Join us for our annual Pride Shabbat service, featuring a celebratory Friday night service followed by a BYO Shabbat Picnic dinner (vegetarian/dairy), and conversation with Scott F. Leibowitz, MD, Medical Director of Behavioral Health for Nationwide Children's THRIVE gender development program (see below for full bio).Please bring your own blankets, chairs, or anything else to help you stay comfortable outside for services and dinner in our parking lot!
Rain location: indoors (without dining)
Scott Leibowitz, MD is the Medical Director of Behavioral Health Services for the THRIVE gender and sex development program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz is a Native New Yorker, attended Cornell University for undergraduate studies, Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel for medical school and ultimately completed his child and adolescent psychiatry training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he first developed a psychosocial assessment and treatment clinic in 2008 in coordination with the hospital’s Gender Management Service- the first formal, multidisciplinary clinic for transgender youth in an American children’s hospital. He subsequently moved to Chicago and served in the Gender & Sex Development at Lurie Children’s Hospital before taking on his current role. He is currently the co-chairman of the Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Issues Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a member of the Global Education Initiative for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, and was appointed Chapter Lead for the Adolescent Assessment chapter in the upcoming revision of the WPATH Standards of Care, 8th edition. He is the lead child and adolescent trainer for the WPATH Global Education Initiative, where he has led trainings on transgender youth care both nationally and internationally including in Japan and Vietnam. He also served as an expert witness in 2016 for the United States Department of Justice in its legal action against the State of North Carolina for its anti-transgender HB2 bill as well as an ACLU 2017 federal case in Pennsylvania on school bathroom use, for which the ruling was in favor of transgender youths’ rights. His grandmother Rachel, a Holocaust survivor, was saved and hidden by a Catholic family in a suburb of Paris during WWII and her story of resilience as a child is what inspires Dr. Leibowitz to help marginalized youth every day.
Event Venue
Tifereth Israel, 1354 E Broad St, Columbus, United States