Proceedings from the First Fall Meeting of the Society for the Study of Impotence (SSI)

PREFACE

SSI Abstracts and Prize Essay Review Committee Boston University School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education Commercial Support

SSI Scientific Meeting Program First Fall Meeting Oct 1–3, 1999

SSI Prize Essay for Male Erectile Dysfunction—Research ‘Sildenafil causes a dose- and time-dependent downregulation of phosphodiesterase type 6 expression in the rat retina‘

• CM Gonzalez
• T Bervig
• KT McVary

SSI Prize Essay for Male Erectile Dysfunction—Clinical ‘Time dependent patient satisfaction with sildenafil for erectile dysfunction (ED) after nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP)’

• EK Hong
• H Lepor
• AR McCullough

SSI Prize Essay for Female Sexual Dysfunction—Research ‘The microvascular architecture of the rat vagina revealed by image analysis of vascular corrosion casts’

• A Shabsigh
• R Buttyan
• R Shabsigh

SSI Prize Essay for Female Sexual Dysfunction—Clinical ‘Clinical evaluation of female sexual function: effects of age and estrogen status on subjective and physiologic sexual responses’

• JR Berman
• LA Berman
• I Goldstein