LEADERSHIP
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Gender Dysphoria Institute (legal name, Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research) is led by a Board of Directors comprised of researchers and clinicians who are dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of all people who experience gender dysphoria.
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Board of Directors
Lisa Littman, MD, MPH
Board Member and
President
Dr. Littman is a physician researcher, trained in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her experience providing reproductive health care to teens and women and her public health training informs her research about gender dysphoria, desistance, and detransition. Dr. Littman has previously held academic positions at the Brown University School of Public Health and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
J. Michael Bailey, PhD
Board Member and
Treasurer
Dr. Bailey is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1989. Although his research has mainly focused on sexual orientation, it has also addressed gender nonconformity and gender dysphoria. His 2003 book, The Man Who Would Be Queen addressed both childhood gender dysphoria and adult transsexualism.
Stella O’ Malley, MA
Board Member and
Vice President
Stella O’Malley is a psychotherapist and bestselling author. She has a BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy, a Masters in CBT, and is currently studying for a PhD about gender issues among children and adolescents. O’Malley is the author of Cotton Wool Kids (2015), Bully-Proof Kids (2017) and Fragile (2019). In 2018, O’Malley was the presenter of the highly acclaimed documentary “Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk.”
O’Malley is a clinical adviser for the Society of Evidence-based Gender Medicine, the chief facilitator at the Gender Dysphoria Support Network, a therapeutic support group for families who have been impacted by gender dysphoria, and the founder of Genspect.
Terry Ross Bard, DD
Board Member and Secretary
Dr. Bard formerly directed the Department of Pastoral Care and Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from 1984 to 2009, while continuing a similar directorship at Massachusetts Mental Health Center until 1996. He continues forty plus years as a clinical psychologist in the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Bard served two terms on the Board of the Massachusetts Society of Medical Research, Inc. and is a long-standing member of Harvard’s Program in Psychiatry and the Law (PIPATL), a think-tank focused on many issues inherent in forensic psychiatry with a special interest on ethical issues relating to this field.
Kristopher Kaliebe, MD
Board Member
Kristopher Kaliebe, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry at University of South Florida, in Tampa Florida. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).
His clinical work has been primarily in University clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers and juvenile corrections. Dr. Kaliebe’s publications and presentations include the effects of digital technologies, gender, psychotherapy, corrections, mind-body medicine, nutrition, and mental health in primary care settings. He is concerned about naïve interventionalism in medicine