THE 29TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE & MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER 21 - 25, 2011 ATLANTA, GA

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Welcome to the 29th Annual Conference of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association!

We would like to express our thanks to the sponsors, exhibitors, donors and other individuals who have made this conference possible and who continue to contribute to GLMA’s growing list of accomplishments.

About GLMA...... 4 Mayor’s Welcome...... 6 President’s Welcome...... 7 Education Committee Chair Welcome...... 8 General Information...... 9 Hotel Map...... 10 Conference At-a-Glance...... 11 Special Events Calendar...... 15 Gala Annual Banquet...... 16 Gala Achievement Award Recipients...... 17 Conference Program...... 18 Joint Symposium for Health...... 58 Faculty Roster...... 59 Student Scholarship Recipients...... 80 GLMA Presidents...... 86 Past Conference Locations...... 87 Exhibitors/Sponsors...... 88 GLMA Annual Conference • Program of Events

About GLMA

Founded in 1981, GLMA’s mission is to ensure equality in healthcare for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals and healthcare providers. GLMA achieves its goals by using healthcare expertise in professional education, public policy work, patient education and referrals and the promotion of research. GLMA represents the interests of thousands of LGBT healthcare professionals, as well as millions of LGBT patients across North America.

GLMA Staff Board of Directors Trainee Representative Executive Director President Brian Hurley, MD, MBA Hector Vargas, JD Rebecca Allison, MD Allston, MA Phoenix, AZ Student Representative Director of Operations & Immediate Past President Finance Brian Holoyda Jason Schneider, MD Chicago, IL Amy Fielder Atlanta, GA

Education & Communications President Elect Manager Desiray Bailey, MD At-Large Board Members Seattle, WA Emily Kane-Lee, MA Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA Secretary Middle Village, NY Membership & Development Chris Souders, MD Associate Houston, TX Edwin Craft, DrPH, MEd, LCPC Robert Bangert Washington, DC Treasurer Travis Sherer, PA-C, AAHIVS Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH New York, NY Chicago, IL

Vice President for Lesbian Jesse Joad, MD, MS Health Fund Washington, DC Paula Amato, MD Portland, OR Gal Mayer, MD, MS, AAHIVS Vice President for Membership New York, NY & Development Leonard Harvey, MD, MBA Thousand Oaks, CA

Vice President for External Affairs Henry Ng, MD Cleveland, OH

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About GLMA

GLMA would like to thank the Education Committee and the Atlanta Host Committee for their hard work in making the 2011 GLMA Annual Conference a success!

Education Committee Atlanta Host Committee

Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA, Chair Jason Schneider, MD, Chair Jesse Joad, MD, MS, Medical Director Jeff Graham, Georgia Equality Paula Amato, MD Linda Ellis, Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative Christopher Blackwell, PhD, ARNP, ANP-BC Glen Paul Freedman, Grady Health Systems Tara Borelli, JD Michael Shutt, PhD, LGBT Resource Center, Emory Edwin M. Craft, DrPH, MEd, LCPC University John A. Davis, PhD, MD Rebecca S. Wax, Rainbow Center Christopher M. DiMaio, MD Andy More, Piedmont Hospital Carol (Penny) Duff, RN CDC’s Sexual & Minorities Workgroup Sheldon D. Fields, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, AACRN, DPNAP, FAANP Sarah C. Fogel, RN, PhD Laura C. Hein, PhD, RN, NP-C, CEN Eva Hersh, MD Ken S. Ho, MD Lynn E. Hunt, MD, FAAP Steven P. Kurtz, PhD Harvey J. Makadon, MD Liz Margolies, CSW, LCSW Stuart D. Martin, Jr., DDS Kenneth H. Mayer, MD Michael Miller, MSW-c Henry H. Ng, MD, FAAP, FACP E. Phipps, BSN, RN Michael W. Plankey, PhD Tonia Poteat, MMSc, PA-C, MPH, AAHIVS, PhD-c Shane Snowdon Linda A. Travis, PsyD Scott Weber, EdD, PhD

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Mayor’s Welcome

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President’s Welcome

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, I would like to welcome you to Atlanta and to GLMA’s 29th Annual Conference. We are delighted to have you with us as we celebrate GLMA’s 30th Anniversary!

This has been an exciting year for GLMA, with many changes. In addition to a big move from San Francisco to our new home in Washington, DC, we have revamped our membership structure to encourage more healthcare providers to support GLMA’s mission by joining the organization. If you’re not yet a member, we hope you’ll join our community by the end of the conference.

Ours is the world’s largest conference for health professionals caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons – and for health professionals who are LGBT persons themselves. Indeed, the opportunities for networking and reunions with old colleagues and friends are a major part of GLMA’s Annual Conference.

There’s also so much to see and do in “Hotlanta”! Take a behind-the-scenes tour of CNN’s headquarters, visit the Fernbank Museum of Natural History or the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change and—for Gone with the Wind fans—visit the home of author Margaret Mitchell. With numerous restaurants by Top Chefs, Atlanta is a foodie paradise. While there is much to see, do and eat in Atlanta, our Education Committee has compiled a conference program that will be sure to keep your attention inside our funky and fabulous conference hotel!

Many of our plenary and workshop sessions will address the intersection of race and ethnicity with issues of and . This year’s program includes a unique opportunity to hear Surgeons General Regina Benjamin and Joycelyn Elders.

We are thrilled to have comedian Kate Clinton as our featured entertainment for this year’s Annual Gala Banquet at the historic Fox Theater. It will be an evening you will be sure to remember!

Once again, welcome to Atlanta! We are so glad you have chosen to join us for this educational program and social time together.

Rebecca Allison, MD President, Board of Directors

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Welcome from the Education Committee Chair

Dear Conference Attendees,

On behalf of the Education Committee, I would like to welcome you to the 29th Annual Conference of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association.

This year’s conference will place special emphasis on the dynamic intersections of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity and HIV status, and their influence on health disparities. While many attendees primarily work in one specific area, we have intentionally tried to create opportunities for communication between community silos and for each of us to enhance our knowledge of issues outside of our expertise.

Our overarching goal for this conference is to move forward an ambitious LGBT health agenda and tackle important educational content with a spirit of collegiality, relaxation and fun! We aim to make this conference feel good and nurturing to your spirit as it challenges your mind. In addition to the rich educational offerings, there are daily opportunities for professional and social networking. We want all conference attendees to leave Atlanta renewed, energized and ready to carry forward a multi- cultural, LGBT heath movement.

Together we can create a conference that welcomes all stakeholders in achieving LGBT healthcare equality, including healthcare providers, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists, community health volunteers and ordinary LGBT people navigating their way through complicated systems of healthcare and divisive health politics. We encourage you to talk to strangers at this event! We especially encourage you to reach beyond your own personal and professional identities.

In these difficult economic times, I’m excited that so many supporters of LGBT healthcare equality have made this conference a priority. I’m glad you’re here to share in the excitement and success of this important event. Your participation will make a difference in helping LGBT people live healthier lives.

Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA Education Committee, Chair, 2011 Middle Village, NY

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General Information

MEETING DISCLAIMER NURSING CONTINUING EDUCATION (CEU) CREDIT Regarding materials and information received written or otherwise, during the 2011 GLMA conference: The The University of , San Francisco School of scientific views, statements and activity represent Nursing has been approved by the California BRN, those of the authors and speakers and do not Provider 11632, to provide Continuing Education necessarily represent the views of the Gay & Lesbian Units (CEU) credits for this conference. UCSF Medical Association. School of Nursing has approved the 29th Annual NAME BADGES Conference of Gay & Lesbian Medical Association for a maximum of 20.15 credit hours. In order to cover Your name badge is required for admittance to all our administrative costs, there will be a charge of $25 conference functions, including receptions. Please for issuance of CEU certificates, at the conclusion of wear it when you arrive at any GLMA event. For the conference. your safety, please remember to remove your name badge when leaving the conference hotel. Please Note: Attendees requesting nursing CEU Please Note: Some attendees have registered for credits will be asked to sign-in at the registration specific days only. Therefore, name badges are desk daily. Attendees will be given a Conference color coded for specific days. Participation Document. This document should be completed and returned to RDL staff in exchange SMOKING for your CEU Certificate, which is issued through the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School For the health and well being of all participants, all conference events are designated nonsmoking. of Nursing. RDL will confirm the number of hours claimed, that the attendee has paid for the CEU INTEREST DISCLOSURES certificate and signed- in daily. RDL will record the hours on the certificate and provide the information As an organization accredited by the ACCME to to UCSF for their records. sponsor continuing medical education activities for physicians, GLMA is required to disclose any real or apparent conflicts of interests that any speakers may EVALUATIONS have related to the content of their presentations. Please take a few minutes at the conclusion of the CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) conference to complete the Annual Conference CREDIT Evaluation, provided to you in your conference bag. This information will help the GLMA Education The Gay & Lesbian Medical Association is accredited Committee and staff to ensure conference content by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical accurately reflects the professional needs of all Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical conference attendees. Your feedback is very education (CME) for physicians. GLMA designates important to us! this live activity for a maximum of 22 credit hours in AMA PRA Category I Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of Conference attendees who complete the Annual their participation in the activity. In order to cover Conference Evaluation are eligible to be entered our administrative costs, there will be a charge of $25 into a drawing for a FREE registration for next for issuance of CME certificates, at the conclusion of year’s Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA! the conference. Evaluations must include your name and contact information to be eligible. Names will not be Please Note: Attendees requesting CME credits will associated with evaluation results and will be used need to sign in at the registration desk. Participants will be given a Conference Participation Document only for the purposes of contacting the winner. to be completed and returned to RDL staff in exchange for a CME certificate.

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LOWER LEVEL MEZZANINE LEVEL GLMA WORKSHOPS

GREAT ROOM ONE GLMA GENERAL SESSIONS

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GLMA EXHIBIT HALL

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GLMA ALTITUDE ORIGINAL RESEARCH GLMA LUNCHEONS SESSIONS

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

7:00 am - Registration is OPEN Great Room Ballroom Foyer 7:00 pm

LGBT HEALTH 101 INSTITUTE Great Room Ballroom One 8:00 am - Understanding Health Disparities Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals and 12:00 pm Improving Healthcare Delivery to the LGBT Community

Carey Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA Linda Ellis, MEd, MDiv, LPC Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH Jason Schneider, MD, FACP

6:30 pm - Welcome Reception Great Room Two with Exhibitors 7:30 pm

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

7:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration Great Room Foyer 7:00 - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Great Room Two (Exhibit Hall) 8:00 - 8:30 am Welcome and Announcements Great Room One Ballroom 8:30 - 9:30 am Freedom to Marry: Just What the Doctor Ordered Great Room One Ballroom Plenary Evan Wolfson, JD 9:30 - 9:45 am Transition Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 Introducing LGBT Recommended LGBT and HIV Transgender- How to Grow Bioethics into Treatment Strategies : Inclusive your own LGBT for Clinicians See 9:45 - 10:45 am Nursing and Managing Older Using Data from Insurance Medical Clinic - Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Medical School Patients with HIV Two National Coverage: Model Grass Root LGBT Curricula Infection—a report Studies Guidelines & Best Medical Care Descriptions from the HIV and Practices Advocacy Below Aging Consensus Project Bridging the Gap: Healthcare Disparities among India's (Transgender) Community 9:45 - 10:45 am Original Research Human , HIV, and Sexual Health among Women who have with Women in Lesotho STUDIO 2 Sessions

10:45 - 11:00 am Exhibitor Viewing - Transition Break 11:00 - 12:00 pm Encountering Ourselves and the Other: A Multifaith Approach to Relational Centered Care Great Room One Ballroom Plenary Rabbi Joshua Lesser, MHL; Reverend Laurie Robins; Pamela Ayo Yetunde 12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch - on your own 12:00 - 12:15 pm Transition Break for Networking Lunch 12:15 - 1:15 pm Networking Lunch with Evan Wolfson, JD Altitude, 27th Floor Lunch Lunch Tickets Required 1:15 - 1:30 pm Transition Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 Re-examining Safer Sex on the The Role of ’ and LGBT Cultural Edge with MSM Healthcare Bi-sexual See 1:30 - 2:30 pm Competence Providers in ID Women’s Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Training Document Definition of Changes for Health Descriptions Transgender Below Patients

The Transition to Social Motherhood: A Qualitative Study 1:30 - 2:30 pm Original Research A Descriptive Study of Homelessness Among a Sample of Urban Youth in Cleveland, Ohio STUDIO 2 Sessions Intimate Partner Violence Prevention/Intervention Services and Resources in Los Angeles: Issues, Needs and Challenges for Assisting Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Clients 2:30- 2:45 pm Transition Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 Results of GLMA- LGBT Patients and Development and 2011 Federal LGBT Nuts and Bolts of AMA Collaborative Palliative Care: Evaluation of a Health Initiatives Primary Care For Survey on Culturally Targeted Co-Sponsored by See 2:45 - 3:45 pm Ongoing Barriers Transgender Physician to Quality End-of- Smoking Cessation the National Patients Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Coalition for LGBT Experiences Life Care Intervention for Descriptions Caring for LGBT HIV+ African Health and Center Below Patients American MSM for American Progress

Transgender Content in Medical Curricula: Deans’ and Medical Students’ Perspectives 2:45 - 3:45 pm Original Research Identifying Opportunities for Integrating LGBT Health into Undergraduate Medical Education STUDIO 2 Sessions Empathy Development: Facilitating the Undergraduate Nursing Student’s Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Patients 3:45 - 4:00 pm Transition Break 4:00 - 5:15 pm Surgeons General Forum Great Room One Ballroom Plenary Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA; Joycelyn Elders, MD, MS; Rebecca Allison, MD, Moderator 6:00 - 7:00 pm Opening Reception Great Room Two with Exhibitors Reception Appetizers and cash bar

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Friday, September 23, 2011

7:30 am - 8:00 pm Registration Great Room Foyer 7:00 - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Great Room Two (Exhibit Hall) 8:00 8:15 am Welcome and Announcements Great Room One Ballroom 8:15 - 9:15 am The Role of the Federal Government in LGBT Health Great Room One Ballroom Plenary Leandris Liburd, PhD, MPH; Kathleen Ethier, PhD 9:15 - 9:30 am Transition Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 An Audiovisual Biomedical HIV LGBT Immigrants Substance Use The Stud Health Module for Prevention & Health Among Transgender Project: Breast and People: Prevalence, Cervical Health for See 9:30 - 10:30 am Approaching Update Context and African American Original Reserch Breakout Sessions LGBT Health Implications for Masculine Descriptions Through Gender Prevention and Identified Lesbians Below Variance Treatment

Which Men Who Have Sex with Men are Becoming Repeatedly Infected with Syphilis? 9:30 - 10:30 am Original Research Medical Students' Attitudes to Male STUDIO 2 Sessions

10:30 - 10:45 am Transition Break 10:45 - 11:45 am The Role of the Professional Association in LGBT Health Great Room One Ballroom Plenary Mary Foley, RN, PhD; Jim Delaney, PA-C; Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA, Moderator 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Lunch - on your own 11:45 am - 12:00 pm Transition Break for Networking Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 pm Networking Lunch with Arizona State Representative Matt Heinz, MD Altitude, 27th Floor Lunch Lunch Tickets Required 1:00 - 1:15 pm Transition Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 Advancing Effective Presidential Integration of The Many Faces Communication and Patient and Family Appointments LGBT Issues in the of Black Lesbian See 1:15 - 2:15 pm Centered Care: Meeting Project Medical School Health Disparities the Needs of the Lesbian, Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Curriculum Gay, Bisexual and Descriptions Transgender (LGBT) Community. A Field Below Guide.

End of Life and Later Life Preparation in the Global Transgender//Trans /Cross- 1:15 - 2:15 pm dressing Identified Communities Original Research The Use and Health Effects of Silicone Injections Among Transgender Women STUDIO 2 Sessions Impact of Transition on Body Satisfaction in -to-Male Transgendered Persons 2:15 - 2:30 pm Transition Break 2:30 - 3:30 pm Kimberly Clermont Memorial Lecture, Sexual Orientation and Adoptive Parenthood: Great Room One Plenary A Research Update, Charlotte Patterson, PhD Ballroom 3:30 - 3:45 pm Transition Break with Exhibitors Great Room Two INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 We’re Here, How to Comply World Professional Getting Support Groups for We’re Queer, with New Hospital Association for Transnational: Local Lesbians and Gay Transgender and Global People Men Caregivers for See 3:45 - 4:45 pm We’re Feared?.... Visitation Health’s Standards of Color Persons with Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Queer Nurses in Regulations Trans/Gender- of Care (SOC), Alzheimer’s Descriptions the Academy Variant Communities Version 7 Disease: A Below and Health—A Successful Model of Game Show Collaboration Pre-Clinical Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes in Caring for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and 3:45 - 4:45 pm Transgender Patients Original Research Changes in Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills After the Integration of LGBTQ-relevant STUDIO 2 Sessions Topics into a Medical School Curriculum LGBT Medical Students’ Outness and Reasons for Hiding LGBT Identity in Medical School 4:45 - 5:00 pm Transition Break 5:00 - 6:00 pm IOM Report on LGBT Health: Next Steps Great Room One Ballroom Plenary Paula Amato, MD; Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH; Harvey Makadon, MD, Moderator 5:00 - 5:15 pm Office Hours A-Way (Near Mall Entrance) 7:00 - 9:00 pm Reception & Fundraiser to Benefit the Lesbian Health Fund Altitude, 27th Floor Reception 9:30 - 11:00 pm Reception for Students, Residents and Trainees Einstein's Reception (See Special Events Calendar)

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration (and Continental Breakfast, 7:30 - 8:30 am) Great Room Foyer 7:30 - 8:30 am Nurses & Friends Networking Breakfast Trelis Spice Restaurant 8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome and Announcements Great Room One 8:45 - 9:45 am Stanley Biber Memorial Lecture, Gender Identity Disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5: Great Room One Plenary An Update, Jack Drescher, MD 9:45 - 10:00 am Transitional Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 Philadelphia LGBTQ Increasing Health A Review of the Trading Sex in Alliance of Students Care Access for Biological Studies NYC: Suggestions Organized for LGBT People: for Sensitive and See 10:00 - 11:00 am of Transgender Health (LASOH): A Cutting Edge Competent Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Identity Framework for Public Policy & Clinical Practice Descriptions Grassroots Student Legal Strategies with LGBTQ Youth Below Coalition-Building of Color and Advocacy

Introducing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity into the Electronic Health Record 10:00 - 11:00 am Original Research The Impact of Public Health Categories for HIV Data among MSM and Trangender Women STUDIO 2 Sessions Transgender Patient Encounters with Health Professionals 11:00 - 11:15 pm Transitional Break INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 The AMSA/GLMA The BROTHERS’ Study: Family Building Improving Surgical Decision- LGBT Leadership Trying to Understand Options for Gay & Transgender Making for and Address the Institute: Creating Lesbian Families Healthcare from Children with DSD See Disproportionate 11:15 - 12:15 Original Reserch Change from Burden of HIV/AIDS using Assisted Nursing Breakout Sessions Within Institutions among American Reproductive Education to Descriptions Black Men who have Technologies Practice Below Sex with Men

Implications in Studying Mental Health and Substance Abuse Among the LGBTQ Population 11:15 - 12:15 Original Research Older Lesbian Adults with Alcoholism: A Case Study STUDIO 2 Sessions LGBT Occasional Smokers and the Period 12:15 - 12:30 pm Transitional Break 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own 12:30 - 2:00 pm GLMA Membership Luncheon and Achievement Award Recipients (GLMA Members & Member guests) 2:00 - 2:15 pm Transitional Break A Public Health Approach for Advancing Sexual Health in the US: Implications for HIV Prevention and 2:15 - 3:15 pm Health of LGBT Persons Great Room One Plenary Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH; John Douglas, Jr, MD INDUSTRY 1 INDUSTRY 2 INDUSTRY 3 INDUSTRY 4 FOCUS STUDIO 2 Aging Lesbians LGBT Veteran GLMA Experiences in Tomorrow’s LGBT Receiving Home Issues Ambassadors Transgender Health See 3:30 - 4:30 pm Health Care Program Rural Medicine Professionals – An Original Reserch Breakout Sessions Services: What Interdisciplinary Healthcare Forum Descriptions Providers Need to Below Know

At the Intersection of HIV/AIDS and Cancer: Assessing the Needs of Community-based AIDS Service Organizations 3:30 - 4:30 pm Texting for Health: Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Text-Message Reminder System for HAART Original Research STUDIO 2 Adherence in Adolescents Sessions Social Contexts and HIV Risk among Low-Income/Poverty-Class Cocaine, Crack and Heroin-Using WSW of Color 6:00 - 7:00 pm Major Donor Reception - Invite Only Fox Theatre GLMA Gala Tickets Required Grand Salon 7:00 - 10:00 pm Gay & Lesbian Medical Association's 29th Annual Gala Banquet Dinner Fox Theatre GLMA Gala Tickets Required Egyptian Ballroom

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Special Events Calendar

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday September 21 September 22 September 23 September 24 September 25

Networking Nurses and Lunch Friends 12 - 1 pm Breakfast Altitude, 7:30 - 8:30 am LGBT Health 101 Networking 27th Floor Trelis - Institute Lunch Spice Market 8 am - 12 pm 12:15 - 1:15 pm ------Restaurant Joint Great Room Altitude, Symposium on One 27th Floor Office Hours ------Transgender 6 - 7 pm Health A-Way GLMA 10 am - 7:30 pm (Next to Mall Membership Emory ------Entrance) Luncheon Conference ------12:30 - 2 pm Center ------Altitude, 27th Floor 1615 Clifton Road Lesbian Health Northeast Fund Fundraiser ------Atlanta, GA 30329 (404) 712-6000 Opening & Reception Major Donor Welcome Reception 7 - 9 pm Reception Reception 6 - 7 pm Altitude, 6 - 7 pm 6:30 - 7:30 pm Great Room 27th Floor Fox Theater Great Room Two Grand Salon Two (Exhibit Hall) ------(Exhibit Hall) Student Reception Gala Banquet 9:30 - 11 pm 7 - 10 pm Einstein’s Fox Theater Egyptian Ballroom 1077 Juniper Street Atlanta, GA 30309 660 Peachtree St, NE (404) 876-7925 Atlanta, GA 30308 (404) 881-2100

Don’t forget to get your passport stamped in the Exhibit Hall! Completed passports will be entered into a raffle to win a FREE REGISTRATION for next year’s Annual Conference in San Francisco!

