Chiara Simonelli

Dipartimento di Psicologia, Istituto di Sessuologia Clinica, Italy

Chiara Simonelli is an associate professor in clinical sexology at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. She is a regular lecturer in the psychology and psychopathology of sexual behavior and also teaches the degree course in psychology.

Professor Simonelli graduated in 1975 in psychology and psychotherapy and from 1976 - 87 she was a consultant in sexual dysfunction, vasectomy, assisted conception and sexual education in the schools within the Aied (Italian Association for Demographic Education) in Rome.

Professor Simonelli is a founding member and the President of the SISS (Italian Society of Scientific Sexology) and from 1986-87 she was part of a multi-disciplinary group researching the psychological problems in AIDS sufferers.

Professor Simonelli has acted as a consultant for the television programme ‘Love and Sex: Instructions for use?’ and received the Culture Prize in 1989 for her book ‘Psychology and AIDS’. Professor Simonelli is the author of a variety of scientific publications and around 200 theoretical or experimental working papers, she is also the Vice President of FISS (Italian Federation of Scientific Sexology), a Member of the Advisory Board of WAS (World Association of Sexology) of the Executive Committee of EFS (European Federation of Sexology) and of IASR (International Academy of Sex Research).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Psychiatry > Sexual Dysfunction (since 11 November 2005)

Links

http://www.sessuologiaclinica.it

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Premature ejaculation: different pathophysiologies and etiologies determine its treatment.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli with Adele Fabrizi
  
• 3.0
  Erectile dysfunction and men's health: developing a comorbidity risk calculator.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli with Adele Fabrizi
  
• 6.0
  Monthly income, standard of living and erectile function in late life.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli
  
• 6.0
  Penile size and the 'small penis syndrome'.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli with Dr Francesca Tripodi
  
• 6.0
  Ejaculatory latency vs. patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as study end points in premature ejaculation clinical trials.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli
  
• 3.0
  Sildenafil improves sexual functioning in premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes who are affected by sexual arousal disorder: a double-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled pilot study.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli
  
• 6.0
  Genetic influences on variation in female orgasmic function: a twin study.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli
  
• 3.0
  Libido and orgasm in middle-aged woman.
  Recommended by Chiara Simonelli