Stewart L Adelson, MD

Stewart Adelson, M.D. is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. He is a Clinical Associate Professor Cornell and Adjunct [Associate/Assistant] Clinical Professor at Columbia medical schools. He has expertise in general psychiatry, psychotherapy, sexuality and gender, public psychiatry, and clinical research. He has taught patient evaluation and treatment to residents and fellows at Columbia and Cornell since 1995. He is lead author of peer-reviewed papers, chapters, and volumes on a variety of topics including evidence-based practice guidelines, psychodynamic theory and treatment, and sexual and gender development, including the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)'s Practice Parameter for LGBT youth. He has provided care to a wide variety of adults and youth, both as Medical Director in New York Presbyterian Hospital and community-based mental health programs for children and adolescents experiencing homelessness, abuse, neglect, foster care, adoption, and HIV/AIDS as well as private practice in Manhattan.

Dr. Adelson is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School, where he is Founding Director of the Youth Equity Science/YES Project of Yale Law and Public Health Schools’ Global Health Justice Partnership. YES promotes LGBT youth mental health in the U.S. and internationally by applying public health science in the service of human rights principles to amend mental health disparities. He is recipient of the AACAP's Presidential Scholar Award, Rieger Service Award for Program Excellence, NYCCAP’s Hulse Award, PrideCAPA’s Dennis Anderson Award, and a Commendation from the Harvard Medical School Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program. He has served as a Lead Guest Editor for Pediatric Clinics of North America, on editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals, and as reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Oxford University Press and others. He is a member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, the American College of Psychiatrists, and the Advisory Committee of the global LGBT Divisions of Human Rights Watch.