Dr. Saks is still a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Florida in Tampa.  She also had a large, respected private practice of psychiatry and sex therapy.

She has lectured to medical students, residents and clinicians around the country and abroad including the World Association of Sexology (WAS), the American Psychiatric Association and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). In 2023, she hosted an international SSTAR conference in Tampa, “Sex Science for Social Change.” She is a member of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). She created and ran a transgender clinic for 25 years in Tampa.

She has also lectured about post-traumatic stress disorder to first responders.

Dr. Saks is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Founding Fellow of the American Board of Sexology.

She has served on several boards. She was President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research 2007-2009, and on the editorial board of the Archives of Women’s Mental Health. She currently serves as Board Chair of Champions for Children, a child abuse prevention organization in Tampa Bay, through December 2025.

Dr. Saks received undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University. She completed an internship in medicine at Montefore Hospital in New York and did residency training in obstetrics/gynecology and then psychiatry at Yale University. She was subsequently a clinical instructor at Yale in both departments. She also completed a sex therapy fellowship at Yale sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Saks is married with 4 children and 4 grandchildren. Her interests include children’s welfare and education, theater, music, Pilates, hiking, reading (she’s a member of 4 book clubs), and her Jewish community in the Berkshires.

She was born in Chicago but feels most at home in New England. Though they are still Florida residents, she and her husband bought a second home in West Stockbridge in 2004. Since her retirement from clinical practice, they have been able to spend more time in the Berkshires and are enthusiastic about becoming more involved in the community here. Shakespeare & Company is a great fit and she is honored to join the board.