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Who is Lissa Rankin?

Recently listed on the Huffington Post's Top 16 Health Experts to Follow On Twitter, Top Ten U.S. Twitter Doctors, and Forbes.com 20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter lists, Dr. Lissa Rankin is gathering exciting press about OwningPink.com, her Pink Medicine Revolutionary ideas, and her book What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend.

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About Lissa Rankin


OB/GYN, Public Speaker, Business Consultant for Healing Visionaries, Author, Entrepreneur, Artist, & Mom. You're welcome to use any of these materials for your site or publication, including the fabulous interview below. Please just include a link back to OwningPink.com!          

• Standard Bio (Download PDF)                            • Photo Color (Download PDF)                  
• An Interview with Dr. Rankin (Download PDF)      • Photo B&W (Download PDF)

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Blogs

Suppose you had a wise, warm, funny best friend - who just happened to be a gynecologist... Would you like to post a blog by Lissa on your site? The posts below (in PDF format) cover some of Lissa's juiciest topics, but you're welcome to repost anything on the OwningPink.com site -- please follow the reprint instructions as detailed here. For more of Lissa's blogs, click here - or to browse the blogs on this site by category, click here.

• On Women's Health:
Coochie Confidental: What's Normal Down There?
Boobs: An OB/GYN Answers - What's Normal, What's Not? (Perfect for Oct - Breast Cancer Awareness Month!)
• On Sex:
Ooh La La: 6 Ways To Improve Your Sex Life
• On Motherhood:
The Postpartum Period: What's Normal, What's Not?
Pregnant Pondering: What's Normal, What's Not?

 

Press Releases


• Monistat To Sponsor "Ask The Girlfriend Gyno" College Chats

For more, read all of our announcements.

TV Appearances


 

 

San Diego Living: "What's Up Down There?"

San Diego Living from Owning Pink on Vimeo.

Daytime TV in Tampa: "What's Up Down There?"

Daytime TV in Tampa from Owning Pink on Vimeo.

"How Social Media Helped Me Get My Mojo Back"

Sacramento & Co, (April, 2010) - Lissa Rankin, M.D.

 

"How To Be A New Mommy With Mojo"
View From the Bay (April, 2010) - Lissa Rankin, M.D.

"How to Create Quality Me Time"
View From the Bay (April, 2010) - Lissa Rankin, M.D.

Glimpse TV with Dr. Lissa Rankin: Be all of yourself all the time. from Kate Moller on Vimeo.

Sexual Health

Fitarella TV (November 2010) - Lissa Rankin, M.D.

 

Video


Lissa Rankin speeches from Jayne Jeffrey on Vimeo.

 

Me and Yoni - Lissa Rankin, M.D.

 
 

"Vagina, Vagina, Vagina! (Vagina!)"

New York, New York (August 2010) - Lissa Rankin, M.D.

Featured You Reinvented on Shine by Yahoo- Lissa Rankin, M.D.

Features


 

The Bay Citizen: Taking A Stand For Health

NewsMaker: The Health Story of the Year

Huffington Post: Anxious, Fatigued, or Depressed? Pills, Exercise or Diet Shouldn't Top Your List of Treatments

Lifebyme.com

Woman's Day: Can You Use Your OB/GYN as Your GP?

American Medical News: Jumping to a nonclinical career

Sprout Social: How Social Media Is Changing the Medical Field

FoxNews.com: 5 Things You Should Know Before Giving Birth

Forbes.com: 10 Experts Share 10 Tips: Feeling Great at the Office

Glamour: Everything You Don't Know About Your Ladyparts. . . but Should!

RealBeauty.com:  33 Things Every Woman Should Know About Sex

People Magazine's "Around the Web" for "How Girls are Getting Their Periods By Age 8 and Starting the Talk"

Breezy Mama "How Girls are Getting Their Periods By Age 8 and Starting the Talk"

CNN "10 dumb things you do at the doc's office"

New York Times "A Younger Group For Feminine Products"

FoxNews.com "Chidren's Health: New, Glittery Feminine Products Introduces Menstruation To Tweens"

Curve Magazine "The Vagina Dialogues: Don't Be Shy. Discuss These Nine Topics With Your Gyno." (3/2011)

Featured on Lisa Kift Therapy Women: How to Get Your Mojo Back

Reviewed on Wellsphere.com What's Up Down There?

Reviewed on SheKnows.com Real Moms Guide Are You Owning Your Pink?

Interviewed on Creative Loafing Vagina Dialogues: A Q & A with Lissa Rankin, the Carrie Bradshaw of OB/GYNs

Featured on Inspire Me Today Inspiration Archives

Mentioned on The Frisky Did Your Mom Prepare You For Your Period? to know in new book

Mentioned on Mustang Daily Gynecologist to address taboo topics at Cal Poly

Mentioned on The Stir from Cafe Mom 3 Weird Weight Loss Tricks That Actually Work

Reviewed on the Chicago Tribune website What's Up Down There?

Shared on the Examiner.com An OB/GYN answers what's normal, what's not, when it comes to breast health

Mentioned on Medical News Today 

Featured on She Knows: Health & Wellness "That Wacky Flow"

Mentioned in Publishers Weekly with Elizabeth Cohen August 16, 2010 Download: Healing_Words.pdf

Interviewed with American Baby Magazine October 2010 Edition

Featured in Writers Digest The Big Ten issue September 2010 (What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask You Gynecologist if She Was Your Best Friend.)

Featured on Shine from Yahoo (Things You Don't Want to Tell Your Doctor, But Should)

Featured on CafeMom.com (Things You Don't Want to Tell Your Doctor, But Should.)

