Advisory Board for Behavioral & Social Sciences
Kimberly D. Acquaviva, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor (tenured), School of Nursing, George Washington University and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; authority on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) aging; member of the editorial boards of several refereed journals including Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, and Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research; former Co-Chair of the American Society on Aging’s LGBT Aging Issues Network (LAIN); current member of NIH’s National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA)
http://nursing.gwu.edu/kimberly-d-acquaviva
Stewart Adelson, MD, Asst Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Chair, Advisory Committee, Initiative for LGBT Health, Division of Gender, Sexuality & Health, Columbia University Medical Center; Faculty Member of the National LGBT Health Education Center of the Fenway Institute (affiliate of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School); member of the Advisory Committee of the International LGBT Program of Human Rights Watch; Past President, Lesbian and Gay Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Association
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/
Dr. Stewart Adelson discusses principles of mental health practice with LGBT children and adolescent
Katherine Allen, PhD, Professor of Human Development,
Virginia Tech
http://www.humandevelopment.vt.edu/allen.html
M. V. Lee Badgett is Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as a professor of economics. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar at the prestigious Williams Institute.
Prof. Badgett received her PhD in economics from the Univeristy of California at Berkeley in 1990. She was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, and has taught at both Yale University and the University of Maryland.
Prof. Badgett studies especially family policy issues and labor market discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, and gender. Her latest book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage (NYU Press, 2009), focuses on the U.S. and European experiences with marriage equality for gay couples.
She co-edited of the recent book, Sexual Orientation Discrimination: An International Perspective (Routledge, 2007). Her first book, Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2001), presented her groundbreaking work debunking the myth of gay affluence. She is also the author or co-author of numerous journal articles and policy reports.
Prof. Badgett’s policy-related work includes testifying as an expert witness in legislative matters and litigation, analyzing public policies, consulting with regulatory bodies, briefing policymakers, and writing op-ed pieces. She speaks frequently with journalists, and advises businesses…continued
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/experts/lee-badgett/lee-badgett/
Dr. Lee Badgett discusses LGBT-Inclusive Economic Policies
Kimberly Balsam, PhD, Associate Professor & Co-Director, Center for LGBTQ Evidence-Based Applied Research,
Palo Alto University
https://www.paloaltou.edu/
Stefan Baral, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC is a physician epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH). Stefan completed undergraduate studies in immunology at McGill University followed by graduate studies in immunology and gene therapy at McMaster University and medical school at Queen’s University. Subsequently, Stefan completed his certification as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada focused on Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, with advanced training in infectious diseases surveillance and public health practice. Dr. Baral has also trained and is clinically licensed as a primary care practitioner.
Stefan has led epidemiological studies among key populations including gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender populations, and sex workers in Southern, Eastern, and Western African countries as well as in Central and Southeastern Asia. In addition, Stefan has been led or supported the implementation and evaluation of HIV prevention studies globally characterizing effective combination HIV prevention packages funded by the World Bank for men who have sex with men, female sex workers, and people who use drugs. Stefan has also been involved in HIV epidemiology, prevention, and implementation science studies focused on the epidemiology and human rights contexts for key populations in Western and Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa with support from USAID, NIH, amfAR, and the Global Fund. Stefan acts as the Director of the Key Populations Program for the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the JHSPH.
Dr. Stefan Baral discusses risks, vulnerabilities, and burden of HIV among Key Populations in Low and Middle Income Countries in Southern Asia
Kevin G. Barnhurst, PhD, is Chair of Communications in the Digital Era at the University of Leeds, and Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of seven award-winning books and monographs, including Media Queered (New York: Peter Lang), and a recognized international leader in the field of communications studies. He has published more than one hundred articles, essays, book chapters and commentaries in in leading peer-review journals. His historic “Media Queered” symposium drew together leading communications, media, and political science leaders from LGBTQ/queer studies. He has been a keynote or invited speaker at more than fifty universities, including Columbia, Emory, Harvard, and Rutgers, the universities of Chicago, Michigan, Texas-Austin, and Wisconsin-Madison, and the Five College Seminar, Amherst, Massachusetts, as well as universities in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. See also:
Research & Teaching
New Long Journalism Project
Life History & Media Project
Media/Queered Project
The Form of News, A History
Walter O. Bockting, PhD., is Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Nursing), Columbia University and Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Bockting is Co-Director of the LGBT Health Initiative, Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health at Columbia University Medical Center. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transgenderism.
