ISSM Webinar on Sexual Pain: A Global Call for Awareness and Change in All Genders
Join us for this upcoming ISSM Webinar on Sexual Pain: A Global Call for Awareness and Change in All Genders which will take place on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC. To see what time that is for you, click here.
Program
2:00 PM UTC Opening by ISSM Representative - Sharon Peleg Nesher (Israel)
2:05 PM UTC Sexual Pain in Gender-Diverse People - Maurice Garcia (USA)
2:20 PM UTC Sexual Pain in Men - Marij Dinkelman-Smit (Netherlands)
2:35 PM UTC Sexual Pain in Women – Mijal Luria (Israel)
2:50 PM UTC Q&A led by moderator
3:00 - 3:15 Estimated closing of webinar
Moderator
Sharon Peleg NesherIsrael
Sharon Peleg Nesher
Rotem Center’s CEO and Co-Director of the Rotem Center.
Sharon Peleg Nesher is a certified nurse specializing in oncology and a certified sex therapist. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Nursing from Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, respectively, as well as a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the Open University. She specialized in sexual therapy at Bar-Ilan University and completed a fellowship in Sexual Therapy at Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center in Jerusalem. She also observed at the Male Sexual and Reproductive Medicine clinic at Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2018.
Sharon has been practicing as a sexuality therapist for chronic patients since 1999, starting as a sexual therapist for cancer patients at the Israel Cancer Association. Between 2005 and 2007, she interned at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. After returning to Israel, she founded the Mila Clinic (Sexuality for Oncology Patients) at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital), leading it until May 2026. In 2009, the clinic received the ICA (Israel Cancer Association) Prize. Sharon is also a lecturer at leading educational institutions in Israel and around the world, including the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences in Tel Aviv and the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
