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Clinical Practice

Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatry

10850 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1210
Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
310-470-9775

Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

2002-present | Private Practice Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatry. Los Angeles, California

2002-present | Psychiatric Consultant, GLASS. Los Angeles, California

2004-present | Associate Clinical Professor. Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2003-2004 | Assistant Clinical Professor. Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Education

	2000-2002	University of California, Los Angeles, NPI Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
	1997-2000	University of California, Los Angeles, NPI General Psychiatry Residency, Research Track
MD	1995	Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology
PhD	1993	History of Science, Harvard University DISSERTATION: Sexual Psychopaths: Doctors, Patients, and Novelists Narrating the Erotic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France, directed by Anne Harrington
ScB	1986	Biomedical Engineering, Brown University
AB	1986	French Literature, Brown University honors thesis:Voies parallèles (a novel), directed by Henry Majewski

Honors & Fellowships

Norbert & Charlotte RiegerPsychodynamic Psychotherapy Award of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002
Alex Rogawski Memorial Prize, UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association, 2002
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry-Pfizer Outstanding Resident in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001
Laughlin Fellow, American College of Psychiatrists, 2000-2001
American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, 1999-2000
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities,
Dept. of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-97
Center for the Study of Women, UCLA;Research Scholar, 1995-96
Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, UCLA;
Postdoctoral Fellow, 1995-96
University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine;Fellow, 1995-96
Harvard Medical School Award for Multiculturalism and Diversity, 1995
Henri Lurcy Foundation Traveling Fellowship, Paris, 1992-93
Columbia University, Graduate Research Institute Fellow, Paris, 1992-93
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1988-1991
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, Berlin 1990
M.I.T. Council for the Arts Grant (for work in handmade paper), 1987
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship[declined], 1988
SmithKline Beckman Medical Perspectives Fellowship, Paris, 1986
Clendening Traveling Fellowship in the History and Philosophy of Medicine
(University of Kansas), Paris, 1986
Paul Dudley White Fellowship, Harvard Medical School [declined] 1986
Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1985
Miekeljohn Fellow, Brown University, 1984
Ruth Electa Collins Award (for excellence in French Literature), Brown University,1984
Sigma Xi (science honor society), Brown University, 1983
Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), Brown University, 1982

Teaching & Research Experience

UCLA |Neuropsychiatric Institute

Core Curriculum Course Director: Gender/Cultural Psychiatry (2004-2005)
Supervisor: Resident Psychotherapy Clinic (2003-present)
Co-instructor with Dr. Diana Miller, psychiatry residency course:Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychiatry (July 1999, August-September 2000)
Instructor: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychiatry (Sept. 2001, May 2004)
Instructor: "Adolescent Trangenderism" (2002-present)

UCLA |Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program

Instructor (1998-2001). Courses taught:

Gay Science:The Medical History of Homosexuality (Winter 2001)
The History of the Medical Treatment of Homosexuality (Winter 2000)
Hermaphrodites, Homosexuals, and Transsexuals:Medical Manipulations of Sex (Winter 1999)
Prescriptions for Perversity:Treating Homosexuality in the United States (Winter 1998)
Guest lecturer on The Biology of Homosexuality, Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies.Fall 1999 and Fall 2000.

Pfizer Health Solutions

Consultant. Revised a Mood Disorders Literature Review for a Clinical Management System (1999)

UCLA | Department of History

Visiting Assistant Professor (1995-1996). Courses taught:

From SEX to TEXT: Medical Inscriptions (En)gendering the Body.
Prescriptions for Perversity:Treating Homosexuality in the United States
The Race that Is Not One:Science and the Un/Colored Folks

Harvard College | Department of the History of Science

Junior Seminars (1990, 1992, 1994). Designed syllabi and taught:

From SEX to TEXT: Medical Inscriptions (En)gendering the Body, on the medical construction of deviant bodies such as those of prostitutes, hysterical women, paraphiliacs, and people with AIDS.
Cretins, Criminals and Perverts:The Social, Political and Sexual Anxieties of Degeneration in 19th-Century France, on the medical theory of degeneracy and its impact on social theory in France.