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/nursing/faculty/profile2.php?uni=wb2273
Henny Bos, PhD,
University of Amsterdam
http://www.nllfs.org/about/henny-bos/
David Brennan, PhD, MSW, Professor/Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and Ontario HIV Treatment Network Scholar,
University of Toronto
http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/
Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD, Director for Research & Evaluation, ACRIA (AIDS Community Research Initiative of America); Adjunct Professor at the New York University College of Nursing; conducts behavioral research on psychosocial issues affecting persons living with HIV and evaluation research. Over 20 years of gerontological research experience; expertise in applied research on coping and adjustment to chronic illness in middle and late adulthood. Recognized for research in the field of aging by the Hunter-Brookdale Center on Aging, Pride Senior Network, and the New York State Office for the Aging
William Byne, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC; Director of the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Morphometrics, JJ Peters Veterans Hospital, NYC; Editor-in-Chief, LGBT Health (Mary Ann Liebert Publishers); former Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on the Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder; current Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Workgroup on Treatment of Gender Dysphoria; member Transgender Education Group, LGBT Program, Patient Care Services, Department of Veterans Affairs; one of the first physician advisors for the Intersex Society of North America; member of the editorial boards, Journal of Homosexuality and Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health.
http://www.mountsinai.org/
Eli Coleman, PhD. Professor and Director, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health,
University of Minnesota Medical School
http://www.fm.umn.edu/faculty/
Anthony D’Augelli, PhD, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Development,
Penn State University
http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/hdfs/
Dominic Davies, Fellow BACP, MNCP Accred. is one of the leaders of LGBT counseling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom. He is Founder and CEO of PINK THERAPY, the largest independent therapy organization working with gender and sexual diversity clients.
In 2007 he was made a Fellow of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy for his “outstanding contributions to the field.” He is on the Editorial Board of Psychology & Sexuality, and previously a Board Member of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. He was co-editor of three seminal professional volumes on LGBT inteventions: Pink Therapy; Pink Therapy Vol 2: Therapeutic Perspectives on a Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients; and Pink Therapy Vol. 3: Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual and Transgender Clients (all published by Open University Press). He is a member of the following international bodies: World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), World Association for Sexology (WAS), Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS) and the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA).
In 2014 he was listed at Number 28 on the Independent on Sunday’s Rainbow List of 101 LGBT people who have made a “…difference to British society.”
http://www.pinktherapy.com/Findatherapist/tabid/65/ctl/ViewPractice/mid/447/_UserId/19/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Dominic Davies, Founder of Pink Therapy in the UK, discusses with leading colleagues the growing expansion of the LGBT umbrella to include multi-faceted sexual and gender minorities
Brian de Vries, Ph.D. is professor of gerontology at San Francisco State University with adjunct appointments at Simon Fraser University and the University of Alberta. He received his doctorate in life-span developmental psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1988 and was a post-doctoral fellow at both Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the University of Southern California. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and past Board member of the American Society on Aging (ASA) and co-Chair of the LGBT Aging Issues Network constituent group. Dr. de Vries served on the Institute of Medicine’s Board on the Health of Select Populations Committee preparing the recently released acclaimed book: The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding. Dr. de Vries is former editor of Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2007-2011) and a former associate editor of The International Journal of Aging and Human Development (2000-2006); he presently serves as associate editor of LGBT Health. He has served as guest editor of Omega: Journal of Death and Dying (1997 and 2004) and as a guest co-editor of Generations (2001). He is currently guest-editing an issue of the Journal of Homosexuality. In addition, he has edited four books, including Kinship Bereavement in Later Life (1997), End of Life Issues (1999), Narrative Gerontology (2001), and Gay and Lesbian Aging (2004); he has authored or co-authored over 90 journal articles and book chapters and he has given over 100 presentations to professional audiences on grief and bereavement in later life as well as the social and psychological well-being of midlife and older LGBT persons.
