Biography

Dr. Hidalgo is a licensed clinical psychologist, researcher, and Associate Professor of Medicine-Pediatrics at UCLA. He completed his doctoral training at DePaul University and post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hidalgo practices exclusively in the Gender Health Program, where his patients are trans/gender-diverse individuals spanning from childhood to older adulthood. In his NIH-sponsored research, Dr. Hidalgo focuses on sexual and gender minorities, with notable research pertaining to measure construction, and the effects of multidisciplinary gender-affirmative care with trans/gender-diverse youth. Dr. Hidalgo is Principal Investigator of Gender Journey Project, a five-year study examining gender development and mental health among a national sample of prepubertal trans/gender-diverse children.

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