Nathan Levitt, FNP-BC, MSN, BSN, MA, PhD candidate

Faculty, Senior Lecturer; Director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning

email: nathan.levitt@yale.edu

About

Nathan Levitt, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar and Jonas Nursing Scholar. He is the Director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning at Yale School of Nursing and leads the Gender and Sexuality Health Justice concentration. Nathan has been teaching LGBTQ healthcare to nursing and medical schools around the country for over 20 years. Nathan’s clinical practice included working as a clinician at Folx Health, a digital healthcare service provider providing customized medical plans for the LGBTQ community and working as a clinician at an outpatient mental health clinic specializing in treating depression. He has worked as a Nurse Practitioner in the gender affirming surgery program at NYU Langone Health where he provided education, preoperative, and postoperative care for transgender patients seeking gender affirmation surgery, as well as providing hormone therapy. Nathan was in the first New York State Family Nurse Practitioner Fellowship program and became the Director of Transgender Care at Community Healthcare Network (CHN). He has worked as a Transgender Health consultant to NY State and NY City Department of Health. He worked for 8 years at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center providing care for LGBTQ patients, building transgender health programs, and creating and facilitating curriculum on transgender health. He has worked as a community organizer, program coordinator, researcher, consultant, trainer, and health educator with international and national organizations for over 15 years. Nathan trains community health centers, health professional schools, hospitals, and community-based organizations, and has been published widely, on transgender health.

He is currently at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing in a nursing PhD program with a focus on health equity. Nathan holds a Masters of Science in Nursing from SUNY Downstate College of Nursing, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from NYU College of Nursing, a Masters of Arts in Gender and Cultural Studies from Simmons College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Emory University. He is a recipient of the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation Fellowship and the Spirit of Hillman Award, as well as a scholarship recipient from Oncology Nursing Society, and the Nurse Education Fund.

Selected Pub​lications/Presentations

Publications

Levitt, N. (2024). Caring for the Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Patient. In Alexander, I. M., Johnson-Mallard, V., Kostas-Polston, E., Cappiello, J., & Hubbard, H. S. (Eds). Women’s Healthcare in Advanced Practice Nursing (3rd edition pp. 453-464). Springer Publishing Company.

Dubin S, Kutscher E, Nolan I, Levitt N, Cook TE, Greene RE. Assessment of Medical Education on Transgender Health: A Scoping Literature Review. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 2023;0(0).

Levitt, N. and Blasdell G. (2022). Gender Affirming Surgery. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community 2nd edition. In L. Erickson-Schroth (Ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Dorsen CG, Leonard N, Levitt, N, Goldsamt L, et al. What does gender affirmation mean to you? An exploratory study. Nursing Forum. 2021;1‐8.

Nolan, Ian & Dy, Geolani & Levitt, Nathan. (2019). Considerations in Gender-Affirming Surgery: Demographic Trends. The Urologic clinics of North America. 46. 459-465. 10.1016/j.ucl.2019.07.004.

Lelutiu-Weinberger Corina, Pollard-Thomas Paula, Pagano William, Levitt Nathan, Lopez Evelyn I., Golub Sarit A., and Radix Asa E (2016). Implementation and Evaluation of a Pilot Training to Improve Transgender Competency Among Medical Staff in an Urban Clinic. Transgender Health. 1(1): 45-53.

Levitt, N. (2015). Clinical nursing care: transgender patients with cancer. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing,19, 362–366.

Hein, L. and Levitt, N. (2014). Caring for Transgender Patients. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy. Volume 12- Issue 6. P. 36-37.

Lim, F. and Levitt, N. (2011). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender health. American Journal of Nursing, 111(11).

Office of the Public Advocate (2008), Improving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Access to Healthcare at New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Facilities. NY, NY: Public Advocate for the City of NY.

J. Johnson, A. Radix, J. Santos-Ramos, N. Levitt, H. Reynolds, G. Mayer, R. Mukerjee. If you’ve got it, check it: establishing a sexual health clinic for transgender clients at a New York City community health center. : AIDS 2010 - XVIII International AIDS Conference: Abstract no. WEPE0346

2018 NBC Out Pride 30 honoree: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pride30-nurse-nathan-levitt-dedi…

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. (2014). In L. Erickson-Schroth (Ed.). New York,NY: Oxford University Press.

Jones, Carolyn. The American Nurse: Portraits, Interviews, & Biographies of 75 Nurses. Welcome Enterprises, 2012.