History Committee

Committee members have quarterly online meetings and are expected to actively develop ways to store this history repository, as well as prepare articles regarding the history of sexual medicine.

For the term 2025-2026 the work of the committee will include the development of two history papers:

•        The use of Doppler Ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of Erectile Dysfunction

•         The history of the management of Peyronie's Disease

In addition, committee members may be asked to contribute to a bi-annual report (mid-term and end of the year), prepared by the committee chair for review by the President and ISSM Board.

Expected workload per month: 1 hour, although this can increase depending on committee members’ contribution to the actual development of the papers.

Charter member, Past Secretary/Treasurer, and Past President of the International Society for Sexual Medicine. Long time chair of the Publication Committee of the society and currently senior advisor for that committee. Current chair of the History Committee of the society, having served as historian for the society in the past. Retired Emeritus Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Retired urologist who practiced at Tulane University (11 years), Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN (7 years), and Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. (24 years- Chief of section of Urology 1994- 2011). M.D. degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA - 1968.

Carolyn Earle is a Sexologist with a special interest in erectile dysfunction. She has been a member of ISSM since 1983 and has served on a number of committees as well as being the Asia-Pacific Representative on the ISSM Board. She was deputy chair of the World meeting in Perth, Australia in 2000 and chair of the APSSM meeting in Cairns, Australia in 2005. She has published extensively and although now semi-retired she maintains a keen interest in sexual medicine.

Irwin Goldstein, MD is Director of Sexual Medicine, Alvarado Hospital and Owner and Director of the San Diego Sexual Medicine

Dr. Goldstein has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970's. Authoring more than 350 publications, multiple book chapters and editing 6 textbooks.

He is Editor- in- Chief of Sexual Medicine Reviews and past Editor of The Journal of Sexual Medicine. He is a Past President of ISSWSH and SMSNA. He graduated from Brown University in engineering and received his MDCM from McGill University.