Peter Goldblum

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Peter Goldblum, Ph.D., MPH, is Professor of psychology, the Director of the Center for LGBTQ Evidence-based Applied Research (CLEAR), and Director of the LGBTQ Program at PGSP. He received his Ph.D. from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, his MPH from UC, Berkeley School of Public Health, his MA in Psychology and Teaching from Teachers College of Columbia, and his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Texas, Austin. He was a founder and original Deputy Director of the UCSF AIDS Health Project and a visiting scholar and Director of the HIV Bereavement and Caregiver Study at Stanford. He is a pioneer in the development of community-based mental health programs for LGBTQ clients with over thirty-five years of experience serving this population in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed to the professional literature related to gay men's health, AIDS related suicide, end of life issues, HIV and work, and AIDS bereavement, including two highly acclaimed books: Strategies for Survival: A Gay Men's Health Manual for the Age of AIDS (with Martin Delaney) and Working with AIDS Bereavement (with Sarah Erickson). In 2008 he received the NCSPP Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Committee Award for his contribution to professional psychology.