Board of Directors

 

Sheila Dugan, MD, PT
Dr. Dugan is the co-director of the Rush University Medical Center Program for Abdominal and Pelvic Health in Chicago, Illinois. She is currently Chair of the American College of Sports Medicine Strategic Health Initiative on Women, Sport and Physical Activity and takes over as President of the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports and Occupational Rehabilitation (PASSOR), the musculoskeletal section of the American Academy of PM&R, in September 2007.  She also served as Principal Investigator for a Retirement Research Foundation and Pfizer Investigator-Initiated multi-site research study investigating the efficacy of a chair-based pelvic fitness program for women over the age of 65.   The study resulted in WHF’s newly minted Total Control™ Platinum program.

Judith Florendo, PT
Judith Florendo is a pelvic floor physical therapist in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, she is on the Vulvar Pain Task Force in the American Physical Therapy Association's Section on Women's Health .

Cheryle B. Gartley
Cheryle Gartley is the founder and president of The Simon Foundation for Continence, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing public and professional awareness about incontinence, in Chicago Illinois.

Roger Goldberg, MD, MPH
Dr. Goldberg is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker Schoolof Medicine, and Director of Research at NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Holly Herman, PT

Holly has a private practice in Boston, MA and has trained thousands of therapists and medical professionals to work with women to improve their urologic, gynecologic, obstetric, colorectal, orthopedic and sexual function.

Timothy R. Lavender
Tim Lavender is a Partner with the national law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, which represents the Foundation, in Chicago, Illinois.

Nancy Lerner

Nancy Lerner is President and Chief Strategic Officer at Otherwise Incorporated, a Chicago-based integrated marketing agency. She is also Founder / EVP Strategy and Sales for Brill Street + Company, Inc., a talent development company that cultivates smart, motivated students and recent grads to establish an early, enriching dialogue between the real world of business and America¹s workforce of the future.

Liz Kramer Myslik
Liz Kramer Myslik has experience and expertise of building entrepreneurial natural products companies into national brands, including Mix1 Beverage, Halo Purely for Pets, Eco-Products, and Gaiam, among others. Previously, Liz founded and led The Zam Group, a leading provider of marketing and general management services to natural products companies. She also led marketing and business development at Gaiam, a leading health & wellness company, where she helped the company grow to over $200 million in sales by pioneering new products and new channels of distribution, including grocery, drug, and mass.

Elizabeth Schrock
Elizabeth Colt Schrock is a Managing Director in the Corporate and Investment Banking group of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kristene E. Whitmore, MD
Dr. Whitmore is Professor and Chair of Urology and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine. She is the Program Director for the FPMRS Fellowship program at Drexel University College of Medicine as well as Found and Medical Director of the Pelvic & Sexual Health Institute in Philadelphia.

Advisory Council


Mary Drill
Mary Drill is an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and an American Council on Exercise (ACE) certified personal trainer. Mary established Body Mechanics by Drill in 1988 to further her role as an educator and began offering Tools for the Trainer workshops in Chicago, Illinois.

Diane Lee, BSR, FCAMT, CGIMS

Diane is the owner, director and physiotherapist at Diane Lee & Associates - Consultants in Physiotherapy. Diane is well known both nationally and internationally for her clinical work on thoracic, lumbar and pelvic (sacroiliac) dysfunction and has integrated the scientific research on lumbopelvic function into a clinical model for assessment and treatment.

Janelle Foote, DO, MD
Dr. Jenelle Foote is a Urologist at Midtown Urology in Atlanta, GA. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgery and completed a fellowship in female urology, incontinence, and recontructive surgery at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Maureen McClain George, PT
Maureen George is a senior physical therapist at Accelerated Rehabilitation in Chicago, Illinois. She is an orthopedic specialist and has a certificate in Manual Therapy and the Pilates Mat Program.

Francie Bernier, PhD, RN.C

Dr. Bernier is on the Nursing Faculty at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Dr. Bernier has published many articles related to the non-surgical care of urinary incontinence and several book chapters related to the care of patients with urogenital complaints.

Janis M. Miller, PhD, RN.C
Dr. Miller is on faculty at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Elizabeth Mueller, MD, MSME, FACS

Dr. Mueller is a board certified urologist, who completed an accredited fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor in Urology and Obstetrics /Gynecology at Loyola and is Medical Director of the Division of Urogynecology. Her special interests include surgical anatomy and minimally invasive (robotic, laparoscopic and vaginal) surgical treatment of women with pelvic floor dysfunction.

Janet E Tomezsko, MD, FACOG
Dr. Tomeszko is an Assistant

Jean F. Wyman, PhD, RN, FAAN, FSGA
Dr. Wyman is a Professor and Endowed Chair in nursing research at the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing, as well as Professor of community health and family practice at the School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.