Director of Sexual and Reproductive Medicine at Indiana University, Assistant Pr
Indiana University
Dr. Helen L. Bernie is an Assistant Professor of Urology, and Director of the Male Sexual and Reproductive Medicine program at Indiana University. She is also the Andrology Fellowship program director. Her practice specializes in men's health, erectile dysfunction, peyronie's disease, prosthetic surgery, hypogonadism, male infertility, fertility preservation, & cancer survivorship. Dr. Bernie completed her residency in Urology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY, and went on to complete a fellowship in Male Sexual and Reproductive Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine and Microsurgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, NY.
She is an active member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) and the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM) where she holds local and international roles, serving on the SMSNA Board of Directors, Chair of the Communication and Technology Committee, and was the past SMSNA Scientific Chair for the 2024 annual meeting. She is Chair of the ISSM Young Researcher's Committee and was on the ICSM guideline panel for Sexual Dysfunction in Male Infertility. She is an early career editor for the Journal of Urology and an editorial board member for Urology Times.
She is Co-PI on an NIH funded grant: NIH-NCI-R01 (CA258994-01A1) which is a randomized trial of PSMA-PET imaging prior to prostate cancer surgery evaluating quality of life outcomes including sexual health. She has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications and is an invited speaker nationally and internationally. Dr Bernie was the 1st female in the US to start an Andrology fellowship. She also founded the Fertility Preservation program for AYA and prepubertal patients at IU. She regularly teaches the residents and medical students. When she’s not working, she enjoys time with her husband and three boys.
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Friday, April 28, 2023
11:25 AM – 12:10 PM CST
Saturday, April 29, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Sunday, April 30, 2023
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM CST