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The Gay & Lesbian Medical Association’s 29th Annual Gala Banquet & Achievement Award Recognition with Special Guest Kate Clinton: THE GLEE PARTY! Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:00 – 10:00 pm Fox Theatre Egyptian Ballroom

Support GLMA and LGBT health by attending the 29th Annual Gala Banquet & Achievement Awards Recognition. GLMA’s Achievement Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the LGBT community. Recipient individuals or organizations are honored for exemplary commitment to improving the quality of health services for LGBT people; for improving the professional environment for LGBT healthcare workers; or for contributing significantly to gains made by the LGBT civil rights movement.

This year’s Achievement Award recipients are (for full bios, see the next page): • United States Representative John Lewis • Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative • Institute of Medicine • World Professional Association for Transgender Health • Christopher E. Harris, MD, GLMA Past President • Harvard Medical School Kinsey Two-Sixers, co-presented with AMSA

Attendees will enjoy an elegant dinner as they are entertained by comedian Kate Clinton, all while in the Egyptian Ballroom at the historic Fox Theater in the heart of Atlanta.

16 Gay & Lesbian Medical Association 2011 GLMA Annual Conference • Program of Events Achievement Award Winners United States Representative John Lewis Often called “one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,” U.S. Representative John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties and building what he calls “The Beloved Community” in America. As a college student, he helped organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides and risked his life on those Rides many times by simply sitting in seats reserved for white patrons. He was also beaten severely by angry mobs and arrested by police for challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the South. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963. In 1981, he was elected to the Atlanta City Council and he was elected to Congress in 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgias Fifth Congressional District since then. Congressman Lewis has been a longtime champion of equal and civil rights for LGBT people and has been a regular presence at Atlanta LGBT events, including Atlanta Pride Festival and AIDS Walk Atlanta. He has been outspoken in his support for marriage equality, equal employment opportunity, anti-hate crimes legislation, HIV prevention and treatment and other important issues affecting LGBT people. In a 2003 _Boston Globe_ opinion piece in support of marriage, he wrote: “We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.” This year, Congressman Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative The Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of lesbians and other members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community through education, advocacy, support and access to care.

Institute of Medicine The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public. Established in 1970, the IOM is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which was chartered under President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Nearly 150 years later, the National Academy of Sciences has expanded into what is collectively known as the National Academies.

World Professional Association for Transgender Health The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) (formerly known as The Harry Benjamin International Association) is an international multidisciplinary organization of professionals devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender identity disorder and transgenderism and Transsexualism. The Professional members of our organization practice in varied disciplines, such as medicine, psychology, law, social work, counseling, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech and voice therapies and other related fields. The members of the organization articulate a professional consensus about the treatment guidelines of transgender and transsexual individuals and sponsor biennial symposia attracting hundreds of professionals from around the world.

Christopher E. Harris, MD, GLMA Past President Christopher E. Harris, MD, is a Past President of GLMA and Director of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. As an active GLMA member and past board member, his contributions to advance LGBT health have been numerous. He recently testified on behalf of GLMA in the California Senate and Assembly in support of LGBT cultural competency training requirements for health professionals. Dr. Harris also represents GLMA on the Commission to End Health Care Disparities, a joint partnership of the AMA, NMA and NHMA. Funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Dr. Harris created a vaccine for lower respiratory illness in children with cystic fibrosis and he produced an inhalation solution for patients with mild to moderate cystic fibrosis lungdisease.

Harvard Medical School Kinsey Two-Sixers, co-presented with AMSA The “Kinsey 2-6ers” is Harvard Medical School’s LGBT student group. Through events, outreach and advocacy, we seek to build a supportive environment for LGBT students, staff and faculty; educate the medical school community on cross-cultural care for the LGBT patient population; and graduate leaders, LGBT and ally alike, who are outspoken advocates for the LGBT community. Over the past year, we have focused on expanding the medical school’s commitment to LGBT diversity. Our efforts have resulted in the appointment of two faculty point-people for LGBT affairs, the creation of an “Out List” of LGBT individuals at the medical school and affiliated hospitals and the formation of a high-level committee to recommend further changes to theDean.

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Wednesday, September 21

LGBT Health 101 Institute: Understanding Health Disparities Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals and Improving Healthcare Delivery to the LGBT Community

8:00 am - 12:00 pm Welcome REception

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA Linda Ellis, MEd, MDiv, LPC Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH Great Room Two (Exhibit Hall) Jason Schneider, MD, FACP

Great Room One

Abstract This interactive course is designed for healthcare professionals and students as an introduction to the specific healthcare needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Through interactive and didactic learning, participants will learn how to reduce health disparities experienced by LGBT patients in their care, and how to create a welcoming clinical environment for their LGBT patients. This course will provide participants with tools, examples, and resources for providing culturally competent healthcare for LGBT patients.

Learning Objectives By the end of this course, participants will be able to: • Describe LGBT patient populations, including definitions and demographics. • Examine healthcare disparities experienced by LGBT patients, including specific risk factors, morbidity, and barriers to accessing care. • Demonstrate techniques for providing LGBT culturally competent care. • Identify best practices by individual providers, hospitals, insurers and healthcare systems to improve healthcare delivery to LGBT populations.

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Thursday, September 22

Workshop Sessions Morning 9:45 am - 10:45 am breakfast with exhibitors 7:00 am - 8:00 am Introducing LGBT Bioethics into Nursing and Medical School Curricula Great Room Two Autumn Fiester, PhD Lance Wahlert, PhD Industry 1 Welcome and Announcements Important work has begun in bringing LGBT-sensitive 8:00 am - 8:30 am curricular materials to the nation’s medical and nursing schools. Case-based modules have been developed for clinical training that make LGBT Great Room One patients visible to student clinicians and nurses, work to reduce stigma and stereotyping and enhance the sensitivities of trainees to the special needs of this patient population and to the need for equal Plenary Session healthcare and access. As a complement to these 8:30 am - 9:30 am urgently needed changes in clinical training, there is a parallel need for nursing and medical students to receive bioethics training that highlights the specific ethical dilemmas facing LGBT patients and their Freedom to Marry: Just What the Doctor families. To that end, some bioethicists are beginning Ordered to think in a focused way about the set of clinical Evan Wolfson, JD ethics issues that need to be addressed. One of the important outcomes of that new effort is the Great Room One development of a set of LGBT clinical ethics cases that can be incorporated into a program’s standard During this plenary session, Evan Wolfson will bioethics curriculum. This presentation will introduce discuss the work ahead for winning the freedom to a systematic approach to doing LGBT clinical ethics, marry nationwide, building on the victory in New laying out both the general categories of LGBT York and the accelerating momentum in public bioethics, as well as providing specific cases and support. Referencing recent scholarship and key case analyses that can be used at the participants’ voices such as the American Medical Association, home institutions. Wolfson will explore how health professionals and health professional associations can enrich the Learning Objective 1: public debate and contribute their expertise and Introduce the concept of ”LGBT clinical ethics.” experience to make the case for ending exclusion Learning Objective 2: from marriage and strengthening all families. Lay out the set of LGBT bioethical dilemmas that should be addressed in a standard bioethics course Learning Objective 1: in nursing or medical school. Summarize the current landscape in the US. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 3: Describe how health professional associations have Examine sample LGBT bioethics cases, highlighting contributed to the public debate regarding the the relevant ethical issues invovled, while providing freedom to marry. a case analysis that can serve as a stimulus to ethics Learning Objective 3: discussion and debate in the classroom. Identify ways health professionals can support advocacy efforts to win the freedom to marry in the Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose US.

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Recommended Treatment Strategies for LGBT and HIV Discrimination: Using Data Clinicians Managing Older Patients with from Two National Studies HIV Infection - A Report from the HIV Holiday Simmons, MSW and Aging Consensus Project Lisa Mottet, JD Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS Mara Keisling Mark Simone, MD Industry 3 Industry 2 For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and those living with HIV, vulnerability when ill By 2015, over half of all those infected with HIV in or seeking health care services is often exacerbated the United States will be over the age of 50. Under by disrespectful attitudes, discriminatory treatment, sponsorship from the American Academy of HIV inflexible or prejudicial polices and even refusals Medicine (AHIVM) and the American Geriatric of essential care. These barriers, in turn, can result Society (AGS), an expert panel was formed in late in poorer health outcomes and have serious and 2009 and early 2010 to formulate guidance to even catastrophic consequences. In 2009, Lambda clinicians caring for older persons with HIV infection. Legal, along with over 100 partner organizations Drawing upon clinical expertise and the medical distributed a survey to LGBT people and people living literature, this panel developed a group of consensus with HIV across the country. The survey included treatment strategies for managing older patients questions about the following types of discrimination with HIV and co-morbid conditions. The panel’s in health care: being refused needed care; health report, which is in the final stages of production, care professionals refusing to touch patients or using presents the culmination of the consensus process, excessive precautions; health care professionals along with objective evidence (when available), using harsh or abusive language; being blamed and the confidence judgments of the panel. for one’s health status; or health care professionals Objective evidence is restricted to peer-reviewed being physically rough or abusive. This presentation data derived from groups of HIV+ subjects over 50 will examine survey results based on responses from years of age and concerns evidence regarding approximately 5,000 people. By providing a powerful the recommendation or guidance from the expert snapshot of the experiences of a diverse cross panel specifically. In this workshop, we will review the section of members of the LGBT and HIV communities process of establishing the treatment strategies and nationwide, this workshop will also identify key discuss the most important concepts that emerged recommendations for health care institutions; federal, from this group. We hope that by sharing the major state and local governments; and individuals to act outcomes of this project, we will provide practicing upon including comprehensive cultural competency, clinicians guidance in caring for seniors with HIV/ inclusive policies, research and training for medical AIDS. This is the first set of recommendations for this personnel and stronger laws, as well as advocacy increasingly important demographic group. and community education. The session will also assess strategies of how to use the data to further local and Learning Objective 1: national advocacy, as well as formulate a common Understand the unique health issues of older patient agenda from an organizing, public policy and with HIV/AIDS. educational perspective. Learning Objective 2: Understand the concept of multi-morbidity and how Learning Objective 1: it relates to older patients with HIV/AIDS. Identify challenges faced by LGBT and HIV Learning Objective 3: communities in accessing quality, non-discriminatory Discuss the top 5 recommendations from the HIV health care services. and Aging Consensus Panel regarding treating older Learning Objective 2: patients with HIV/AIDS. Discuss how survey results can be used by individuals and organizations to advance health care fairness of Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose LGBT and HIV communities. Learning Objective 3: Formulate outreach strategies that promote health care fairness for LGBT people and people with HIV.

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Transgender-Inclusive Insurance Learning Objective 3: Formulate effective context-based interventions for Coverage: Model Guidelines & Best advocacy for transgender-inclusive health coverage, Practices as individuals and professionals in their workplace, Andre Wilson, MS institution or association. Jamison Green, PhD, MFA Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Industry 4 Most commercial health insurance plans in the U.S. still exclude coverage for treatment related How to Grow your own LGBT Medical to transgender transition, leaving transgender Clinic - Grass Root LGBT Medical Care individuals without access to medically necessary care. However, many major employers are now Advocacy negotiating transgender-inclusive health care plans Chad Putman, LMSW for employees and their dependents, and many Focus colleges are offering inclusive student plans. Inclusive benefits are also now a scored component of the The purpose of this presentation is to provide ’s Corporate Equality Index attendees with a working model of grass root (CEI). Data from these employers suggests that LGBT Medical Clinic Development. Utilizing an extending coverage is cost-effective and possible established model in the Capital District of New even for smaller firms: the number and cost of York State, attendees will explore a breadth of clinic claims has been low, and even smaller, fully-insured development strategies, some of which include companies experienced no premium increases. But coalition building, tapping into key networks, utilizing many barriers persist. Insurance carriers have yet social media, exploring available research and to introduce trans-inclusive products broadly or to data collection techniques. At the conclusion of implement coverage criteria that follow accepted the presentation, attendees will be able to take medical standards of care. Employers struggle to the components of an established model back to understand transgender health needs, to dispel their local communities and customize their own ignorance and fear and to develop the institutional grass root movement for the development of an will crucial to achieving health care equity for a small LGBT medical clinic in their area. As LGBT equality and stigmatized population. Our session will examine continues to emerge in states throughout the nation, best practices from successful advocacy, as well as LGBT advocates are able to focus more attention on lessons learned through adversity. Assessing progress increasing the LGBT consumer’s access to competent to-date, we’ll evaluate factors such as plan size and healthcare. Mounting data on the state and different insurance structures and the challenges national level are pointing to an array of LGBT health posed by medical codes and lack of in-network disparities and gaps in services. As highlighted by the trained providers. Underscoring the powerful role National Coalition for LGBT Health, “No matter where health providers and health professional associations LGBT people live, widespread discrimination on the can play in assuring access to medically necessary basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and care, we’ll conclude by sketching a road-map for expression routinely prevents them from accessing continuing advocacy. During discussion, participants insurance and health care, including preventive are encouraged to share their own advocacy care” (2010). In New York State, data from a needs experiences and challenges. assessment of LGBT healthcare consumers found nearly forty percent of those surveyed reported there Learning Objective 1: are “not enough health professionals adequately Anticipate and provide persuasive responses to trained and competence to provide health care questions commonly asked by employers about to LGBT people”. Furthermore, “LGBT people who medically necessary care required by transgender participated in the Needs Assessment are very individuals, including care related to the sex interested in utilizing LGBT-specific services” (Frazer, reassignment process. 2009). Learning Objective 2: Identify key opportunities and challenges, as well Learning Objective 1: as allies and resources, in achieving transgender- Attendees will be able to identify components inclusive health coverage. of an established grass root LGBT medical clinic development model.

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Learning Objective 2: how they pay for these medical visits and if the Attendees will be able to identify resources in hijras are able to follow the treatment plans and their local communities which may support the interventions suggested by the physician. development of LGBT medical clinic. Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 1: Attendees will be able to identify available research Understand the cultural background of the hijra and know how to conduct local needs assessment community and their position in Indian society. with regards to LGBT medical clinic development in Learning Objective 2: their area. Discuss the difficulty in accessing medical care for marginalized communities and what specific barriers Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose hijras face. Learning Objective 3: Understand the importance of training physicians Original Research Sessions who have an understanding of the needs of sexually marginalized communities in India. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Bridging the Gap: Healthcare Disparities Human Rights, HIV and Sexual Health Among India’s Hijra (Transgender) Among Women Who Have Sex With Community Siddarth Puri Women in Lesotho Tonia Poteat, MMSc, PA-C, MPH Studio 2 Darrin Adams Research has shown that access to quality Studio 2 healthcare for transgender communities in the United States has been difficult. There has been little Lesotho has a generalized HIV epidemic with an research done on the health disparities facing the estimated adult HIV prevalence of 23.6%. Women transgender community abroad. This study examines constitute almost 60% of all HIV infections in the the healthcare disparities faced by the hijra (third country. However, HIV risk and sexual health among gender/transgender) community of India. Through women who have sex with women (WSW) had the combination of focus groups, one-on-one not been studied. Three focus group discussions interviews and participant observation while living with women who ever reported sex with another with hijras in New Delhi and working with them in woman were held in three regions of the country. Mumbai, this project examines the underlying reasons Additionally, 250 WSW were accrued via network- for the evident healthcare disparities. Because of referral and administered a structured quantitative the community’s debased and marginalized position instrument. Themes emerging from focus groups in India, they are rarely given the opportunity to included rigid gender roles and social exclusion as pursue employment in mainstream society and salient features in the lives of WSW in Lesotho. The oftentimes rely on commercial sex-work, dancing quantitative data revealed an association between and begging for financial stability. I conducted HIV and human rights abuses that re-enforce social a medical anthropology study about the hijras’ exclusion: 7% self-reported being HIV positive with understanding of HIV/AIDS and sexual health in 2007, 63% having been tested for HIV in the last year. As where I found that the high rates of HIV within the expected, self-reported HIV infection was significantly community can be attributed to a lack of condom associated with having concurrent male and usage and understanding of HIV transmission. During female regular partners (OR2.9,95%CI1.0-8.7,p<0.05), June 2011, I will survey 35-50 hijras to gather a more higher number of male partners (OR4.8,95%CI1.3- comprehensive evaluation examining the social and 17.8,p<0.05), and having had symptoms of an financial constraints of the hijra community. Looking STI (OR12.4,95%CI3.6-42.4,p<0.05). Surprisingly, specifically at their most recent illness episode and having had a pap smear in the last two years clinical encounter, I will better understand common (OR5.7,95%CI1.5-21.8), experiencing blackmail based reasons for seeking medical care, what type of on sexuality (OR3.0,95%CI1.0-8.9,p<0.05), having lost physicians or healers the community regularly sees, employment based on sexuality (OR15,95%CI3.3- 68.2,p<0.01) and being afraid to seek healthcare

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(OR3.7,95%CI1.2-10.9) were also associated with self- process of making meaning (whether that be reported HIV. Human rights abuses were common, through traditional religious traditions or alternative with 72.7% reporting at least one abuse based on spiritual approaches) can support the alleviation of their sexuality. Of those, 8.8% reported rape. 31.3% suffering and promote healing. felt that the rape was “,” implying Learning Objective 2: that they were targeted because they were WSW. Examine the dynamic relationship between the Disclosing sexual orientation to a healthcare provider healer and the healed through the lens of different was associated with blackmail (OR2.3,95%CI1.1- faith traditions. 4.5,p<0.05). Social exclusion and human rights Learning Objective 3: abuses based on sexual orientation put WSW in Recognizing the opportunities and noting the Lesotho at higher risk for HIV infection and reduce potential obstacles as a result of our LGBT identities in their access to care. Rights-affirming and socially providing meaning-oriented care. inclusive approaches to sexual health for WSW should be developed and implemented. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Learning Objective 1: Describe the baseline characteristics of study participants. Learning Objective 2: Afternoon Recognize the major themes that emerged from focus group discussions. Networking Lunch Learning Objective 3: 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm List the human rights abuses associated with HIV risk among WSW in Lesotho.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Special Guest Evan Wolfson, JD Altitude, 27th Floor Plenary Session Purchase your lunch tickets at the registration desk. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Workshop Sessions 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Encountering Ourselves and the Other: A Multifaith Approach to Relational Centered Care Re-examining LGBT Cultural Rabbi Joshua Lesser, MHL Competence Training Reverend Laurie Robins, MDiv, MA Liz Margolies, LCSW Pamela Ayo Yetunde Great Room One Industry 2 This plenary session is a multifaith panel discussion Many of us are passionately designing and examining patient-entered care, hospitality and conducting LGBT cultural competence trainings self-awareness. Using texts, traditions and personal for health care providers determined to make a narratives, the panel will explore models and values difference in the treatment LGBT patients receive supporting beneficial relationship with those we in healthcare settings and, therefore, reduce LGBT serve to address suffering, healing and our common health disparities. Coincidently, many of our curricula humanity. Particularly, we will address how our LGBT bear great resemblance to each other. Yet, research identities can serve as an entry point or a barrier to measuring the efficacy and long-term usefulness of patient-centered care. cultural competence training is quite limited and a bit discouraging. This workshop will begin with a Learning Objective 1: discussion of the research on cultural competency Understand how our ability to connect to our own as an intervention. Are there any evidence-based

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practices? We will then look at the key components The Role of Healthcare Providers in ID of our own curricula, the values, beliefs and science behind our designs, and what our own post-training Document Changes for Transgender evaluations tell us about our own success and Patients failures. What do we do best? Where could we use Maya Rupert, JD some suggestions from our peers? Are we working Jennifer Levi, JD to change attitudes and/or teach skills that improve the delivery of services to LGBT patients? Bring your Industry 4 curricula, bring your ideas, bring your best practices As the federal government continues to require and bring your questions. This will be a collaborative the use of identification for more purposes, the meeting for people designing, training and/or transgender community has become increasingly researching LGBT cultural competence trainings for vulnerable because of the challenges obtaining healthcare providers. accurate identification documents present for many transgender people. Without such documentation, Learning Objective 1: the transgender community faces significant barriers Learn about the current research on the impact of when attempting to perform many essential tasks in cultural competence training. daily life including traveling, applying for jobs and Learning Objective 2: engaging in financial transactions. Because of the Learn how to improve your own cultural competence importance of accessing accurate identification training methods and content. documentation, it is imperative that healthcare Learning Objective 3: providers be aware of the important role they play Learn about alternative measures for evaluating the in allowing transgender patients to change their success of cultural competence training. government-issued identification documents. As of January 2011, the policy around U.S. Passport Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose regulations has undergone a significant and important change affecting the transgender community. Under this new policy, a transgender Safer Sex on the Edge with MSM person can obtain a passport reflecting his or her Kevin Kapila, MD current gender by submitting a certification from their attending physician confirming that he or Industry 3 she has had appropriate clinical treatment for The focus of this presentation will be on addressing gender transition. Before this change, this letter must safety with alternative sexual practices. (Those often have been from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, labeled as fetishes). We will explore safety with the psychiatrist, or urologist. This session will explore this practices of sounding, fisting, water sports and other and other developments on the federal and state body fluid exchange. level with respect to requirements for identification document changes and provide guidance as to the Learning Objective 1: role healthcare providers can play in this important To address alternative sexual practices in a sensative process for transgender patients. manner, addressing out transferential feelings. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Address infection risks with alternative sexual Cultural Competency: Because of changing policies practices. like the new 2011 passport regulations, healthcare Learning Objective 3: providers who do not necessarily specialize in Evaluate potential soft tissue trauma with aternative transgender health issues will play a significant role sexual practices. in the process of securing identification document changes. This creates a need for all healthcare Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose providers to have a working knowledge of basic issues that arise when serving transgender patients. Session participants will receive basic cultural competency training, become familiar with basic terminology and receive an overview of steps they can take that will assist them in providing a high level of care to transgender patients.

