Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Director Emerita, SHARE/Title IX Office, Stanford University
Director, Allies for Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) and WISSH
Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice
Stanford, CA

Dr. Laraine T. Zappert is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist maintaining a long-standing private practice in Palo Alto, California. She earned her PhD from Cornell University prior to completing post-doctoral training, an internship, and a clinical fellowship with North County Mental Health, the Wright Institute, and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. At Stanford, Dr. Zappert played an instrumental role at the Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health in developing and directing the first Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in Women’s Health, having also previously directed clinical training at Stanford's Vaden Student Health Services. In addition to supervising psychiatric residents and guiding medical scholars in research, she serves as an organizational and litigation consultant.

A pioneering institutional leader and advocate for gender equity, Dr. Zappert served as the founding Director of Stanford University's SHARE/Title IX office (Sexual Harassment/Assault Prevention Education), where she now holds the title of Director Emerita. To champion female scholars in academia, she established Stanford's Allies for Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program for graduate and postdoctoral scholars, subsequently expanding the initiative to found the Allies for Women in Social Science and Humanities (WISSH).

Dr. Zappert’s clinical practice, writing, and research center on women’s mental health, occupational stress, and work-life integration. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Work and Family, an authoritative resource for professional women balancing career and family commitments. A frequent lecturer and speaker, she has published foundational research on gender-based differences in occupational health as well as the impact of peer support interventions for women in STEM, and was awarded a prestigious Faculty Fellowship at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.