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Sheryl A Kingsberg

Sheryl A Kingsberg

Researcher

Sep 15, 2026

0:17
Cheryl, tell me how you would recommend a practitioner approach a patient about natural family planning or natural cycles using digital contraception and breaking down those communication barriers that we often have.
0:38
Well, thanks, Jim.
0:39
First of all, let me tell you who I am.
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I am a clinical psychologist.
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I'm the chief of a division of behavioral medicine in an OBGYN department at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
0:52
I'm also a professor in the departments of reproductive biology, psychiatry, and urology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
1:02
past president of the Menopause Society and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health.

5 MINS LATER

6:21
How might fear of the side effects actually impact a woman's sexual function and how do we get clinicians to think about sexual function and not only fertility effectiveness?
3:22
Cheryl, would you agree to that? Oh,
3:24
absolutely.
3:24
She will know whether or not her partner will be a partner in this.
3:29
And so that will be part of the decision making.
3:32
And when we think about compliance versus adherence, adherence really is the engagement with the woman and her clinician to make a decision.
3:42
And with that, she is much more likely to adhere if she is involved in that decision and says, that's what I want.
3:49
And with the partner, honestly, having the tracker is way more data to show tonight is probably not the night than her saying we can't.

11 MINS LATER

14:34
Who's that ideal woman or maybe even ideal couple to embrace this technology?

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