Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, raised by social justice warrior parents in Madison, WI, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a clinician and medical educator wearing many hats including creating and co-leading the Deep South’s only multidisciplinary gender clinic for youth. She has lobbied, testified and advocated in opposition to Alabama’s anti-transgender legislation. Dr. Ladinsky serves on and oversees several coalition teams facilitating nationwide access to care for gender diverse youth from ban states to safe states.

She has uncovered a passion for policy engagement and health equity, also leading her Pediatric Department’s DEI Council and serving on the DEI subcommittee of the UAB Faculty Senate. She is a lead faculty attending in the UAB Pediatric Primary Care Clinic, and co-leads the region's NICU Follow-up Team to optimize health for medically complex graduates of Alabama’s Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Since 2014, Morissa has participated in activities SOJOURN has hosted with Birmingham, AL's Welcoming Communities Project. When not training tomorrow’s pediatricians, advocating for health equity for special populations, or serving on state level advisory boards and committees, she and her pediatrician husband love hiking, hanging with their mostly grown kids and their progeny and exploring this truly beautiful part of the U.S.