Leonard R. Derogatis

Dr. DeRogatis joined the S1 Scientific Advisory Board in 2012. He was in the vanguard of early attending clinicians at the Johns Hopkins Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit, which he directed for several years, and served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins for 21 years. He was also the founder and Director of the Division of Medical Psychology, and Chief Psychologist of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Most recently, Dr. DeRogatis accepted the Directorship of the Maryland Center for Sexual Health in suburban Baltimore. Over the past several decades, Dr. DeRogatis has authored and published more than a dozen psychological measuring instruments, including the Hopkins Symptom Checklist and the DeRogatis Interview for Sexual Functioning. He has authored more than 150 scientific papers, many of them focused on diagnostic and treatment issues in sexual medicine. He has been the recipient of federal grant awards, including grants from the NIMH and NCI, and has served as principal investigator on numerous industry- sponsored multi-center drug trials focused on sexual dysfunction. Leonard R. DeRogatis received his Ph.D. from Catholic University.