Friday, Feb 7, 2025 @12:00 pm PT (3pm ET) (register here >>)
Dr. Zhou will provide an overview of neurodiversity and reframe autism and ADHD from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective. He will discuss the overlap of neurodivergence with gender diversity, as well as how standard screening and assessment tools often fail to identify autistic trans and nonbinary youth. He will share his clinical experience with managing co-occurring mental health conditions in neurodivergent gender diverse youth, as well as considerations for navigating the gender-affirmation process. Finally, he will offer tips and strategies on how to be more neurodiversity-affirming.
About the Presenter:
A. Ning Zhou, MD (he/him/他) is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and in private-practice. He completed medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and Cornell Universities. At SFDPH, he works at a community clinic serving queer and trans youth, a primary care clinic, and a specialty mental health clinic. He co-facilitates a monthly gender consultation group aimed at increasing capacity to serve trans and gender diverse youth and their families at SFDPH. He is on voluntary faculty at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences where he supervises trainees and directs the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Area of Distinction. He is a World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care 8 Certified Mentor and Member and teaches about neurodiversity for the WPATH Global Education Initiative. Clinically, he works with many gender diverse and neurodivergent youth and adults.
Friday, Feb 7, 2025 @12:00 pm PT (3pm ET) (register here >>)
Dr. Zhou will provide an overview of neurodiversity and reframe autism and ADHD from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective. He will discuss the overlap of neurodivergence with gender diversity, as well as how standard screening and assessment tools often fail to identify autistic trans and nonbinary youth. He will share his clinical experience with managing co-occurring mental health conditions in neurodivergent gender diverse youth, as well as considerations for navigating the gender-affirmation process. Finally, he will offer tips and strategies on how to be more neurodiversity-affirming.
About the Presenter:
A. Ning Zhou, MD (he/him/他) is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and in private-practice. He completed medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and Cornell Universities. At SFDPH, he works at a community clinic serving queer and trans youth, a primary care clinic, and a specialty mental health clinic. He co-facilitates a monthly gender consultation group aimed at increasing capacity to serve trans and gender diverse youth and their families at SFDPH. He is on voluntary faculty at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences where he supervises trainees and directs the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Area of Distinction. He is a World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care 8 Certified Mentor and Member and teaches about neurodiversity for the WPATH Global Education Initiative. Clinically, he works with many gender diverse and neurodivergent youth and adults.
