(Published June 2006)

Publication Information

Clinical Advisors

ARHP would like to thank the following clinical experts for their assistance in preparing this monograph:

James R. Allen, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Social Health Association
Research Triangle Park, NC

Vanessa Cullins, MD, MPH, MBA
Vice President for Medical Affairs, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
New York, NY

Linda Dominguez, RN-C, NP
Assistant Medical Director, Planned Parenthood of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Julie Downs, PhD
Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA

Martin Fishbein, PhD
Professor, Annenberg Public Policy Center
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Kamini Geer, MD
Fellow, Family Planning, Montefiore Medical Center Department of Social and Family Medicine
Bronx, NY

David Grimes, MD
Vice President Biomedical Affairs, Family Health International
Durham, NC

Joel Shuster, PharmD, BCPP
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Temple University School of Pharmacy
Clinical Pharmacy Consultant, Episcopal Hospital
Temple University School of Pharmacy
Philadelphia, PA

Eshauna Smith, MPA
Brownstone Consulting, LLC
Bethesda, MD

Scott Spear, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (CHS)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI

James Trussell, BPhil, PhD
Director, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Sandy Worthington, MSN, RNC, CNM
Program Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Philadelphia, PA

Financial Disclosure Information

The following committee members have a financial interest or affiliation with the manufacturers of commercial products possibly related to topics covered in this issue of Clinical Proceedings^®. These financial interests or affiliations are in the form of grants, research support, speaker support, or other support. This support is noted to fully inform readers and should not have an adverse impact on the information provided within this publication.

Allen: Consultant for Trojan Sexual Health Advisory Council.

Cullins: Grants/Research Support from Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, Digene Corporation, 3M Pharmaceuticals, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Merck & Co., Inc.; Consultant for Merck & Co., Inc.; Speaker for Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, Merck & Co., Inc. and 3M Pharmaceuticals.

Dominguez: Consultant for Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, Organon Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Berlex Laboratories, Inc., and Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Speaker for Ortho McNeil, Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Organon Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., and Berlex Laboratories, Inc.

Grimes: Consulant for ALZA Corporation, Gynetics Inc., GynoPharma, Mead Johnson & Company, Organon Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, Pfizer, Inc. Schering, Schmid, ViroPharma Incorporated; Research Support from Berlex Laboratories, Inc., Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals; Speakers Bureau for Berlex Laboratories, Inc. Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., GynoPharma, Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, Pfizer, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

Worthington: Consultant for 3M Pharmaceuticals and Ortho Women’s Health & Urology.

Downs, Fishbein, Geer, Shuster, Smith, Spear, and Trussell: No significant financial relationships to disclose.

ARHP Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Lee P. Shulman, MD, Chair
Lee Lee Doyle, PhD, Immediate Past Chair
Barbara Clark, PA-C, Secretary
Louise Bateman, RNC, MPH, Treasurer
Mitchell Creinin, MD, Chair, Education Committee
Wayne C. Shields, President and CEO

Directors-at-Large

Kurt Barnhart, MD
Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH
Patricia Murphy, CNM, DrPH
Pablo Rodriguez, MD
Michael Thomas, MD
Carolyn Westhoff, MD
Sandy Worthington, MSN, RNC, CNM

Standing Positions

Vanessa Cullins, MD, MPH, MBA
PPFA Vice President for Medical Affairs

Leslie DeMars, MD
PPFA National Medical Committee Representative

Contributing Staff

Elizabeth S. Callihan, Designer
Diane Shannon, MD, Consulting Writer
Wayne C. Shields, ARHP President and CEO
Amy M. Swann, ARHP Director of Education
Allison B. Tombros, MHS, Program Manager

This issue of Clinical Proceedings is a component of You Decide: Making Informed Health Choices about Hormonal Contraception, a joint program of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and Planned Parenthood Federation of America to assist health care providers in counseling their patients about risk. This program is funded by an independent educational grant from Ortho Women’s Health and Urology.