Elizabeth A. Grill Psy. D.

Elizabeth A. Grill, Psy.D., is Director of Psychological Services at the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine and an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine, and Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She is also an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Grill is experienced as a counseling psychologist and medical researcher with a special focus on sexual health, the emotional aspects of infertility, IVF treatment, third-party reproduction, oncofertility, and fertility preservation. She was the secretary and is the current Chair of RESOLVE, the national infertility association, and was the Continuing Education Officer and now past President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). She was also the Past Chair of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and was elected to two terms on the Content Review Committee of ASRM.

She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and Communications with Highest Distinction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and received her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She completed a yearlong psychology internship at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center and trained at the Survivors of Torture Program at Bellevue Hospital and also trained and led workshops at the New York University Child Study Center designed to teach couples communication and relationship-enhancement skills.

Her postdoctoral training included a two-year fellowship as a sex therapist at the Human Sexuality Program, Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and the first clinic in the United States for sexual disorders founded over thirty years ago by Dr. Helen S. Kaplan. She also spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Reproductive Medicine of Weill Cornell Medical College. Additionally, Grill was trained and certified at the Mind/Body Institute at Harvard Medical School.

Grill serves as an editorial reviewer for Fertility and Sterility, Journal of Andrology, and Human Reproduction. She is the recipient of awards including several Mental Health Professional Group Prize Papers at ASRM, the Global Organization for Excellence in Health Care Award, and the American Fertility Association Family Building Award. Grill has written several articles and book chapters on topics such as the role of sex therapy for male and female infertility, infertility and sexual dysfunction in the couple, the psychosexual impact of cancer-related infertility in women, the emotional and sexual impact of infertility for women awaiting oocyte donation, and the role of the mental health professional in the education and support of the medical staff. She teaches Weill Cornell medical students about female sexual response and dysfunction and has lectured worldwide to patient and medical audiences about sexual dysfunction, the emotional aspects of reproductive medicine, and oncofertility. She has also participated in numerous media interviews related to the emotional aspects of reproductive medicine.