About The Authors

	Dr. William H. Parker is board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecologists and is an elected Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He has managed the unusual by having a successful private practice and a very impressive academic medical career. Dr. Parker is a Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and is in private practice in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Parker is the former Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and former Chair of its Laser-Laparoscopy Committee. Dr. Parker was recently elected President of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, an international association of over 4,000 gynecologists from 53 countries, after serving on its Board of Trustees for many years. Dr. Parker is an Editor of The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and also a Reviewer for the journals Obstetrics and Gynecology, Journal of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists, New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of Gynecologic Techniques.  For more information about Dr. William Parker, please visit his web site at http://www.parkermd.com.
	Dr. Amy Rosenman is a board-certified Fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is the Chair of the Women's Services Task Force at Saint John's Hospital as well as a former member of the Executive Committee and former Treasurer of the Medical Staff. She is the medical Director of Womens Services at the Senior Health and Peer Counseling Center in Santa Monica. Dr. Rosenman did her undergraduate work at the State University of New York in Buffalo and graduated from New York Medical College. A graduate of the UCLA Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program, Dr. Rosenman serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA and is a board member of the UCLA Faculty Association. She is a member of the American Urogynecologic Society, having received special training in female urology and incontinence problems. Dr. Rosenman's interest in dropped (prolapse) bladder and incontinence care led her to become one of three founders and directors of the Pacific Continence Center based in Santa Monica. She is also a member of the faculty for the Urogynecology Fellowship at UCLA. For more information about Dr. Amy Rosenman, please visit her web site at http://www.rosenmanmd.com/.
	Rachel Parker is a middle school English teacher with a love for both teaching and writing. She has also been a community health educator and outpatient mental health program coordinator at Bellvue Hospital in New York. Rachel brings the patient's perspective and point of view to this book, insuring that the medicine is comprehensible to the lay person and that the anxieties often raised by medical problems are clearly addressed.

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