Rosie King

Dr Rosie King is a doctor with a difference

Dr Rosie King (McInnes) worked in general practice for 12 years before specialising in sexual therapy. Dr King is an author, academic, educator and researcher and is in private practice as a sex therapist and relationship counsellor.She runs workshops both nationally and internationally on sex and relationships. For more than a decade Dr King has appeared regularly in the print and electronic media addressing the issues of sex, relationships and health.

Dr Rosie King is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in the Sexual Health Medicine Chapter. She is a past president of ASSERT (Australian Society of Sexual Eductors, Researchers and Therapists) and is past chair of the steering committee for the Diploma of Sexual Health Counselling. Dr King was a visiting Lecturer in Sexual Counselling in the Medical Faculty of the University of NSW, in the schools of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and of Psychiatry. Dr King regularly runs workshops on sexual counselling throughout Australia and the world.

Dr King is a founding member of the Australian Centre for Sexual Health at St Luke's Hospital, Sydney. Established in 1992, this was Australia's first multi-disciplinary centre for the treatment of sexual dysfunction, research into human sexuality and sex education. In 1998/99 Dr Rosie King was the chief Sydney investigator for international clinical trials on the effects of Viagra in women. She is a co-author of the paper The efficacy of sildenafil in oestrogenised women associated with Female Sexual Arousal Disorder.

Dr King speaks to patient support groups on a regular basis, including: cancer sufferers (breast, bowel and prostrate) and their partners, menopausal women, patients with renal disease and on dialysis, post transplant patients, sufferers of diabetes, young men and women with cancer and others, addressing the impact of illness on their lives, their relationships and their sexuality.

Dr Rosie King has worked consistently in television since 1988 and was the resident relationship expert on the Nine Network's Midday Show.  She has had a weekly column in Woman's Day since 1993, writes articles for many magazines about sex and relationships, is interviewed regularly on talkback radio.