NLLFS Research Team
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
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Nanette Gartrell, MD, is a 2010 Williams Distinguished Scholar, UCLA School of Law, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Center of Excellence in Women's Health for the University of California, San Francisco, and 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
Carla Rodas and children |
Other project staff and consultants include:
Amalia Deck, RN, MSN, Labor and Delivery Nurse, SF General Hospital.
Carla Rodas, M.P.H., Youth Intervention Specialist at COMPASS Inc, the Gay and Lesbian Center of the Palm Beaches.
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.
Left to right, back row: Nanette Gartrell, M.D., Carla Rodas, M.P.H., Amalia Deck, RN
Seated in front: Heidi Peyser, MA |
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 Evalijn Draijer |
 Loes van Gelderen (photo by Marian Haringsma) |
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Evalijn Draijer will soon complete her master's degree in Educational Sciences. Her thesis assessed the influence of having a known versus an unknown donor on children raised in planned lesbian families. Evalijn is also doing a second master's degree focusing on supporting families in childrearing. Her interests include statistics and child development/childrearing in non-traditional families. Evalijn enjoyed her 2008-2009 semester at San Francisco State University and hopes to visit California again.
Loes van Gelderen is a PhD student and teacher at the University of Amsterdam. She will analyze some of the NLLFS data to complete the requirements of her PhD program. Loes received her masters degree in Educational Sciences Research at the University of Amsterdam. Loes' interests include child development, non-traditional family forms, and statistics. Loes spent the first semester of the 2008-2009 academic year at the State University of San Francisco, and she really loved the city!
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