Gila Bronner is a senior sex therapist at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Gila founded a Sex Therapy Service and a Sex Therapy Training Program (for physicians, psychologists and social workers), and works as a sex counselor and researcher at the Movement Disorders Institute.
She is a guest teacher at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Medicine and part of the guest faculty for the Parkinson’s Foundation Allied Team Training for Parkinson’s (ATTP®) program.
Gila specializes in dealing with sexual problems associated with life span changes (adolescence, pregnancy, birth, menopause, old age) and with the effects of new technologies, social media and porno on sexuality of young people.
She holds a Masters in Community Medicine (MPH) from the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and a Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Yeshiva University (New York).
As a world expert in sexual rehabilitation of neurological disorders she is invited to teach health professionals (HP) in Israel and all around the globe. She trains HP to cope with sexual issues in psychiatry, oncology, gerontology and cardiology. She provides guidance in Israeli psychogeriatric institutes, especially regarding inappropriate sexual behavior in demented patients.
Gila has published scientific articles and chapters in 4 medical textbooks, studies in medical journals, sex education books for adolescents, columns in the media, as well as TV and internet interviews.
She has and is volunteering extensively: World Congress of Parkinson's disease (committee member), Israeli Association of Sex Therapists (chair), Israeli Family Planning Association (board member), European Parkinson's disease Association (board member), Movement Disorders Society (HP committee).