Board Members

Dr Michal Yaron PD is a gynecologist obstetrician who finished her medical studies and specialty in ObGyn in Israel. She followed her passion to Toronto where she completed a fellowship in pediatric and adolescent gynecology and ever since has been empowering young women in pursuing healthy sexuality. She is the head of the ambulatory gynecological unit in the department of Woman, child and Adolescent and head of pediatric and adolescent gynecology consultations at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). She is a member of the Swiss Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology since 2010. Dr Yaron is responsible for the reproduction unit at the Geneva faculty of medicine where she teaches 2 year medical students since 2007 and is a researcher in the domain of contraception, psychosomatic gynecology and pediatric and adolescent gynecology.

Dr Manuella Epiney, PD is a gynecologist obstetrician and head of the “Perinatality Unit” in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). Her clinical expertise is in counseling, follow up and treatment of high risk pregnancies affected by psychosocial factors and emotional vulnerabilities. She is president of the Swiss Group of Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Swiss Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (AAGO) and co-chair the “Perinatal Depression Program” in HUG. She is involved and have published different research projects, in the field of “stress and pregnancy” and the effects on the placenta, the foetus and the mother.

Prof. Dr. Antje Horsch is an associate professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, and a clinical psychologist and who leads the Lausanne Perinatal Research Group at the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Lausanne University Hospital. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Oxford (UK) after which she worked simultaneously as a trauma expert in a tertiary traumatic stress service and as a lecturer at the University of Oxford before moving to Switzerland. Prof. Horsch’s research focuses on the impact of stress and trauma in the perinatal period on parental and infant (mental) health. She is a board member of the Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology and the Swiss Society for Early Childhood Research.

Judith Alder, PD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist working in her own practice in Basel, Switzerland, with a specialty in women’s mental health, sexual health and psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology as well as psycho-oncology. She received a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Berne, Switzerland and has worked and researched for many years at the University Women’s Hospital at Basel, with a focus in perinatal mental health, sexual health and psycho-oncology. She is a lecturer at the University of Basel, Faculty of Psychology.

Isabelle Streuli, PD Dr. med., is a gynaecologist specialised in reproductive medicine and gynaecological endocrinology and head of the reproductive medicine unit at the Geneva University Hospitals HUG. Besides her clinical activity with an emphasis in fertility preservation and sexuality after cancer she researches in the field of her clinical expertise and lectures at the University of Geneva and the Faculty of Medicine Paris Descartes. She is member of the board of the Swiss Society for Reproductive Medicine (SSRM), member of the Quality Commission of the Swiss Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics (QSK), member of Fertisave, member of the European Society for Human Reproduction (ESHRE) and of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)