Nanette Gartrell, M.D.

Nanette Gartrell, MD, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health for the University of California, San Francisco, was previously a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She is a clinician and researcher whose ground-breaking investigations have been published in professional journals and cited in the media. Dr. Gartrell has appeared on network television (including “Good Morning America”) and in documentaries produced for PBS, Showtime, and French and German public television. She is the author of the bestselling MY ANSWER IS NO…if that’s okay with you: How women can say NO and (still) feel good about it. Her articles appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Gartrell has a private practice, and she volunteers her psychiatric services to chronically mentally ill homeless people.