ADVISORS
ADVISORY BOARD
Elkan Gamzu, PhD, Chairman of Hygeia’s Board of Directors
Dr. Gamzu brings to Hygeia more than 25 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry having held key management and executive roles at EPIX, Pharmos, Hypnion, XTL Biopharmaceuticals, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Warner-Lambert, Hoffman-LaRoche and Cambridge Neurosciences. Dr Gamzu is a principal of enERGetic Biopharmaceutical Consultancy and was a founding partner of BioPharmAnalysis.
Dr. Gamzu is a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and earned his Master’s and PhD degrees in experimental and physiological psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Wulf H. Utian, MD, PhD, DSc (Med) Chairman of Hygeia’s Advisory Board
Dr. Utian is the Executive Director and Honorary Founding President of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS). Dr. Utian is considered to be one of the significant authorities on menopause and women’s health issues. He is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the International College of Surgeons. He is the recipient of multiple research grants and has authored more than 200 papers and 5 books related to women’s health and menopause.
He is the Editor of Menopause and Menopause Management.
Dr. Utian received his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2007, he earned the DSc (Med) degree from the University of Cape Town, its highest degree and only awarded 11 times over the past 100 years.
Tania Philips, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Phillips completed her medical training at Guys Hospital Medical School, University of London, England. After becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians, she trained in Dermatology at the London Hospital and also had an appointment at St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. She subsequently joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine where she is Professor of Dermatology.
Dr. Phillips is an international expert on the role of estrogens in wound healing and skin aging. She is the Director of the Wound Healing Clinic at Boston Medical Center. She has co-authored 3 books and over 250 scientific publications in dermatology.
Richard Hochberg, PhD
Dr. Hochberg is Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the inventor of Hygeia’s compounds and holds 5 patents.
He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Steroids, and has authored two book chapters on Steroidogenesis and Hormonal Therapy for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. In 1991, he co-edited the book, The New Biology of Steroid Hormones.
Dr. Hochberg received his PhD in Biochemistry from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after which he was a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH.
Machelle (Mache) Seibel, MD
Dr Seibel spent nearly two decades on the Harvard Medical School faculty before taking his current position as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Complicated Menopause Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Seibel has won national awards for research, writing, and patient education. His clear and concise summaries of complex issues have made him a consistent figure in both print and broadcast media, and a sought after advisor.
Dr Seibel has conducted many published clinical trials, testified before the FDA, and been invited to speak to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has written or edited 10 scholarly books and authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles. Dr. Seibel has been featured in People Magazine, Inside Edition, Discover Magazine, the Boston Globe and the New York Post and is regularly interviewed by major print, radio and broadcast media on a wide variety of health issues. He is the recipient of both the Searle-Donald F. Richardson Focus on Patient Education Award from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Consumer Education Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine for his ground breaking work in patient education. Dr. Seibel is repeatedly voted by his peers into Woodward and White’s Best Doctors in America, and is a member of the American Cancer Society’s New England Division Medical Advisory Network. In 2008 the UTMB School of Medicine Alumni Association Board of Trustees named him a Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient.
Dr. Seibel is also an award-winning composer and founder of HealthRock®, teaching health literacy through music and entertainment.
Mary Lake Polan, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Polan served as the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and was named the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in 1990 when she moved to Stanford from Yale University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Columbia University School of Medicine.
Dr. Polan specializes in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She has published more than 150 articles, chapters and books of research in this field. Dr. Polan served on numerous medical and health committees, including the Council of the Institute of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). She is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of many professional societies. She was also a member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Polan received her bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and studied in Paris for a year. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and M.D. from Yale University and completed her residency and Reproductive Endocrine Fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Polan received her M.P.H. (Maternal and Child Health Program) from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Polan served on the Connecticut College Board of Trustees from 2002-2009 and in 2010 was named to the Board of Overseers of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Dr. Polan is a director of Quidel Corporation, San Diego, CA, and served as a director of Wyeth, Madison, NJ and Chair of the Wyeth Science and Technology Committee until 2009. She has also served as a Director of several privately held device and diagnostic companies which were subsequently acquired by Johnson & Johnson and Cytyc, Corp. and is currently a member of health advisory boards for Proctor & Gamble Co. and Dupont, Corp.
Dr. Polan has a long standing interest in women’s health and her research interests include the role of cytokines in implantation, the relationship of the central nervous system to peripheral genital response in female sexual function, and the impact of increased collagen and elastin turnover in female urinary incontinence. In addition, Dr. Polan has been actively involved in international public health and initiated The Eritrean Women’s Project in 2001; she has maintained this surgical project in Eritrea to repair fistulas resulting from traumatic births. During trips from October 2002 to the present, physicians have operated on more than 400 women and have begun an educational, intervention program to prevent fistulas.
ACADEMIC ADVISORS
H. Maurice Goodman, PhD
Dr. Goodman received his PhD in Physiology from Harvard University in 1960. He was Professor and Founding Chairman of the Physiology Department at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. At the University of Massachusetts Medical School he also served as Acting Provost, Deputy Dean, Acting Chancellor and Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the Trustees of the University and was the 2005 recipient of the Lamar Soutter Award for excellence in medical education. Dr. Goodman has authored nearly 200 original scientific publications in Endocrine physiology and was Editor-in-Chief of the five-volume Endocrinology Section of the Handbook of Physiology. He has served on the editorial review boards of Endocrinology and Endocrine Reviews and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. His textbook, Basic Medical Endocrinology, is now in its 4th edition.
Steven Cohen, DSc
Dr. Cohen is Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Dr. Cohen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy. He earned his DSc degree in Toxicology from Harvard University in 1970. He is past president of SOT and is Specialty Editor for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. Dr. Cohen has served on both scientific review and advisory panels concerned with toxicological risk assessment for government and industry. He is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and research and has authored hundreds of seminal papers in the mechanisms of organ toxicity.