Before we talk about the planning for the conference and all the great events you've got planned, I want you to tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to serve as chair of the division.

Yeah.

So I've been in the defense community for over 25 years now, and as part of that journey, uh, I've always been in the role of systems engineering, but most importantly, um, I now serve as a fellow for Northrop Grumman.

And what led me here to NDIA as part of the division actually started at an NDIA conference in 2010, and during that conference, there was a group of us together talking about the, uh, challenges with the current acquisition process, the need to develop capability faster and getting it into the hands of the war fighter, and we were talking about the agile practices and how could we embrace those practices more as part of this larger defense community.

So out of that led us to the development of the Agile Committee in 2011 through NDIA.

Uh, that committee is now called ADAPT, which is Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs and Teams, because agile is more than a team.

It's really looking at the whole ecosystem and the need for agility to provide that value.

Okay.

yes,

is the main ingredient in Viagra.

So sildenafil is something that increases blood flow to the tissue.

That's how men get engorgement in their penis.

They have an erection.

Similarly in women, it works the same way.

But first of all, orgasm is, it starts in the brain because especially with SSRIs, what SSRIs do is they increase serotonin in our brain.

My God,

Yeah, I

know I got interested in sexual medicine.

Well, when I came out of residency, you know, doing just general OBGYN, It seems like, you know, every other woman I would see for a well-worn visit would be, you know, completely great exam, everything's good, walking out the door, hand on the doorknob.

And then that woman would say, doctor, I don't want to have sex anymore.

Like, oh, my gosh, what is going on? Like, there's a pandemic here, right? And it just seemed like over and over again this would happen.

And I started to say to my staff, gosh, if I got the dollar for every woman that didn't want to have sex, I wouldn't have to work anymore.

It was just ridiculous.

Yeah.

And I was like, thank God, because it's exhausting, you know, when you're constantly having to go in and advocate for yourself each time.

Yes, a lot of times you just can't call up and say, hey, I have BV again.

And they want you to come in for appointment because, you know, they want to make sure it's not something else.

So I understand that frustration.

But I totally agree with you.

Women know their bodies so well.

We're so used to going to the gynecologist, to going to the doctor as a young woman.

definitely could,

So let's go into

it.

Sure, sure.

Well, I can start with that.

So SSRIs are made out of medications that actually work in the brain to increase serotonin.

And so some of those medications you might know as Prozac or Zoloft or Lexapro or they're called sertraline, fluoxetine, escitalopram.

So those medications work by increasing serotonin in the brain.

And I will turn it over to Suzette because she has been prescribing this to women