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Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Policy Overview for Changing Identification Describe the process of qualitative data analysis used Documents: Session participants will participate in this study. in a discussion about the current landscape for Learning Objective 2: identification document changes and the role that Identify codes and resulting themes pertinent to the healthcare providers play in facilitating that process. meaning of health from the perspective of lesbians Participants will receive an explanation of recent and bisexual women. changes in policy and how those changes affect Learning Objective 3: the medical profession and provide additional Compare and contrast the WHO definition of health responsibilities. Additionally, session participants will with the definition of health from the perspective of come to understand the importance of making this lesbians and bisexual women. process as easy as possible for transgender patients. Learning Objective 3: Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Practical Application: Session participants will learn what steps they can take to assist transgender patients in document identification changes, receive Original Research Sessions sample letters and affidavits to assist in this process and have the opportunity to ask questions regarding 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm this process.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Intimate Partner Violence Prevention/ Intervention Services and Resources Lesbians’ and Bi-sexual Women’s in Los Angeles: Issues, Needs and Definition of Health Challenges for Assisting Lesbian, Gay, Sarah Fogel, PhD, RN Bisexual and Transgender Clients Leslie Calman, PhD Chandra Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS D. Magrini Terra Slavin, JD Focus Karin Hilton, MPH The World Health Organization defined health in Studio 2 1948 as a state of complete physical, mental and Although lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social well-being and not merely the absence of (LGBT) persons experience intimate partner violence disease or infirmity. This definition has not changed (IPV), existing prevention/intervention services may since then. Scholars from many disciplines, including not fully meet their needs. We sought to identify healthcare, have offered updated definitions, issues, needs and challenges to assisting LGBT persons and most agree that health is a dynamic state. affected by IPV. This was a cross-sectional survey It has been described as a continuum: function, of professionals (e.g., shelter staff, police) (N=54) well-being, encompassing many components and involved with the Los Angeles domestic violence myriad other definitions. An identified gap in the prevention/intervention networks. Data were literature surrounding the meaning of health is what collected via an online questionnaire developed health means to specific populations of people. The based on the Precede/Proceed model. Analyses purpose of this presentation is to present an analysis entailed descriptive (frequencies, proportions) of the meaning of health from the perspective of and non-parametric statistics. Although 50% of lesbian and bisexual women. From September respondents had assisted LGBT persons “sometimes” through November, 2010, an online health-related or “often” in the past year, 35% reported that their survey was conducted through the Mautner Project offices do not regularly assess sexual orientation and in Washington, DC. One of the items on the survey gender identity. 70% of respondents’ organizations asked respondents to describe what health means rely on clients’ self-disclosures. The majority reported to them. Two hundred and six out of 264 total inadequate training on LGBT IPV, including 22% respondents provided an answer to that question. A who received no such training at their current qualitative analysis was performed independently organization. Gender disparities were apparent. by three researchers. Themes were solidified through While 30% of respondents felt unprepared to assist consensus and a definition of health emerged.

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lesbian or bisexual women, higher proportions of different trajectory in attaining the role of mother. respondents felt unprepared to assist gay or bisexual How the women decide who will become the birth men (38%) or male or female (50%). and social mother will automatically affect their Respondents from non-LGBT organizations cited only transition and each should be given the support two resources (a pamphlet, counseling) specifically to adjust into a healthy transition into motherhood. designed for LGBT persons; therefore, these Utilizing the Becoming a Mother framework, I will organizations often referred LGBT clients to the LGBT explore the psychosocial factors that affect how center. According to respondents, LGBT clients’ most social mothers transition into motherhood through frequent requests were for counseling, safe housing, pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and post-pregnancy legal assistance and help navigating the medical stages. By identifying the characteristics of the system. To better assist LGBT persons affected by social-mother’s healthy transition to motherhood, I will IPV, organizations/programs should routinely assess make public health recommendations about how to sexual orientation and gender identity, train staff on support, understand and treat social mothers in the LGBT IPV and provide some LGBT-specific resources/ transition to motherhood. services. Learning Objective 1: Learning Objective 1: Participants will understand the importance of Summarize the level of training service providers language for planned lesbian families. typically receive on domestic violence among LGBT Learning Objective 2: persons. Participants will understand the transition to Learning Objective 2: motherhood for non-birth mothers. List three policy factors that may affect the provision Learning Objective 3: of domestic violence services for this population. Participants will learn recommendations for Public Learning Objective 3: Health providers, educators and researchers. List three considerations for improving domestic violence service provision in this population. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose A Descriptive Study of Homelesness The Transition to Social Motherhood: Among a Sample of Urban Youth in A Qualitative Study Cleveland, Ohio Robin Brennan, DrPh Henry Ng, MD Studio 2 Studio 2 Within the last twenty years, an increasing number Homeless youth are individuals under the age of of same-sex female couples have become parents eighteen who lack parental, foster or institutional together by planning a family, implementing their care. According to the National Coalition for the plan and transitioning as a couple into the role Homeless, 1.35 million U.S. children are homeless of parents. This family structure, planned lesbian on any given night (2000). The National Runaway families, occurs when same-sex female couples Switchboard received 2,924 calls from Ohio in 2006. decide to have children together, typically through In 2007, a mobile youth health van service called donor insemination resulting in a birth and a social the Metro Youth Outreach Project was established mother. The birth mother is the woman who in collaboration with over 25 agencies including becomes pregnant while the social mother is the those which served youth populations, public woman who, while not often sharing a biological health agencies and services for the homeless. connection to the child, takes on the role of a parent The LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland served as to that child. Although both women are mothers, the institutional home for this project. The primary researchers state they experience the transition to project goals were: to identify and decribe who are motherhood very differently. Unlike all other family the Homeless youth of Cleveland and to provide forms, planned lesbian families must decide which basic triage medical care, HIV testing, counseling partner will be the birth mother and which will be services and point of care access for Homeless, LGBT, the social mother. The decision of who becomes high risk youth. A convenience sample of youth pregnant puts each woman on a completely were asked to complete a 18 item survey to better

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understand the factors associated with their current however, 62% report having heard disparaging living situation. Youth received a five dollar gift card remarks or jokes about LGBT people in their in exchange for their participation. The protocol was workplaces. A large minority (39%) of physicians approved by the Case Western Reserve University/ had no formal training on LGBT health issues in their MetroHealth IRB. Data was collected between professional careers. Many also stated that their March 2008 and May 2009. 59 subjects completed medical school training (34%) and residency training the questionnaires. Youth respondents were mostly (30%) were “not at all” helpful in preparing them male, African American. 29% of the youth identified to care for LGBT patients. Since LGBT patients can as gay, lesbian, bisexual, same-gender loving face unique barriers regarding partner rights, we or “Down Lo.” 6 youth were homeless. Among asked several questions about these issues: 86% of homeless youth, 67% of the respondents identified as physicians report “never” discussing durable power sexual minority youth. of attorney issues with LGBT patients and only 27% report having forms that allow individuals to indicate Learning Objective 1: same-sex partners. The AMA/GLMA survey shows Describe a sample of urban youth seeking services that barriers remain to providing LGBT patients from a Mobile Van Clinic. with strong patient-centered care. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Describe the services sought by at-risk youth at the Discuss current knowledge of US physicians in Mobile Van Clinic. understanding specific needs of LGBT patients Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 2: List 3 implications of this research. Recognize current barriers to providing LGBT patients equal access to quality care Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Learning Objective 3:

Identify current educational deficits in the US physician population to providing compassionate, Workshop Sessions quality care. 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Results of GLMA-AMA Collaborative LGBT Patients and Palliative Care: Survey on Physician Experiences Caring Ongoing Barriers to Quality End-of-Life for LGBT Patients Care Shail Maingi, MD Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP Sean O’Mahony, MD Industry 1 Industry 2 Every patient has a right to safe, competent and Palliative care is an emerging field. Although it compassionate care when visiting a physician. focuses on symptom relief throughout the course Research has suggested that lesbian, gay, bisexual of serious illness, in the US, it is most often employed and transgendered (LGBT) patients do not always at the end of life. LGBT patients have encountered experience quality care in discussing health issues numerous difficulties with access to dying loved ones with physicians, and issues involving sexual health in palliative care settings. Recent laws regarding and partner rights can be of special concern. hospital visitation are attempting to address these The American Medical Association (AMA) Institute for inequities. However, the existing literature indicates Ethics collaborated with GLMA to conduct a national that there are more than just legal barriers to quality random sample survey of 1,500 US-licensed physicians end-of-life care for our LGBT patients. High levels of on attitudes and experiences in caring for LGBT family discord, social biases, fear of discrimination patients. Results were hampered by a very low and variability in legal protections remain active response rate (18%), with several returned surveys issues. In this talk, we will review the current research highlighting challenges in talking about issues of on LGBT patients and palliative care. As palliative sexuality even amongst physicians. Most respondents care providers, we will also present the stories of (86%) felt their practice would allow LGBT patients some of our patients to highlight the problems to feel comfortable disclosing their , experienced by this patient population. Finally, we

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will briefly review some of the current changes in measured at the end of treatment and at 3 months legal protections and hope to generate a discussion follow-up. on whether or not these protections are adequate. Learning Objective 1: Learning Objective 1: Describe the barriers and facilitators to smoking Review the current literature on LGBT patients and cessation for HIV+ African American MSM. palliative care. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 2: Describe the development of a culturally targeted Highlight the ongoing problems experienced by this smoking cessation intervention targeted to the needs patient population. of HIV+ African American MSM. Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 3: Discuss recent changes in legal protections and the Describe the feasibility, acceptability and smoking implications of these changes. cessation outcomes associated with a culturally targeted smoking cessation intervention developed Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose for HIV+ African American MSM.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Development and Evaluation of a Culturally Targeted Smoking Cessation 2011 Federal LGBT Health Initiatives Intervention for HIV+ African American Co-Sponsored by the National Coalition MSM for LGBT Health and Center for American Alicia Matthews, PhD Progress Industry 3 Kellan Baker, MA, MPH Joseph Jefferson, MPH HIV infection is a leading cause of death in adults aged 35-44, with sexual contact between men being Industry 4 the primary mode of transmission. Among men who have sex with men (MSM), African Americans have This presentation will focus on federal initiatives the highest HIV incidence rates and tobacco use. that have the potential to positively impact LGBT HIV+ smokers have historically not been targeted health and health disparities in ways that have not for intervention due to poor disease prognosis. To been seen in more than a decade. We will begin address this disparity, study aims were to identify with a discussion of the foundation that is being barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation and to built by advocacy organizations and community develop a culturally targeted treatment program. leaders working with the Obama Administration, Formative phases of the study included: conduct Congress and the federal agencies in order to of focus groups with HIV+ smokers (N = 31 African effectively address a broad range of LGBT disparities. American MSM); adaptation of the Courage to Opportunities that will be highlighted include Quit smoking cessation program; and conduct state and federal data collection, the Affordable of feedback focus groups (N = 18 participants). Care Act, Healthy People 2020, legislative and Participants were M = 41 yrs. of age and HIV+ for appropriations agendas, federal agency priorities M = 12 yrs. The majority were daily smokers (71%), and the Institute of Medicine’s 2011 report to the averaging 10 cigarettes per day. More than 60% of National Institutes of Health on LGBT health research the sample had made a serious past quit attempt gaps and opportunities. and half planned to quit in the next 6 months. The focus group data suggests multiple barriers to quitting Learning Objective 1: including: environmental, cultural, attitudinal, social, Identify and describe current initiatives from the behavioral and emotional factors. The adapted federal government aimed at advancing LGBT materials were rated as highly acceptable and health. culturally appropriate. The next phase of this study Learning Objective 2: is to pilot test the intervention. The study will be a Identify areas of impact for further extending the pre-test/post-test design and measure feasibility, federal government’s responsiveness to LGBT health acceptability and quit rates associated with the concerns. 6-session intervention. CO verified quit rates will be

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Learning Objective 3: Original Research Sessions Develop an understanding of how individual providers and LGBT health advocates can advance 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm the LGBT health agenda both in Washington and at home. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Transgender Content in Medical Curricula: Deans’ and Medical Students’ Perspectives Nuts and Bolts of Primary Care for Jessi Humphreys Transgender Patients Nick Gorton, MD Studio 2 Transgender patients suffer from major health Focus disparities compared with non-transgendered This talk is focused on providers who already individuals. While many factors impact transgender understand the importance of providing transgender persons’ health status, health care providers’ medical care and assumes a moderate level of perceived or real lack of understanding and cultural competency with transgender patients. competency in handling transgender patients’ It is aimed to provide the practical clinical skills health concerns may play a part in these disparities. and knowledge in a compact format with a Two questionnaires (of Deans of medical education focus on making culturally competent providers [n=150] and of medical students [n=8,551] at clinically competent. This talk focuses on medical schools across Canada and the United States) management for adults and older adolescents but were combined with insights from student focus touches briefly on surgical, social and insurance/ group interviews [n=37, across 5 schools] to assess billing aspects that are particularly germane to transgender-related content of medical curricula. primary care providers. The surveys show that transgender-related topics often lag behind the LGB topics assessed, in terms Learning Objective 1: of coverage. According to Deans of medical Understand and be able to provide medical education, the least-covered content areas included management of male to female and female to male transitioning (30.9% of schools) and sex reassignment hormonal transition. surgery (covered in 36.5% of schools). Students feel Learning Objective 2: that these topics receive too little coverage in the Understand how to assist patients in getting name medical curriculum. For example, approximately and gender markers changed as comprehensively as 50% of medical students surveyed believe that sex possible. reassignment surgery and transitioning receive too Learning Objective 3: little coverage at their schools, while less than 5% Understand the benefits and risks of billing and claim in-depth coverage of these topics. Student diagnostic codes for patients and the primary focus groups demonstrated that some medical care for provider’s role in the surgical care of students feel much less prepared and comfortable transgendered patients. handling health needs of transgender patients than of LGB patients. For some, LGB patients seemed like Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose any other patient, while transgender patients seemed different. Medical education has yet to reach consensus on transgender topics in the curriculum. If transgender patient care is to improve through the education of health professionals, understanding the current situation in medical schools across the United States is one necessary step.

Learning Objective 1: Understand current coverage of transgender topics in medical schools (MD and DO) in Canada and the United States.

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Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Understand medical students’ perceived Define how medical curricula can be involved in preparedness and comfort in dealing with addressing LGBT health disparities. transgender patients’ health needs. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 3: Present a model for identifying opportunities for Recognize specific ways in which medical students teaching key aspects of LGBT health. view transgender and LGB patients differently. Learning Objective 3: Discuss ongoing development in the inclusion of LGBT Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose health in medical curricula.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Identifying Opportunities for Integrating LGBT Health into Undergraduate Empathy Development: Facilitating Medical Education the Undergraduate Nursing Student’s Kristen Eckstrand Stewart Yang Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Patients Studio 2 Allen Smith, DNPc, MSN, RN, CRNP Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Studio 2 individuals face well-documented health disparities, which are perpetuated in part by the lack of LGBT- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) specific education and cultural competency individuals represent a distinct population with unmet training in medical curricula. Following the strong healthcare needs when compared to the general recommendations by national medical and population. In part, this inequity is attributed to a healthcare organizations, one medical school failure of the nurse and LGBT patient to engage in a sought to examine its opportunities to improve reciprocal therapeutic relationship. Empathic skills the teaching of the core aspects of LGBT health are an important aspect of communication and are by surveying the perceptions and attitudes of its an effective tool utilized within the therapeutic milieu. curriculum administrators and course directors. For some, empathy is an innate behavior while, for 67% (n=42) started the survey and 62% (n=39) others, empathy must be learned. Nursing research completed it. 90% (n=35) of respondents perceived supports that empathy can be taught, refined, and themselves as having some familiarity with LGBT measured. As educators, nursing faculty possess the health, and 44% felt mostly or highly aware. The ability to cultivate empathic behaviors in the nursing vast majority (38 of 39) believed that teaching student. Despite this ability, research indicates that about LBGT health care was important but only 10 barriers to empathy education may exist. Barriers (26%) thought that this information was adequately preventing empathy development include negative taught. 11 (28%) respondents indicated that their attitudes, fear, and misconceptions regarding personal knowledge about LGBT health issues was the LGBT population. Educational strategies that inadequate. 19 of 39 indicated that they include increase awareness of the LGBT culture have the this content in their course or module whenever potential to combat these barriers, thus promoting possible. Finally, 8 respondents identified themselves the development of empathic behaviors. The to learn more about the inclusion of relevant LGBT purpose of this ongoing study is to examine the content into their course or module. Through this best-practice strategies related to the development survey we have identified both a need for change of empathy and to utilize these strategies as an within an undergraduate medical curriculum in the evidence-based practice project designed to teaching of LGBT health and 8 faculty “champions” facilitate increased empathy among undergraduate willing to learn and move this change forward. The nursing students toward LGBT individuals. Project implications of this research as well as qualitative data planned for release by July, 2011. data from initial faculty interviews will be discussed within the overarching Gale and Grant model of Learning Objective 1: curricular change. To investigate the effect of evidence-based educational strategies on empathy development in undergraduate nursing students toward the LGBT

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patient. Learning Objective 2: Evening To investigate the effect of evidence-based educational strategies on the preparedness of undergraduate nursing students to care for the LGBT Opening Reception patient. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Learning Objective 3: To implement an evidence-based educational program that facilitates the development of Great Room Two with Exhibitors empathic skills necessary to care for the LGBT patient. The official opening reception with an opportunity Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose to hear from GLMA’s president and network with conference attendees; appetizers and a cash bar.

Plenary Session 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Surgeons General Forum Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA Joycelyn Elders, MD, MS Rebecca Allison, MD, Moderator Great Room One Over the past few years, there have been many changes to federal policy vis-à-vis LGBT health. From changes to hospital visitation policies to new efforts by HHS to collect data on LGBT health disparities, the current Administration has made significant progress adopting policies designed to reduce LGBT health disparities. During this plenary, participants will hear from the current US Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, about this progress and additional changes that are on the horizon. Participants will then hear from Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the 15th US Surgeon General under President Bill Clinton, about the challenges she faced as Surgeon General to address health disparities facing LGBT people, given the societal and political climate in which she served.

Learning Objective 1: Describe how the intersections of race, sexuality and gender impact health disparities and the role of the US Surgeon General in ameliorating these disparities; Learning Objective 2: Articulate recent changes in federal policy vis-à-vis LGBT health; Learning Objective 3: Describe the challenges and opportunities that are created by social and political acceptance of LGBT populations.

