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Harvard University (Ivy League), 2 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Nanette
Gartrell (born 1949) is an American psychiatrist, researcher, lesbian activist
and writer. Gartrell is the author of over 70 research reports on topics
ranging from medical student depression to sexual minority parent families to
sexual exploitation of patients by healthcare professionals. Her investigation
into physician misconduct led to a clean-up of professional ethics codes and
the criminalization of boundary violations. For this work, she was featured in
a PBS "Frontline" documentary My Doctor, My Lover.[1]
Gartrell is also the author of My Answer Is NO. . . . If That's Okay
with You: How Women Can Say NO with Confidence.[2]
The Nanette K. Gartrell papers, a collection of Gartrell's personal,
professional, and political life, are archived in the Sophia Smith Collection,
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.[3]
Gartrell attended Stanford University (class of 1971)[4]
and the University of California, trained at Harvard, and has been a Williams
Institute Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the UCLA School of Law since 2009.[5]
She has had a guest appointment at the University of Amsterdam since 2009. She
served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1976 to 1987, and was on
the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1988 to 2011.
Gartrell has a private psychiatry practice, and for 13 years volunteered her
psychiatric services to chronically mentally ill homeless people.[6]
An experience in one of these shelters became the basis for her piece in the
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, "A Tenderloin Tail."[7]
Gartrell is the Principal Researcher for the US National Longitudinal
Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS). The NLLFS follows lesbian mothers and their
children who were conceived by donor insemination during the 1980s. The study,
which was initiated by Gartrell in 1986, examines the social, psychological,
and emotional development of the children as well as the dynamics of planned
lesbian families. This is the longest-running and largest prospective
investigation of lesbian mothers and their children in the United States.[8]
In June 2010, the NLLFS study The USA National Longitudinal Lesbian
Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of the 17-Year-Old Adolescents was
published in Pediatrics.[9]
The study's results showed that the 17-year-olds of lesbian mothers were rated
significantly higher in social, school/academic, and total competence and
significantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressive, and
externalizing problem behavior than their age-matched counterparts. This
publication prompted international media attention including articles in The
Los Angeles Times, The Telegraph (UK),[10]
Time,[11]
and mention on The Colbert Report.[12]
Discover Magazine then named this story as one of the top 100 stories
of 2010—#88: Same-Sex Parents Do No Harm.[13]
In 2012, UCLA Today published an article "Researcher sorts out fact
from fallacy in three-decade study of lesbian families"[14]
highlighting Gartrell's 30+ years of work on the NLLFS study.
In 2005 she married Dee Mosbacher.
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