Jennifer Ruth Berman is an American sexual health expert,

urologist Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and ''-logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive organ ...

and female sexual medicine specialist. She is also a former co-host on the television show '' The Doctors''. She has been likened to

Dr. Ruth Westheimer Karola Ruth Westheimer ( Siegel; born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish fam ...

(Dr. Ruth).

Media

Berman and her sister

Laura Berman Laura Berman is an American relationship therapist and television host. She is the host of ''In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman'' on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She is also a regular guest on '' The Dr. Oz Show'', and hosts her own nationa ...

hosted a US national television program titled ''Berman and Berman'' on Discovery Health in 2002 and 2003. She has also appeared on ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Today Show'',

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, Conan,

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and HLN.

Education and training

Berman graduated from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1986 and the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

Medical Center where she received her Master of Science degree in 1989. She went on to receive her medical degree from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

School of Medicine. After obtaining her medical degree, she returned to the University of Maryland to complete her post-graduate urology residency and then completed her fellowship training at UCLA Medical Center for Female Urology and Female Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery. In 2001, she co-founded and served as director of the Female Sexual Medicine Center at UCLA, and was also an assistant professor of urology.

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