About BSSM

Trudy Hannington is the Senior Psychosexual Therapist who leads a team of 5 psychosexual therapists at the Leger clinic at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.  Trudy has worked in sexual health for over 25 years and specialised as a psychosexual therapist in 2002 after training at the Porterbrook Clinic at Sheffield. Trudy’s specialist interest is combining medical treatments with sex therapy to optimise outcomes for patients. She has a special interest in Menopause, in supporting women to access up to date and evidence-based information, so that they can make an informed choice on the best treatment options to suit them. She also specialises in working with men with testosterone deficiency and sexual difficulties. Trudy is a Senior Accredited Member and Supervisor of COSRT (College for Sex & Relationship Therapists) and Fellow of COSRT. She is also a Committee Member for the British Society of Sexual Medicine and current Treasurer. She has lectured nationally and internationally, on the Management of Sexual Dysfunction, most recently in Florida, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Janine David is a GP partner and trainer in Porthcawl.  She is also an associate specialist in andrology at The Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.  She has a special interest in male and female sexual dysfunction, with a particular interest in testosterone deficiency and erectile dysfunction. She is medical director of Men’s Health Wales, founding member and secretary of The Primary Care Testosterone Advisory Group (PCTAG) and secretary of The British Society for Sexual Medicine (BSSM).  She is a faculty member for the Postgraduate International School of Men’s Health (PRISM) and a regular speaker both nationally and internationally. She is a Fellow of the European Committee for Sexual Medicine (FECSM) and a member of the Androgen Society.

Audit, research and writing have been a large part of her career, her most recent work includes “Men’s Health and the Primary Care Physician; Men’s Health 4e. (2021). United States: CRC Press” and is a contributing author for “Testosterone in cardiometabolic and other diseases, Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2022, ISBN: 978-88-5532-113-6”.  Currently, she is working with colleagues on an update to the BSSM testosterone deficiency guidelines.  She loves her Corgi – Basil and playing tennis in her spare time.

An ex-school teacher, Anand is a GP by training and one of the few doctors in the UK with the only accreditation in sexual medicine recognised in the UK and Europe, the FECSM. He works as a NHS GP and as a specialist in Men’s Health. Anand speaks nationally training doctors, and is the current chair of the Royal College of General Practitioner’s Men’s Health Conference. He has the pleasure of being the resident doctor on Mortimer and Whitehouse’s Gone Fishing on BBC2 and most recently, is one of the GPs in the new incarnation of Embarrassing Bodies on E4.

Marc Lucky is a fellowship-trained Urologist and Andrological surgeon with particular experience in andrology, male infertility, erectile dysfunction and genital reconstruction. A graduate of the University of Liverpool and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, he completed urological training in the North West and underwent a fellowship in andrology, genital oncology, genital reconstructive surgery and male infertility at University College Hospital, London.  He has contributed to multiple publications in the field of urology and andrology and has presented on the same subjects internationally. He continues to give back to his chosen field by teaching at the Royal College of Surgeons of England Urology courses and is seen by his peers as a leading surgeon in his field. One of Mr Lucky’s main drivers is through education and has qualified from the University of Dundee in medical education. He is chairman of the British Association of Urological Surgeons Andrology Executive Committee

Mike Kirby has been a GP, vocational trainer and the Director of HertNet (The Hertfordshire Primary Care Research Network). Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire and subsequently attending physician to the Prostate Centre, London, where he dealt with complex medical problems until 2020.

He is currently Editor of Trends in Urology & Men’s Health, and reviewer and advisor for many other Journals. He also holds membership of several NHS advisory boards. He has published more than 450 clinical papers and 32 books, most recently, the 4th edition of Men’s health, and a book on testosterone and cardiometabolic diseases.

Remziye Kunelaki is a psycho-sexologist with 20 years of experience with various sexual difficulties. Remziye studied psychology in Turkey and specialised in sexual and relationship therapy in the UK.

She worked in the sexual health and HIV department in significant university hospitals in London. She serves as a committee member at the British Society for Sexual Medicine. Remziye is a certified psycho-sexologist by the European Society of Sexual Medicine and a senior accredited psychosexual therapist and clinical supervisor by the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists.

Remziye is a lecturer in a psychosexual diploma course in London. Her PhD research is on sexuality and religion. Remziye offers consultations in English, Turkish and Greek.