CURRICULUM VITAE
Ricardo M. Munarriz, M.D
Boston University School of Medicine
720 Harrison Ave., Suite 600
Boston, MA 02118
617 6388476
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION:
High School: Liceo Los Arcos, Caracas, Venezuela
Medical School: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela 1984 - 1991
Internship: Hospital Miguel Perez Carreno 1990 - 1991
Rural Physician: Caucaguita Health Center, Venezuela
Residency, Surgery: Clinica Metropolitana, 1992 - 1993
Research Fellowship: Boston University School of Medicine 1993 - 1994
Internship: Boston University Medical Center 1994 - 1995
Residency, Surgery: Boston University Medical Center 1995 - 1996
Residency, Urology: Boston University Medical Center 1996 - 2000
Fellowships, Urology: American Urological Association Research Scholar 2000 - 2002
Bayer Urology Fellowship 2000 - 2001
The Pfizer Scholars In Urology Award 2001 - 2003
ISSIR-Scholarship Program. 2001 - 2003
Certification: American Board of Urology 2004
Medical License: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Board of Registration in Medicine
APPOINTMENTS:
Associate Professor of Urology Boston University School of Medicine 2006 -
Assistant Professor of Urology Boston University School of Medicine 2002 - 2006
Instructor of Urology Boston University School of Medicine 2000 - 2002
SEXUAL MEDICINE NIH GRANTS:
National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive Diseases and Kidney, "Expandability As a Measure of
Fibrosis Induced Impotence" Co-investigator 2003 - 2005
LEARNED or PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Sexual Medicine Society of North America 2000 -
Board of Directors 2006 -
Active Member
Chair of Young Investigators Committee
International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research 2000 -
Active Member
Standards Committee
Newsbulletin Committee 2002 - 2003
Scientific program committee 2004
ICSM Pharmacotherapy committee 2009
International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health
Active Member 2000 -
Scientific Committee 2003
American Urological Association
Associate Member 1994 - 2004
Active Member 2004 -
New England Section, AUA
Associate Member 1994 - 2004
Active Member 2004 -
Scientific committee 2005
Massachusetts Medical Society 1994 -
American Medical Association 1994 -
Asociacion Espanola de Andrologica 2002 -
Argentine Medical Association
Consulting Committee 2004 -
CAU, Sexual Medicine fellowship coordinator 2004 -
SEXUAL MEDICINE HONORS/PRIZES:
First Prize.
Max K. Willscher Resident Research Award Competition. "Severe, Disabling, and/or Chronic Penile Pain Associated with Peyronie's Disease: Management with non-intralesional Administration of Steroids". 2009
First Prize.
Sexual Medicine Society of North America. Basic Science Abstract Award Winner. Effect of Varying doses of testosterone on Erectile Function in Rats. 2006
First Prize
International Society for the Study of Women Sexual Health. Streptozocin-induced diabetes in the rats is associated with changes in vaginal hemodynamics, morphology and biochemical markers
First Prize
Young investigator award (Co-Author). International Society for the Study of Women Sexual Health. Impact of oral contraceptives on sex hormone-binding globulin and androgen levels: a retrospective study in women with sexual dysfunction. Panzer C, Wise S, Fantini G, Kang D, Munarriz R, Guay A, Goldstein I. 2005
Third Prize.
American College of Clinical Endocrinologis. Impact of oral contraceptives on sex hormone-binding globulin and androgen levels: a retrospective study in women with sexual dysfunction. Panzer C, Wise S, Fantini G, Kang D, Munarriz R, Guay A, Goldstein I. 2005
First Prize (Co-Author).
Disfuncion Sexual Femenina. Angel Bayo, Revista Internacional de Andrologia, 2005
First Prize (Co-Author).