Dr. Brian de Vries discusses LGBT aging, end-of-life issues, and special need for practitioner sensitivity training
Sarah-Jane (SJ) Dodd, PhD, MSEd, MSW, Associate Professor,
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/
Jack Drescher, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science,
New York Medical College; Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry; Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Past Chair of APA’s Committee on GLB Issues; Past President of APA’s New York County District Branch; former Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health
http://www.jackdreschermd.net
Dr. Drescher discusses reparative (conversion) therapy
Amy Dworsky, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Chapin Hall at the
University of Chicago
http://www.chapinhall.org/
Diane Elze, MSSA, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the MSW Program,
University at Buffalo School of Social Work
http://www.socialwork.buffalo.
Jennifer Evans, PhD, Associate Professor and Graduate Director,
Dept of History, Carleton University;Advisory Board member, H-Histsex; Editorial Board member German Studies Review; author, “Life Among the
Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011);
co-editor, “Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe Since 1945″(Continuum, 2014);
and many other books/journal articles related to German history,
same-sex sexuality, combating right-ring extremism, and other topics.
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~jevans/jevans/Welcome.html
Jamie Feldman, PhD, Associate Professor, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family & Community Medicine,
University of Minnesota.
http://www.fm.umn.edu/faculty/
Colleen M. Fisher, M.S.W., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota; Co-Chair, National Caucus of LGBT Faculty & Students in Social Work; Reviewer, Sexual Orientation Cluster, Society for Social Work and Research
Conference. Dr. Fisher’s scholarship also examines health and wellbeing among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth, with emphasis on the experiences of marginalized sub-groups (e.g., transgender, homeless, and rural youth) and development of youth-driven interventions.
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ssw/people/profiles/FisherC.asp
Karen I. Frederiksen-Goldsen, PhD, Professor and Director of the Institute for Multigenerational Health at the School of Social Work, University of Washington; leader of the first national study on health disparities of LGBT elders and their caregivers; investigator on an AIDS antiretroviral adherence project in China; Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a Hartford Scholars National Mentor; founder of the Rainbow Research Group of the Gerontological Society of America; past Co-Chair of the Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression of the Council on Social Work Education.
http://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/karen-i-fredriksen-goldsen
Daniel Gardner, PhD, Associate Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York;
Senior Research Faculty, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging Hartford Faculty Scholar in Geriatric Social Work
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/
Dr. Robert Garofalo is a national leader in LGBT medicine, pediatrics, and health care, as well as HIV prevention and intervention. He is on the editorial board of LGBT Health (Mary Ann Liebert) and Medical Director. TransLife Care Project, a key project related to the health of HIV+ transgender women developed and operated together with community-based partners in Chicago House and the Healthland Health Alliance.
He has been a leader at the NIH with a track record spanning critical research fronts, including HIV/AIDS research, adolescent health services, and additional areas focusing on bothcommunity and clinical aspects of health services.
He has published numerous peer-review articles in medical journals focusing on school-age health risk behaviors and sexual orientation; sexual orientation and suicide risk; risky health behaviors amongst LGBT youth related to technology, substance abuse, and psychosocial variables; and factors that underlie racial/ethnic disparities in HIV risk among YMSM (Young Men Who Have Sex With Men).
