Genital Herpes is Still an Important Issue in 2023
Dr. William Fisher & Dr. Marc Steben | June 27, 2023 12-1pm ET
Learning objectives: (1) Describe the values of counselling people with HSV. (2) Upgrade counselling with the counselling tool of PHAC. (3) Review the importance of HSV1 in genital herpes. (4) Recognize the poor value of HSV serology screening in preventing genital herpes.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Dr. Marc Steben, MD CCFP FCFP DESS
As a family physician, Dr. Marc Steben concentrates his clinical interest on sexual health, mainly chronic genital diseases. Research, development and publications field include therapeutic approaches to chronic genital pain, prevention and treatment of genital herpes and development of HPV prophylactic vaccine. Marc is President of IUSTI-Canada and Chair of the 2025 World STI Congress of the ISSTDR and IUSTI-World.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Dr. William Fisher, PhD FRSC FCAHS
Dr. William Fisher is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Western University, having spent four decades in the Department of Psychology, cross-appointed to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at Western University. His work focuses on understanding and promoting sexual and reproductive health in the areas of individual and couple sexual function, contraceptive choice and adherence, STI/HIV prevention, sexual pharmacology development, and the education of healthcare professionals in these domains. Bill serves on the Expert Working Group of the Canadian STI Guidelines, he is a contributing author of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada Canadian Contraception Guidelines, he has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, and he presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and Sexual Medicine Reviews. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and has received the Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. He has held a National Health Scientist (AIDS) award from Health Canada, and his research has been supported by the US National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada across his career. Dr. Fisher has published 250 peer-reviewed papers concerning sexual and reproductive health.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Bradley Stoner, MD PhD
Dr. Bradley P. Stoner received an MA degree in Anthropology from McGill University, followed by MD and PhD degrees at Indiana University. He then completed internal medicine residency training at Duke University Medical Center, and subsequently undertook infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to his appointment at Queen’s, Dr. Stoner was an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he specialized in the clinical care and epidemiological analysis of sexually transmitted infections. He is past-president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA), and is board certified in infectious diseases and internal medicine.
