Richard Green, MD, JD Biography
- Title:
- Visiting Professor in the Department of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"
- Reasoning:
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“I suspect that at least in your lifetime we will find a gene that contributes substantially to sexual orientation.”
Interview with Chandler Burr, “Homosexuality and Biology,” The Atlantic, Mar. 1993
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Visiting Professor, Department of Experimental Medicine, Imperial College (London)
- Ombudsman, Committee on Publication Ethics
- Former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
- Former President, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association Inc. (HBIGDA)
- Former Director, Gender Identity Clinic, Charing Cross Hospital (London)
- Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Former Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Founder, International Academy of Sex Research, 1975
- Founding Editor, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1971-2001
- Education:
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- JD, Yale University, 1987
- MD, Johns Hopkins University, 1961
- Fulbright Scholar, Kings College and Cambridge University
- AB, Syracuse University, 1957
- Other:
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- Served on the American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV Subcommittee on gender identity disorders
- Argued for the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Has published 200 professional papers and chapters