Stacy Elliott

Dr. Elliott's focus is on community sexual health work, outpatient sexual rehabilitation, and fertility following SCI. As part of her work with the Vancouver Sperm Retrieval Clinic, she and her colleagues work to improve sperm retrieval techniques and conception rates in men with ejaculatory disorders. Since the 1980s, their work has enabled approximately 100 children to be born to families living with spinal cord injuries.

She also researches prostate cancer in her consultative role in the Men's Health Initiative in Vancouver, aiming to facilitate sexual rehabilitation for men with prostate cancer while also developing survivorship programs as part of a wider approach to dealing with prostate cancer. The challenges of living with prostate cancer are similar to those of living with SCI, in that sexuality is a high priority and appropriate management can have a positive effect on quality of life. For Dr. Elliott, it is her privilege to be able to work with men and their partners struggling with such life-changing issues, and see them at their most vulnerable and open. She has gained immeasurable respect for them because of it. Dr. Stacy Elliott at work in the clinic.