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Workshop Sessions Morning 9:30 am - 10:30 am Breakfast with exhibitors 7:00 am - 8:00 am An Audiovisual Module for Approaching LGBT Health through Great Room Two A. Robin Williams, MD, MA Industry 1

welcome and announcements Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) 8:00 am - 8:15 am patient populations face some of the greatest health disparities among marginalized communities. Although societal hostility toward LGBT persons has lessened over the past 20 years, rarely do medical Great Room One training programs devote sufficient coverage to LGBT health. Virtually no training curricula are known to require units on working with gender variant Plenary Session or transgender patients. Further, literature exists 8:15 am - 9:15 am to suggest that medical students are frequently exposed to homophobic and pejorative influences while in training. To this end, additional modules in medical education training empathetically covering The Role of the Federal Government in variations in sex, gender and sexuality are needed to enhance provider sensitivity and patient care. An LGBT Health example is presented of an innovative audiovisual Leandris Liburd, PhD, MPH module used to educate clinician-trainees about Kathleen Either, PhD LGBT health and development through the lens of Great Room One transgender narrative. The multimedia slideshow module incorporates a corresponding booklet and During this plenary session, participants will hear website for ongoing learning and resource navigation from leaders within the Center for Disease Control and has proven effective to increase audience and Prevention (CDC) about the role of the federal self-rated pre- and post-presentation levels of government, broadly, and the CDC, specifically, in knowledge. Although such virtual “meet the patient” reducing health disparities among LGBT communities. panels cannot replicate real-life interaction, by Speakers will discuss how the CDC’s programs and external partners are working together through assembling testimonials in advance, complimentary the promotion of evidence-based public health anecdotes and reflections can be aggregated to to achieve a significant health impact for minority produce a robust range of viewpoints. Such attempts communities. at provider familiarization are necessary to begin to ameliorate LGBT health disparities. Learning Objective 1: Describe strategies utilized by the federal Learning Objective 1: government to reduce health disparities among Review the current state of LGBT curricula in medical minority communities, including LGBT communities. training. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 2: Describe plans the CDC has for addressing health Outline an audiovisual module on LGBT education. disparities among LGBT communities. Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 3: Position transgender issues as a platform for broaded Identify CDC resources for healthcare providers to utilize to reduce LGBT health disparities. LGBT curricular interventions. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

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Biomedical HIV Prevention Update Substance Use Among Transgender Carlos del Rio, MD People: Prevalence, Context and Lynn Paxton, MD, PhD Implications for Prevention and Industry 2 Treatment Cesar Gonzalez, PhD, LP During this session, presenters will provide an overview Emilia Lombardi, PhD of oral HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and topical JoAnne Keatley, MSW microbicides for HIV prevention. The session will also include a discussion of the most recent clinical trial Industry 4 findings and the potential impact of these strategies on the HIV epidemic both in the US and Empirical findings exist on non-transgender LGB internationally. individuals’ substance use and their associated factors; however, little research has been published Learning Objective 1: on the prevalence of substance use among the Describe what constitutes PrEP and topical transgender population. This session will feature three microbicides. presentations by experts in the field of transgender Learning Objective 2: health, each drawing from their independent Summarize PrEP and topical microbicides suitability in research and experience in addressing substance different at-risk populations. use among this population. The amalgamation Learning Objective 3: of the research and clinical expertise will include Discuss findings from the most recent HIV biomedical data on substance use and its factors from a large clinical trails. national study of the US transgender population. Participants of this workshop will learn and dialogue Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose about: (1) The prevalence of substance use among transgender women and men as compared to the LGB as well as the general population; (2) the factors associated with substance use (e.g., stigma, LGBT Immigrants & Health intersectionality) among transgender women and Diana Lee, MPP men; (3) the implications of the research findings for Industry 3 the prevention and treatment of substance use and how these findings can augment clinical quality and Participants will learn about the diverse community decision making; as well as the future research and residing in metro-Atlanta and its surrounding 13 policy to promote transgender health. Participants counties, as well as the health and social services will have the opportunity to via audience the Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. polling technology, via mobile phone, throughout the (CPACS) provides to the Asian & Pacific Islander, workshop to promote engagement and interaction. immigrant, refugee, and limited-English proficient communities. The intersecting health needs of Learning Objective 1: immigrants and LGBTQ communities will be discussed, Know the prevalence of substance use among as well as the impact of recent anti-immigrant transgender women and men as compared to the laws in Georgia on the provision of equitable and LGB as well as the general population. comprehensive healthcare for LGBTQ immigrants. Learning Objective 2: Describe the factors associated with substance use Learning Objective 1: (e.g., stigma, intersectionality) among transgender The types of health and social services available to men and women. LGBTQ immigrants. Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 2: Discuss the implications of the research findings for The general health needs of LGBTQ immigrants. the prevention and treatment of substance use and Learning Objective 3: how these findings can augment clinical quality and How recent anti-immigrant laws in Georgia relate decision making; as well as the future research and to the provision of equitable and comprehensive policy to promote transgender health. healthcare for LGBTQ immigrants. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

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The Stud Health Project: Breast and Original Research Sessions Cervical Health for African American 9:30 am - 10:30 am Masculine Identified Lesbians Linda Ellis, MEd, MDiv, LPC Aneesah Akbar-Uqbah Which Men Who Have Sex With Men Are Focus Becoming Repeatedly Infected With In 2010, the Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative entered Syphilis? into a partnership with the members of Sigma Omega Aniruddha Hazra Phi Fraternity and a local Atlanta faith community Kenneth Mayer, MD to explore the healthcare experiences of African American Masculine Identified Lesbians (“Studs”), as Studio 2 well as their responses to (or lack of) existing breast In the past decade, the resurgence of syphilis and cervical screening messages. Our current has become a significant public health concern. pilot study includes a series of focus groups of both Between 2000 and 2008, the annual rate of new Studs and, separately, their partners. Our questions syphilis cases has more than doubled, from 2.1 include: 1. Do studs have lower rates of cervical to 4.5 per 100,000 population. This revival has and breast cancer screening than the general disproportionately affected men, particularly men lesbian population? 2. What are some barriers to who have sex with men (MSM). As of 2008, the screening experienced by Studs? How are those CDC reports that the rate of primary and secondary barriers different or more than those experienced syphilis in males is 5.1 times that in . Equally by lesbians in general? 3. What are some health staggering, 63% of all primary and secondary messages/health language that would be culturally syphilis cases in the US are among MSM. The appropriate for Studs? In the current workshop, we epidemic of syphilis in the MSM community has intend to share the initial findings of our pilot study, been accompanied with another less researched as well as our plans for an expanded research and phenomenon – repeat syphilis infections. programming effort. We seek the feedback of and Repeat syphilis infection is defined as failure of interaction with those interested in similar efforts. nontreponemal titers to decline fourfold within 6-12 months after appropriate therapy. While reinfection Learning Objective 1: is associated with HIV seroconversion and has been Identify potential barriers to healthcare and health most common in MSM, little else is known about this screenings experienced by African American population. To explore these questions, The Fenway Masculine Identified Lesbians. Institute reviewed all syphilis tests on men at Fenway Learning Objective 2: Community Health from 2005 to 2010 (n = 8411); Discuss possible interventions and specific messages 3954 men were tested for syphilis more than once. that could lead to improved screening rates for this MSM accounted for 82% all tests (n = 6896) and population. 97% of all syphilis infections (n = 450). We identified Learning Objective 3: 89 cases of reinfection, all of whom were MSM. Explore implications for healthcare messages Recurrent syphilis infections present a challenge for reaching beyond breast and cervical health of this sexual health promotion and disease prevention for population. MSM. By understanding the patients highest at risk for reinfection, healthcare providers can implement Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose additional interventions for this specific patient population.

Learning Objective 1: Understand the syphilis epidemic among MSM in the US. Learning Objective 2: Identify factors associated with repeat syphilis infections within Fenway’s patient population. Learning Objective 3: Present the need for and the role of additional

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interventions for patients at risk of recurrent syphilis Learning Objective 1: infections. Describe homophobic reactions among medical students. Disclosure: Learning Objective 2: Kenneth Mayer Understand key demographic variables influencing Gilead, Research Grant, PI, Antiretrovirak for attitudes. prevention, Teviofovir Emtricitabine Learning Objective 3: BMS, Research Grant, PI, Antiretrovirak for prevention, Formulate educational methods to address negative Atazanarir reactions. Merck, Research Grant, PI, Antiretrovirak for prevention, Raltegravrir Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Medical Students’ Attitudes to Male Plenary Session Homosexuality 10:45 am - 11:45 am Kabir Matharu Studio 2 Addressing health disparities of sexual minorities The Role of the Professional Association through medical education requires a better in LGBT Health understanding of the attitudes of healthcare Mary Foley, RN, PhD professionals towards these stigmatized groups. Jim Delaney, PA-C To characterize attitudes of students toward Jon Fanning, MS homosexual men concerning behavior, persons, civil rights and male toughness, a previously validated Diane Bruessow, RPA-C, DFAAPA, Moderator cross-sectional web-based anonymous survey was Great Room One e-mailed in December 2010-January 2011 to all students enrolled at the University of California, Davis, Participants will hear from experienced leaders from School of Medicine (N = 371). Attitudes toward the American Medical Association, the American homosexual men, measured as mean scale scores Nursing Association and the American Academy and association with demographic characteristics: of Physician Assistants on their role informing The survey response rate was 70.6% (262 of 371). Few system-level LGBT healthcare equality for patients, respondents expressed negative attitudes toward health professional students and the healthcare homosexual persons and civil rights (3.6% and 14%, workforce. Speakers will discuss how their respective respectively). More negative responses were seen profession’s inform public health (policy, workforce, toward homosexual behavior and concepts of male data collection/research, etc) that is LGBT inclusive toughness (35% and 59%, respectively). Male medical through their strategic plans, programs and policies. students were more likely than their female peers to hold negative attitudes toward homosexual male Learning Objective 1: behavior (64% vs. 32%; P= .001) and persons (32% vs. Discuss the influence of professional associations on 13%; P= .001) in addition to exhibiting more normative healthcare systems. views on male toughness and aggression (78% vs. Learning Objective 2: 33%; P= .001). Younger students (under 25 years of Describe at least three strategies, initiatives and/ age) were more likely to hold negative attitudes or policies that are currently needed to inform LGBT toward homosexual behavior than their peers healthcare equality at the systems level. between 25 and 28 years of age (56% vs. 40%, P= Learning Objective 3: .01). Negative attitudes toward homosexual men are Explore the current and future role of national present at higher levels than anticipated, particularly healthcare professional leaders in eliminating health among men and younger students. Educational disparities and discrimination in the workforce related methods are needed to reinforce the legitimacy of to sexual orientation, gender identity. homosexual expression and explore the acceptance of diverse gender roles. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

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Learning Objective 2: Afternoon Understand the new Joint Commission requirements regarding visitation and non-discrimination. Learning Objective 3: Networking Lunch Provide feedback and discuss ongoing efforts of 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm The Joint Commission to promote health equity and effective communication to the LGBT community.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Special Guest Arizona State Representative, Matt Heinz, MD Presidential Appointments Project Altitude, 27th Floor Brandon Kraft, JD Puchase your lunch tickets at the registration desk. Industry 3 In this session, learn what it takes to be appointed Workshop Sessions by the President of the United States to positions in Agency leadership. The Obama Administration 1:15 pm- 2:15 pm has appointed more openly LGBT officials than any other presidential administration. The Presidential Appointments Project is a coalition of 20 openly LGBT organizations led by the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Advancing Effective Communication Institute, which helps openly LGBT individuals attain and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: appointments in the Obama/Biden Administration. Meeting the Needs of the Lesbian, We have already helped the administration to appoint close to 300 LGBT professionals. This panel Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) will show you how the appointments process works, Community. A Field Guide. what it takes to be appointed, and how GLLI and the Brette Tschurtz project can assist you in finding you dream job within the administration. Appointments come at every Industry 2 level, so don’t be turned away because you think This workshop will give an overview of the new you are too junior or don’t have the experience. monograph: Advancing Effective Communication Learning Objective 1: and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Meeting the Needs of the LGBT Community. In September The appointment process. of 2010, the Joint Commission convened a panel of Learning Objective 2: experts in LGBT health to discuss recommendations, The types of jobs that are generally appointed. successful strategies, and implementation practices Learning Objective 3: related to the equitable provision of care to LGBT How through GLLI’s assistance one can gain an patients and families. This field guide is a compilation appointment within the Obama/Biden Administration. of recommendations from that meeting. The Field Guide contains comprehensive information Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose regarding strategies and implementation practices to better meet the needs of LGBT patients and families, as well as a section to dispel common myths, Integration of LGBT Issues in the Medical a glossary, and a resource guide. In addition, the Field Guide has information about the new Joint School Curriculum Commission standards and elements of performance Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS regarding visitation and non-discrimination that Victoria Gardner, EdD became effective on July 1, 2011. Shane Snowdon Learning Objective 1: Industry 4 Use information and strategies from The Field Guide to better meet the needs of LGBT patients in their Medical schools are required by the LCME (Liaison own organizations. Committee on Medical Education) to include content on sexuality in their curricula. However, a

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recent Stanford survey of medical school deans Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and the National shows this has had little impact on what is actually Black Justice Coalition, written by Alain Dang and taught in medical schools across the county. In Somjen Frazer, provided the first-ever analysis of addition, there are glaring differences in approaches African American lesbians and gays. The report found to incorporating LGBT content into curricula. In this that Black women in same-sex households and Black session we hope to highlight best practices, what the married opposite sex households parent at similar “ideal” LGBT curriculum would look like, and offer rates (61% vs. 69%) and are less likely to own their concrete examples of how students and faculty can own homes. Additionally, a 2009 study by the Williams impact the curriculum locally. Shane Snowdon will Institute at UCLA found that Black lesbians in same- discuss the medical education program at UCSF, sex couples had poverty rates of 21.1%, compared to which offers comprehensive LGBT educational 4.3% for White lesbians, and 14.4% for gay Black men. resources. Jonathan Appelbaum will highlight how While this data is significant, much more in-depth a few engaged faculty and students can effect research and information is needed on health issues change in a medical school curriculum. Victoria and the social determinants of health to decrease Gardner will discuss the challenges and successes morbidity and mortality as well as improve quality of of developing a course elective at the University of life issues for black lesbians. Washington School of Medicine. This workshop will feature brief presentations, followed by a moderated This session will deal with some of those distinct health panel which will encourage questions from the disparities that affect black lesbians - , aging, audience. domestic/sexual violence and reproductive justice. It will provide basic information about black lesbian Learning Objective 1: social/ healthcare issues and help build awareness Learn resources for LGBT medical school curricula. and knowledge for providers. Learning Objective 2: Describe some best practices around fostering LGBT Learning Objective 1: issues in medical school curricula. To learn about distinct health disparities that affect Learning Objective 3: black lesbians. Discuss what impacts LCME and GLMA will have on Learning Objective 2: LGBT curriculum. To understand the personal and community experiences of black lesbians impacted by social Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose determinants of health. Learning Objective 3: Identify current needs of black lesbians and explore strategies to improve access to care The Many Faces of Black Lesbian Health and reduce health disparities. Disparities Mary Ann Adams, MSW Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Angela Denise Davis, MDiv Imani Evans, MA Paris Hatcher, MA Original Research Sessions Tonia Poteat, MMSc, PA-C, MPH 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Focus While the problems of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health have been well End of Life and Later Life Preparation in documented, little is known about the experiences the Global Transgender/Transsexual/ of Black lesbians. A recent search of the published health literature revealed virtually nothing about Trans Queer/Cross-dressing Identified health disparities that arise from social disparities Communities (the physical environment, the social environment, Tarynn Witten, PhD, LCSW, FGSA policies and access to care) among Black lesbians. An October 2004 groundbreaking report titled “Black Studio 2 Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report Trans-aging studies are usually embedded into from the 2000 Census” by the National Gay and general GLBTIQ studies and therefore do not always

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have questions formulated in a way that extracts identified that documented health effects resulting information truly relevant to a transgender focus. The from illicit silicone injections in transgender individuals. Trans MetLife Survey, carried out by the presenter, Diagnoses range from abscesses and pneumonia is an attempt to begin to rectify this situation by to death. Just two research studies were found that altering the Phase 2 MetLife survey instrument so documented the prevalence of injecting silicone. that it focuses solely on trans-identities interpreted These studies suggest that 25-29% of transgender in a multi-cultural way. The survey is on-going. As of women have injected silicone during their lifetime. this submission, n = 1,070 individuals have responded Much of the literature on transgender health cites to this online instrument. Respondents are from 18 illicit silicone as a potential risk factor for contracting countries and of ages 18 and over. In this presentation HIV, Hepatitis C and other blood-borne pathogens we will briefly review the instrument, highlight some from sharing needles; however, transmission has of the basic response demographics, and examine not been documented through empirical data. some of the challenges faced by elders of the Much of what is known is based on individual community in caregiving and later life preparations case studies; therefore, it is crucial to improve and close with some of the responses around and capture data on the prevalence, frequency wisdom, successful aging, and advice. Realizing that and quantities of silicone injected, as well as the psycho-socio-economic factors play a significant context (e.g. “pumping parties”) and behaviors role in mortality and morbidity, we make the case (e.g. injection practices) associated with silicone that medicine needs to pay significant attention to injection. Future research should be directed toward these factors when addressing the needs of these a comprehensive understanding of the effects and communities. risks associated with silicone injections and assert strategies to improve access to safer medically Learning Objective 1: supervised procedures. Describe basic perpectives on successful aging in the transgender-identified communities. Learning Objective 1: Learning Objective 2: To describe of the uses, effects and potential Discuss preparations for later-life in the transgender interactions of silicone injections among transgender identified communities. patients, through a synthesis of the available Learning Objective 3: literature. Discuss challenges around caregiving and wisdom in Learning Objective 2: the transgender identified communities. To explore the complex relationship between gender identity and presentation in the context of Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose augmentation procedures. Learning Objective 3: To examine the challenges in treating transgender The Use and Health Effects of Silicone patients who have injected silicone. Injections Among Transgender Women Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Karin Hilton, MPH Brock Dumville, MPH Studio 2 Impact of Transition on Body Satisfaction Transgender populations face significant societal in Female-to-Male Transgendered and institutional barriers to health care, which Persons may lead to female-to-male transgender women Daniel Munoz, PhD engaging in non-medically supervised care, such as Lisa Woodrich, MS silicone injection. Many transgender women inject Nicole Rider, MA silicone to augment physical features and enhance Stephanie Preston, MS their gender presentation as women. To assess the state of the knowledge on the health effects of Studio 2 silicone injections among transgender populations, As part of an ongoing research project on we reviewed the literature indexed in the National body satisfaction, Twenty-eight female-to-male Library of Medicine database, PubMed. Search transgendered persons completed measures of body terms included “transgender,” “transsexual,” and satisfaction, psychological adjustment, disordered “silicone injection.” Only eight case studies were eating and gender identification. Preliminary

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results indicate a main effect for transition stage Learning Objective 1: for body satisfaction, that is the farther along in Be able to explain the growing importance of gender transition, body image and mood increase. adoption (including transracial adoption) as a Implications for body image conceptualization and pathway to parenthood among lesbian and gay clinical work with FTM populations will be discussed. adults. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Be able to identify the most common outcomes of Identify the concept of body image in transgendered adoptions by lesbian and gay parents, in terms of populations. child development, couple relationships, and family Learning Objective 2: functioning. Discuss relationship between physical transition and Learning Objective 3: psychological adjustment. Be able to describe several factors relevant to Learning Objective 3: diversity among lesbian and gay adoptive parents Discuss role of body image and disordered eating in and their children, and tell how these factors affect transgendered populations. individual, couple, and family lives.

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Plenary Session break with exhibitors 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Great Room Two Kimberly Clermont Memorial Lecture Workshop Session 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Sexual Orientation and Adoptive Parenthood: A Research Update Charlotte Patterson, PhD We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Great Room One Feared?....Queer Nurses in the The adoption of children by lesbian and gay Academy parents is a growing reality in the United States and Laura Hein, PhD, RN, NP-C in at least some other parts of the world. Empirical research on adoptive families with lesbian and Industry 1 gay parents has begun to address some questions Academia is a stronghold of rank, tradition and about child development, couple relationships and decorum. As an evolving discipline eager to be family functioning. Examples of recent findings are respected and accepted by other professional provided from the author’s Adoptive Families Study, disciplines, nursing sometimes clings to the vestiges which focused on lesbian, gay and heterosexual of demureness and propriety. What if one is also couples and on their young adoptive children. While LGBTI – Queer? This presentation will discuss some of lesbian and gay individuals may face a number of the factors to consider when deciding with whom challenges in becoming adoptive parents, lesbian- and to what extent to be “out” when seeking and and gay-parent families formed through adoption maintaining an academic nursing position. Variation appear to experience generally positive outcomes. by academic track and rank will be factored into Much remains to be learned, however, about the discussion. Sharing of experiences/ strategies for diversity among lesbian and gay adoptive parents survival and success will be welcomed. and their children, and about the ways in which the lives of these families are shaped by characteristics of Learning Objective 1: environments in which they live. Explore issues facing LGBTIQ nurses in the Academy.

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Learning Objective 2: families. Describe factors to consider when determining Learning Objective 2: faculty “goodness-of-fit” with a university or College Session participants will become familiar with the of Nursing. new rule and receive an explanation of exactly what Learning Objective 3: it requires and how it will be enforced. This policy Discuss strategies faculty employ to balance personal discussion will give participants an overview of the authenticity and academia. rulemaking process and the effect and operation of the final rule. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Learning Objective 3: Session participants will participate in a discussion of case studies drawn from real-life incidents and discuss How to Comply with New Hospital what should have happened versus what actually happened. They will also have the opportunity to Visitation Regulations discuss situations they have encountered since Maya Rupert, JD the adoption of the rule and learn from the other Industry 2 participants how various issues have been addressed.

