Dr. Alessandra D. Fisher is a Clinical Research scientist and a Clinical Staff Physician at the Andrology, Women’s Endocrinology and Gender Incongruence Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence (Italy). She is leading the clinical research group on GD/GI at Florence University Hospital, within the multidisciplinary team (psychiatrists, psychologists, surgeons) involved with GD/GI. Her research activities are mostly focused on medical support of GD/ GI adults and adolescents. She is co-founder and President (2021-2023) of the Italian Society Gender, Identity and Health (Società Italiana Genere, Identità e Salute, SIGIS). She is an elected
board member of the European Association for Transgender Health (EPATH), as well as a board member of the Italian Society for Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAMS). She is a member of the European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM) education transgender committee, and young researcher committee of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM). She is coordinating the Italian GnRH analogs group of the Italian Observatory of Gender Identity (Osservatorio Nazionale sull’identità di Genere, ONIG) and she is a cocoordinator of the scientific committee of GD/GI of the Italian Society of Endocrinology (Società Italiana di Endocrinologia, SIE). She won the Best of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2016 (JCEM 2016) with the manuscript “Cross-sex hormone treatment and psychobiological changes in transsexual persons: 2-yr followup data.” by Fisher AD et al. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016;101(11):4260-4269). In 2016 she won the ESSM Research Grant the study “Neurobiological correlates of Gender Dysphoria”, of which she is the Principal
Investigator. Dr A.D. Fisher has been involved in several multicentric clinical studies regarding persons with GD/GI and she
has given important scientific contributions to this field (see below). She is a highly experienced clinical trial leader, having a previous experience as coordinator in different multicentric clinical studies involving multidisciplinary team, mostly having GD/GI and Sexual Medicine as topic. She is part of the Endocrinology Steering Committee within the project European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI), composed by Ghent (PI Prof. Guy T’Sjoen), Amsterdam (PI Prof. Martin den Heijer), Oslo (PI Dr. Thomas Schreiner) and Florence (PI Dr. AD Fisher).
She has been an invited speaker in several international and national congresses related to GD/GI (e.g., Endocrine Society, European Society for Sexual Medicine, European Association of Urology).

Dr. Fisher is teacher in courses and mentor or opponent to several PhD theses. Peer reviewer of numerous scientific journals. Member of several Italian and international scientific societies.
She has authored or coauthored more than 80 scientific international, high impacted journals papers and book chapters mostly GD/GI (H index: 37).