Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior is an American-born medical doctor, professor, and researcher specializing in feminist approaches to women's health, especially ovulation

Ovulation

Ovulation is the process in a female's menstrual cycle by which a mature ovarian follicle ruptures and discharges an ovum . Ovulation also occurs in the estrous cycle of other female mammals, which differs in many fundamental ways from the menstrual cycle...

, progesterone

Progesterone

Progesterone also known as P4 is a C-21 steroid hormone involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis of humans and other species...

, bone health and perimenopause. She founded the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR) in 2002 http://cemcor.org/about/who.shtml, is the current president of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research http://menstruationresearch.org/about/board-committees/, and is Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

.

Prior is the author of the research-based novel, Estrogen's Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause http://cemcor.org/tools/estrogens_storm_season.shtml and co-author of Transitions Through the Perimenopausal Years: Demystifying Your Journey http://www.amazon.com/dp/1412021529. She has over 200 publications and holds 6 patents. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Award (2002). Estrogen's Storm Season was a finalist in the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Awards for Health.

Dr. Prior grew up in Alaska. She received a Bachelors of Arts in English Literature at Linfield College

Linfield College

Linfield College is an American private institution of higher learning located in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. As a four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts and sciences college with a campus in Portland, Oregon, it also has an adult degree program located in eight communities throughout the...

, Oregon (with honours) in 1965. She graduated from Boston University School of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1848, the medical school holds the unique distinction as the first institution in the world to formally educate female physicians. Originally known as the New England Female Medical College, it was...

 (with honours) in 1969. She began her training, in Internal Medicine and then in Endocrinology

Endocrinology

Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation and the coordination of...

 in Boston. Dr. Prior has previously worked as a physician in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Mass., Poughkeepsie and Syracuse, NY, Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage...

. She moved to Canada in 1976 and became a citizen because she believes in the Canadian universal health care system. http://cemcor.org/about/staff#prior