Posts by Jack Turban, MD, MHS
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Access to Pubertal Suppression Linked to Lower Suicidal Ideation Risk in Transgender Young Adults
The majority of transgender adolescents in the U.S. who want pubertal suppression treatment do not receive it, and 90% of transgender young adults report past suicidal ideation.
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Gender Identity Conversion Efforts at Any Age Are Associated with Suicidality Among Transgender Adults
The first study of its kind shows that exposure to gender identity conversion efforts by a mental health professional or religious advisor is associated with suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and other adverse mental health outcomes in transgender adults.
Biography
Jack Turban, MD, MHS, is a writer and resident physician in child and adolescent psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he researches the mental health of transgender youth.
Dr. Turban graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude with a BA in neurobiology before becoming the resident director of the Harvard neuroscience abroad program in Italy. He earned his MD and MHS degrees from Yale School of Medicine, where he was an HHMI medical research fellow and graduated with highest honors with an award winning thesis entitled, “Evolving Treatment Paradigms for Transgender Youth.”
He is currently a resident physician in child and adolescent psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital & McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He is co-editing a textbook about pediatric gender identity for Springer and has several active research projects through The Fenway Institute, The McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, and in collaboration with The U.S. Veteran’s Health Administration and Yale School of Medicine. He is a member of the media committee of The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the communications council of The American Psychiatric Association.
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