On April 15, President Barack Obama issued a Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose memo directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt new regulations that would require nearly all hospitals to grant equal World Professional Association for visitation rights to all families, not just those based on marriage or biology. In the memo, President Transgender Health’s Standards of Care Obama specifically talked about same-sex couples (SOC), Version 7 as an example of family members who have been Eli Coleman, PhD unfairly kept away from their partners when one Jamie Feldman, MD, PhD is hospitalized. As President Obama directed, HHS Lin Fraser issued a final rule on November 19 which went into effect in January 2011. The rule prohibits any Industry 3 hospital receiving federal money from restricting, limiting, or denying visitation privileges based on This presentation will describe the World Professional sexual orientation or gender identity and guarantees Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of that all visitors must have equal visitation privileges, Care (SOC), Version 7. Significant changes in this regardless of whether the visitors are legally or version are based upon significant cultural shifts, biologically related to the patient. Now that this rule advances in clinical knowledge, and appreciation has gone into effect, it is crucial that healthcare of the many health care issues that can arise for providers be notified of their new responsibilities transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming under this rule and how they can ensure compliance people beyond hormone therapy and surgery. with it. This session will provide participants with an The overall goal of the SOC is to provide clinical explanation of the rule new requirements of that guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, rule, and best practices to make sure that they are transgender, and gender nonconforming people providing high level care to all patients and their with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting families regardless of sexual orientation or gender personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order identity. to maximize their overall health, psychological well- being, and self-fulfillment. This assistance may include Learning Objective 1: primary care, gynecologic and urologic care, Session participants will receive an overview of the reproductive options, voice and communication type of discrimination faced by LGBT patients and therapy, mental health services (e.g., assessment, their families in the context of hospital visitation that counseling, psychotherapy), and hormonal and prompted the drafting of this rule. Session participants surgical treatments. will become familiar with the diversity of families within the LGBT community, the need to respect Learning Objective 1: families even where there is no biological or legally Understand the purpose of the Standards of Care recognized relationship and the unique needs that for transsexual, transgender and gender nonforming arise when providing care to LGBT people and their people beyond hormone therapy.

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Learning Objective 2: immigrant and/or people of color populations in the Describe the significant changes in Version 7 from US. previous versions of the Standards of Care. Learning Objective 3: Demonstrate how health disparities arise from social- Learning Objective 3: ecological factors and are connected to cultural Describe the criteria for hormonal and surgical sex contexts. reassignment. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Getting Transnational: Local and Global Support Groups for Lesbians and People of Color Trans/Gender-Variant Caregivers for Persons with Communities and Health—A Game Alzheimer’s Disease: A Successful Show Model of Collaboration Sel Hwahng, PhD Jed Levine, MA Industry 4 Focus Based on over 15 years of collaboration with SAGE, This workshop will provide information on HIV the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter and other illness seroprevalence, health-related has considerable experience in meeting the needs behaviors, health outcomes, socio-political of LGBT caregivers for persons with dementia. This implications and cultural contexts focusing on presentation will provide a rationale for specialized transnational, immigrant and diasporic people of support groups, based on the experiences of color trans/gender-variant communities in the US gay men and lesbians in our groups; internalized and internationally. Presented as a “game show” of many LGBT elders, as well as the format, all participants of the workshop will be experience of those in the baby boom generation divided into teams consisting of 10 or fewer members. who may have vestiges of negative self-image. The moderator will state the question and there will Same-sex partners who are caring for their partners be multiple choice answers. Teams will have a few are often not treated in the same way as spouses. minutes to discuss the question and decide on an answer and then the correct answer will be given Learning Objective 1: by the moderator. There will then be time for an This session will describe the development of support explanation of why this is the correct answer and groups for the LGBT community, and the positive time for Q&A. Special prizes will be awarded to the collaboration between two major organizations team that gets the most answers correct, although serving the aging LGBT community in NYC, and everyone will get something! Discussion: Much describe the common themes that arise in these of the information for this workshop is compiled groups. from the class “Transnational Gender-Variant/ Learning Objective 2: Transgender Social Formations: Political Economies Participants will be able to identify special needs and Health Disparities,” taught by Sel J. Hwahng at of LGBT caregivers and the need for a specialized Columbia University (for syllabus see http://www. support group for them. trans-academics.org/trans_studies_syllabi). This same Learning Objective 3: workshop/game show format has been presented Participants will be able to identify the care at the National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander and support services offered by the Alzheimer’s Alliance Conference in Seattle, Washington, in 2009, Association. and proved to be a fun, engaging and informative learning experience for participants. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Learning Objective 1: Identify health disparities among various trans/ gender-variant communities of color in the US and internationally. Learning Objective 2: Discuss transnational aspects of trans/gender-variant

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Original Research Sessions Learning Objective 2: 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Understand preclinical students’ attitudes toward and confidence in treating LGBT patients. Learning Objective 3: Understand how knowledge and attitudes affect Pre-Clinical Medical Students’ confidence and comfort of students in caring for Knowledge and Attitudes in Caring for LGBT patients. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Patients Nicole Rosendale Benjamin Cox Changes in Medical Students’ Studio 2 Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills After the Although sociocultural attitudes towards lesbian, Integration of LGBTQ-Relevant Topics gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have into a Medical School Curriculum changed, little research has investigated preclinical Tiffany Chen medical students’ knowledge and attitudes in caring Katherine Ferstadt for LGBT patients. This study reports on a 39-question survey sent to preclinical medical students at NYU Studio 2 School of Medicine designed to assess knowledge, A look at evaluating changes in first-year medical attitudes and confidence in caring for LGBT patients. students’ knowledge, attitudes and clinical skills Students, on average, got 59% of items correct on following LGBT Standardized Patient clinical the knowledge assessment (SD = 13%). Students who encounters, lectures with LGBT topics and a LGBT identified as LGBT or had clinical experience with Physician Panel presentation. In August 2010 and LGBT patients had significantly higher knowledge February 2011, 21 students of the UCF College of scores. Students generally held positive attitudes Medicine Class of 2014 completed an anonymous toward LGBT patients (mean endorsement of 37-item online questionnaire adapted from the positive statements = 4.3, SD .6) but were slightly Heterosexual Attitudes Toward Homosexuality (HATH) less confident in treating LGBT patients (mean=3.6, Scale. Between those questionnaires, students had SD .9) and reported slightly less positive attitudes up to 29 hours of LGBT-related instruction; 26 hours toward the importance of disclosure (mean=3.7, were integrated into UCF’s standard curriculum SD .6). Most students did not strongly agree that and three hours were additional instruction hours. “most primary care physicians can effectively treat The three hours included a clinical skills session with LGBT patients” (mean=2.3, SD .8). In hierarchical a standardized patient (SP) who portrayed a gay regression analyses, knowledge, LGBT identification, man, a clinical skills session with a SP who portrayed educational/clinical exposure and attitudes toward a lesbian woman and a panel discussion with four LGBT patients explained 22% of the variance in physicians and a nurse practitioner who self-identified students’ comfort/confidence in treating LGBT as LGBT. Students who received additional LGBT patients. Identifying as LGBT explained 4% (p=.04), instruction showed positive changes in knowledge while attitudes toward LGBT patients and disclosure and attitudes towards LGBT persons compared to explained 17% (p=<.001), even after controlling those who received no additional instruction. The for all other variables. Knowledge of LGBT health, combination of exposure to the standardized patient as measured in our survey, suggests the need for and the physician panel was more effective than more education for preclinical students. Increasing either session alone. Further studies on the clinical knowledge and awareness of LGBT health concerns skills’ performance need to be done. The positive may help change students’ attitudes, which appear changes in students’ attitudes and knowledge to contribute to their comfort and confidence in following the Standardized patient clinical caring for their LGBT patients. encounters and the physician panel suggest the effectiveness of these curricular delivery modalities Learning Objective 1: for the preparation of medical students to become Understand an assessment of preclinical students’ more competent and compassionate healthcare knowledge about LGBT health concerns. providers.

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Learning Objective 1: population of medical students and improve the Outline current and previous trends in educating social climate at medical schools. students in the health professions about LGBT-related topics. Learning Objective 1: Learning Objective 2: Recognize the proportions of LGBT allopathic (MD) Describe non-traditional curricular delivery modalities and osteopathic (DO) students in Canada and the United States that hide their LGBT identities. that may be effective for LGBT-related instruction. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 3: Describe the reasons LGBT medical students provide Understand ways to integrate LGBT instruction into for hiding their sexual orientations or gender identities. the “standard” medical school curriculum. Learning Objective 3: Understand specific student concerns about being Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose out in medical school.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose LGBT Medical Students’ Outness and Reasons for Hiding LGBT Identity in Plenary Session Medical School 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Brett Smith-Hams Studio 2 Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on medical students can experience discrimination LGBT Health: Next Steps and hostility in medical school. We assessed LGBT students’ experiences in medical school to better Paula Amato, MD understand this unexplored population. Allopathic Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH and osteopathic students were recruited from all Harvey Makadon, MD, Moderator medical schools in Canada and the United States to Great Room One complete a web-based questionnaire investigating LGBT-related curricular content. The questionnaire The Institute of Medicine released its groundbreaking also asked students’ sexual orientation, gender report, The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and identity and whether they are “out” at their medical Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better schools. Among 8,551 respondents, 915 selected Understanding, in March 2011. The IOM Committee a sexual orientation other than heterosexual, and was tasked with assessing the current state of 35 selected a gender other than male or female. knowledge of LGBT health, identifying research gaps and formulating a research agenda for the National Over 29% of lesbian, gay and bisexual respondents Institutes of Health. The report’s primary focus is were not “out” about sexual orientation. The majority research on LGBT health and presents seven key (60%) of transgender or other-gendered respondents recommendations. What are the implications of the were not “out” about their gender identity. These report and these recommendations for health care students frequently cited “fear of discrimination in providers, educators and researchers? How are these medical school” (43%) as a reason for not being recommendations best implemented? This plenary “out.” Osteopathic medical students emphasized will explore these questions and discuss how the IOM fear of discrimination in medical school (45.5%) report and its recommendations are relevant in every and concern over career options (45.5%), while day practice. Canadian medical students commonly cited social/ cultural norms (48.1%). Reasons for not being “out” Learning Objective 1: also vary by geographical region. Free-response Identify and explain the key findings and recommendations of the IOM Report on LGBT health. data concerning reasons for not being “out” will be Learning Objective 2: presented. Many medical students do not disclose Discuss how these recommendations impact clinical their sexual orientation or gender identity in medical practice. school, citing fear of discrimination. We propose Learning Objective 3: that medical education organizations collect data Identify opportunities to improve LGBT health on medical students’ sexual orientation and gender education, research and clinical care. identity in order to better understand this unique Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

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Office Hours student reception 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Office Hours Reception for Students, Residents and Trainees A-Way (Next to mall entrance) Einstein’s Join us for an opportunity to have informal discussions with GLMA leadership. A great way for students, new 1077 Juniper Street and potential members and others to learn more Atlanta, GA 30309 about GLMA! (404) 876-7925

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Lesbian Health Fund Fundraiser & reception 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Reception to Benefit the Lesbian Health Fund Altitude, 27th Floor A fundraiser to benefit the Lesbian Health Fund, which provides research grants for issues related to lesbian health. Special entertainment, auction appetizers and cash bar.

Non-conference attendees are welcome for a suggested donation of $25.

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as some of the complexities of creating a psychiatric Morning diagnostic manual. Learning Objective 2: Be familiar with the recommendations for changing Nurses & Friends Networking Breakfast gender diagnoses in the DSM-5. 7:30 am - 8:30 am Learning Objective 3: Learn the nature of the clinical and political Trelis Room in the Spice Market Restaurant controversies surrounding the GID diagnoses.

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CONTINENTAL Breakfast 7:30 am - 8:30 am Workshop Sessions 10:00 am - 11:00 am Great Room Foyer

Philadelphia LGBTQ Alliance of Students Organized for Health (LASOH): Welcome and Announcements A Framework for Grassroots Student 8:30 am - 8:45 am Coalition-Building and Advocacy Great Room One Allison Myers, MPH Robert Kelly, MS Industry 1 Plenary Session Philadelphia LGBTQ Alliance of Students Organized for Health (LASOH) began as the outgrowth of 8:45 am - 9:45 am informal projects focused on LGBTQ health initiatives coordinated by students at a number of Philadelphia medical schools. Through these collaborations, Stanley-Biber Memorial Lecture it became evident that the wealth of health professions students in the Philadelphia region were a powerful means of effecting change. In order Gender Identity Disorder in the to harness the abilities and enthusiasm of health Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5: students dedicated to serving the LGBTQ community, LASOH was created. Composed of students from An Update Drexel University, Temple University, Thomas Jefferson Jack Drescher, MD University, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University Great Room One of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, LASOH is a The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in cohesive body that facilitates the implementation the process of revising its Diagnostic and Statistical of LGBTQ health initiatives. In order to assure the Manual (DSM), with the DSM-5 having an anticipated group’s sustainability, a formal partnership with the publication date of 2013. The revision process has was established. LASOH’s current included online postings of all suggested diagnostic activities include: • Staffing the Mazzoni Center changes to the professional and lay public for Adolescent Drop-In Clinic • Organizing semiannual feedback. To date, there have been two periods hygiene kit donation drives for housing-insecure asking for public response in both 2010 and 2011. This presentation specifically reviews the work of the DSM- LGBTQ youth • Holding health fairs at Philadelphia’s 5 subworkgroup on Gender Identity Disorders (GID), annual Equality Forum, Pride, and Outfest events including its process and its recommendations for a • Providing weekly STI testing at the Washington name change to Gender Dysphoria. West Project • Currently, LASOH has approximately Learning Objective 1: 50 members from 8 different health professions Understand the current DSM-5 revision process as well schools, including medical and nursing schools. The

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group meets monthly to discuss the progress of its necessary care for transgender people, including activities and to discuss future events. The coalition’s how advocacy efforts such as the Healthcare partnership with the Mazzoni Center anchors LASOH Equality Index, endorsed by GLMA, are changing to an existing and enduring community organization. mainstream practices. There is an important role Its elected board members further ensure that LASOH for medical professionals in shaping government remains a collaborative and sustainable means of agencies’ interpretive guidance for antidiscrimination supporting LGBTQ-focused health initiatives. laws and in helping to make the case for government employers to adopt their own transgender-inclusive Learning Objective 1: health policies. Participants will leave the workshop Learn effective ways of organizing health students with concrete ideas about advocating for greater across institutions and disciplines through coalition- health coverage access in their own communities. building. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Learn how to create a sustainable inter-school Understand the policy and legal strategies being student group by partnering with existing LGBTQ developed to increase access to healthcare health and advocacy organizations. coverage for same-sex couples and transgender Learning Objective 3: people. Learn about the ways health students can serve the Learning Objective 2: local LGBTQ community. Understand how a range of both public and private solutions for improving healthcare access shapes Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose mainstream expectations and practices around appropriate healthcare access policies for LGBT people. Increasing Healthcare Access for LGBT Learning Objective 3: Identify concrete steps that participants can take in People: Cutting Edge Public Policy & their professional community to increase access to Legal Strategies healthcare for LGBT people and understand how that Tara Borelli, JD creates leverage that policy and legal advocates Dru Levasseur, JD can use in other communities.

Industry 2 Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose A growing body of empirical research confirms what lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health advocates have known for years: LGBT people are A Review of the Biological Studies of systematically denied the same access to healthcare Transgender Identity coverage that heterosexuals and non-transgender Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA people often take for granted. These disparities in access result in a population of LGBT people who Industry 4 are sicker and poorer than their heterosexual and This presentation will cover the research to date non-transgender counterparts. With new public on the biology of transgender identity, including policy and legal strategies emerging to address genetics, prenatal and adult hormones, histological these disparities, there is both great need and and imaging studies and neurocognitive research. great opportunity for medical professionals to begin Audience members will gain a basic knowledge pressing for more inclusive policies in their own of the types of biological studies that exist on communities. This workshop will review the latest transgender identity, learn how to critically analyze work in the courts to obtain equal health coverage scientific studies of behavior/identity and be able to for domestic partners and same-sex spouses and discuss the ethical and social aspects of theorizing how relationship recognition laws create new about the origins of gender identity. opportunities to require insurers to provide equal treatment. Local equal benefits ordinances have Learning Objective 1: played an important role in increasing access to Name a few of the ways researchers have family health coverage but more municipalities must attempted to study the biology of transgender adopt them and enforcement mechanisms need identity. to be strengthened. This workshop also will focus Learning Objective 2: on new strategies to secure access to medically

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Describe some ways in which an investigator’s biases Original Research Sessions can affect the information that comes out of a study. Learning Objective 3: 10:00 am- 11:00 am Discuss social and ethical aspects of this type of research.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Introducing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity into the Electronic Health Record Trading Sex in NYC: Suggestions for Edward Callahan, PhD Sensitive and Competent Clinical Hendry Ton, MD Practice with LGBTQ Youth of Color Rebecca Weiss, PsyD Michael “Mito” Miller, MSW Studio 2 Focus Development of electronic health records (EHR) provides an opportunity to influence healthcare According to the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Worker delivery within systems, potentially reducing Project, “Sex workers have lived on the margins of healthcare disparities by supplementing specific society through most of human history. Stereotypes, information for the encounter. Recognizing disparities derogatory names, stigma and general indifference experienced by minority populations, a Task Force to their humanity prevail worldwide. While the was convened at the University of California, Davis exchange of sex for money is a common practice Health System (UCDHS) to incorporate self-defined around the world, sex workers are often treated as ethnic identity and preferred language into EHR. less than human, both in cultural attitudes and public To reduce LGBT healthcare disparities, inclusion of policy.” This workshop will explore some of the above sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) in attitudes and seek to debunk myths about the sex the EHR was initiated for a second Task Force. Using trade by situating the context in NYC, specifically LGBT health disparities as the rationale, educational around youth engaged in the ball-culture and sessions identifying LGBT healthcare disparities and frequenting the West Village and Christopher Street/ interview skills trainings were developed. Guided by Chelsea Pier neighborhood. Audience members will key informant interviews, lectures and workshops learn about the efforts of member organizations in have been presented in primary care residency the PROS Network to support sex worker communities training and will be offered at each affiliated and emphasize youth work. Additionally, the Primary Care Network Clinic. Other efforts to presenter will offer insight and recommendations for change atmosphere include staff education about engaging and effectively providing sensitive services respectful interaction with sexual minorities, public that are non-judgmental and rooted in the harm identification of LGBT-friendly providers and seeking reduction model. designation as an LGBT-friendly health system through the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Learning Objective 1: Index. Provider education rollout will be completed Explore the unique identity and social issues that prior to adding SO/GI to the EHR. Initial responses to young, Black/Latino queer sex workers in NYC face. inclusion of SO/GI in the EHR were swift and negative. Learning Objective 2: Objections were raised that clinicians lacked skills Identify risk factors, policies and initiatives that are needed for gathering this information and that relevant to the population, differentiating street- seeking this information would be uncomfortable. based and internet-based sex trade/survival sex from Changing atmosphere on LGBT issues became sexually exploited and prostituted people. the Task Force’s charge, working to: identify the Learning Objective 3: rationale for discussion of SO/GI in the clinician- Discuss the harm reduction model as a clinical best patient encounter; develop education to address practice and community-preferred approach. clinician needs; identify strategies for successful local incorporation of education; and roll out education. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Learning Objective 1: Discuss use of changing technology to prompt systemic change in behavior around LGBTI patients.

