New board members bring wealth of industry
expertise and experience as company looks to expand into new health
verticals
Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (“Hims & Hers”, NYSE: HIMS),
the leading health and wellness platform, is adding five new
members to its Medical Advisory Board. The group of specialists
advises the company as it works to create access to safe,
high-quality, personalized care and treatment. These new advisors
represent a diverse group of medical experts specializing in
medicine related to obesity, menopause, and cardiometabolic
health.
"Hims & Hers' clinical quality engine ensures all providers
are following the provider-approved clinical guidelines when it
comes to prescribing, referrals, and treatment plans. Our new
Medical Advisory Board member's collective expertise and knowledge
will help us continue our mission to offer higher-quality
personalized healthcare," said Dr. Pat Carroll, Chief Medical
Officer at Hims & Hers. "We are committed to expanding our
product offerings, ensuring our customers get faster, more
efficient care. These doctors are truly at the forefront of their
respective fields, and their expertise is going to be critical in
ensuring we uphold clinical excellence, lead in technology and with
innovative products, and remain a trusted brand as we continue to
evolve."
Members of Hims & Hers' Medical Advisory Board perform tasks
such as providing input for the development of treatment protocols
and potential offerings, reviewing medical content for accuracy,
providing updates about the latest evidence-based treatment
landscape for various conditions, and more.
With personalized, accessible care top-of-mind for consumers,
Hims and Hers is adding these five new Medical Board Members to
utilize their unique expertise alongside the existing 11 Medical
Board team members to ensure individuals can feel both happy and
healthy accessing care from Hims & Hers.
Newly Appointed Board
Members
Crystal R Broussard, MD Obesity Medicine
Crystal R Broussard, MD, is a native Texan. She received her
undergraduate degree from Lamar University and her medical degree
from The University of Texas – Houston. Dr. Broussard completed a
family medicine residency in Conroe and began practicing family
medicine in The Woodlands in 2005. She became interested in medical
weight management because of her personal and family history of
obesity. She has lost 100 pounds herself after the birth of her
first child, and found her professional calling in helping her
patients take control of their health through a safe,
physician-supervised weight loss program emphasizing long-term
lifestyle changes. She is board-certified in Family Medicine and is
an active member of the Obesity Medical Association and became a
fellow of the American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2012. Dr.
Broussard volunteers her time to teach medical students and
residents how to treat obesity. She was featured as a medical
expert in weight loss for a nutrition and exercise program called
The Pink Method featured on Dr. Phil and The Doctors Show. She
provides her expertise in weight loss both locally and nationally
through various media outlets as well as telemedicine.
Celia M. Egan, MD DABOM, NAMS Obesity Medicine
Celia M. Egan, MD DABOM, NAMS, is Board-Certified by the
American Board of Obesity Medicine and the American Board of
Internal Medicine and maintains membership in the Obesity Medicine
Association and The Obesity Society. She is a menopause expert
focusing on weight management during perimenopause and menopause
and has a special interest in lipedema. Dr. Egan currently focuses
on obesity medicine, menopause and primary care at true. Women’s
Health. In addition to preventive care and sick visits, Dr. Egan
assists gynecologists with women’s health, including the management
of menopause symptoms with lifestyle and medication options. Born
and raised in West Michigan, Dr. Egan completed her undergraduate
studies at the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s in
Biochemistry. After earning her MD from New York Medical College,
she completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New
York, NY.
Lisa Chacko, M.D., M.P.H., N.C.M.P. Menopause &
Primary Care
Lisa R Chacko, M.D., M.P.H., N.C.M.P. is a Florida-based primary
care physician, menopause specialist, and population health expert
focused on improving health care access and design, particularly
for women. Dr. Chacko is in private practice offering boutique
telemedicine to women at midlife, plus an outpatient women’s
procedure clinic. She is an Assistant Professor at the University
of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Chacko has been
recognized as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the
National Academy of Medicine and as a member of the Delta Omega
Honorary Society of Public Health. Dr. Chacko is certified by the
American Board of Family Medicine and the North American Menopause
Society.
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI
Cardiometabolic
Deepak L. Bhatt MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI, is Director of
Mount Sinai Heart and the Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of
Cardiovascular Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai. He received his MD from Cornell and MPH from Harvard, and is
currently working on his Executive MBA from Oxford. He trained in
internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and in
cardiology at Cleveland Clinic. He completed fellowships in
interventional cardiology and cerebral and peripheral vascular
intervention and served as Chief Interventional Fellow at Cleveland
Clinic, where he spent many years as an interventional
cardiologist, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the
Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Associate Director of the
Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship, and Associate Director of the
Cardiovascular Coordinating Center. He then served as the Chief of
Cardiology at VA Boston Healthcare System and subsequently as
Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was a Senior Investigator in the
TIMI Study Group and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Heart Letter.
He became a full Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in
2012. He was selected by Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the 2014
Eugene Braunwald Scholar. He has been listed in Best Doctors in
America from 2005 to 2020.
Dr. Bhatt has authored or co-authored over 1900 publications and
has been listed by the Web of Science Group as a Highly Cited
Researcher from 2014 to 2022. He is the Editor of Cardiovascular
Intervention: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease and of
Opie's Cardiovascular Drugs: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart
Disease.
Martin M. Miner, MD Cardiometabolic
Martin M. Miner, MD is the founder and former co-director of the
Men’s Health Center at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode
Island. He is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Urology
and has served on the American Urological Association Guideline
Committees for ED, Peyronie's Disease, Testosterone Deficiency and
Early Screening for Prostate Cancer. He served as Chief of Family
and Community Medicine for the Miriam Hospital, a teaching hospital
of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine from 2008 to 2018. Dr.
Miner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College with his AB in
biology and received his MD from the University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine. Upon receiving his MD, he completed his
residency at Brown University. He practiced family medicine for 23
years both at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and in private
practice.
He is the former president of the American Society of Men’s
Health. He is also a clinical professor of family medicine and
urology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in
Providence and has been charged with the development of a
multidisciplinary Men’s Health Center within the Lifespan/Brown
University system since 2008. He has presented both at the NIH and
the White House on men’s health initiatives and has authored over
150 peer-reviewed publications and spoken nationally and
internationally in multiple venues.
Existing Board Members
Lawrence Jenkins, MD, MBA Urology
Lawrence C. Jenkins, MD, MBA, FACS received his medical degree
with research honors from the University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York. His Internship and Residency were both
completed at the University of Miami where he also served as a
Chief Resident. Following his residency training, he completed a
fellowship in Male Sexual and Reproductive Medicine at the Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Male Infertility and
Microsurgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell
Medical College. He also completed a master’s in business
administration at The State University of New York University at
Buffalo with a focus in healthcare management.
Dr. Jenkins held the position of Assistant Professor – Clinical
within the Department of Urology at The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio where he built a
multidisciplinary program for Men’s Sexual Health and Fertility.
Dr. Jenkins has received many awards and honors throughout his
education and career, and has authored numerous peer-reviewed
articles and several textbook chapters in his fields of study. He
is a member of the American Urological Association and the Sexual
Medicine Society of North America. He is board-certified with the
American Board of Urology and is part of Arizona Urology
Specialists where he provides specialized care in Men’s Sexual
Health and Fertility.
Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH Urology
Dr. Denise Asafu-Adjei is a Urologist and Assistant Professor at
Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois where she
serves as the Director of Male Reproductive Medicine. She is also
an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Parkinson School of Health
Sciences and Public Health. She completed an Andrology Fellowship
at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), after finishing a
Urology residency at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She
received her M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School,
an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of
Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon
University. Dr. Asafu-Adjei is passionate about improving access to
care for men's health and her research aims to change healthcare
delivery models to best address this major public health issue.
Additionally, she is interested in innovative approaches to patient
education and outreach through social media and other effective
settings.
Stanton Honig, MD Urology
Stanton Honig, MD is a Professor of Clinical Urology and
Director of Men’s Health at Yale University School of Medicine. He
has been a Clinical Professor of Surgery/Urology and Obstetrics and
Gynecology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
since 2008. He graduated medical school with an M.D. with
Distinction in Research from the State University of New York at
Stony Brook. Dr. Honig completed his urologic training at Boston
University School of Medicine and a fellowship in Male Reproductive
Medicine and Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1993. He
is the past President of the Society for the Study of Male
Reproduction (SSMR), a sub society of the American Urological
Society and is the immediate past President for the Society of Male
Reproduction/Urology, a sub society of the American Society of
Reproductive Medicine. Currently, he is Chairman of the Sexual and
Reproductive Committee of the Urology Care Foundation. Dr. Honig
has a large urologic practice that specializes in Male Reproduction
and Sexual Medicine and Surgery.
Stanley Althof, PhD Psychology, Sex Therapy
Stanley E. Althof, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Center for
Marital and Sexual Health of South Florida and Professor Emeritus
at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has been
in practice for over 40 years and specializes in treating men,
women, and couples with sexual and relationship problems. Dr.
Althof received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He completed an
internship in clinical psychology at University Hospitals of
Cleveland, which was followed by additional postgraduate work at
the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Althof is
Past-President of the International Society for the Study of
Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), Past-President of the Society for
Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) and the Tri-State Group
Psychotherapy Society. Dr. Althof has been instrumental in the
development of sex therapy as a sub-specialty area. He was one of
the 2005 recipients of the prestigious Master’s and Johnson
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ranjith Ramasamy, MD Urology
Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy is a Miami based medical researcher and
urologist. He is known for academic contributions to reproductive
medicine, including testosterone deficiency, regenerative therapy,
erectile dysfunction, and prostate cancer studies. Dr. Ramasamy has
co-authored over 300 publications in the domain of male infertility
and sexual dysfunction and sits on the editorial board of 10
journals. Most recently, Dr. Ramasamy led the first study about
sperm parameters before and after COVID-19 vaccination, becoming
JAMA’s most viewed study since its publication. He currently serves
as Director of the Reproductive Urology Fellowship program at the
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Bhavesh B. Shah, MD, FASGE Gastroenterology & Digestive
Health
Bhavesh B. Shah, MD, FASGE is the Director of Advanced Endoscopy
& the Chief of Endoscopy at The MetroHealth System in
Cleveland, Ohio. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case
Western Reserve University MetroHealth Medical Center and a Fellow
of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He completed
his undergraduate studies at the University of Miami and
subsequently attended medical school at St. George’s University
School of Medicine. Dr. Shah then completed his residency at Case
Western Reserve University MetroHealth Medical Center followed by a
hepatology fellowship and one year as Chief Medical Resident. After
completing a fellowship in Clinical Decision Making, Telemedicine
and Bioinformatics at Tufts University in Boston, he went on to
complete a gastroenterology fellowship at Allegheny General
Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine in Pittsburgh and
an Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship at UMass Memorial
Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Shah is an expert
and a key opinion leader in advanced endoscopy and has extensive
experience in high-volume interventional endoscopy, service line
development and high-quality patient care. He is board certified in
gastroenterology, a published author and has sat on numerous
national committees.
Sara Perkins, MD Dermatology
Sara Perkins, MDis an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Dermatology at the Yale School of Medicine. She is board certified
in dermatology. She specializes in complex medical dermatology and
high-risk skin cancer and co-directs the Transplant Dermatology
Clinic at Yale. She is also the director of the Yale
Teledermatology Program and is interested in the use of this
modality to expand access to specialty care. Dr. Perkins received
her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai. She completed her medical internship at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, followed by residency training in dermatology at
Yale, where she served as chief resident.
Sandy Skotnicki, MD, FRCPC Dermatology
Sandy Skotnicki, MD, FRCPC is the owner and medical director of
Toronto’s Bay Dermatology Centre. She received her medical degree
from the University of Toronto. She went on to complete her
dermatology training at the University of Ottawa and was awarded
her fellowship in Dermatology by the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of
Dermatology and is an Assistant Professor at the University of
Toronto, Department of Medicine in the Divisions of Dermatology and
Occupational Health. She is currently on staff at both Women’s
College Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital as a Consultant
Dermatologist. Dr. Skotnicki has a sub-specialty interest in
Allergic Contact Dermatitis and Patch or Allergy Skin Testing.
Justin M. Ko, MD, MBA Dermatology
Dr. Ko is the Medical Director and Chief of Medical Dermatology
for Stanford Health Care, where he spearheads efforts around
community outreach, screening, and digital health. His passion for
early cancer detection and improving care delivery drives his
efforts and collaborations toward leveraging advances in machine
learning and artificial intelligence to reach more patients.
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and worked
in investment banking at JP Morgan before going on to earn a
combined medical and business degree at Tufts University. Dr. Ko
then performed his residency at the Harvard Combined Dermatology
Residency Training Program where he served as chief resident in his
final year. He is board certified in dermatology by the American
Board of Dermatology.
Arash Mostaghimi, MD, MPA, MPH Dermatology
Dr. Mostaghimi is an assistant professor of dermatology,
director of the inpatient dermatology consult service, and
co-director of the Complex Medical Dermatology Fellowship at
Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
His research focuses on understanding variations in dermatologic
care and improving care delivery to optimize resource utilization,
encourage patient autonomy, and reduce disparities. His specific
interests include reducing unnecessary diagnostic testing and drug
monitoring within dermatology, understanding the interface between
dermatology and other medical specialties, determining best
practices for the treatment of orphan dermatologic conditions, and
characterizing dermatologic practice patterns, utilization, and
costs.
Ashley Tapscott, DO Urology
Ashley Tapscott, DO is the Founder and Director of SHIC, the
Sexual Health Institute of the Carolinas. She is a board-certified
urologist and fellowship-trained in the fields of both male and
female sexual dysfunction. Dr. Tapscott graduated from Virginia
College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2007. She completed her urology
residency in Philadelphia at Albert Einstein Medical Center. In
2012. Dr. Tapscott pursued additional subspecialty training by
completing a fellowship in male and female sexual dysfunction,
urologic prosthetics, and male infertility at Cleveland Clinic. She
joined Carolina Urology Partners in 2013 and founded SHIC in 2019
in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. She has served on the Board
of Directors of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. She
is also an active member of The American Urological Association,
American Society of Women in Urology, and International Society for
the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.
About Hims & Hers Health, Inc.
Hims & Hers is the leading health and wellness platform on a
mission to help the world feel great through the power of better
health.
We believe how you feel in your body and mind transforms how you
show up in life. That’s why we’re building a future where nothing
stands in the way of harnessing this power. Hims & Hers
normalizes health & wellness challenges—and innovates on their
solutions—to make feeling happy and healthy easy to achieve. No two
people are the same, so the Company provides access to personalized
care designed for results.
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