Steering Committee
Senior Scientific Advisor
Research Team
Phillip Arellano
Fellow, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program
(he/him/his)
Julie Byrnes
M.D./M.P.H. student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
(she/her/hers)
Daniel Newton
Gender & Sexuality Fellow, Yale Global Health Justice Partnership
(he/him/his)
Jack Wilkinson
Fellow, Cornell/Columbia New York Presbyterian Child Psychiatry Program
(he/him/his)
YES Advisory Committee
Giovanni Biglino, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineer, Lecturer in Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Medical Statistics at the Bristol Heart Institute
(he/him/his)
Henny Bos, Ph.D.
Professor of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Families & Youth, University of Amsterdam
(she/her/hers)
Aniruddha Das, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University
(he/him/his)
Jack Drescher, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health
(he/him/his)
Deborah Blythe Doroshow, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Oncologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
(she/her/hers)
Yasmine Ergas, J.D.
Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy and Lecturer in Discipline in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
(she/her/hers)
Robert Klitzman, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University
(he/him/his)
Lorraine Lothwell, M.D.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, NYU Student Health Center Gender Team
(she/her/hers)
George J. Makari, M.D.
Director, Cornell’s DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts
(he/him/his)
Keletso Makofane, M.P.H.
Public Health Scholar, Global Health Policy & Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute
(he/him/his)
Yiu Kee Warren Ng, M.D.
Medical Director, Outpatient Behavioral Health and the Director of clinical services for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
(he/him/his)
Vasu Reddy, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
(he/him/his)
Sari Reisner, Sc.D.
Director, Transgender Research in the Section of Men’s Health, Aging and Metabolism, in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at Brigham and Women's Hospital
(he/him/his)
Jama Shelton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College; Chief Strategy Officer for the True Colors Fund
(they/them/theirs)
Ruth S. Shim, M.D., M.P.H.
Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, University of California, Davis; Director of cultural psychiatry
(she/her/hers)
Staff
