Joint ISSM/EUGA Webinar on: Women’s Pelvic Health Today: Clinical Challenges and Ethical Questions

Dr. Padoa's expertise encompasses the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic organ prolapse, female lower urinary tract symptoms, genito-pelvic pain disorders, and female sexual dysfunction. From 2015 to 2025, she directed the Urogynecology Service at Shamir-Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, and beginning in 2020, she established and directed Israel's first recognized fellowship program in urogynecology and pelvic floor reconstructive surgery.

Dr. Padoa is an active member of the European Society of Urogynecology (EUGA) and serves as chair of the EUGA Education Committee. Since 2023, she has been a Fellow of the Multidisciplinary Joint Committee of Sexual Medicine (MJCSM) and chairs the Female Sexual Dysfunction Subcommittee at the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM).

Her scholarly contributions include numerous book chapters covering urogynecology, sexual medicine, and trauma-informed medical care. She co-edited "The Overactive Pelvic Floor," published by Springer Switzerland in December 2016, and has authored about 50 peer-reviewed articles in obstetrics and gynecology, pelvic floor medicine, and sexual medicine.

Dr. Padoa is co-founder and Secretary of the Israeli Healthcare Association for Sexual Trauma Treatment and Prevention (ISTT) and serves as a board member of the Israeli Society for Sexual Medicine (ILSSM).

Ms Orfhlaith O’Sullivan, MRCSI, FRCPI, FRCOG, MCH, MScHPE, FEBUG, MAcadMEd.

Orfhlaith is a subspecialist Urogynaecologist working in Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH), Ireland. During her training she was awarded memberships of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the Royal College of Physicians In Ireland and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK. She was the first person to gain the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and European Urogynaecological Association, FEBUG, certificate for successfully completing an accredited subspecialty fellowship in Urogynaecology at CUMH. Orfhlaith has a keen interest in research and training, to this end she was the National Director of Training for the RCPI from 2022-2025 and has completed an MD on surgical training in gynaecology. She is an active member of EUGA where, she currently co-chairs the education committee. She has published in excess of 50 peer reviewed articles and 8 book chapters. In addition she actively collaborates with University College Cork and the RCPI to develop and deliver cadaveric surgical skills courses for postgraduate trainees.

Dr. Evan ‘Mackenzie’ Gibbs, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, completed her urology residency at The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes in Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery for both men and women, with special interest in female pelvic and abdominal reconstruction. This includes diagnosis and treatment of female urinary incontinence, vaginal prolapse, female urethral stricture and diverticula, interstitial cystitis, overactive bladder, mesh complications, fistula repair, neurogenic bladder, ureteral stricture disease and iatrogenic urinary system injury.
Originally from Oklahoma, Dr. Gibbs and her husband enjoy family time, hiking, traveling, and outdoor activities. They have also just welcomed their first child, Benson Kirk Baird. She recently completed a fellowship with Dr. Charles Secrest at Baylor Scott and White Health in Fort Worth, TX, focusing on a wide breadth of male and female reconstruction, affiliated with the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons.

Prof. Maurizio Serati has taken the degree in Medicine in 1998 and the specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2005. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Insubria – Varese (Italy).
2021-12/2024: President of European Uorgynaecological Association (EUGA) and currently member of the Executive Board as Past President
2025- present: Trustee of the International Continence Society (ICS)
2023- present: member of IUGA scientific committee
As regards the scientific activity, he has published about 257 articles in peer-reviewed journals, his total Impact Factor is over 700 and the Hirsch Index (H-index) is 46 (in Scopus) and 53 (in Google Scholar). He has given more than 300 presentations in national and international meetings. The main areas of his clinical practice and research include urogynaecology and pelvic floor dysfunction (such as urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, sexual dysfunction, urinary tract infections, delivery and pelvic damage...) and gynaecological surgery.
Reviewer for more than 30 international journals indexed on Pubmed, and in particular for Lancet, BMJ, European Urology.

Obstetrician and Gynecologist specialized in sexual medicine and vulvar diseases. She leads the ObGyn Emergency Department and post–sexual assault care at Geneva University Hospital, where she also founded and directs the clinic for women and girls affected by female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, author of over 70 peer-reviewed publications, and has been a consultant for WHO, MSF, and Swiss federal institutions. She was awarded a Knighthood by the Italian Republic in 2018 and appointed a United Nations Ambassador in 2025. Her areas of research are the vulva, the clitoris, FGM/C and sexual violence.