He has also authored or co-authored key book chapters in such nationally known publications as the Fenway Guide to Primary Care for the LGBT Community (American College of Physicians) and The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding (Washington DC: The National Academies Press). For additional information see: http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=11319
Dr. Garofalo discusses major minority sex health and mental health issues
Geoffrey Giles, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of History,
University of Florida (Gainesville); Editorial Advisory Board, German History; previous editorial board member, German Studies Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality; Author, “The Persecution of Gay Men and Lesbians during the Third Reich” (Friedman, The Routledge History of the Holocaust, London/New York: Routledge, 2011); “The Institutionalization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich”, in Gellately & Stolzfus (Eds.), Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2001); and numerous other works in German history, with special expertise related to Nazi persecution of homosexuals, and same-sex homosocial issues in German society.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ggiles/
Abbie Goldberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology,
Clark University
http://wordpress.clarku.edu/agoldberg/
Robert-Jay Green, PhD, Founder & Senior Research Fellow, Rockway Institute for LGBT Psychology & Public Policy; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology PhD Program California School of Professional Psychology [a division of Alliant International University]
http://www.alliant.edu/cspp/about-cspp/cspp-research-institutes/rockway-institute/rockway-ed.php
Victor Groza, PhD, LISW-S, Grace F. Brody Professor of Parent-Child Studies,
Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
http://msass.case.edu/faculty/
Richard Harding, PhD is Director of Global Programs and Partnerships, Cicely Saunders Institute, Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, King’s College, London. Here he has launched a new study called ACCESSCare: Advanced Cancer Care Equality Strategy for Sexual Minorities, funded by Marie Curie Cancer Care, and which is looking to improve demand for, and supply of, palliative care to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. He has co-authored a seminal contribution, “Needs, experiences and preferences of sexual minorities for end-of-life care and palliative care: a systematic Review,” (Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2012, Vol. 15 (5). He is also a Board member of the LGBT Advisory Group for the Palliative and End of Life Care. Dr. Harding is also Honorary Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, and Director of African Palliative Care, Cicely Saunders International; and Reader, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute. He has developed and spear-headed the African program within his Department, and is currently Director of the African Program for Cicely Saunders International. He is an internationally distinguished leader in the field of hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care, as well as HIV and related health care areas, with over 200 peer review journal articles to his credit. as well as multiple book chapters and book reviews. Amongst other positions held he is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Pain & Symptom Management; Editorial Board member of AIDS Care; and Associate Editor for BMC Research Methods. He has most recently been invited as the invited speaker for the British HIV Association (“HIV and Quality of Life”).
Dr. Richard Harding discusses major LGBT hospice and palliative care (2014)
Sharon G. Horne, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Training, Counseling Psychology Ph.D. in Counseling and School Psychology, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
http://www.umb.edu/academics/cehd/faculty/sharon_horne
Tonda Hughes, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor and Associate Dean for Global Health in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is Adjunct Professor in the UIC School of Public Health and at the University of Technology in Sydney Australia. She is also Co-Director of the UIC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program, Visiting Senior Scientist at Fenway Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and former Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne (2010-2014).
Professor Hughes has a distinguished career in substance abuse research focusing on women (total funding exceeding $20 million USD). She is well known for her ground breaking work in the 1980s related to chemically dependent nurses, and is an internationally recognized expert in the area of alcohol use among sexual minority (i.e., lesbian and bisexual) women. Her pioneering studies on the predictors and consequences of alcohol use among sexual minority women have received continuous funding since 1999 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and other sources and have grown into the world’s longest running longitudinal study of alcohol use and health among sexual minority women. She has served as Co-Investigator on numerous other funded studies with researchers from major U.S. and Australian institutions, including the University of Melbourne and Deakin University.
Professor Hughes has more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapter and other scholarly papers to her credit—as well as scores of scientific paper presentations, workshops and invited addresses at national and international research conferences. She serves or has served as consultant to many U.S. Federal agencies and institutes such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Mental Health, and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and to researchers in the U.S., Canada, India, Thailand, Rwanda, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
The impact of Professor Hughes’ research is evident in the myriad awards she has received from diverse organizations on local, national, and international levels. Examples of these are awards from the Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association, the Chicago Lesbian Cancer Project, the Illinois Nurses Society on Addictions, the International Nurses Society on Additions, and Sigma Theta Tau International. She has been honored as an outstanding alumna of both Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky and by induction into the American Academy of Nursing, the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, and the University of Kentucky College of Nursing Hall of Fame. Last year she was selected to receive three prestigious awards: the 2014 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society, the 2014 Inaugural UIC College of Nursing Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2014 Betty Ford Award from the Association of Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA). She will be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2015.
