Colleen A. Sloan, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Colleen Sloan, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Clinical Psychologist at VA Boston Healthcare System. At the VA, she is on the Women’s Stress Disorder Treatment Team. She works extensively with the LGBT community including as a track coordinator for the LGBT Health fellowship and as Chair of VA Boston’s Interdisciplinary Transgender Treatment Team. She provides clinical supervision to psychology trainees and has a background in in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Publications

  • Published 1/1/2024

    Salomaa AC, Berke D, Harper K, Valentine SE, Sloan CA, Hinds Z, Gyuro L, Herbitter C, Bryant WT, Shipherd JC, Livingston NA. A patient-centered model of mental health care for trauma and minority stress in transgender and gender diverse people: A bottom-up network analysis. Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers. 2024; 2024. PMID: 38765785.

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  • Published 11/1/2023

    Sloan DM, Marx BP, Acierno R, Messina M, Muzzy W, Gallagher MW, Litwack S, Sloan C. Written Exposure Therapy vs Prolonged Exposure Therapy in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2023 Nov 01; 80(11):1093-1100. PMID: 37610727.

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  • Published 10/6/2022

    Salomaa AC, Livingston NA, Bryant WT, Herbitter C, Harper K, Sloan CA, Hinds Z, Gyuro L, Valentine SE, Shipherd JC. A bottom-up approach to developing a unified trauma-minority stress model for transgender and gender diverse people. Psychol Trauma. 2023 May; 15(4):618-627. PMID: 36201832.

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  • Published 9/24/2021

    Burgess CM, Batchelder AW, Sloan CA, Ieong M, Streed CG. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender and gender diverse health care. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2021 11; 9(11):729-731. PMID: 34570996.

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  • Published 1/1/2017

    Ruben MA, Shipherd JC, Topor D, AhnAllen CG, Sloan CA, Walton HM, Matza AR, Trezza GR. Advancing LGBT Health Care Policies and Clinical Care Within a Large Academic Health Care System: A Case Study. J Homosex. 2017; 64(10):1411-1431. PMID: 28459380.

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Education

  • University of Georgia, PhD
  • University of Georgia, MS
  • University of Georgia, BS