Who We Are

SEPHIA's Choice™ is a website owned by a group of professional health care providers and consumers.

Our mission is simple: Through SEPHIA's Choice™, we will encourage, empower, and support consumers, and nurses and other health care professionals by providing information, services and products, all chosen with the patient's best interests in mind.

Funds to maintain SEPHIA's Choice™ are provided by private investors, advertisements, sponsorships and consulting arrangements with various companies, all of which are displayed within the website pages.

Who are the Participants?

Lenore has a M.S. in Internet Strategy Management from the Graduate Center at Marlboro College and a B.S. in public health from the University of Massachusetts with an emphasis in Medical Technology. She has worked in government research and run her own consulting firm specializing in human services planning and rural development. In 1994, she founded Health Search, a service that provides medical information to those who need it. "The main goal of Health Search is to empower people at a time when they feel the least powerful - when they or someone they love has a serious illness." In 1995, Lenore became a regular columnist for WellnessWeb. In 1996, she was appointed Editor of Alternative/Complementary Medicine and later that year, she became Executive Editor. In December 2001, Lenore started her own company, Wellness Partners LLC, in order to continue working on behalf of health consumers around the globe. Her articles on health topics and patients' use of the Internet have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals.

Diane K. Newman is a certified adult nurse practitioner who has been practicing in the field of urology since 1976 and in the area of incontinence since 1986. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the non-invasive, non-surgical treatment of urinary incontinence and related problems. She is Co-Director of the PENN Center for Continence and Pelvic Floor Disorders at the Division of Urology, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In collaboration with urologists Drs. Eric Rovner and Alan Wein, this will be a regional center of excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of all types of voiding dysfunction. Diane Newman is a visiting professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, College of Nursing. She has consistently distinguished herself in the field of UI in acute, long-term and home care environments, and is the developer of a nationally recognized comprehensive program for the treatment of urinary incontinence.

Dr. Steidle is the principal investigator for the Northeast Indiana Research Group specializing in the area of impotence and urology. He has a practice in Fort Wayne, Indiana.