Steven Lee, MD, is a leading practitioner and author with many specialized interests, including LGBT addiction psychiatry, mental health, and more specifically methamphetamine (crystal meth) use/abuse in LGBT populations. Amongst many affiliations and honors, he is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health; a Fellow of the American Society for Addiction Medicine author of “Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction: An Essential Guide to Getting Clean” (Marlowe & Company); an author of the Experts Advisory Committee, Methamphetamine White Paper, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); Former Board Member of the National Committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, American Psychiatric Association; former Board Member of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; former psychiatric consultant for New York City’s Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition Against HIV and AIDS; former psychiatrist and mental health advisor for New York City’s LGBT community health center, the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center; member of the Experts Advisory Committee on Methamphetamine, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; and author of numerous textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles about addiction in the LGBT community, including the recently published first edition textbook of the International Society of Addiction Medicine: Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives.
Ari Lev, SUNY Albany School of Social Welfare; Project Director, SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Project)
http://choicesconsulting.com/arlene-lev/curriculum-vitae/
Petros Levounis, MD, MA, is Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School,
and Chief of Services, University Hospital, Rutgers University.
In the LGBT arena Dr. Levounis has recently published the award-winning new text, “The LGBT Casebook” (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2012), co-edited with Dr. Jack Drescher and Dr. Mary Barber. He has published core research on methamphetamine (crystal meth) use among gay and bisexual men; gamma hydroxybutrate (GHB); HIV related issues in chemical dependency; dynamic approaches to psychotherapy with gay men and lesbians; and psychoanalysis and gay men. Dr. Levounis is married to actor Lukas Hassel and resides in New York City.
Dr. Levounis is an internationally renowned academician, author in addiction psychiatry, and sought-after expert speaker. His over-arching interests include the psychotherapy and psychopharmacology of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, the teaching of psychiatry, and behavioral addictions. He is a Betty Ford Scholar and Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. From 2005 to 2009, he chaired the national Committee on Addiction Treatment of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Levounis is an ASAM Fellow and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Levounis has been interviewed by ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The Martha Stewart Radio Show, The New York Times, The Daily News, TimeOut New York, and The Washington Post among other media outlets.
Dr. Levounis has authored/edited nine books including the self-help paperback “Sober Siblings: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister—and Not Lose Yourself” (Perseus 2008), the textbook of “Substance Dependence and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders” (Civic Research Institute 2010), the handbook of “Motivation and Change” (American Psychiatric Publishing 2010), the handbook of “Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Dependence” (APP 2011), the award-winning and translated “LGBT Casebook” (APP 2012), “The Addiction Casebook” (APP 2014) based on the DSM-5, and “The Behavioral Addictions” (APP 2015), an innovative book that includes re-enactment video clips played by Rutgers NJMS medical students. He is currently working on the American Psychiatric Publishing’s “Pocket Guide to Addiction Assessment and Treatment,” which is expected to be available in early 2016.
Dr. Petros Levounis discusses clinical issues for HIV patients with comorbid mental health and substance abuse complications
Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare, and Executive Director, NRCPFC (National Resource Center for Permancy and Family Connections),Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College,
City University of New York
http://garymallon.com
James I. Martin, PhD, Associate Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
http://socialwork.nyu.edu/our-faculty/full-time/james-i-martin.html
Connie Matthews, PhD, is a national leader in the area of LGBT psychology and LGBT substance abuse. She has worked as a practitioner, an educator, and a researcher for over thirty years, helping professionals and community members to be more responsive to the needs of LGBT and diverse populations. She has worked with community mental health and drug and alcohol programs, community action, youth programs, and in higher education. In these capacities, she has worked closely with numerous school districts, police departments, businesses, and human service organizations serving constituents of all ages At the time of this writing she is President of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychological Study of LGBT Issues). She is Associate Editor of the “Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling.”
She has recently been serving on a statewide work group with the PA Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to improve access to culturally competent care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex consumers across the state and on the Cultural Competence subcommittee of the Clinical Standards committee with the PA Department of Health Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs. She is currently also the Managing Partner of New Perspectives, LLC, which provides consulting and training services for human service organizations, educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and communities in order to help them respond effectively to changing cultural landscapes, especially with respect to sexual orientation and gender variance.