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Learning Objective 2: Transgender Patient Encounters with Describe development of brief intensive training for

practicing physicians. Health Professionals Learning Objective 3: Eric Tran Describe use of key informant interviews as a strategy Bradley Nguyen for developing effective intervention in the local Studio 2 environment, Lesbian, gay and bisexual patients experience Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose significant obstacles in accessing medical care but transgender patients face particularly heightened barriers to competent healthcare. The LGBT The Impact of Public Health Categories Health Stories Project has collected many stories of transgender patients that demonstrate a need for HIV Data among MSM and for increased medical provider competency and Transgender Women respect for transgender patients. T, a transgender Tonia Poteat, MMSc, PA-C, MPH man from North Carolina, related one such story. After being admitted to the Emergency Department Studio 2 (ED) following a pulmonary embolism, medical care HIV research often subsumes trans women under providers caused additional distress by using incorrect the category of men who have sex with men (MSM). gender pronouns. A life-threatening situation arose For example, the NIH webpage that describes when one medical professional assumed that T was the high profile iPrEx study reads as follows: The a male. However, T is officially listed female. This Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men study, confusion caused a major delay in emergency care, also known as iPrEx, is a Phase III clinical study as the worker was unable to locate T’s chart. While designed to determine whether a daily tablet this emergency was ultimately resolved, the incorrect containing a combination of two antiretroviral drugs assumption of T’s recorded gender prevented T used for HIV treatment can safely and effectively from receiving timely, competent care. Seth, a prevent HIV infection among men who have sex with young transgender man, relayed a story of how men and transgendered women who have sex with his former physician claimed that the root of Seth’s men. The title suggests that the study is about men. transgender identity was childhood sexual abuse. However, the study actually included both MSM and Seth immediately left the office after this statement transgender women. This presentation will explore with strong feelings of anger and shock. Due to this both the benefits and the costs of combining data hurtful encounter, Seth has not returned to this doctor. from MSM and transgender women. Using data Study participants expressed the need for health from studies of MSM and trans women in Baltimore, care providers to use appropriate gender pronouns, the presenter will describe important ways in which ask thoughtful questions about patients’ identity and MSM and trans women’s risk overlap and diverge. medical care needs, and interact with patients in a Alternative approaches to addressing HIV risk among caring and unassuming way. They noted that some trans populations will be discussed. providers are taking steps towards inclusive, affirming care, which made them feel more comfortable and Learning Objective 1: safe. Describe the demographics of the participants in the MSM and transgender studies. Learning Objective 1: Learning Objective 2: Interview LGBT individuals to learn about their Compare correlates of HIV risk among MSM and trans experiences in the healthcare field as patients. women. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 3: Understand the triumphs and challenges that LGBT Discuss alternative approaches to addressing HIV risk patients have experienced in accessing health care. among trans populations. Learning Objective 3: Explore patient suggestions for best practices and Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose solutions. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

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WORKSHOP SESSIONS The BROTHERS’ Study: Trying to 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Understand and Address the Disproportionate Burden of HIV/AIDS Among American Black Men who have The AMSA/GLMA LGBT Leadership Sex with Men Institute: Creating Change from within Kenneth Mayer, MD Institutions Jermel Wallace, MHS Carl Streed, Jr Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, AACRN, Matthew Huddle DPNAP, FAANP Industry 1 Industry 2 Medical students face a variety of environments at Approximately 25% of the people living with HIV/AIDS their institutions regarding LGBT educational and in the US are MSM. Prior studies have suggested that health issues. Unfortunately, many students attend individual risk behaviors are less related to this disparity institutions that are hostile, apathetic or ignorant to than other factors, such as barriers to routine HIV LGBT issues and concerns. Since 2006, the American testing, linkage to care, STD screening and treatment Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the Gay and partner selection. To better understand these and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) have issues and to develop culturally-tailored prevention sponsored a Leadership Institute to provide training interventions, the NIH funded the BROTHERS’ Study for student leaders to advocate for the integration of [Broadening the Reach of Testing, Health Education, LGBT health issues into school curricula. The purpose Resources & Services] to be conducted at clinical of this institute is to bring together students from a research sites in Atlanta, Washington, DC, New York, variety of educational environments to develop Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Over 30% of the next generation of leaders and advocates for the 1561 men enrolled were less than 30 years old; improving the access and quality of LGBT healthcare. approximately 75% had a household income of less The institute builds on knowledge and skills of the than $30,000 per year; HIV prevalence at baseline participants by presenting information on the health was 17.7%. One of the goals of the study was to assess disparities that members of the LGBT population the utility of training peer health/community system face as well as providing skills relating to curriculum navigators to assist participants in linking to care and reform and leadership development. Institutes are preventive services. Although only 23.4% of eligible organized by selected medical students. Speakers men attended at least one peer navigator session, included national organizations, representatives those who did were much more likely to present for from the hosting institution, and national leaders in follow-up study visits at 6 and 12 months. The panel for LGBT healthcare. Topics included curriculum reform, this presentation includes one of the Protocol Chairs, career considerations, LGBT student organizations the Project Coordinator at the Atlanta site and the and advocacy. Discussion time allows attendees Chair of the study’s Black Caucus. to brainstorm solutions to the problems at their own institutions. Over the past 6 years, the Leadership Learning Objective 1: Institute has had participants from over 40 schools To review the data supporting theories of why of medicine, nursing, public health and midwifery the HIV epidemic has impacted Black MSM in 18 states as well as Canada and Ireland. The disproportionately. LGBT Leadership Institute is a much needed training Learning Objective 2: experience for those interested in becoming true To discuss the conduct of HPTN 061 and the leaders in the fight to end disparities for the LGBT experience of participants interacting with site study population. staff. Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 1: To discuss the development of HPTN 061 and the Describe the importance and content of LGBT process of engagement of Black gay researchers in Leadership Institutes. study development and implementation. Learning Objective 2: Identify specific curriculum reform strategies. Disclosure: Learning Objective 3: Kenneth Mayer Gilead: Research Grant, PI, Antiretrovirak for Propose solutions for the continuation of the Institute. prevention, Teviofovir Emtricitabine BMS: Research Grant, PI, Antiretrovirak for prevention, Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Atazanarir

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Merck, Research Grant, PI, Antiretrovirak for Learning Objective 2: prevention, Raltegravrir Understand some of the fertility preservation and Jermel Wallace family building options available to transgender HPTN, Speaker Black MSM individuals who would like to have genetic offspring. Learning Objective 3: Be able to have an informed discussion with gay, Family Building Options for Gay lesbian and transgender patients who may have & Lesbian Families Using Assisted questions about family building using third party reproductive options and/or assisted reproductive Reproductive Technologies technologies and refer them to appropriate LGBT- Samuel Pang, MD welcoming providers of assisted reproduction services Industry 3 for culturally sensitive care.

Historically, lesbians who have not had children Disclosure: through prior heterosexual relationships have Samuel Pang utilized donor sperm insemination to have children. Merck: Research Grant, PI multi-center clinical time, Similarly, gay men who have not had children corifollitropin through prior heterosexual relationships may adopt EMD Serono: Research Grant, PI in multi-center study, children to build their families or create co-parenting biomarkers of embargo implantation arrangements with a lesbian couple or single woman. With the availability of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), more gay and lesbian couples Improving Transgender Healthcare from are utilizing ART to have children. Gay men may have genetic offspring by doing in vitro fertilization Nursing Education to Practice (IVF) with egg donation and gestational surrogacy. Nathan Levitt, RN While most lesbians continue to use alternative Industry 4 insemination with donor sperm to have children, some opt to do reciprocal IVF, where one partner Transgender people face many barriers within provides the eggs which are inseminated with healthcare, including discrimination, ignorance donor sperm, and the other partner gestates the and fear. The lack of informed care, sensitive pregnancy. Reciprocal IVF allows both women in language, research and education prevents access the relationship to be part of the process of having to competent care and screening. This workshop their child(ren) together. Reciprocal IVF may be will explore ways to improve transgender health medically necessary in lesbian couples if one partner education in schools with curriculum ideas and case is infertile because she is unable to produce healthy studies, as well as ways to integrate transgender oocytes which will result in successful pregnancy, informed health care in hospitals, health centers but her partner is able to provide healthy oocytes to and social service organizations. As the “T” often create embryos for her to gestate. Prior to gender gets grouped in with the “LGB” without necessary reassignment hormonal treatment and surgical understanding and resources, this workshop will help procedures, transgender individuals who would like participants understand how patients are affected to have genetic offspring may bank their gametes by in healthcare settings and what which could then be used in future to build their you can do as healthcare providers. We will look families with ART. This presentation will review IVF and at interventions for the many barriers to care the related ART procedures and describe how ART may transgender community face. be used very successfully to build families for gay, lesbian and transgender people. Learning Objective 1: Learn concrete tools to incorporate into your school, Learning Objective 1: organization, practice etc. to improve transgender Understand the process of IVF utilizing egg donation healthcare. and gestational surrogacy for gay male couples and Learning Objective 2: reciprocal IVF for lesbian couples, as well as some Provide necessary transgender education and of the financial and legal implications of conceiving training in order to enhance sensitivity and children through IVF utilizing egg donation and understanding throughout all aspects of healthcare. gestational surrogacy for gay male couples and Learning Objective 3: reciprocal IVF for lesbian couples. Reduce barriers to care and improve screening,

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routine care and transgender-specific care. Learning Objective 3: Identify key ethical and legal issues in elective genital Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose surgery involving children with DSD.

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Surgical Decision-Making for Children with DSD Anne Tamar-Mattis, JD Original Research Sessions Arlene Baratz, MD 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Focus This facilitated discussion offers an opportunity Implications in Studying Mental Health to compare notes on the evolution of surgical decision-making for children with DSD over the last and Substance Abuse Among the 15 years. How are decisions about genital surgery, LGBTQ Population removal and gender assignment being Marcena Gabrielson, PhD, RN made? What has improved and what remains a Myoung Jin Kim, PhD challenge? How many patients are receiving care from functioning multidisciplinary teams? How are Studio 2 decisions made where team structures are not in place? What strategies have been effective in Past research suggests LGBTQ adults demonstrate encouraging the formation of effective teams? What higher substance use rates and an increased risk are the roles of surgeons, endocrinologists, mental for mental illness compared to heterosexual adults. health specialists and other team members? How is There is, however, a gap in research concerned decisional authority balanced between parents and with mental health and substance abuse among providers? What is the role of the team in facilitating LGBTQ adults, which is compounded by a lack of peer support and input from other affected families adequately sensitive instruments and measurements. and adults? Is difficulty with reimbursement for More research is needed with culturally mental health services an obstacle to providing high- sensitive instruments to identify and understand quality care? Is there a shortage of qualified mental interrelationships among psychosocial, behavioral health specialists? We will also discuss decision- and biological processes in chronic substance abuse making involving older children. What decisions and mental illness patterns among this population. are postponed until the child can participate? Is it Chronic smoking and alcohol use can potentiate preferable to perform major surgical interventions risks for a range of cancers and chronic disease. before the age of memory development? At what Further, mental health has a significant impact on age is the child’s input solicited, and how? What physical health. Consequently, chronic mental happens when a child with DSD wishes to change health issues can contribute to health disparities gender? Are similar standards of care applied seen among the LGBTQ population. It is essential to decisions about gender change and elective to explore and understand this phenomenon to genital surgery for children/teens with DSD and for ensure that healthcare providers deliver culturally transgender children/teens? Why or why not? We informed and targeted prevention and intervention. will refer to the American Academy of Pediatrics Findings from an ongoing secondary analysis of policy statements “Consensus Statement on current data from the Global Appraisal of Individual Management of Disorders” and “Informed Needs (GAIN) dataset are discussed. GAIN Consent, Parental Permission and Assent in Pediatric originated as a collaboration between clinicians, Practice.” researchers and policymakers from over a dozen behavioral healthcare agencies across the US. Learning Objective 1: As a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment Discuss prevalent models for making decisions about tool, it is the core clinical and research measure surgery in DSD. across several major multisite studies. Our purpose Learning Objective 2: is to explore interrelationships among psychosocial, Describe differences and similarities in surgical behavioral and biological processes in more chronic decisions for minors with DSD and transgender minors. substance abuse and mental illness patterns of LGBTQ compared to heterosexual adults in drug and

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alcohol treatment. Results of the analysis, practice interaction to strengthen an intervention plan. implications, methodological implications and future Learning Objective 1: research directions are discussed. Participants will be able to report that 1 in 8 current smokers in the LGBT community do not smoke daily, Learning Objective 1: but some days. Identify methodological implications in conducting Learning Objective 2: mental health and substance abuse research Participants will be able to discuss the implication on regarding the LGBT population. tobacco cessation plan for some day smokers. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 3: Identify needed future directions for LGBTQ mental Participants will be able to hypothesize 3 possible health and substance abuse research. reasons smoking may be initiated around coming out Learning Objective 3: period. Identify the practice consequences of the gap in this research area. Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Older Lesbian Adults with Alcoholism: A Case Study LGBT Occasional Smokers and the Noell Rowan, PhD Coming Out Period Jane McElroy, PhD Studio 2 Susan Pereira, MD Little is known about the health and mental Kevin Everett, PhD health challenges and strengths of older lesbian adults in recovery from alcoholism. This research Studio 2 presentation focuses on accessing this often hidden Rates of smoking in the LGBT community are double and understudied population. The Seidman (2006) that of the mainstream community. However, approach of a three part semi-structured interview the topography of smoking may vary significantly was utilized in a sample of 20 participants for a total between these two population. LGBT participants of 60 interviews. In accordance with guidelines on completed a 25 item surveys at five 2010 Pride phenomenological research, it is vital for immersion Festivals in Missouri and in 2008 LGBT participants in the data to become more fully aware of the completed an online survey. For the 2010 survey, experiences of the respondent (Padgett, 2008; current smokers answered questions related to their Patton, 2002; Wertz, 2005) and repeatedly listen to level of smoking. For the 2008 online survey, 105 the interviews and read and reread the transcripts current smokers provided information about year numerous times (Seidman, 2006; Wertz, 2005). A of coming out and year of smoking initiation. Of case study will be described to illuminate the lived the 1,323 current smokers in the 2010 survey, 13% experience with emphasis on resiliency and quality of reported being some day smoker. This is significantly life. higher than a probabilistic survey of Missouri residents which reported 5% some day smokers. Of the 105 Learning Objective 1: smokers in the 2008 survey, 12% started smoking Discuss findings of the study within a population of during the same year of coming; 25% started smoking hard to reach older adults. ± 1 year of coming out; 35% ± 2 years of coming Learning Objective 2: out; another 11% initiated smoking in the 3rd year of Demonstrate increased awareness with the common coming out for a total of almost half of the smoking methodological challenges with hard to reach older habit initiated. It is imperative that we have a adult populations. better understanding of the nature of addiction or Learning Objective 3: dependence in the occasional LGBT smokers. With Discuss health and mental health strengths and environmental changes in smoking (tobacco control challenges of this subset of older adults. policies and progressive denormalization of smoking), it is likely that the trend in number of occasional Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose smokers will continue to climb. As smoking behavior may be linked to a stressful period (coming out), we need to have a better understanding of this

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effective at reaching the public and providers, Afternoon enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of services and facilitating societal dialogue around GLMA Membership Luncheon sexuality, a topic that is socially sensitive but vital to human health and well-being. This presentation 12:30 pm- 2:00 pm will summarize recent CDC efforts to develop and promote a sexual health framework in support of core prevention programs, in particular its Altitude, 27th Floor implications for HIV prevention and the health of LGBT persons and discuss opportunities and A chance for members and guests to hear the latest challenges for implementing this approach. about GLMA’s accomplishments and the health of the organization, remarks from GLMA president, Learning Objective 1: executive director and other key organizational Understand national efforts in the US to advance a leaders. public health approach to promote sexual health. GLMA Members and Member guests only. Learning Objective 2: Understand implications of this approach for HIV prevention and the health of LGBT persons. Learning Objective 3: Plenary SESSION Understand challenges and opportunities for advancing a sexual health promotion framework. 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose A Public Health Approach for Advancing Sexual Health in the US: Workshop Sessions Implications for HIV Prevention and 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Health of LGBT Persons Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH John Douglas, Jr, MD Aging Lesbians Receiving Home Health Great Room One Care Services: What Health Care The first formal US government recognition of Providers Need to Know the importance of a sexual health framework Linda Travis, PsyD for enhancing STD/HIV prevention - The Surgeon Industry 1 General’s Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior - was published The vast majority of older adults hope to remain 10 years ago. Unfortunately, in the intervening in their homes and communities for as long as years, many measures of adverse health outcomes possible. Nonetheless, lesbian, gay, bisexual and of unhealthy sexual behaviors have improved only transgender (LGBT) older adults face unique legal, minimally or worsened - including HIV, STDs and teen economic and emotional challenges in the aging and unplanned pregnancy. Core public health processes within their homes and communities. disease control and prevention efforts need to These challenges give rise to fears and concerns be enhanced by a renewed effort to mobilize all regarding the marginalization and invisibility of LGBT levels of society to address issues of sexual health older adults from the healthcare system in general as an intrinsic part of human health and the CDC and from the home healthcare system in particular. is committed to enhancing prevention impact for This interactive presentation is designed to expand STD/HIV prevention by developing a more holistic participants’ awareness, knowledge and skills prevention and wellness framework that more regarding 1) the increased effectiveness of home comprehensively addresses the broader issue of healthcare providers with lesbian older adults; and sexual health. The use of such a broader, health- 2) the increased effectiveness of lesbian older adults focused framework has the potential for providing and their loved ones with home healthcare providers. less-stigmatizing messages that may be more Additionally, the presentation will examine critical

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cohort differences between lesbian baby boomers traumatic stress in LGBT veterans, what Veteran and lesbians age 66 and older in 2011. Throughout Centers can offer for rehabilitation counseling and the presentation, other diversity dimensions (e.g., referral and traumatic brain injuries, the signature class, race, ethnicity) will be reviewed in light of wound of Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it can the impact of these dimensions on the healthcare be overlooked even when it is causing significant collaboration processes among lesbians and home problems for the veteran and their significant others. health care providers. Finally, the presentation will Panelists will also discuss various factors such as race, provide a listing of relevant resources for participants. sex and age that may be barriers for healthcare providers to care for veterans. Learning Objective 1: List three key challenges and fears of lesbian older Learning Objective 1: adults receiving home-based healthcare services. Identify the healthcare needs of LGBT veterans. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 2: List three key areas of training for home-based Discuss how healthcare providers can provide care healthcare programs and providers in order for LGBT veterans who have faced discrimination. to achieve cultural competence with lesbian Learning Objective 3: older adults and list three steps that lesbian older Summarize the needs of special groups of veterans, adults and their loved ones can take to maximize such as transgender veterans and veterans with opportunities for optimal home-based healthcare multiple trauma and identify resources for LGBT services. veterans resources. Learning Objective 3: Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose List three key critical areas of cohort differences between lesbian baby boomers and lesbians age 66

and older in 2011. GLMA Ambassador Program Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose Leonard Harvey, MD, MBA Bobby Bangert Industry 3 LGBT Veteran Issues Christopher DiMaio, MD As a GLMA Ambassador, you can show your Daniel Ingram commitment to LGBT health and the mission of GLMA by serving as a point person in your local community Monica Helms of leaders that is paving the way for LGBT healthcare Nacole Knight equality!

Industry 2 The goals of the GLMA Ambassador program This presentation will deal with issues faced by LGBT include: veterans and their friends and family. While LGBT 1. Enhancing visibility for GLMA and providing people have always been, and always will be, in education about the work we do. the US Military, it was official government policy 2. Providing outreach to potential new members and to discharge LGBT people from the military. Until serving in a recruitment role. 3. Increasing resources for GLMA through asks, recently, this was a Dishonorable Discharge which member recruitment, donor cultivation and by could have an extremely negative impact and helping GLMA develop relationships with local remain with the LGBT veteran for the rest of his or her organizations. life. The official government-sanctioned discrimination for lesbian, gay and bisexual servicemembers GLMA Ambassadors serve as key points to will come to an end this September. However, as strengthening the networks of LGBT health healthcare providers, you will see LGBT veterans, professionals and allies within their community to their family and friends who still bear scars from reach the goal of ensuring healthcare equality for this discrimination and who will continue to face everyone in the LGBT community. The change discrimination even after September. Additionally, starts with support from dedicated advocates like LGBT veterans also can be affected by all of the you. other injuries and problems to which all military personnel are exposed. Panelists will discuss issues *CME/CEUs will not available for this session. transgender veterans encounter, the new VA policy regarding transgendered veterans, “double” post Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose

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Experiences in Transgender Rural Tomorrow’s LGBT Health Professionals – Medicine An Interdisciplinary Forum Suegee Tamar-Mattis, DO Brian Hurley, MD, MBA Kathleen Carrick, PhD Industry 4 Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA Michael “Mito” Miller, MSW While facilities and providers with expertise in transgender medicine are springing up in urban Justin Young, MD centers around the country, competent healthcare Focus for transgender patients in small-town and rural areas is still sadly lacking. This workshop describes LGBT health professional students and trainees have had an integral role in promoting LGBT equality the experiences of one provider establishing a throughout healthcare, often serving as advocates clinic focusing on transgender patients in a rural and educational change agents to institutions setting on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay resistant to evolution in an era of LGBT parity. The Area. Using an informal, story-telling format, Dr. experiences of LGBT physicians in training have been Tamar-Mattis will discuss broaching the subject with well documented and are marked by a number of professional peers, overcoming institutional barriers, medical institutional structures dedicated to LGBT building collaborations, community reactions, students and residents. What has been less fully patient outreach, avoidance of medical care due articulated are the experiences of other health to fear of “,” navigating payment options, professionals in training, which include tomorrow’s special confidentiality concerns in the rural setting, audiologists, dentists, dieticians, nurse midwives, developing staff sensitivity, protocol design and nurse practitioners, nurses, occupational therapists, special communities within the rural transgender pharmacists, physical therapists, physician assistants, population (i.e., adolescents and migrant workers). psychologists, public health, social workers and speech pathologists amidst an array of nonclinical The workshop will offer opportunities for question-and- health professionals who work to support the answer and for brainstorming about how participants healthcare delivery infrastructure. There are can address the needs of underserved transgender commonalities shared in solidarity between many populations in their areas. LGBT health advocacy professionals-in-training alongside important profession-specific differences. Learning Objective 1: Oriented to all GLMA members-in-training, this Describe the hidden transgender population in rural interactive panel session is designed to serve as a and semi-rural areas. forum for sharing resources and expertise amongst Learning Objective 2: a community of health professional students Identify strategies for supporting transgender and trainees engaged in similar aims, as well as sensitivity among medical staff unused to this highlighting GLMA and related societies as catalysts population. for ongoing collaboration. This interactive forum panel will feature trainees from different health Learning Objective 3: professions, discussing the commonalities shared Explain strategies to increase services for underserved and distinctions between the experiences of LGBT transgender populations. health professionals-in-training. The emphasis will be on the development of consensus in interdisciplinary Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose teamwork toward the goal of LGBT equality.

Learning Objective 1: Discuss common barriers and opportunities facing LGBT health professionals in training. Learning Objective 2: Contrast the training experience for LGBT professionals in training between different professional fields. Learning Objective 3: Recognize high-yield approaches for interdisciplinary collaboration between in-training LGBT professionals.