Senior Tutor (1989-1996). Supervised the research and writing of fourteen Senior Honors Theses on topics including:

AIDS in Zaïre
evolutionism and feminist theory in nineteenth-century France
the reception of Freud in America
epilepsy and forensic medicine in late-nineteenth-century America
the history of immunology
syphilis as a metaphor in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus
American medical representations of lesbian bodies

Junior Tutor (1987-1994). Designed syllabi and taught eleven individual reading and research tutorials on topics including:

race and medicine in nineteenth-century America
women’s health
the history of midwifery and obstetrics
medicine and post-colonialism
post-modern critiques of science
medical constructions of twentieth-century American working-class women
representations of AIDS in the Hispanic-American community

Teaching Fellow

1990 | The History of Psychiatry. Professor Anne Harrington
1989 | Disease and History: The U.S. and the Conquest of the ‘Great White Plague’ 1842-1952. Professor Barbara Rosenkrantz
1988 | The Social History of American Medicine. Professor Allan Brandt

Harvard College | Department of Romance Languages

Teaching Fellow

1992 | Dangerous Bodies and Lady Killers: Gender and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century France, Professor Jann Matlock. Responsible for three weekly discussion sections in French and English.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Teaching Fellow

1987-88 | Introduction to the Neurosciences, Professor Anne Graybiel. Wrote and edited the course notebook for a graduate/medical school course.Responsible for grading, teaching and for neuroanatomy prosections.
1988 | Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Professor Walter Abelman. Led weekly discussion sections and graded examinations and problem sets.
1986 | Topics in Quantitative Physiology, Professor Felix Villars.Assisted in developing and teaching a new graduate/medical school course in biophysics.

Brown University

1981-84 | Office of the Dean for Students. Tutored in mechanical engineering, electromagnetism and applied mathematics.
1981-84 Teaching assistant in: Digital Electronics Circuit Design,Biophysics,Medical HealthTechnology: Costs vs. Benefits,Freshman Engineering Laboratory.
1983-84 | Biomedical Sciences Department, Physiology Laboratory. Created an educational computerized model of ion transport in epithelia.
1984 | Division of Bioengineering. Developed neural network models of the generation of corrective saccades by the occulomotor system. Bell Communications Research Video and Data Services Laboratory.
1984 | Developed an interactive, computer-assisted video-instruction system and investigated its application to a digital electronics course.

Scholarly & Professional Activitites

Professional association memberships: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Member (2003-present): Co-chair LGBT Issues Committee (2004-2007)
Consultant (November 2000-2003)

Intersex Society of North America
Board of Directors. Chair, Medical Advisory Board (2002-2005)

UCLA, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Division of Social and Community Psychiatry
Sexuality, Culture and Society seminar organizer (2000-2001)

UCLA, Anderson School of Management
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Leadership Institute, consultant and instructor (1999-2002)

UCLA, Student Psychological Services: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual mentoring program (1999-2002)

UCLA, Center for the Study of Women
Faculty Advisory Committee (1997-present)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transexual Program Sub-committee (1997-2002)
Jean Stone Graduate Student Research Prize selection committee (1998)

Southern California Psychiatric Society
Committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, Co-chairperson (May 2000-2003)

Western Society for French History :Twentieth-Century Gay History panel chair, Los Angeles (November 11, 2000)

Southern California Lambda Medical Association
Member-in-Training, Board Representative (1999-2001)

American Association for the History of Medicine: Olser Medal selection committee (1999)

History of Science Society: Member of the organizing committee for panels on Science and (Homo)sexualities at the 1994 conference

Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies Conference: Director of the fourth annual conference, Harvard University (October 1990)

Harvard Medical School
Committee for Racial and Ethnic Sensitivities (1992); AIDS Curriculum Project (1990)

Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Curriculum Committee (1985-1995); Committee for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Sensitivities (1992-1995).

Dunster House, Harvard University
Premedical Advisor; History and Science Tutor; Adjunct Tutor for Lesbian and Gay Concerns (1988-1995)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Wiesner Gallery selection committee (1989-1995)

National Fund for Medical Education: SmithKline Beckman Medical Perspectives Fellowship, selection committee, 1987-1988

Editorial boards: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, Journal of Homosexuality

Contributing Writer: The Gay and Lesbian Review

Manuscript reviewer for The Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Signs, GLQ, Isis, Radical History Review, Oxford University Press, New York University Press