She has published numerous peer-review articles pertaining to LGBT issues covering a rich array of topics including LGBT addiction studies; LGBT disabilities; and LGBT counselor education. She is the author of the key chapter “Gays, Lesbians and bisexuals” in the new handbook from Springer, Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice (B. Johnson, Editor), and has presented at numerous national and international conferences on LGBT issues in mental health and human services. For additional details see http://newperspectivesforyou.com/MatthewsCV.pdf and also http://newperspectivesforyou.com/publications.php>
Joseph Merlino, MD, MPH, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Downstate Medical College of Medicine (SUNY);
Deputy Executive Director, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Lori Messinger, MA, MSW, PhD, Professor and Director, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Dr. Messinger is nationally recognized as a leader in the area of social work practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) populations. Co-authored with Dr. Deana Morrow, “Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice: Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People,” and “Case Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice,” Columbia University Press. She also has published 13 articles, along with numerous book chapters, teaching modules, and monographs, over the last 15 years. She was the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Contemporary Contributions in Undergraduate Social Work Award from the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD), along with several teaching awards.
http://uncw.edu/swk/faculty-lorimessinger2.html
Ilan Meyer, PhD, Williams Senior Scholar of Public Policy,
The Williams Institute.
Dr. Meyer is a pioneer in the area of sexual minority stress. His academic focus is in social psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and sociomedical sciences in public health. In several highly cited papers, Dr. Meyer developed a model of minority stress that described the relationship of social stressors and mental disorders and helped to explain LGBT health disparities. The model has guided his and other investigators’ population research on LGBT health disparities by identifying the mechanisms by which social stressors impact health and describing the harm to LGBT people from prejudice and stigma. The model was cited by the Institute of Medicine as one of four cross-cutting perspectives (the only one stemming from LGBT scholarship) recommended for the study of LGBT health. For this work, Dr. Meyer received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Meyer is co-editor with Mary E. Northridge of “The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public health perspectives on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations” (Springer, 2007).
http://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ilan–h-meyer/
Peter A. Newman, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work,
University of Toronto
http://www.socialwork.
Ramona F. Oswald, PhD, Professor of Family Studies, Director of the Graduate Program, Dept of Human & Community Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://hcd.illinois.edu/
Jeffrey Parsons, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the Founder and Director of CHEST (Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training) located at Hunter College. He is a pioneer in the general areas of health behaviors (e.g., HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, sexual behavior, substance use/abuse); GLBTQ issues; interventions designed to change sexual/drug using behaviors among various populations; club drug use (ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine. CHEST projects are based on theories of health behavior change and are designed to reduce the spread of HIV and/or to improve the lives of persons with HIV (for details, see; http://www.chestnyc.org/research-active.html). He is Editor-in-Chief of the internationally known journal Sexuality Research & Social Policy (Springer), is on the editorial boards of numerous research journals in HIV and LGBT studies, and author or co-author of numerous peer-review research articles in these fields.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/psychology/faculty/developmental-psychology/parsons
Dr. Michael Ross is the Joycelyn Elders Professor of Sexual Health Education in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Ross was born in New Zealand and holds 11 degrees including a Ph.D. in cross-cultural health psychology from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and an MD from Malmö University (Sweden), and degrees in criminology from the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, England.
