Nanette Gartrell

Her investigation into physician misconduct led to a clean-up of professional ethics codes and the criminalization of boundary violations.

Gartrell has a private psychiatry practice, and for 13 years volunteered her psychiatric services to chronically mentally ill homeless people.

The study, which was initiated by Gartrell in 1986, examines the social, psychological, and emotional development of the children as well as the dynamics of planned lesbian families.

The book, published by Simon & Schuster, featured interviews with successful and prominent women, including former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, international AIDS activist Mary Fisher, best-selling author Danielle Steel, President of the Center for the Advancement of Women Faye Wattleton, Wall Street Journal contributing editor Peggy Noonan, breast cancer surgeon Dr. Susan Love, former First Lady Barbara Bush, and others.

[2] As part of the promotion for the book, Gartrell appeared on Good Morning America,[15] and was interviewed for numerous radio and TV programs around the country.

[18] Gartrell is married to Dee Mosbacher MD, Ph.D.,[26] a documentary filmmaker whose film Straight From the Heart was nominated for an Academy Award in 1994.