[2] He is known for his research and clinical work in the area of child sexual abuse against boys and its aftermath for them as men.
[3] Gartner is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry (wawhite.org) in New York City, founded its Sexual Abuse Service and served as the Service's director from 1994 to 2005.
[citation needed] He has authored numerous books about boyhood sexual abuse between 1999 and 2017.
In particular, Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men was Runner-up for the 2001 Gradiva Award for Best Book on a Clinical Subject given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and was translated into Japanese language in 2005.
[4] He's a regular speaker on the topic of male sexual victimization, and has sometimes been sought for his expertise in newspaper; in 2002 after the Catholic sex abuse cases were revealed, USA Today sought him to comment about sexual abuse against males.