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Original Research Sessions Texting for Health: Feasibility and 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Effectiveness of a Text-Message Reminder System for HAART Adherence in Adolescents At the Intersection of HIV/AIDS and Brian Holoyda Cancer: Assessing the Needs of Studio 2 Community-Based AIDS Service Organizations The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of text Jack Burkhalter, PhD message reminders as an intervention to improve Studio 2 ART adherence rates among poorly adherent HIV-positive youth. Twenty-five adolescents were The number of persons age 50 and older living with enrolled in the text-message reminder system HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is growing and the percent of and assessed at 6, 12, 18 and 24-week follow-up PLWHA dying from non-AIDS-related causes, such as cancer, has climbed. PLWHA are at elevated periods. In terms of satisfaction, 80% reported that risk for non-AIDS defining cancers, such as lung the reminders helped them “very much” to avoid and oral cancers. Community-based AIDS service missed doses of medication and 64% reported that organizations (ASOs), a vital component of care they would prefer to receive text reminders as part for PLWHA, are challenged to address aging and of their care in comparison to regular care with cancer-related concerns. This study identified 104 no text messages. With regard to feasibility, 68% eligible New York City regional ASOs and surveyed percent reported having received all daily text them about their capacities and needs regarding message reminders and 80% reported “always” implementing cancer-focused programming. or “often” reading their daily reminders. Finally, Preliminary data are presented on n = 52 ASO mean adherence scores on a visual analog score responses in this ongoing study. Staff respondents increased at 12 and 24 weeks in comparison to were 54% female, a mean age of 48, had worked baseline (0-12 week: mean baseline = 74.7, mean 10 years at their agencies, college-educated (94%) and 89% were in administration or management. follow-up = 93.3; p≤.01; 0-24-week: mean follow- The agencies had a median client base of 1,000. up score = 93.1; p≤.01; n=22). Mean CD4 counts Over 1/3 had no experience in any cancer-related increased and mean viral loads decreased from activities. Although 60% had provided cancer 0-12 and 0-24 weeks. This pilot study demonstrates prevention activities, few had experience with that daily text messaging is a feasible and cancer screening, treatment or survivorship concerns. acceptable way to remind HIV-positive youth with Most expressed a high degree of interest in learning poor adherence to ART to take their medications. more about the cancer/HIV linkage, but they lacked In addition, there was a significant increase in resources to implement cancer programming. Most adherence rates post-intervention. Larger studies (>80%) expressed that clients, staff and agency including a control group and youth who are newly leadership somewhat/very much needed education starting ART will be needed to show the potential about cancer concerns and data on the impact of effect of this intervention to improve adherence. cancer on their clients. They lacked capacity to refer to culturally competent cancer care providers and means to help undocumented and uninsured clients. Full survey results will be presented to describe ASO Learning Objective 1: needs and viable strategies to help incorporate Describe the effect of a text-message reminder cancer concerns into HIV services. system on HAART adherence in adolescents. Learning Objective 2: Learning Objective 1: Understand how common technology can be used Describe the importance of cancer concerns in HIV/ to improve HIV management in youth. AIDS. Learning Objective 3: Learning Objective 2: Discuss the implications of utilizing text-messaging to Review the methodology in survey development. generate health behavior change. Learning Objective 3: Understand the cancer programming needs of a Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose sample of AIDS service organizations.

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Saturday, September 24 (continued) Social Contexts and HIV Risk among Low-Income/Poverty-Class Cocaine, Evening Crack and Heroin-Using WSW of Color Sel Hwahng, PhD Major Donor Reception Studio 2 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Low-income cocaine-, crack- and heroin-using WSW are women who have sex with women and often also have sex with men. Research has shown that these drug-using WSW prefer women as their Fox Theatre relational and sexual partners but often have sex Grand Salon with men out of economic necessity. Low-income 600 Peachtree Street, NE drug-using WSW are a high-risk HIV population, with Atlanta, GA 30308 HIV seroprevalence ranging from 12.8% to 53%. In randomly selected samples of high HIV risk drug- For GLMA Major Donors and Invited Guests Only using women, drug-using WSW comprise a sizable portion, and sometimes even a majority of drug-using Tickets required to attend. women of color. Several studies indicate that drug- using WSW are at higher HIV risk compared to drug- using women who have sex with men only (WSMO). Compared to drug-using WSMO, drug-using WSW Annual GALA Banquet are also much more likely to trade sex with men for 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm drugs and/or money and male partners of drug-using WSW tend to be at much more high risk, including MSM/W, IDUs and/or HIV-positive, compared to the male partners of drug-using WSMO. Drug-using Fox Theatre WSW are also considered a “bridge” population Egyptian Ballroom that can potentially infect men through sexual and 600 Peachtree Street, NE IDU transmission and infect other women through Atlanta, GA 30308 IDU transmission. Drug-using WSW are more likely to perform “active” social roles compared to drug-using An opportunity to celebrate the close of the 29th WSMO, which may provide economic, social, and Annual Conference as well as recognize the 2011 psychological benefits to these women while also GLMA Acheivement Award recipients. placing them at greater HIV risk. African American women are more often associated with WSW/M Tickets required to attend. behavior compared to white women. Drug-using WSW of color have special needs that should be addressed.

Learning Objective 1: Define low-income drug-using women of color who have sex with women and men (WSW/M of color) as a high HIV risk population with special needs. Learning Objective 2: Identify distal and proximal HIV risk factors for low- income drug-using WSW/M of color. Learning Objective 3: Demonstrate how low-income drug-using WSW/M of color are often at greater HIV risk compared to low- income drug-using women of color who have sex with men only (WSMO of color).

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Joint Symposium for Transgender Health

Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:00 am – 7:30 pm Emory Conference Center Atlanta, GA

GLMA, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and Southern Comfort will host a joint symposium on transgender health issues. This joint program was organized as part of an effort to establish and maintain ongoing collaborative relationships with other professional and community-based organizations and its members to work together to promote the health of transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people worldwide.

The joint conference day consists of contributions from each of the three organizations (WPATH, Southern Comfort and GLMA), providing ample opportunity for dialogue, as we explore the conference theme of “Transgender Beyond Disorder: Identity, Community and Health.”

WPATH will be providing transportation from the Southern Comfort and GLMA conference sites to the Emory Conference Center. Buses will depart the W Atlanta Midtown at 9:00am.

Onsite registration is available. For further information or questions, please visit the GLMA registration desk.

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Faculty Roster

Mary Anne Adams, MSW years. He moved to Brigham and Women’s Physician Mary Anne Adams has over 20 years of Group, where he was medical director for a 15 physician experience managing quantitative and academic practice for four years before relocating to qualitative research. She currently serves as Florida to become the director of Internal Medicine deputy director and director of community Education at Florida State University College of Medicine. Engagement and Outreach with the Center in He is a member of the AAHIVM Credentialing Committee Health Disparities Research at Georgia State and has been a credentialed HIV-specialist since 2003. He University. For many years, Adams served as board chair serves on the Steering Committee for the Group on Diversity and executive director of ZAMI, Inc., “Atlanta’s premiere and Inclusion of the AAMC. Dr. Appelbaum was the co- organization for lesbians of African descent.” She founded principal investigator for the HIV and Aging Consensus and developed its international Audre Lorde Scholarship Project. Fund that awarded over $250,000 in scholarships and expenses to out LGBT scholars of color. A five year breast Kellen Baker, MA, MPH cancer survivor, Adams has lived her diagnosis and Kellan Baker is a health policy analyst with survivorship out loud. the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, DC, where he works with the federal She is a founding member of Susan G. Komen for the Cure government and other stakeholders on a broad National LGBT advisory board, and in 2010 founded ZAMI range of LGBT health issues. Prior to joining CAP, NOBLA (National Coalition of Black Lesbians on Aging) Kellan was the senior policy associate at the based in Atlanta, Georgia. Adams received her Master of National Coalition for LGBT Health. Kellan also spent several Social Work from Georgia State University with a focus on years as a translator and editor in Moscow, Russia, where community partnerships. he worked with Special Olympics Russia and co-founded a group that advocates for transgender health in the former Rebecca Allison, MD Soviet Union. Kellan is an affiliated faculty member for LGBT Becky Allison grew up in the Mississippi Delta health policy at the Center for Population Research in LGBT and received her BS and MD degrees from the Health at the Fenway Institute and he has been a consultant University of Mississippi. She trained in Internal on international transgender health with the Sexual Health Medicine and Cardiology at the University and Rights Project (SHARP) at the Open Society Foundation. of Mississippi Medical Center and practiced Kellan holds a Master of Public Health in health policy and cardiology in Jackson prior to moving to Arizona. a Master of Arts in international development from George Since 1994, Becky has been a cardiologist with CIGNA Washington University, where he was elected to the Delta Medical Group of Phoenix, on staff at Good Samaritan Omega Public Health Honors Society. Regional Medical Center. In Phoenix, Becky is a supporter of Shadow Rock United Church of Christ, Actors Theater of Bobby Bangert Phoenix and the Desert Botanical Garden. In her leisure time Bobby Bangert joined GLMA as membership and she loves to travel and bring back photos of her favorite development associate in August, 2011. Originally from destinations. Becky has been a GLMA member since the Maryland, he comes to GLMA from Philadelphia, where mid-1990s, a Board member since 2004, and currently he completed an apprenticeship in arts administration at serves as president of the GLMA board. She is a past-chair Arden Theatre Company. He later served as development of the American Medical Association (AMA) Advisory assistant for the Arden and, more recently, worked in the Committee on LGBT Issues and was recently elected to membership department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. the board of directors of the World Professional Association He is excited to translate his membership and development for Transgender Health. She has authored several book skills from arts administration to serve GLMA’s mission and chapters on gender identity and was an invited speaker at members. He is a graduate of Washington College in the 2009 American Psychiatric Association Symposium “In or Chestertown, Maryland. Out: Gender Identity Disorder and the DSM.” Arlene Baratz, MD Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS Arlene Baratz, MD, is a practicing breast radiologist, serves Dr. Appelbaum is an internist, geriatrician, hospice/ on the DSD Committee for Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital, palliative care physician and an HIV expert. A and serves as an advisor and/or board member to several graduate of the University of Miami School of DSD patient advocacy groups: , Androgen Medicine and the University of Massachusetts Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group – USA; and Advocates internal medicine residency program, he spent for Informed Choice. 12 years in practice in northeastern Connecticut before relocating to Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, MA, where he served as medical director for eight

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Faculty Roster

Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA with Peter Jennings, and “Woman of the Year’ on CBS This Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, is the 18th Surgeon General Morning. She received the 2000 National Caring Award, of the United States Public Health Service. As America’s which was inspired by Mother Teresa, received the papal Doctor, she provides the public with the best scientific honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from Pope Benedict XVI and information available on how to improve their health and was awarded a MacArthur Genius Award Fellowship. the health of the nation. Dr. Benjamin also oversees the operational command of 6,500 uniformed health officers Christopher Blackwell, PhD, ARNP, ANP-BC who serve in locations around the world to promote and Currently an assistant professor at University of Central Florida, protect the health of the American People. Orlando, where he teaches at the Masters and Doctoral levels and conducts research in health and social policy Dr. Benjamin is founder and former CEO of the Bayou La disparities in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, former associate dean persons. In addition to authoring textbook chapters and for Rural Health at the University of South Alabama College serving on several journal editorial review boards, his work of Medicine in Mobile and past chair of the Federation has been published in the Journal of LGBT Health Research, of State Medical Boards of the United States. In 1995, she American Journal for Nurse Practitioners, Journal of Health was the first physician under age 40 and the first African- & Social Policy, Journal of Social Service Research, Journal American woman to be elected to the American Medical of LGBT Youth, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Association Board of Trustees. She served as president of the Transcultural Nursing, and the Journal of Human Behavior in American Medical Association Education and Research the Social Environment. In 2010, he received the Excellence Foundation and chair of the AMA Council on Ethical and in Graduate Teaching Award from UCF’s College of Nursing. Judicial Affairs (CEJA). In 2002, she became president of Dr. Blackwell maintains his clinical practice in Pulmonary/ the Medical Association State of Alabama, making her the Critical Care and is nationally board-certified as an adult first African American female president of a State Medical health nurse practitioner through the American Nurses Society in the United States. Credentialing Center.

Dr. Benjamin has a BS in chemistry from Xavier University, Lou Bordisso New Orleans, an MD degree from the University of Alabama Lou Bordisso was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s at Birmingham and an MBA from Tulane University. She disease in 2010 at the age of 56. attended Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency in Macon, GA. Dr. Benjamin The Most Reverend Lou Bordisso is Bishop Emeritus within the holds 11 honorary degrees. In July 1987, Dr. Benjamin Old Catholic faith tradition serving the Diocese of California, established a clinic in a small fishing village in Alabama American Catholic Church, and provides pastoral and to help its uninsured residents. She persevered through spiritual care with the Order of St. John Vianney for both Hurricane Georges in 1998, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and a ordained clergy and ministers. Prior to being received devastating fire in 2006, often putting up her own money to into the Old Catholic faith tradition, Bishop Bordisso was cover expenses. She also became nationally prominent for a Roman Catholic vowed religious with the Society of the her business acumen and humane approach to preventive Divine Savior and has served as Presiding Bishop for the medicine. American Catholic Diocese of California and as Provincial for the Order of Saint John Vianney. Bishop Bordisso has Dr. Benjamin is a member of the National Academy of been a licensed marriage and family therapist for more than Science’s Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American two decades and maintains a private practice providing Academy of Family Physicians. She was a Kellogg National psychotherapy, pastoral counseling and spiritual care to Fellow and a Rockefeller Next Generation Leader. Some previous patients. In addition, Bishop Bordisso is host of a of her numerous board memberships included the Robert public and community access television program called Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid Political Inquisitions and is the author of a book entitled, Sex and the Uninsured, Catholic Health Association, and , and Priesthood: A Bishop’s Provocative Inquisition, Morehouse School of Medicine. scheduled to come out this fall.

In 1998, Dr Benjamin was the United States recipient of the Bishop Bordisso’s co-workers first noticed a change in his Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. She behavior when he became forgetful and distracted at work. was named by Time Magazine as one of the “Nation’s 50 He began getting lost while driving to familiar locations, Future Leaders Age 40 and Under.” She was featured in a such as traveling from his home to a meeting in a nearby New York Times article, “Angel in a White Coat,” in People town, and was unable to locate a conference room in his Magazine, on the December 1999 cover of Clarity Magazine, building. Later, Bishop Bordisso experienced memory loss and was on the January 2003 cover of Reader’s Digest. She at home, forgetting to pay bills and placing butter in the was also “Person of the Week” on ABC’s World News Tonight pantry instead of the refrigerator.

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Bishop Bordisso’s diagnosis took approximately seven degree in Public Health, with an emphasis in Community months. He was initially diagnosed with cognitive Health and Prevention, in May 2011. impairment in 2004 but after extensive testing, including a lumbar puncture, neurological and psychological tests Jack Burkhalter, PhD and numerous MRIs, he received the diagnosis of younger- Jack Burkhalter is a clinical health psychologist, assistant onset Alzheimer’s disease. Bishop Bordisso’s reaction to his attending psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry diagnosis was shock, but he soon accepted the diagnosis & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer as an opportunity to re-prioritize and focus on relationships, Center, New York City, NY. He is also assistant director of spirituality and health. Bishop Bordisso is currently living with the Tobacco Cessation Program. His research has spanned his father, Lou Bordisso, Sr., who also has Alzheimer’s disease, both HIV/AIDS and cancer and he provides clinical care to and his care partner, Norman, who is a caregiver for both individuals affected by either or both. His current research is Lou Senior and Bishop Bordisso. in the areas of cancer prevention in LGBT and HIV+ persons and, for the past two years, has focused on the intersection As a member of the national 2011 Early-Stage Advisory of cancer and HIV/AIDS. He has received National Cancer Group, Bishop Bordisso is interested in the 10 Warning Signs Institute funding to pursue community-based participatory of Alzheimer’s, educating the public about living with the research with AIDS service organizations (ASOs) and has disease, advocacy for research and clinical trails and partnered with Gay Mens’ Health Crisis (GMHC) and City coordination of long-term care. Bishop Bordisso would College of New York collaborators to evaluate and address like to stress the importance of living with the disease and the needs of ASOs in integrating cancer concerns into their encourage individuals to seize the present moment. current services. Other funded work is to test the feasibility Bishop Bordisso lives in Sacramento, California. of a novel tobacco cessation intervention in PLWHA.

Tara Borelli, JD Edward Callahan, PhD Tara Borelli is a staff attorney at Lambda Legal, the oldest Edward J. Callahan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and largest national legal organization committed to who serves as Associate Dean for Academic achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT people Personnel and Professor of Family and Community and people with HIV. Borelli coordinates Lambda Legal’s Medicine at the University of California, Davis work on health care fairness and currently is counsel in School of Medicine. Dr. Callahan also serves as Collins v. Brewer, a federal challenge seeking to protect chair of the Task Force for Inclusion of Sexual equal family health insurance for Arizona state employees Orientation and Gender Identity in the Electronic Health after the legislature voted to strip them of that coverage. Record which targets enhancing the atmosphere of the Borelli previously secured equal family health coverage for health system around sexual orientation and gender ientity Washington firefighter paramedics and a lead 911 dispatcher issues. in deGroen v. City of Bellevue. Borelli also represented an Eastern Washington man denied medical care because Leslie Calman, PhD he is gay, resulting in a settlement agreement with strong Leslie J. Calman, PhD, executive director, leads protections to help prevent future discrimination. Mautner Project: The National Lesbian Health Organization. Prior to joining Mautner Project, Robin Brennan, DrPh she held leadership positions at the International Robin Brennan is an auxiliary professor at Drexel University, Center for Research on Women (ICRW), NOW teaching a course she created called “Women’s Health Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the and Human Rights.” Robin has over 10 years experience Barnard College Center for Research on Women. She has managing public health programs, teaching, and published two books on social movements in India and her conducting research. Previous positions include: executive articles have appeared in Chronicle of Higher Education, director of a comprehensive health promotion and youth and Pacific Affairs. She has been quoted in the media, development program, Epidemiology Analyst of Healthy including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Start, associate director for a Workforce Development Newsweek, Forbes, and The Nation. Calman is on the Program at the United Way, and independent consultant board of the National LGBT Health Coalition, serves on the evaluating substance abuse treatment programs for the national advisory council for the Healthcare Equality Index, University of Maryland, School of Medicine. Robin’s current and is affiliated with the Center for Population Research in research interests are: Lesbian and Transgender Health, LGBT Health of the Fenway Institute. In 2010, she was invited Women’s Reproductive and Maternal Health, Human to give testimony about lesbian health to the Institute of Rights, HIV Prevention, and Youth Empowerment. Robin Medicine. holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Health, a Master’s degree in Applied Psychology and Quantitative Methods, and she will earn her Doctoral

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Kathleen Carrick, PhD Benjamin Cox Kat Carrick is an assistant professor in the Ben Cox is a third year medical student at the Department of Social Work for Arkansas State New York University School of Medicine. He University. I serve as faculty advisor for the MSW grew up in Southern California and graduated student organization as well as the Gay-Straight from the University of California, Los Angeles, Alliance on campus. I believe that improving our cum laude with a BS in Physiological Science understanding of diversity is a key component and a minor in Spanish Language. At the in preparing future health care professionals to meet the NYU School of Medicine, he has been very involved with challenging demands of our health care system. I have curriculum development, focusing on LGBT healthcare worked in all aspects of direct service delivery from grassroots inclusions. He served as co-president of the LGBT People activism, to community mental health, to foster care, to In Medicine Student Group at NYU and worked to develop inpatient psychiatric, trauma, and hospital social work. The a supplemental curriculum in LGBT Healthcare and an LGBT HEART scholarship provided financial support and the associated official certificate program. Additionally, he has Center for Research on Health and Sexual Orientation at been involved in the creation of research projects related the University of Pittsburgh provided social support enabling to these medical education innovations as well as several me to complete my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in other aspects of LGBT healthcare. 2010. I received my MSW from Smith College in 1990, and BA in Psychology from Chatham University in 1988. Angela Denise Davis, MDiv Angela Denise Davis is an ordained minister, Eli Coleman, PhD activist, and writer interested in spiritual and Eli Coleman, PhD, is the academic chair in Sexual career issues located at the intersection of race, Health, professor and director of the Program in class, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. Human Sexuality, Department of Family Medicine Her focus was born out of her own social location and Community Health, University of Minnesota as an African American lesbian who incurred a Medical School in Minneapolis. He is the author disabling condition in 2003 that left her legally blind. She of numerous articles and books on compulsive believes her call in life is to facilitate conversations and sexual behavior, sexual offenders, sexual orientation, gender theological reflections at the fence line of various differences. dysphoria, chemical dependency and family intimacy and Davis is currently a student at Georgia State University in the on the psychological and pharmacological treatment of Master of Rehabilitation Counseling program. This fall, she is a variety of sexual dysfunctions and disorders. Professor serving as an intern at the Center for the Visually Impaired Coleman is the founding editor of the International Journal in Atlanta, where she will assist with career development of Transgenderism and is the founding and current editor interventions for persons who are blind. She is also a of the International Journal of Sexual Health. He is one of Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) Scholar,\ and a the past-presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of frequent public speaker in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Davis holds a master of divinity degree from Vanderbilt Health (formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender University Divinity School. Dysphoria Association), the World Association for Sexual Health and the International Academy for Sex Research. He James E. Delaney, PA-C has been a frequent technical consultant on sexual health James E. Delaney, PA-C, serves as the president- issues to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan elect of the American Academy of Physician American Health Organization (the regional office of WHO). Assistants. As a board member, he has served He has been the recipient of numerous awards including as first vice speaker, second vice speaker and a the US Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award for his director-at-large. role as senior scientist on Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, Delaney currently works for the University of Texas at Dallas released in 2001. He was given the Distinguished Scientific in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. There, he is part Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific of the facility for the Orthopedic Residency program as well Study of Sexuality and the Alfred E. Kinsey Award by the as a lecturer and clinical preceptor for the PA program. Midcontinent Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in 2001. In April 2007, he was awarded the Gold Delaney earned his PA certification from the University Medal for his lifetime contributions to the field of sexual of Southern California School of Medicine and his BS in health by the World Association for Sexual Health. In May physiologic psychology from the California State University of 2007, he was appointed the first endowed chair in Sexual in San Bernardino. He currently serves on the article review Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. In boards for Advance for Physician Assistants and the May of 2009, he was awarded the Masters and Johnson Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Award by the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. He is also a member of the Kaiser Hospital Interdisciplinary

