Purpose
The mission is to oversee the development and production of ISSM’s publications, including the journals (JSM, SM, SMR, VJPU) and any other newsletters, guidelines, or documents. To provide direction to editors and the staff concerning format, schedule, market and distribution, etc. concerning these publications.
Responsible for:
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Oversee the development and production of ISSM’s publications, including the journals, the Journal of Sexual Medicine (JSM), Sexual Medicine Online Access (SMOA), Sexual Medicine Reviews (SMR), and Video Journal of Prosthetic Urology VJPU) and any other newsletter, guidelines, or official documents of a publication nature.
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To provide direction to the editors and staff concerning ISSM policy and protocols, format, scheduling, marketing, and distribution concerning these publications should clarification be required.
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Ensure all parties to the Publishing Agreement adhere to the legally-binding clauses and oversee the overall management of the Publishing Agreement itself, including, as and when such a time necessitates, conducting a process to sign a new Publishing Agreement or renew an existing Agreement.
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Announce new Editor-in-chief vacancies in order to have candidates apply for the vacancies in a structured frame-work, with then appropriate selection of a new position for such vacated through a structured interview process. After selection, the recommendation will be forwarded to the executive board of ISSM for final approval and appointment.
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Hear and mediate any disputes between any of the editors-in-chief of the family of journals of the ISSM and any disputes between editor-in chief and the Publisher.
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Hear and mediate any dispute between the family journals and any disputes raised by third parts, such as authors, readers, etc.
Members
Chair
Lawrence Hakim
USA
Vice- Chair
Fernando Facio
Brazil
Fernando Facio, MD. PhD. - Associate Professor of Urology, Chief of the Division Men’s Health in FAMERP Medical School, Brazil. Member and Treasurer of SLAMS
Associate Editor of Sexual Medicine Open Access since 2015
Research Fellow in the Department of Urology at Johns Hopkins University (2008- 2009) under the supervision of Dr. Arthur L. Burnett.
Member
Serkan Deveci
Turkey
Professor of Urology, Head of Surgery and Department of Urology,
Medical School of Beykent University, İstanbul/ Turkey
Member
R. Clinton Webb
USA
R. Clinton Webb received his Ph.D. in Anatomy from the University of Iowa in 1976. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan and the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen. In March 2020, he accepted a professorship at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine where he directs the Cardiovascular Translational Research Center. His research interests focus on the physiology of smooth muscle in hypertension and sexual dysfunction.
Member
Sheryl Kingsberg
USA
Member
Sathyanarayana T S Rao
India
Member
David Rowland
USA
Member
Jiang Rui
China