Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, is a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He is the founding Chief of the Division Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital, and previously served as the hospital’s director of adolescent HIV services. Dr. Garofalo founded and co-directs the Lurie Children’s Gender and Sexual Development Program. He received a B.S. from Duke University (1988), his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine (1992), and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Garofalo has >25 years of clinical and research experience in global health, HIV, HIV prevention, and sexual and gender minority health. In 2010, he was appointed to the National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine Committee on LGBT Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities. In 2011, he was elected to the City of Chicago’s LGBT Hall of Fame. In 2019, he was awarded the Ellen Perrin Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBTQ Health by the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2024, he was awarded the Equality Award for community service by the Human Rights Campaign of Chicago. Dr. Garofalo’s research has been generously funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as multiple institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NICHD, NIDA, NINR, NIAID, NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, and NIMHD).