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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lisa Marchiano
(Board Member)

Lisa Marchiano is a writer and Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has worked with parents of gender dysphoric youth, gender dysphoric and trans identified young adults, and detransitioners. Her writings on gender have appeared in Quillett, Psychological Perspectives, as well as in several books on the topic of gender. Lisa is the cohost of the popular podcast “This Jungian Life” and teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia. She serves on the board for Therapy First.

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Terry Ross Bard, D.D.
(Board Member)

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.

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