Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, Dr. rer. nat.

Member, Development Core
Investigator, Program for the Study of LGBT Health
Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University Irving Medical Center


Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, Dr. rer. nat., is a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of Columbia University. He is a member of the HIV Center's Development Core, and an investigator with The Program for the Study of LGBT Health. 

Dr. Meyer-Bahlburg also co-directs a research program in Developmental Psychoendocrinology with a focus on intersexuality and the development of gender identity and its variants, and a Psychoendocrine Clinic that continues similar work he did at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1970-1977). Since 1987, he has been affiliated with the HIV Center with a focus on psychosexual assessment, the development and determinants of sexual risk behavior, and the effects of HIV disease on sexual functioning. He is the author of over 200 publications, mostly in the area of sexuality and gender.