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Dr. Beverly Whipple, a certified sex educator, certified sex counselor, certified sex researcher, and certified sexologist.
She is the co-author of the international best-seller, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality, which has been translated into 19 languages. Other books include Safe Encounters: How Women can say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex, Smart Women, Strong Bones, and Outwitting Osteoporosis.
Dr. Whipple has appeared on more than 250 radio and TV programs. She has been featured in magazines including Time, Glamour, Self and Readers Digest. She has delivered more than 350 professional talks, presentations and keynote speeches, published more than 125 journal articles and book chapters. In 1982 and 1983, The Philadelphia Magazine named her one of the People to Watch.
She is the recipient of the Hugo G. Beigel Research Award for research excellence and the best article published in The Journal of Sex Research, the New Jersey State Nurses' Association Award for Excellence in Nursing Research, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) and the Professional Standard of Excellence Award from the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). She is also a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Whipple is a Professor Emerita at Rutgers, The State University of NJ in Newark, New Jersey. She received a Bachelors Degree in Nursing from Wagner College, a Masters Degree in Counseling and a Masters Degree in Nursing from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in Psychobiology, with a major in neurophysiology, from Rutgers University.
Her concern with women's health derives naturally from her over forty years of helping women to feel better about themselves, as a nurse, a nurse educator, and researcher. Her research focuses mainly on women's health issues and the sexual physiology of women.
In addition, Dr. Whipple is listed in the World Who's Who of Women, International Who's Who in Sexology, Who's Who in American Nursing, and in Contemporary Authors. She is a member of a number of honor societies and received the Alumni Achievement Award from Wagner College in 1983. She belongs to many professional organizations and was the President of AASECT (1998-2000), is the Vice President of the World Association for Sexology (2001-2005), is on the Board of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (2002-2004), and is President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (2002-2003).
Dr. Whipple lives in Medford, New Jersey with Jim, her husband since 1962. They have two grown children and five grandchildren.
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