Dr. Michael Perelman, PhD

Director of the Human Sexuality Program at NY Presbyterian Hospital


Dr. Michael Perelman, PhD

Dr. Michael Perelman, PhD, is Director of the Human Sexuality Program at NY Presbyterian Hospital. He is an Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, and Urology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University. He is also a former President of the Society for Sex Therapy; Emeritus in Chief, Current Sexual Health Reports.

A National Institute of Health Fellow, he received his MS, MPhil and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University- in 1976 writing the first sex therapy doctoral dissertation in Columbia’s history. He serves on many professional publications edit. boards and consults to industry.

He has served as consulting editor for a variety of professional journals, currently including the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. He co-authored Late Bloomers, published by Macmillan, with Carol Colman.