Neeki Parsa

Medical Student, Larner College of Medicine
Research Fellow, The Transgender Youth Program

Neeki Parsa (they/them) is currently a medical student at the Larner College of Medicine (LCOM), applying into Family Medicine in 2025. Neeki’s primary area of research interest broadly relates to improved well-being for multiply marginalized trans and queer people.  At Tufts University, Neeki completed an honors thesis in Sociology exploring the general healthcare experiences of nonbinary adults in Boston. They then worked at the Fenway Institute’s Division of Education and Training, where they supported a national implementation project for eleven unique HIV interventions.  Later, at Boston Children’s Hospital, Neeki served as a research coordinator in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, supporting Dr. Sabra Katz-Wise’s Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project and SO*FLY study, among other SOGIE-related projects. At LCOM, Neeki is currently working with Vermont’s Transgender Youth Program to learn more about the rural trans youth who come to Burlington for gender care.

Representative Publications

1. Ashley, F., Parsa, N., kus, til, & MacKinnon, K. R. (2023). Do gender assessments prevent regret in
   transgender healthcare? A narrative review. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender
   Diversity, No Pagination Specified-No Pagination Specified. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000672
2. Katz-Wise, S. L., Godwin, E. G., Medzhitova, Y., Moore, L. B. M., Parsa, N., Hill, A., Oparah, N., Bogart, L. M., Rosal, M. C., Pullen Sansfaçon, A., Ehrensaft, D., Nishman, M. M., & Austin, S.B. (2024). Development of a family-level intervention for families with transgender and/or nonbinary youth: Lessons and recommendations. Journal of Family Psychology : JFP : Journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 38(7), 995–1006. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001262
3. Katz-Wise, S. L., Godwin, E. G., Parsa, N., Brown, C. A., Pullen Sansfaçon, A., Goldman, R., MacNish, M., Rosal, M. C., & Austin, S. B. (2022). Using family and ecological systems approaches to conceptualize family- and community-based experiences of transgender and/or nonbinary youth from the trans teen and family narratives project. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 9(1), 21–36. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000442
4. Parsa, N. (2018). Taking a Queer Pulse: The Impact of Medical Structure on Healthcare for Non-Binary Patients in Boston [Tufts University]. Tufts Digital Library.
5. Parsa, N., & Katz-Wise, S. L. (2024a). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies (By pages 300-303; 1–2). SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781544393858
6. Parsa, N., & Katz-Wise, S. L. (2024b). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies (By pages 304-305; 1–2). SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781544393858
7. Parsa, N., Myers, H., Ravichandran, K., kus, til, & Indig, G. (2023). The Body Guidelines: A Metacognitive and Harm Reducing Approach to Gender and Sex in Preclinical Medical School Curriculum. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 10, 23821205231215606. https://doi.org/10.1177/23821205231215606

Contact

Neeki.parsa@med.uvm.edu