Peter Goldblum

Peter Goldblum is an American psychologist who is Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the LGBTQ+ Area of Emphasis at Palo Alto University (PAU). He founded one of PAU's Gronowski Center's specialty clinics, the Sexual and Gender Identities Clinic (SGIC), and one of PAU's research labs, the Center for LGBTQ Evidence-based Applied Research (CLEAR). He received his Ph.D. from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now PAU), his MPH from UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and his MA in Psychology and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. In the past 50 years, he has engaged in the development of community-based mental health programs and policies for the LGBTQ+ population in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Career
In 1982, he was selected as one of the six original consultants to the San Francisco AIDS Activity Office to help design the AIDS prevention strategy for the County of San Francisco. As an outgrowth of that consultation, he helped found and was hired as the original deputy director of the UCSF AIDS Health Project (AHP), which was later renamed the UCSF Alliance Health Project in Spring 2013.

As a visiting scholar at Stanford University, he previously co-directed the HIV Bereavement and Caregiver Study. His contributions to the psychological literature include material on LGBTQ+ bullying, gay men's health, suicide and culture, end of life issues, HIV, AIDS bereavement, and affirmative therapy.

In 2015, Goldblum co-developed the Cultural Assessment for Risk of Suicide (CARS) measure with fellow American psychologists Joyce Chu and Bruce Bongar. This psychological measure assesses for symptoms consistent with suicidality within ethnic and sexual minority populations.

Retirement
Since his retirement, Goldblum has worked as Behavioral Health Consultant to Floyd Thompkins in Project Trust, including serving as the key designer of a training seminar for Kaiser Permanente that encouraged collaboration between mental health providers and spiritual providers. He continues to work within this community collaborative project with Lisa Brown and Thompkins, which includes exploring a proposed model of cross cultural collaboration.

In March 2023, Thompkins, Goldblum, and Stanford/PGSP psychology graduate student William Booker developed a model for intergenerational and cross-cultural engagement within the queer community. In September 2023, Goldblum collaboratively discussed queer siloization with members of the United Campus Christian Ministries of Stanford University. Based on this discussion, Goldblum presented their conclusions to a diverse queer community within Stanford University, facilitated by David Patino.

Awards

 * 2013: American Psychological Association (APA) Division 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity) Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award