Ombudsman

Biography

Richard Green holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from Yale University. He was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Imperial College. Richard Green was Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology, and Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Cambridge. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Kings College and Cambridge University. In 1971 he was Founding Editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior, then published by Plenum, currently by Springer. He remained Editor for 30 years. He founded the International Academy of Sex Research in 1975. Richard Green’s focus within psychiatry has been psychosexual development. He directed the Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital, the world’s largest programme for the treatment of transsexual persons. He has authored or edited seven books and has published 200 professional papers and chapters.

Competing interests statement

Richard believes he has no competing interests.

Posted by Richard Green, COPE Ombudsman on August 4^th 2008