International Society for the Study of Women Sexual Health. Validation of the Abbreviated Female Sexual Questionnaire (ASFQ): Ability to Detect Occult-Female Sexual Dysfunction. Saltzman E, Guay A, Jacobson J, Quirk F, Munarriz R, Goldstein I, Spark R. 2004
First Prize (Co-Author)
International Society for the Study of Women Sexual Health. Kim SW, Kim NN, Jeong SJ, Munarriz R, Goldstein I, Traish AM. Modulation Of Rat Vaginal Blood Flow And Estrogen Receptor By Estradiol. 2004
First Prize
Pfizer Young Investigators Award
First Prize (Co-Author)
Society for Study of Impotence - First Prize for Female Sexual Dysfunction Clinical Research. "Sildenafil Augments Pelvic Nerve Mediated Female Genital Sexual Arousal in the Anesthesized Rabbit". 2000
First Prize (Co-Author)
Female Sexual Function Forum - First Prize for Female Sexual Dysfunction Clinical Research. "Effect of Sildenafil on Subjective and Physiologic Parameters of the Female Sexual Response in Women with Sexual Arousal Disorder." 1999
First Prize
Society for Study of Impotence - First Prize for Female Sexual Dysfunction Clinical Research. "Clinical Evaluation of Female Sexual Dysfunction: Effects of Age and Estrogen Status on Subjective and Physiologic Sexual Responses." 1999
AWARDS
Teaching award Boston University School of Medicine 2006
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER/JOURNAL REVIEWER:
Editorial Board Member:
The Journal of Sexual Medicine 2004 - 2005
International Journal of Impotence Research 2002 - 2004
Current Sexual Health Reports 2003 - 2008
Actas Urologicas Espanolas 2005 - 2009
Journal of Andrology 2006 -
Guess Editor, Sexual Dysfunction for The Scientific World's Urology section, TSW 2009
Sexologia 2004-
Reviewer:
Journal of Urology, Urology
Journal of Sexual Medicine
International Journal of Impotence Research
Fertility and Sterility
Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
European Urology
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2004 -
The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 2005 -
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy 2005 -
Actas Urologicas Espanolas 2005 –
Journal of Andrology 2010
Sexual Medicine Society of North America
Chairman - Impotence Poster/Podium Sessions 2003 -
Board of Directors 2006 - 2008
American Urologic Association
Instructional, Post-Graduate 2003 - 2004
Presentations (podium, poster) at Annual Meetings - 1994 - 2004
Peer reviewer - AUA Guidelines for Management of ED
New England Section
Presentations at Annual Meetings 1998 – 2004
Program committee member 2010
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS/GUEST SPEAKER/UROLOGIC SOCIETIES:
Master Course in Male Erectile Dysfunction. Schering-Plough
First-Line Therapy: Phospodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitor, MA 1999
Master Course in Male Erectile Dysfunction. Schering-Plough
First-Line Therapy: Phospodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors. MA 1999
Conference in Erectile Dysfunction. Schwarz Pharma Hoyer
Peyronie’s Disease. MA 1999
Conference In Erectile Dysfunction. Schwarz Pharma Hoyer
Dynamic Infusion Cavernosometry and Caversonography. 1999
Priapism Consensus Meeting, Cleveland, OH 2000
Pharmacologic treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction
Swiss Advisory Board Sildenafil, Geneva, Switzerland 2000
Sex in the 21 Century, Female Sexual Dysfunction. Massachusetts 2001
Nurses course. Female Sexual Dysfunction. Massachusetts 2001
Grand Rounds. Sexual dysfunction. VA, January 2001
Grand Rounds. Female Sexual Dysfunction. Quincy Hospital 2001
Grand Rounds. Female Sexual Dysfunction. East Boston NH 2001
Grand Rounds. Female Sexual Dysfunction. Cornell University, 2001
Preceptorship in Sexual Medicine. San Francisco 2002
Preceptorship in Sexual Medicine. New Orleans 2002
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Preceptorship, Female sexual Dysfunction 2002
Women’s Health Issues in the 21st Massachusetts 2002
The 10th annual Congress on Women’s Health, HiltonHead, SC 2002
National Foundation For Sexual Health Medicine School. FL 2002
Postgraduate Course. American Society of Reproductive Medicine 2002
Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction, University of Florida, 2003
Therapeutic Outcome Assessment for ED Consensus Panel. 2002
Chief Residents in Urology, Sexual Medicine program. Boston 2002
A.F.U.D.- Sexual Function Health Council. Science Writer’s Conference:
The scope and Impact of Sexual Dysfunction in the New Millennium,
The New York Academy of Medicine 2002
Spanish Andrology Meeting. Grand Master Lecture, FSD, Malaga 2003
SLAIS. Grand Master Lecture FSD. Colombia 2003
2do Congreso Iberoamericano de Andrologia.
