Dr. Leah Millheiser is a board-certified Ob/Gyn and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)specializing in menopausal healthcare and female sexual medicine at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation / Sutter Health in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was previously a Clinical Professor and the Director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, CA.  

Dr. Millheiser has devoted her career to researching and treating all aspects of female sexual health. She has a particular interest in the sexual wellness of cancer survivors. In her gynecology practice, she takes care of women across the lifespan, from adolescence to menopause and beyond.  She has served as the principal investigator for many clinical trials in the area of women’s sexual health and has authored numerouspublications on female sexual dysfunction for peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. At Stanford, she was a mentor for medical students, residents, and PhD students interested in women’s sexual health. She has served as the Education Chair for the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and was a past member of the ISSWSH Board of Directors. She was also a member of theInternational Consultation on Sexual Medicine. Dr. Millheiser is frequently invited to lecture, both nationally and internationally and serves as a women’s health expert for various television, online, and print media outlets.

For the past 15 years, Dr. Millheiser has worked with medical device, pharmaceutical, and telemedicine companies in varying capacities, from consultant to executive team member. Dr. Millheiser also served as the co-creator of the Legalize V campaign. The purpose of the campaign was to bring awareness to the issue of censorship in the media, specifically as it relates to the use of proper terminology for female genital anatomy. The campaign highlighted the wide-ranging negative effects that this type of censorship has on women’s overall health.

Dr. Millheiser holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.D. from Northwestern University. After completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University, she became the recipient of the prestigious Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholarship (K12 award) from the NIH. This provided her with the opportunity to do novel research on the specific patterns of brain activation and sexual response among women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. Her groundbreaking findings were published in the journal, Neuroscience.