Walter Bockting, PhD
Co-Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Health, NYSPI/Columbia Psychiatry
Director, Program for the Study of LGBT Health
Director, Columbia Gender Identity Program
Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Nursing), Columbia University
Phone: (646) 774-6953
Email: wb2273@cumc.columbia.edu
Walter Bockting, PhD is a clinical psychologist and an internationally known sexuality researcher, and is Co-Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Health at the New York State Psychiatric Institute / Columbia Psychiatry. He is Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Nursing) at Columbia University, and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is currently Principal Investigator of a NHLBI-funded longitudinal study of transgender identity development and health across the lifespan (with Donald Edmondson), and PI of a NIA-funded study on the role of social support in cognitive aging and resilience, comparing LGBT and cisgender, heterosexual adults in the New York area.
After received his doctoral degree in psychology from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dr. Bockting for 20 years directed transgender health services at the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He co-founded the University of Minnesota Leo Fung Center for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Disorders of Sex Development. Currently, he is the Director of the Program for the Study of LGBT Health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Bockting’s research interests include gender identity and sexual development, transgender health, HIV prevention, and the promotion of sexual health. His work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the New York Community Trust, the MAC AIDS Fund, and a number of other private foundations.
Dr. Bockting is the author of many scientific articles and textbook chapters, and editor of five books, including Transgender Health and HIV Prevention (Haworth Press, 2005) and Guidelines for Transgender Care (The Haworth Press, 2006). He is a former Editor of the International Journal of Transgender Health, Associate Editor of Sexual and Relationship Therapy, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Homosexuality and the International Journal of Sexual Health. He is past president and fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, as well as past president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. In 2010-2011, Dr. Bockting served on the National Academies' Institute of Medicine Committee on LGBT Health Issues, Research Gaps and Opportunities, which culminated in the IOM Report “The Health of LGBT People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding.”
EDUCATION
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drs - 1988 - Clinical Psychology
PhD - 1998 - Medical Psychology
University of Minnesota, Medical School. Minneapolis
PhD - 1990 - Post-Doctoral Fellowship
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1992-1998: University of Minnesota Medical School: (Department of Family Practice and Community Health) Counselor/Instructor
1999-2004: University of Minnesota, Medical School: (Department of Family Practice and Community Health) Assistant Professor
2004-2011: University of Minnesota Medical School: (Department of Family Medicine and Community Health) Associate Professor with tenure
2011-2012: University of Minnesota Medical School: (Department of Family Medicine and Community Health) Professor with tenure
2012: University of Minnesota, Medical School: (Department of Family Medicine and Community Health) Director of Research, Program in Human Sexuality
2012-present: Columbia University Irving Medical Center: (New York State Psychiatry Institute/Columbia Psychiatry and School of Nursing) Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Nursing)
HONORS AND AWARDS
2000-present: Member, International Academy of Sex Research
2004-2005: President, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
2006: Fellow, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
2009-2011: President, World Professional Association for Transgender Health
2010-2011: Member, Institute of Medicine Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities, National Academy of Sciences
2015: Faculty Research Fellow, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center
2020: Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Revolutionary, University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality
