Dr. Irwin Goldstein, MD

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of the sexual medicine program at Alvarado Hospital, has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970s. His 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 325 publications in the field of sexual dysfunction, with 20 consecutive years of funding by the National Institutes of Health in this area.
He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, its regional affiliate societies, and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. In addition to his director role at Alvarado Hospital, he is clinical professor of surgery at University of California at San Diego and director of San Diego Sexual Medicine where he maintains his clinical practice. …
Dr. Goldstein holds a bachelors 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 was on the faculty of Boston University School of Medicine for 25 years where he was professor of urology and gynecology and founding director of the former Institute for Sexual Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Goldstein is currently president of The Institute for Sexual Medicine, Inc., a charitable corporation for education and research in the field. He is secretary of the International Society for the Study of Womens Sexual Health, a former president of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, President-Elect of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and a member of the International Academy of Sex Research, the American Urological Association, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease.
Dr. Goldstein is a 2009 winner of the Gold Medal awarded by the World Association for Sexual Health in recognition of his lifetime contributions to the field, and the 2013 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America.
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• East Campus Medical Center At Uc San Diego Health

San Diego, CA

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San Diego

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USA

• Urology
• Other Specialty

• Calculus of the Urinary System
• Prostate Cancer
• Urinary Incontinence
• Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH)
• Male Infertility
• Erectile Dysfunction (ED)