Lori Birder, PhD is a tenured Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Lori completed her PhD in neuropharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh followed by postdoctoral fellowships in Tokyo Japan and at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her research has been durably funded by the NIH with currently three R01 grants studying bladder dysfunction with stress/pain and aging with a focus on drug development. Lori has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews, a member of several editorial boards/scientific societies and serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief for the open access ICS journal ‘Continence’.