Dr. Michael Ross discusses issues of internalized homonegativity, with a special focus on implications for sexual health intervention
Michael W. Ross PhD MedDr MPH, Professor of Public Health, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research,
University of Texas
https://sph.uth.edu/cv/ross.pdf
B. R. Simon Rosser Ph.D., M.P.H., L.P., Professor, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health,
University of Minnesota
http://sph.umn.edu/faculty1/
Sharon Scale Rostosky, PhD, Director of Counseling Psychology Training & Professor of Counseling Psychology,
University of Kentucky
http://prismresearch.org
Esther D. Rothblum, Ph.D., Women’s Studies Professor,
San Diego State University
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/%
Scott D. Ryan, MSW, MBA, Ph.D., Dean & Jenkins Garrett Professor, School of Social Work,
University of Texas at Arlington
https://www.uta.edu/mentis/
Theo Sandfort, PhD, Columbia University and New York
State Psychiatric Institute
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.asp?uni=tgs2001&DepAffil=Psychiatry
James Sears, PhD is Editor of the Journal of LGBT Youth (Taylor & Francis/Routledge). He is the author or author or editor of twenty books, including the widely-used text, Growing up Gay in the South; Edwin and John: A History of 50 Years Together Living in the American South; Growing Older: Perspectives on LGBT Aging; Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia; Youth, Education, and Sexualities [2 volumes]: An International Encyclopedia; and more.
Jim has been a Fulbright Scholar in Southeast Asia. He has taught at Harvard University, Trinity University, Indiana University, Penn State University, the University of South Carolina, and lectures throughout the world.
He has been a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, and a research consultant for the Brazilian government.
Ron Stall, PhD, MPH, is Director of the Center for LGBT Health Research and Associate Chair for Science, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Stall is a leading researcher and research administrator in the field of LGBT health disparities. Dr. Stall’s primary areas of research include HIV prevention and behavioral epidemiology in the United States and abroad. He has conducted numerous research projects dealing with substance abuse epidemiology, smoking, aging, mental health and housing as health care. He works with high-risk HIV populations. He received an honor award for excellence by the Center for Disease Control, was elected to the rank of Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, Huddersfield, United Kingdom. He has been listed as one of the ISI [now Reuter’s] Highly Cited Researchers, a listing of the top 250 most cited researchers in the world for contributions to the social and behavioral sciences.
In 2010, at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna Dr. Stall (one of NIDA’s top grantees) discussed in part his research into stigma against people with HIV/AIDS and prevention at the community level. Most of these vital issues and challenges hold currency today.
Julian Serovich, PhD, Professor and Dean, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences,
University of South Florida
http://www.cbcs.usf.edu/
Fiona Tasker, PhD., Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychological Sciences,
Birkbeck University of London
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/
Robert Deam Tobin, PhD., Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clark University; Dr. Tobin is known especially for his publications on Goethe and Thomas Mann. His scholarship focuses on the interconnections between literature and medicine, sexuality, gender, and human rights. In the spring of 2013, he was the Fulbright Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis at the Universität Wien and Sigmund Freud Museum. He is the author of Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe (University of Pennsylvania Press) and Doctor’s Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought (Bucknelle University Press, as well as the co-editor of A Song for Europe: Politics and Popular Culture in the Eurovisiong Song Contest (Ashgate Press), and the editor of “Global Freud,” a special issue of Psychoanalysis and History. He is a former President of the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association; and recipient of numerous international honors and awards noted below.
http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rtobin/
N. Eugene Walls, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program, School of Social Work,
University of Denver
http://www.du.edu/socialwork/facultyandstaff/facultydirectory/
Clayton J. Whisnant, PhD, Associate Professor (tenured), Department of History, Wofford College; author,”Male Homosexuality in West Germany:
Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-1960″ (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Co-Guest Editor, “Masculinity and Homosexuality in Germany and the German Colonies, 1880–1945″ (Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol 27, No. 7, January 2008; and additional publications.
http://webs.wofford.edu/whisnantcj/
Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., LCSW, FGSA, Associate Professor and Director of Research & Development, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University; author, “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Aging: Challenges in Research, Practice and Policy” (The Johns Hopkins University Press) and “The Tao of Gender” (Green Dragon Publishing Group). See these links:
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~tmwitten/
http://www.vcu.edu/
Manuscript Reviewers for Behavioral & Social Sciences
Annesa Flentje, PhD, School of Nursing, University of California (San Francisco)
Carole Southall, Phd Award Leader, Tourism and Event Management, Faculty of Business, Education and Law, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Christopher Whiteley, PhD, Trust Deputy Head of Psychology: Consultant Clinical Psychologist. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust