Philip Sarrel

Philip M. Sarrel, M.D., completed his medical education at New York University School of Medicine, his internship at the Mount Sinai Hospital, and his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. In addition to his many years on the faculty of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Sarrel has also been a faculty scholar in the department of psychiatry at Oxford University, visiting senior lecturer at King’s College Hospital Medical School at the University of London, visiting professor in Cardiac Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London, and visiting professor in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He is currently a professor emeritus of obstetrics, gynecology, and psychiatry at Yale.

Dr. Sarrel is the founder of the Yale Menopause Program and the Yale Sex Counseling Service. His research interests have included the effects of transdermal estrogen in postmenopausal women with symptomatic atherosclerotic coronary vascular disease; nutrients and endothelial function; ovarian hormones and menstrual cycle-related migraines; postmenopausal sexual function; and numerous other topics. He is the author or co-author of more than one-hundred journal articles, fifty book chapters, and six books, as well as more than fifty abstracts.

Dr. Sarrel is an editor of Maturitas, the journal of the International Menopause Society; Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society, as well as serving as a reviewer for numerous journals, including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.