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Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP, Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine), Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Lindau is the founder and director of the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine (PRISM), an interdisciplinary clinic to address sexual function for women and girls with cancer and Feed1st – a fully self-serve pantry founded in 2010 that delivers more than 50 thousand pounds of food and hygiene items to more than 15 thousand people annually at the University of Chicago's Hyde Park medical center.
Dr. Lindau’s research examines mechanisms through which social and sexual conditions relate to health across the life course, including the effects of iatrogenesis on social and sexual functioning. Her CommunityRx program of social care research studies how and why connecting people to health-promoting community-based resources drives health. Dr. Lindau also leads the National Cancer Institute-funded Bionic Breast Project, a paradigm-shifting effort to preserve sensation and mitigate pain following mastectomy using a neuroprosthesis approach.
Several of her discoveries have advanced from research lab to real life: NowPow, LLC (acquired in 2021 by Unite USA, Inc.), MAPSCorps, 501c3 (joined Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy in 2023) and the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer, 501c3 (inaugural chairperson). She is founder and chief innovation officer of STEAMe, LLC, a social impact company that convenes and facilitates effective community-wide workforce development initiatives especially for healthcare and other dynamic and fast-growing science and engineering-based sectors.
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