Julianna Deardorff, Ph.D., and Louise Greenspan, MD

Julianna Deardorff, PhD (pictured right), is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in pubertal development and adolescent health, and is Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Dr. Deardorff is a co-investigator on the CYGNET study, an NIH-funded longitudinal study of Bay Area girls’ pubertal development, and she has partnered with Zero Breast Cancer in San Rafael on projects related to teen education and participatory research with young people. She also leads a study of puberty and sexual health in Salinas, CA. Dr Deardorff is the co-author of the book, The New Puberty: How to Navigate Development in Today’s Girls (Rodale Books)

Louise Greenspan, MD (pictured left), is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist focusing on puberty, and an international leader in the field, works at Kaiser Permanente and is on the faculty at UC San Francisco. Dr Greenspan is an Investigator on the CYGNET study, part of the Breast Cancer and The Environment Research Program, and has received the Honor Thy Healer Award from Zero Breast Cancer for her work on this study. She is the author of multiple scientific articles on puberty and pediatric obesity, has a busy clinical practice, and is the co-author ofThe New Puberty: How to Navigate Development in Today’s Girls (Rodale Books).