About Dr. Maria Sophocles

From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Sophocles was a visiting professor and member of an NIH research team at the Frauenspital in Basel, Switzerland. When she moved back to the U.S. in 2007, she founded Women’s Healthcare of Princeton, a progressive gynecology practice that now draws patients from all over the U.S.

A board-certified ob/gyn, she is also a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. She has been recognized for her contributions to gynecology and, as such, has been named a fellow of both the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases (ISSVD).

In 2015, she was one of the first U.S. clinicians to recognize the need for a non-estrogen option to treat vaginal atrophy in breast cancer survivors and pioneered the use of CO2 laser both intravaginally and on the vulva. She has taught clinicians this technology on five continents and advocated for women’s health, reproductive, and sexual rights in the U.S. and abroad.

Working with New Jersey Senator Shirley Turner in 2023, she played a crucial role in the passage of a bill in New Jersey allowing women to obtain contraception without serial visits to a clinician.

She is the CMO of EMBR Labs, a Boston-based wellness device company.

She is the Director of Women’s Health Services for Curia Health, a performance science and health optimization practice based in New York and London.

She is a member of SheMedia’s Flow Advisory Council, is the author of a forthcoming book, “The Bedroom Gap,” on sex in midlife, and was a recent speaker at TEDWomen2023. Her TedTalk and upcoming book release discuss taking small steps towards gender equity by achieving better communication in the bedroom, better education for women and men and clinicians around sexual topics and age-related sexual changes, and ways to advocate for yourself.

She has been the host of a livestream show, Gynecollege. She is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Doctor Radio.

She holds a magna cum laude BA in English from Duke University, attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College, and completed her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

She is married with four grown children and resides in Princeton, New Jersey.