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Walter Bockting, PhD, LP, served as the director of transgender health services at the Program for Human Sexuality, which became the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. Currently, he is a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University and co-director of gender, sexuality, and health at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia Psychiatry.
Bockting is an internationally known expert in gender-affirming healthcare as well as in the mental health and psychosocial adjustment of transgender, gender non-binary and gender-diverse children, adolescents, adults, and their families. He is the editor of six volumes on gender and sexual health, and has published more than one-hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. Bockting is a past president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and a past president and fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
Bockting's research interests include identity development across the lifespan, transgender health, and LGBTQ+ aging. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the New York Community Trust, and a number of other private foundations.
2020: Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Revolutionary, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School
2015: Faculty Research Fellow, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center
2011: University Innovations, in appreciation of commitment to research and innovation at the University of Minnesota