Grand Master Lecture on Female Sexual Dysfunction. Santo Domingo 2003
AUA postgraduate course # 60. Sexual Dysfunction. 2003
Grand Rounds OB & GYN. U of Massachusetts, Female Sexual Dysfunction 2003
Grand Rounds Family Medicine. Female Sexual Dysfunction. BUSM 2003
Grand Rounds Family Medicine. Male Sexual Dysfunction. BUSM 2003
Grand Rounds Emergency Medicine. Priapism. BUSM 2003
Grand Rounds Urology. Erectile Dysfunction. UMDNJ 2004
Grand Rounds Urology. Penile Revascularization. Uni. Massachusetts 2004
AUA postgraduate course. Sexual Dysfunction. San Francisco 2004
Grand Rounds Ob & Gyn, LIJFemale Sexual Dysfunction 2004
ISSIR, State of the Art Lecture, Penile revascularization, Argentina 2004
Chairman of the Mod Poster IX: FSD, ISSIR, Argentina 2004
CAU, Punta Cana, ED after RRP 2004
CAU, Punta Cana, Female Sexual Dysfunction Course 2004
SMS, New Orleans, Female Sexual Dysfunction-Basic Science 2005
SMS, New Orleans, Androgens and erectile function-Basic Science 2005
ASESA, Coruna, Spain Curso titulado Priapismo 2005
ASESA, Coruna, Spain Ponente session FSD 2005
ASESA, Coruna, Spain Ponente session Avances en Cirugia Andrologica 2005
ASESA, Coruna, Spain Ponente session Disfuncion erectile y endotelial 2005
Grand Rounds, Albany School of Medicine 2005
Grand Rounds, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hypogonadism 2005
Turkish Andrology meeting, State of the Art Lecture, Penile revascularization 2005
Turkish Andrology meeting, State of the Art Lecture, FSAD 2005
Turkish Andrology meeting, Round table, FSD cases 2005
Avances en Urologia, Argentina. Hypogonadismo en el varon 2006
Avances en Urologia, Argentina. Tratamiento quirúrgico no protésico de la DE 2006
Avances en Urologia, Argentina. Tratamiento hormonal en el sindrome de IA en la mujer 2006
AUA. FSD: What Can Occasional Practitioner Do to Evaluate and Initiate Treatment? 2006
Grand Rounds, TUFT University. FSD 2006
Grand Rounds, New England Baptist Hospital: Erectile Dysfunction 2006
SMSNA, Moderator FSD 2006
SMSNA, Surgical course instructor 2006
NPACE, ED 2006
SCU, Congreso Internacional de Urologia, Colombia, FSD 2007
SCU, Congreso Internacional de Urologia, Colombia, Penile rehabilitation 2007
SCU, Congreso Internacional de Urologia, Colombia, Vascular surgery 2007
SMSNA, Update in Penile revascularization 2007
SMSNA, Moderator FSD poster section 2007
Korean World Urologic Congress. Management of post-prostatectomy ED 2008
Congreso Peruano de Urologia. Rol de los andrógenos en la disfunción eréctil. 2008
Congreso Peruano de Urologia. Disfunción eréctil después del tratamiento del cáncer de próstata 2008
Congreso Peruano de Urologia. Disfunción sexual en la mujer. 2008
Congreso Peruano de Urologia. Diagnóstico de la insuficiencia cavernosa y MABS 2008
Congreso Peruano de Urologia. Priapismo: epidemiología, etiología y manejo 2008
3rd International Consultation on Sexual Medicine, Pharmacotherapy 2009
Strategic Direction Series meeting Pearls of Standard Penile Implant Techniques 2010
Hypogonadism and the HIV Patient, CME program 2010
NE section: Interactive Course II: Sexual Dysfunction, Hypogonadism,TRT 2010
Urology Nursing 2010, Penile Rehab: ED after Radical Prostatectomy 2010
Maine Urologic Association, Penile prosthesis complications 2011
Maine Urologic Association, Peyronis Disease 2011
PUBLISHED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Sadeghi-Nejad H, Munarriz R, Shah N. Intra-abdominal reservoir placement during penile prosthesis surgery in post-robotically assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy patients: a case report and practical considerations. J Sex Med. 2011 May;8(5):1547-50.
2. Rowe C, Ganick S, Munarriz R. Traumatic Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction: Role of Penile Microarterial Bypass Surgery. Curr Urol Rep. 2010 Nov;11(6):427-31.
3. Munarriz R. Penile microvascular arterial bypass surgery: indications, outcomes, and complications. ScientificWorldJournal. 2010 Aug 17;10:1556-65.
4. Pharmacotherapy for Erectile Dysfunction. I Eardley, C Donatucci, J Corbin, A El-Meliegy, K Hatzimouratidis, K McVary, Munarriz R, and Sun Won Lee J Sex Med. 2010 Jan;7(1 Pt 2):524-40.
5. Dickstein R, Uberoi J, and Munarriz R. Severe, Disabling, and/or Chronic Penile Pain Associated with Peyronie’s Disease: Management with Subcutaneous Steroid Injection. J Androl. 2009 Aug 14. PMID: 19684339
5. Munarriz R, Uberoi J, Fantini G, Martinez , and Lee C Microvascular arterial bypass surgery: long-term outcomes using validated instruments.. J of Urol 2009, 182, 643 - 648
6. Tal R, Voelzke BB, Land S, Motarjem P, Munarriz R, Goldstein I, Mulhall JP. Vasculogenic erectile dysfunction in teenagers: a 5-year multi-institutional experience. BJU Int. 2009 Mar;103(5):646-50
7. Vardi Y, Glina S, Mulhall JP, Menchini F, Munarriz R. Cavernosometry: is it a dinosaur? J Sex Med. 2008 Apr;5(4):760-4.
8. Mir, J; Munarriz, R. Androgens and male sexual dysfunction. Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes. 13(3):267-271, June 2006.
9. Munarriz R, Wen W, Mcauley I,Goldstein I,Traish A and Kim NN..Management Of Ischemic Priapism With High Dose Intracavernosal Phenylephrine: From Bench To Bedside. J Sex Med.2006 Sep;3(5):918-22
10. Gomery P, Bullock A, McGettigan J, Munarriz R, Natanegara F, Hague J, Kuepfer C, Abuja S, Wong D. Tadalafil is efficacious in Black American and Hispanic men with erectile dysfunction: results from multiple observations in men with erectile dysfunction in national tadalafil study in the US (MOMENTUS). Int J Impot Res. 2006 May 18
11. Kim NN, Stankovic M, Cushman TT, Goldstein I, Munarriz R, Traish AM. Streptozotocin-induced diabetes in the rat is associated with changes in vaginal hemodynamics, morphology and biochemical markers.BMC Physiol. 2006 May 30;6(1):4
12. Panzer C, Wise S, Fantini G, Kang D, Munarriz R, Guay A, Goldstein I. Impact of oral contraceptives on sex hormone-binding globulin and androgen levels: a retrospective study in women with sexual dysfunction. J Sex Med. 2006 Jan;3(1):104-13.
13. Traish A, Goldstein I, Munarriz R and Andre Guay Role of Androgens in Women’s Sexual Function & Dysfunction: What Have We Learned in Six Decades? Current Women's Health Reviews, 2005.
14. Rodriguez Villalba R, Garcia S, Puigvert Martinez A, Pomerol I Montseny JM, Munarriz R. Priapism. Actas Urol Esp. 2005 Nov-Dec;29(10):961-8.
15. Rodríguez-Villalba R, Munárriz R, García S, Amaya-Menguala E, Pomerol-Monsenya J.M. Manejo diagnóstico y terapéutico del priapismo: nuestra experiencia Rev Int Androl. 2005;3(1):74-6
16. Munarriz R. L8: revascularization surgery in 2004.J Sex Med. 2004 Nov;1 Suppl 1:8-9.
17. Munarriz R,, Huang V, Uberoi J, Maitland S, Payton T, Goldstein I. Only the Nose Knows: Penile Hemodynamic Study of the Perineum-Saddle Interface in Men with Erectile Dysfunction Utilizing Bicycle Saddles and Seats with and without Nose Extensions. J Sex Med. 2005 Sep;2(5):612-9.
18. Huang V, Munarriz R, Goldstein I. Bicycle Riding and Erectile Dysfunction: An Increase in Interest (and Concern).J Sex Med. 2005 Sep;2(5):596-604.
19. Traish A, Kim NN, Munarriz R, and Goldstein I. Androgen Modulation of Vascular Erectile Physiology. In press, Arab J Urol 11/03
20. Garcia S, Talakoub L, Maitland S, Dennis A, Goldstein I. and Munarriz R. Genital duplex Doppler ultrasonography before and after sexual stimulation in women with sexual dysfunction: gray scale, volumetric and hemodynamic findings. Fertil Steril. 2005 Apr;83(4):995-9
21. Tratamiento de la disfunción sexual femenina (DSF) Munárriz R, Pauls R, Kim NN, Traish A, Goldstein I, RodríguezVillalba R, Puigvert-Martínez A, Pomerol JM Rev Int Androl 2004;2(1):21-30
22. Norredam M, Crosby S, Munarriz R, Piwowarczyk L, Grodin M. Urologic complications of sexual trauma among male survivors of torture. Urology. 2005 Jan;65(1):28-32
23. Huang V, Goldstein I, and Munarriz R. Epidemiologic evidence supporting the Association Between Bicycle Riding and ED. Current Health Reports. 1(3):1,75-77