Education
She later earned a Master of Surgery in 1971 from University of California at Davis.
She later earned a Master of Surgery in 1971 from University of California at Davis.
She has also published professionally as Diane South. Fordney-Settlage. Fordney earned her Bachelor of Science in 1960 from University of Arizona and her Doctor of Medicine in 1964 from University of California at Los Los Angeles Her early work looked at mechanisms of sperm motility following intercourse.
She also published findings about sexual experience among teen girls.
In 1975 she wrote an overview of heterosexual dysfunction. Fordney served as Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology Division of Reproductive Biology at the Los Angeles County- University of Southern California Medical Center.
She then took a position as Associate Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of the Stony Brook University. During her tenure at the University of Arizona Medical Center’s fertility clinic, Fordney assisted in helping hundreds of couples with fertility issues bring babies to term.