PROJECT: Implement an interactive, web-based decision aid on gender-affirming treatment, with balanced information on treatment benefits, risks, resources, and potential long-term effects, to improve knowledge and decisional conflict amongst transgender and gender diverse youth and their caregivers.

Bianca Salvetti, DNP(c), CNS, CPNP, (she/her/hers), has been a pediatric nurse for more than 15 years, transitioning from a beside RN in the PICU to a nurse practitioner in the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She has a long history of engaging in clinical and research program development that focuses on improving the physical and mental health of adolescents and young adults experiencing homelessness or substance use, adolescents and young adults with complex medical conditions, young men who have sex with men, and gender and sexual minorities.

Salvetti was the principal investigator for a novel web-based study assessing chest binding practices in transgender and gender diverse adolescents and young adults, and its effects on mental health, which was selected by the Journal of Adolescent Health as one of 2021’s Distinguished Dozen.

As a national lecturer, she educates healthcare providers, organizations, families, and youth on various topics to improve adolescents and young adults health. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at UCLA by implementing a web-based decision aid on gender affirming treatment to improve knowledge and decisional conflict amongst transgender and gender diverse youth and their caregivers.