
Dr. Stewart, MD, FACOG, a Boston-based gynecologist, is director of the Stewart-Forbes Vulvovaginal Specialty Service at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Dr. Stewart is also Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and a member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital staff. She speaks extensively about vulvovaginal disease to medical professionals. Her perspectives as a full-time vulvovaginal practitioner, a researcher, and a teacher shape her prominence as one of the leading voices advocating the emerging importance of her specialty. Her V Book is an extension of her lectures, her clinical experience with patients, and patient-education materials she has prepared for them.
Alison A. Stout, DO
Dr. Alison Stout, DO is a physiatrist at Northwest Spine and Sports Physicians, P.C. She has fellowship training in the non-operative management of spine, sports, and general musculoskeletal problems. Her special interests are in women’s sports medicine, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and pelvic rehabilitation. Her procedural skills include osteopathic manipulation, electrodiagnostic procedures, and spinal and peripheral joint injections.
She completed her osteopathic medical education at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and then went on to complete an internal medicine internship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Washington and is board certified. Current research includes pelvic pain and dysfunction and how it is related to low back pain as well as other research on the efficacy of spinal injections.