Medical Advisers and Contributors

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The following doctors and experts gave generously of their time or reviewed the following chapters for factual errors.

Hysteroscopy:

Dr. Patrick Taylor, Professor, University of British Columbia, and Chairman, Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, editor of the SOGC journal, and co- author of a practical manual on hysteroscopy.

Mammography:

Dr. Anthony Miller, Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Toronto, and Director of the National Breast Screening Study.

Dr. Cornelia Baines, Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Toronto, and Deputy Director of the National Breast Screening Study.

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease:

Jill Weiss, co-ordinator and researcher for the Canadian PID Society.

Endometriosis:

Mary Lou Ballweg, founder of the Endometriosis Association, and editor of the Endometriosis Newsletter, and Nancy Fletcher, assistant editor of the newsletter.

Episiotomy:

Dr. Michael Klein, previously Research Director, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal.

Dr. Bruce Arroll, senior lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Lesbian Health Care:

Dr. Ruth Simkin, previously Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary.

Menopause and Osteoporosis:

Janine O'Leary Cobb, editor of a Friend Indeed and author of Understanding Menopause.

Dr. John Lee, clinical instructor at the University of California Medical School, Department of Family Medicine.

Varicose Veins:

Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, author of How To Have Great Legs At Any Age and director of varicose vein clinics in Ontario and Quebec.

Women and Gallstones:

Dr. C. Noel Williams, head of gastroenterology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Dr. Robert Carscadden, general surgeon, Kootenay Lake District Hospital in Nelson, British Columbia.

Knowing Your Body's Cycles:

Lisa Leger, Co-director of the Justisse Group for Fertility Management.

Permanent Birth Control:

Dr. John Cattanach, researcher and gynecologist in Melbourne, Australia.

Fibrocystic Breast Disease:

Dennis O'Dowd, Canadian scientist and inventor.

Dr. William Ghent, former Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Dr. Bernard Eskin, Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Pennyslvania in Philadelphia.

Dr. Jonathan Wright, holistic doctor, author and nutritional expert in Tacoma Washington.


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