Research Team - National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, lesbian mothers, lesbian families, lesbian family study

NLLFS Research Team

Nanette Gartrell, M.D.

Nanette Gartrell, MD, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Center of Excellence in Women's Health for the University of California, San Francisco, was previously a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She is a clinician and researcher whose ground-breaking investigations have been published in professional journals and cited in the media. Dr. Gartrell has appeared on network television (including Good Morning America, NBC Weekend, Fox News) and in documentaries produced for PBS, Showtime, and French and German public television. She is the author of the bestselling MY ANSWER IS NO…if that's okay with you: How women can say NO and (still) feel good about it. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Gartrell has a private practice, and she volunteers her psychiatric services to chronically mentally ill homeless people. She lives in San Francisco with her spouse, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Dee Mosbacher, MD.

Heidi Peyser, MA, Executive Director, holds a degree in LGBTQQ psychology, and has been a reviewer for the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Henny Bos, PhD, co-investigator, is Assistant Professor of Childhood Education and Family Support at the Department of Education of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94208, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dr. Bos has been conducting a longitudinal study of Dutch lesbian families that is comparable to the NLLFS.

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Email: H.M.W.Bos@uva.nl • Website: home.medewerker.uva.nl/h.m.w.bos

Left to right, back row: Nanette Gartrell, M.D., Carla Rodas, M.P.H., Amalia Deck, RN
Seated in front: Heidi Peyser, MA

Other project staff and consultants include:

Henny Bos, Ph.D.
Amalia Deck, RN, MSN, Labor and Delivery Nurse, SF General Hospital.

Carla Rodas, M.P.H., research associate, of the Family Medicine Department of the University of California, San Francisco.

Sue Thiemann, M.S., statistical analyst and consultant, formerly of the Stanford Medical School faculty.

Amy Banks, M.D., collaborating investigator, clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dutch collaborators

Loes van Gelderen and Evalijn Draijer (left to right)

Loes van Gelderen is an Educational Sciences research master's candidate at the University of Amsterdam. Loes' interests include child development and statistics. Loes will spend the first semester of the 2008-2009 academic year at the State University of San Francisco.

Evalijn Draijer is also in the Master Educational Sciences program at the University of Amsterdam. Evalijn's specilization is quantative research methods and child rearing and child development in non-traditional families. Along with Loes, Evalijn will spend the first semester of the 2008-9 academic year at San Francisco State University.

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