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Allan Josephson, MD, is Professor and Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Pediatrics with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He has served on the faculties of two other schools of medicine, the Medical College of Georgia and University of Minnesota. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bingham Clinic in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Josephson’s professional interests include the relationship of family problems to the psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents.  He is the lead author of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s practice parameter on The Assessment of the Family and has served as the chair of the Family Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his work in religion, spirituality and psychiatry. He recently received the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association, given to an individual for significant achievement in the study of psychiatry and religion. Dr. Josephson previously served as president of CMDA’s Psychiatry Section. For more information about CMDA’s Transgender Identification Ethics Statement, visit www.cmda.org/ethics.