Purpose
The mission of the committee is to recommend and/or review proposed changes to the Code of Standards or to advice in cases ethical matters arise within the Society.
Responsible for:
The ISSM Ethics Committee is responsible for the following programs/ initiatives:
- Drafting an Ethical Vision Statement
- Provide consultation to the Executive Committee on questions of scientific and personal conduct/misconduct of the ISSM members
Committee members have quarterly online meetings and are expected to actively contribute and advise on ethical matters that may arise within the Society.
For the term 2025-2026 the work of the committee will mostly focus on the review and publication of a new Code of Standards for the society.
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 time commitment per month: 2 hours
Members
Chair
Sidney Glina
Brazil
Vice-Chair
Chris Nelson
USA
Member
Barbara Chubak
USA
Member
Giuseppe La Pera
Italy
Member
Aron Liaw
USA
Dr Liaw is a reconstructive urologist who practices at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is an active member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America and ISSM, and a medical advisory board member of the International Sacral Agenesis Association.
Member
Padmini Prasad
India
Member
Miquel Rivero
Argentina
Miguel Alfredo Rivero was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After receiving his medical degree with an Award of Honour, Dr. Rivero completed his residency in general surgery in Buenos Aires. Later he held a fellowship in Andrology at the University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. He is Member of several societies: Argentine Medical Association (AMA), Argentine Society of Urology (SAU), Argentine Society of Andrology (SAA), American Confederation of Urology (CAU), American Urological Association (AUA), International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) and Latin American Society for Sexual Medicine (SLAMS) with an active participation in most of them. Dr. Rivero is the recipient of several Awards. He has been the author or coauthor of a number of journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Rivero is the Co-Editor of the Book (in Spanish) “Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Erectile Dysfunction” (2019 - University of Buenos Aires).
Member
Akira Tsujimura
Japan
President of Japan Society of Andrology
Vice president of the Japanese Society for Sexual Medicine
Vice president of Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine
Member
Katarzyna Wac
Switzerland
Professor Katarzyna Wac, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where she leads the Quality of Life Technologies lab. She is also an Invited Professor of Health Informatics at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She has been affiliated with Stanford University and the Stanford Medical Centre since 2013. The QoL lab, established in 2010, aims to responsibly leverage daily life data sources to improve the quality of life of all individuals. The QoL lab's research interests include fundamental and algorithmic problems, as well as human-centric challenges related to the assessment and improvement of human behavior, health, and quality of life as they unfold naturally over time and in context. Her most recent research project focuses on designing digital endpoints of sexual health and is conducted in collaboration with Stanford University.