Featured on LemonDrop.com: AOL Living (Ella and Plan B)

Interviewed for Health Magazine article (March 2010)

Featured on SheKnows.com (Period and Tampon Use)

 "Your Vagina: 15 Things Every Owner Should Know" on WebMD (March 2010)

Interviewed for article in Body and Soul Magazine (April 2010) 

Pain Pathways Magazine, interviewed for article on chronic pain support groups (March 2010) 

Video interview with Phil Bolsta, author of 60 Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything(October 2009)

Is Your OB/GYN Like Great Uncle Charlie? Article on The Survival Guide for Rookie Moms (October 2009) -

How to get the most out of your 8 minute annual exam Published on skirt.com and jacksonville.com(September 2009) -

An Interview With Lissa Rankin, Founder of Owning Pink in San Francisco Examiner(August 2009)

G- Spot, the Spot? on Shine(July 2009)

Guest on Let Your Life Bloom teleseries, talking about play and mojo by Life Coach Vanessa Smith(June 2009)

Now Magazine article about personal lubricants (May 2009)

Dating Advice From Doctors on Nerve.com(May 2009)

Guru of New blog,Meet Lissa Rankin, MD (April 2009)

Mill Valley Chamber News article (2009)

Profile in Aquapoetics blog(December 2008)

Becoming Lissa Rankin on www.bloomsearchtraining.com (November 2008)

A Tale of Two Ovarie s on www.GiggleOn.com(September 2008)

Awards & Nominations


Winner of the International Women's Day Award (2011)
 

Columns


First For Women Magazine - Monthly Column July, 2010 to present

Regular Blogger- Care2.com April, 2010 to present - Lissa Rankin, MD and Owning Pink writers

Regular Blogger- Psychologytoday.com April, 2010 to present

Frequent Columnist - CollegeCandy.com 2009 - April, 2010

Frequent Columnist - BettyConfidential.com

Radio


Marla Maples Contact Talk Radio

Passions and Possibilities with Sue Oliver Passioneer Lissa Rankin OB/GYN Physician  (October 20,2010)
Dr. Laura Berman Oprah Radio show Cervical Cancer Prevention and the HPV Vaccine  (Lissa speaks half way into the recording) (September 2010)
Tom Joyner Morning Show by Jacque Reid; 8 million listeners, syndicated on 40 radio stations  (July 2010) Download: 071310_JACQUE_REID_TALKS_TO_DR_LISSA_RANKIN.mp3
Awakening with Marla Maples (.mp3)
(May, 2010) - Lissa Rankin, M.D.
Mommy's With Mojo (KSFR Santa Fe)
The Journey Home Radio Show (.mp3) (May 7, 2010)
Dr. Laura Berman Oprah and Friends Radio (April, 2010)
Transformations With Tara radio,  with Marla Maples & Tara Sutphen (May 2009)
Yapping With Yoni Podcast- Girl Talk Radio (January 2009) 
Owning Pink profiled in Sealed with Love blog (January 2009)

 

PodCasts


ConsciousSHIFT with host Julie Ann Turner Episode 28 (May 2010)
 

Reviews


 

HealthMad.com What's Up Down There?
Chicago Tribune What's Up Down There?
Mentioned on Huffington Post by Christine Bronstein Why Are Family Jewels Just for Men?
Featured in RedBook Magazine November 2010
Good Girl Gone Redneck What's Up Down There?
Terre Pruitt's Blog Its All About Love
Waiting For The Click What's Up Down There? Review
Everyday Life of a Mama What's Up Down There?
The Book Lady's Blog What's Up Down There?
Review of Northwestern "Ask The Girlfriend Gyno" chat by Tom Zhao of Daily Northwestern Feinberg alumna talks women’s health
LA Acupuncture What's Up Down There?
Wellsphere.com What's Up Down There?
SheKnows.com Real Moms Guide Are You Owning Your Pink?
Mentioned on EdenFantasys.com Sex Discriminates Against Kink and Queers 
Mentioned on Aspiring Mama The Vagina Dialogues
Mentioned on Examiner.com CBS censors Bay Area OB/GYN
 
Interviewed on The Survival Guide For Rookie Moms Pregnant Pondering: What's Normal? What's Not?
Audio Interview by Ali Berlin What's Up Down There with Lissa Rankin
Interviewed on Women's Radio What's Up Down There? Whoopee!
Interviewed by Sari Soffer for North by Northwestern Dr. Lissa Rankin wants to talk about vagina — your vagina
 
Mentioned on Beth Buelow's YouTube Channel Top 10 Lessons From Day 2, Ladies Who Launch Conference Seattle

Shared on Bookstore Trevor's YouTube Channel

Reviwed on Sociology of Sheena

 

Art Press


100 Awe-Inspiring Artists You Should Follow on Twitter 
Graphic Design Degrees (April 2010)

Luxe Magazine, Style Makers section

Featured on SpottedAntelope.Com
Art and teaching profiled in Deanna Wood’s blog
Art show profiled in Artshound.com
Art and teaching profiled in Hot Art By the Sea blog
Art profiled in Sisley-Blinn’s blog
Art and teaching profiled on About.com 
Traditional Homes Magazine, April 2009
Monterey Talks Radio, invited to speak about the transition from medicine to art and back again, 2008
Evans Encaustics Report, 2007
Arizona Illustrated on KUAT Channel 6, 2007
Homestyle By the Sea Magazine “Artist to Watch“, Spring 2007
Monterey County Herald, Owning Pink, 2007
Carmel Pine Cone, Owning Pink, 2007
Monterey County Weekly, Owning Pink, 2007
Monterey County Herald, Hot Wax, 2007
Décor & Style Magazine, Artist Profile:  Lissa Rankin, 2005
Focus/Santa Fe, Introducing Lissa Rankin, 2004