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Practice Committee and a member of the review board for Childhood Gender Nonconformity and the Development Permanente Journal. of Adult Homosexuality (2009). He is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health and senior Christopher DiMaio, MD author of “Homosexuality, Gay and Lesbian Identities, Dr. DiMaio was born in Providence, RI and went and Homosexual Behavior,” Kaplan and Sadock’s to Classical High and to the University of Rhode Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. He is presently Island. He went to Georgetown Medical School guest-editing a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality and did his Internship at the Cornell Division of addressing the clinical treatment of gender variant and Bellevue and North Shore Hospital in NY. He then gender dysphoric children and adolescents. Dr. Drescher is went into the Navy and was assigned to the an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender Marines in Vn with the 3rd Marine Corps Bn. After discharge, and sexuality. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, he did his first year of psychiatric residency at SF Presbytarian Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, Anderson Cooper, Wolf and the last two years in San Diego with a fellowship at UCLA. Blitzer, Bill O’Reilly. His views have been quoted by The New Dr. DiMaio has worked with County Mental Health, private York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Time practice, the VA, and Kaiser. Dr. DiMaio is now retired and Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, and numerous national lives in Aptos with his spouse Andrew and their two standard and local media outlets. Poodles. Brock Dumville, MPH John Douglas, Jr, MD Brock Dumville expects to graduate in June 2011 with a John Munroe Douglas, Jr, MD, is Chief Medical Master’s degree in Public Health from the School of Public Officer of the National Center for HIV, Viral Health at University of California, Los Angeles. Brock is Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) and a Canadian native and completed his undergraduate past director of the Division of STD Prevention degree at McGill University in Microbiology and Social within NCHHSTP at CDC. A graduate of Davidson Studies of Medicine. In his research and work, Brock focuses College and Harvard Medical School, he on sexual health among marginalized communities, completed post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and particularly within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. Prior to populations. Much of his research focuses on access to joining CDC, Dr. Douglas served as director of STD Control care for LGBT immigrants and low-income transgender for Denver and as Professor of Medicine and Biometrics persons. Brock has designed and taught sexual health and and Preventive Medicine at the University of Colorado HIV prevention workshops that incorporate LGBT issues for Health Sciences Center. Dr. Douglas is a leader in the field high school and undergraduate students. Brock’s work has of STD prevention, nationally recognized for research on the allowed him to conduct public health programs in Uganda epidemiology and treatment of STDs, for implementation and last summer he led a program evaluation of an HIV of research findings into effective STD prevention program prevention program in Senegal. practice, and for effective STD prevention program policy development. He is currently leading NCHHSTP efforts Kristen Eckstrand to enhance STD/HIV prevention through promotion of a Kristen Eckstrand is a 4th-year MD, PhD student in the broader sexual health framework. Neuroscience Graduate Program at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where she uses neuroimaging to Jack Drescher, MD better understand insulin regulation of dopamine reward Jack Drescher, MD, is a NYC psychiatrist in circuitry. She initiated and is currently working with the private practice. He is a Distinguished Fellow Vanderbilt administration and faculty on LGBT curriculum of the American Psychiatric Association, a improvements, a project that she hopes can be adapted member of the DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and by students at schools around the country to promote Gender Identity Disorders, and past president similar curricular progress. She additionally volunteers of APA’s NYC Branch. He is President of the at the national level with the student-led organization, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. Dr. Drescher is Medical Students for Choice, working to improve student Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical competency in sexual health and family planning. She College, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, New York hopes to continue to engage in curricular innovations and University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and teaching, particularly to further women’s and LGBT health. Psychoanalysis, and a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. Linda Ellis, MEd, MDiv, LPC Linda Ellis has served as the Executive Director of the Atlanta Dr. Drescher is the author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and Lesbian Health Initiative since January of 2002. Linda has the Gay Man and has edited twenty books including Master degrees in both theology and family therapy. A Transgender Subjectivities: A Clinician’s Guide (2004) and licensed therapist, she is a skilled organizational leader

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with a proven ability to generate support in a variety of Dr. Ethier’s research has included psychosocial, behavioral, stakeholder communities. The Health Initiative remains organizational and clinical factors related to women’s the only non-profit organization in the state of Georgia health, maternal health and adolescent sexual and supporting and advocating for lesbian health. In her role reproductive health. Her work has been published widely in as Executive Director, Linda has expanded both the reach peer-review publications, including the American Journal of and reputation of the organization, developing a strong Public Health, Health Psychology, Archives of Pediatrics and network of healthcare providers committed to providing Adolescent Medicine, the American Journal of Obstetrics culturally sensitive care and insuring that lesbian voices are and Gynecology, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and increasingly included in conversations of women’s health. Sexually Transmitted Infections, among others. She has co- Increasingly, the work of the Health Initiative focuses on authored chapters in edited books, including Women and increasing access to supportive healthcare for under and AIDS: Coping and Care, the Handbook of Health Psychology un-insured members of Atlanta’s LGBT community. and Behavioral Interventions for Prevention and Control of STDs. Dr. Ethier earned her PhD. in social psychology from the Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA, is a recent where her dissertation examined identity acquisition and graduate of Dartmouth Medical School. She change among women during and following their first grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and attended Hunter pregnancy. College High School in Manhattan and then Middlebury College in Vermont, where she Imani Evans, MA became involved in feminist and LGBT student Imani Evans says, ”Violence is an experience, groups. During medical school, she returned home to New not an identity,” which is the founding principle York City for a year to earn a Master’s in Women and Gender for Women Healing Women, Inc. Founded in Studies at The Graduate Center at the City University of New December 2004, Women Healing Women is a York. During her last year in medical school, Laura chose non-profit organization serving women survivors electives in transgender medicine, transgender surgery, and of sexual and domestic violence. gender variant pediatrics. These compelled her to begin working on a book that would attempt to provide these Imani is currently pursuing a doctorate in Counseling resources. (Trans Bodies, Trans Selves) is a resource guide Education & Supervision, and holds a Bachelor’s and written by and for transgender people and is due to be Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. She has been published in 2012. Laura has finished a one year fellowship a social change agent for more than 20 years, working as the Director of Student Programming for the American with several non-profit agencies throughout Atlanta, New Medical Student Association and has started a residency in Jersey and New York. Evans received Special Congressional Psychiatry at NYU. Recognition as director of a national breast and cervical cancer awareness program (1996). She has gone on to Kathleen Ethier, PhD receive the Community Award from Unity Fellowship Church Dr. Kathleen Ethier is the Deputy Associate Director for of Atlanta and community recognition from Zami, Atlanta’s Program at CDC. Her office serves in an advisory capacity to premiere organization for lesbians of African descent. the Director as well as leads the agency in the development Imani is both an artist and healer, combining her talents of program strategy, performance measurement and to create an amazing atmosphere for transformation and accountability and program evaluation. She also serves as empowerment. the CDC representative on the Health and Human Services Coordinating Committee on LGBT Health. Kevin Everett, PhD Kevin D. Everett, PhD, is an associate professor of Family Dr. Ethier joined CDC in 1999 to lead the development and and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri evaluation interventions to prevent HIV, STDs and pregnancy with 15 years of experience addressing tobacco issues among adolescents. She also has served as the acting in research and clinical settings. Dr. Everett has a director of the Division of Oral Health and the Adolescent particular interest in developing interventions that reach Health Goal team leader. Dr. Ethier is a co-founder of underserved populations. He has led training sessions in the Workgroup on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive brief smoking cessation counseling that educated over Health (WASRH), a cross-center, cross-division activity to 500 health professionals as part of a contract with the increase collaboration around this important issue. She has Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (2005- participated in a number of committees and initiatives across 2007). Dr. Everett recently completed a pilot clinical trial the agency and with external partners. Prior to joining CDC, of smoking cessation where low income rural pregnant she spent six years on the research faculty at Yale University women and their partners who smoke were targeted for working on studies of HIV, STD and unplanned pregnancy telephone counseling treatment. He is co-director on the prevention among women, particularly adolescents. highly successful Checkout Project, a serial funded project

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examining tobacco use and intervention to reduce 2009. She is now part of the UCF COM Charter Class, where tobacco use in the LGBT community in Missouri. her pioneering spirit will allow her to help build a premiere medical school of the 21st century. Jamie Feldman MD, PhD Dr. Feldman received her MD and PhD in medical Autumn Fiester, PhD anthropology from the University of Illinois in 1993. Autumn Fiester is the director of Graduate Studies in A board-certified family physician, Dr. Feldman the Department of at the University of is now an associate professor in the Department Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Associate of Family Practice and Community Health at the Director of the Penn Center for Bioethics. She is also the University of Minnesota. As part of the Center Director of the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender for Sexual Health, Dr. Feldman provides medical services Identity Project (http://www.queerbioethics.org). She is the including evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunction Co-Director of the Penn Center Mediation Project, which and transgender care. Dr. Feldman is a member of the writing promotes clinical ethics mediation as a conflict-resolution subgroup of the Standards of Care 7 Revision Committee method in both formal clinical ethics consultations and of the World Professional Association for Transgender ethics conflicts at the bedside (http://www.med.upenn. Health (WPATH), and has been Chair of the Transgender edu/bioethics/mediation.shtml). Dr. Fiester holds a PhD in Medicine and Research Committee since 2001. She has moral philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and published extensively on transgender hormone therapy a Masters degree in sociology from Harvard University. Her and primary care, and is co-investigator for the NIH funded research interests include LGBT bioethics, clinical ethics, Gender Identity and HIV Risk II. In addition, Dr. Feldman and mediation. trains medical students and residents in sexual health and maintains a primary care practice at the Women’s Health Sarah Fogel, PhD, RN Center at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sarah Fogel, Associate Professor, teaches at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Dr. Fogel’s Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH research has addressed information needs of Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH, is the director of the people living with HIV/AIDS, facilitators/barriers National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, of disclosure of sexual identity to healthcare and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP). In November 2005, providers, parish nursing, smoking cessation, Dr. Fenton was named director of the National and weight loss among lesbians. Research and funding Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, which was opportunities have included: Co-principal Investigator, HIV/ renamed NCHHSTP in March 2007 to reflect the AIDS Information Outreach Project (1997) funded by the NLM; addition of CDC’s Viral Hepatitis program. He previously Principal Investigator, Development and Validation of an served as chief of CDC’s National Syphilis Elimination Instrument to Measure Facilitators and Barriers to Disclosure Effort since January 2005. He has worked in research, of Sexual Orientation to Healthcare Providers (1999) and epidemiology, and the prevention of HIV and other STDs Principal Investigator, Evaluation of a Predominantly since 1995 and was previously the Director of the HIV and Lesbian Weight Loss Group (2008) both partially funded by STI Department at the United Kingdom’s Health Protection The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s Lesbian Health Agency. Dr Fenton has spearheaded the development of Fund and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Currently, a number of national HIV, STD and behavioral surveillance Dr. Fogel serves as a consultant for the Mautner Project’s and research programs in the U.K. and Western Europe Obesity Project (funded by the DC Dept. of Health) and including the National Chlamydia Screening Program in is implementing a weight loss/risk reduction intervention for England, the 2nd British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes sexual minority women in Washington, DC. and Lifestyles and the European Surveillance of STI (ESSTI) Network. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Mary E. Foley, RN, PhD Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Mary E. Foley RN, PhD, is the director in the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the Katherine Ferstadt University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She Katherine Ferstadt is a second year medical student at has worked with the Center as associate director since 2004 in partnership with three Bay Area the University Of Central Florida College Of Medicine. Born academic medical centers. Mary has worked with and raised in Venezuela, she moved to the U.S. looking the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC) for new opportunities. She completed her undergraduate since 2004, and in 2009 was appointed Director, Education studies at UCF, where she obtained a Microbiology and Services for CALNOC. In that role, Mary has developed an Molecular Biology major and a Chemistry minor, graduating area of expertise in nursing sensitive care measures, with Magna Cum Laude. Her involvement in research, student special emphasis on medication safety. Mary is a past organizations, and community service earned her the president of the American Nurses Association from 2000-2002. most prestigious award at UCF, The Order of Pegasus in She was employed for 19 years at Saint Francis Memorial

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Hospital in San Francisco where she worked as a staff nurse, work for 23 years. Born and raised in the Philippines. She Director of Nursing, and Safety Officer. A registered nurse for lives in Seattle where she continues to do training, research over 35 years, Foley has been active in the health care policy and advocacy for cultural competency and works for the arena. She continues to write and lecture about health care integration of multicultural content in medical education. policy, improving the workplace, and promoting safe care for workers and patients. She completed a six-year term as Cesar Gonzalez, PhD, LP a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board Cesar Gonzalez, PhD, LP, is a clinical psychologist of Directors and is an advisory member of the Partnership for and research associate at the University of Patient Safety (p4ps). She is a member of the TMIT Patient and Minnesota Medical School, Program in Human Family Advisory panel. She also continues to work with TDICT Sexuality (PHS). He provides clinical services in as a project consultant with expertise in needle stick injury prevention device evaluation. Foley received her nursing the area of transgender health. He also works diploma in 1973 from New England Deaconness Hospital on an NIH-funded grant on the development, School of Nursing, her BSN in 1976 from Boston University implementation, and evaluation of an online intervention School of Nursing in Massachusetts, and her Master’s of to decrease HIV risk behaviors among transpeople. He Science in Nursing Administration and Occupational Health completed a two-year postdoctoral research/clinical from the University of California in San Francisco in 1994. She fellowship in human sexuality at PHS. His research interests completed her doctoral studies at UCSF in Spring 2010 with include: LGBTQ mental health; transphobia; mental an emphasis on policy and occupational health. health disparities among ethnic/racial LGBTQ individuals; microaggressions; maladaptive schemas and psychological Chandra Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS resilience. Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Nick Gorton, MD UCLA School of Public Health. She earned her doctorate Dr. Nick Gorton is an openly transgender physician. from the Gillings School of Public Health at the University He completed residency and chief residency in of North Carolina. Prior to joining UCLA she completed Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital in postdoctoral fellowships in Social Medicine (University of Brooklyn, NY in 2002 and became a Diplomate of North Carolina) and in Epidemiology (Columbia University). the American College of Emergency Physicians Dr. Ford’s research examines ways that societal inequities in 2003. In addition to his day job in the ER, Dr. contribute to health or healthcare disparities for racial/ Gorton volunteers 3 days a week focusing on transgender ethnic minorities and for sexual minorities. Her areas of patients at Lyon-Martin Health Services in San Francisco. expertise include social epidemiologic approaches to the Dr. Gorton lectures on at medical study of health inequities; HIV/AIDS prevention; and Critical schools and medical education conferences. He has Race Theory. Her work has been published in the American worked as a medical consultant regarding transgender Journal of Public Health, the Annals of Epidemiology, Social health care for Lambda Legal, the , Science & Medicine, AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Northwest Justice Project, the New York Legal Aid Society other leading refereed journals. Dr. Ford was a 2006-2008 and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. He is a member of the Scholar in the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Kellogg Health American Medical Association GLBT Affairs Committee and Scholars Program. the California LGBT Health and Humans Services Network.

Marcena Gabrielson, PhD, RN Jamison Green, PhD, MFA Dr. Marcena L. Gabrielson is Assistant Professor at Illinois State Jamison Green is the Primary Care Protocols manager at University, Mennonite College of Nursing. Her program of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, UCSF, and research focuses on health disparities among older LGBTQ a member of the Board of Directors of the World Professional adults. Particular interests include the role of social support in Association for Transgender Health. As principal of Jamison the health of lesbian elders and examining interrelationships Green & Associates, he is a leading educator and policy among psychosocial, behavioral and biological processes consultant regarding transgender and transsexual issues in health disparities experienced by the LGBTQ community. in many professional settings including healthcare, legal issues, corporate workplaces, small business, governmental Victoria Gardner, EdD agencies, law enforcement, and educational environments. Dr. Gardner is the director of the Office of Dr. Green is the author of the prizewinning book “Becoming Multicultural Affairs and instructor in the a Visible Man” (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004). Department of Family Medicine. She attended the University of Washington where she received her Doctorate in Educational Leadership in 2009. She has been involved in medical education, diversity workforce building, and health disparities curriculum

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Leonard Harvey, MD, MBA of homelessness, violence/victimization resilience, and Dr. Leonard Harvey is an AOA graduate of USC empowerment in LGBT communities. Her research has School of Medicine and completed his residency focused on both homeless and community-based lesbian, in internal medicine at Kaiser Foundation Hospital gay, bisexual, and / young adults. in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Harvey practiced internal medicine as a Southern California Permanente Karin Hilton, MPH partner physician for 11 years before beginning Karin Hilton is a graduate student at the UCLA School of private practice in Palm Springs, California. In his current Public Health, where she is expected to earn her Master’s of role, Dr. Harvey serves as the senior medical director for Public Health in June 2011. This year, Karin was a recipient of Southern California. He is licensed in the states of California, a UC Regents, University Fellowship. Her academic research Arizona, and Nevada. Dr. Harvey received his MBA, summa focuses on HIV/AIDS, sexual minority health, and transgender cum laude, in 2002 from the University of Phoenix. Prior to populations. At UCLA, Karin worked as a graduate student joining Aetna, Dr. Harvey was the senior medical executive researcher conducting a needs assessment to identify for Intracorp, a subsidiary of CIGNA in Pennsylvania, and services and gaps in services for LGBT people who are was the senior medical director for CIGNA Health Care of experiencing domestic violence in LA County. Prior to her Arizona for 5 years. return to academia, Karin was the project coordinator on a research study at the San Francisco Department of Public Paris Hatcher, MA Health–AIDS Office. Karin earned her BA degree from the Paris Hatcher is a passionate, radical Black queer University of California, Berkeley. Through the course of her feminist activist dedicated to working for justice studies, she spent a year at the University of Cape Town, in and liberation. As a life-long Southerner, Paris South Africa, where she worked on a community based HIV has been organizing for over 10 years on the prevention and health education program. community, campus, and international level. Her activism is rooted in an intersectional approach Jessi Humphreys which validates the lived experience of individuals and Jessi Humphreys grew up in San Diego, CA. She completed communities and works to challenge all systemic oppression. a degree in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Neuroscience Paris’ activist interest focuses on gender liberation in at Stanford University. Her undergraduate research work particular movements, such as reproductive justice, gender included cognitive neuroscience research looking at and racial justice and equity, ending sexual violence, the impact of trained emotions on decision-making and LGBTQ communities of color, the South, and research that neurobiology research designing an autistic fly model. After explores historical legacy as a motivator for current social graduating, she worked at Lyon-Martin Health Services, a movements. She has her Master’s in Africana Women’s community LGBT clinic in San Francisco, as a Patient Care Studies. Paris is a board member of SONG(Southerners On Coordinator doing medical case management. At medical New Ground), the Advisory Board for the Groundswell Fund, school, Jessi is involved in palliative care research as well and a member of the Spoke N Heart Bike Collective. as LGBT medical education research with the Stanford University LGBT MERG (Medical Education Research Group). Aniruddha Hazra Jessi runs the Stanford chapter of MSFC (Medical Students Aniruddha (Anu) Hazra is a 4th year MD student at Boston For Choice) and is involved as a Teaching Assistant in University School of Medicine. He has strong interests in ethics and in Stanford’s pre-clinical “Practice of Medicine” both infectious diseases and LGBT health; he has had course. In her free time, Jessi enjoys practicing yoga and the opportunity to study MSM health trends at Fenway salsa dancing. Community Health and the University of Chicago. At BUSM, he has worked with the campus groups to highlight sexual Brian Hurley, MD, MBA minorities in medicine and promote LGBT curricular reform. Brian is currently a resident physician at the He has also served on the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Committee for LGBT Matters for the past two years. Prior Hospital’s (MGH-McLean’s) Adult Psychiatry to medical school, he received his BA in Biochemistry and Residency Training Program. Brian is a graduate of Molecular Biology at Boston University. the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and Marshall School of Business Laura Hein, PhD, RN, NP-C with an combined MD/MBA degree. Prior to matriculating Dr. Laura Hein is an assistant professor in the College of Nursing to MGH-McLean, Brian served as the national president at the University of South Carolina. Her program of research of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). focuses on health disparities associated with victimization Brian has also served AMSA previously as a proud former and legal inequalities experienced by groups within the national coordinator of AMSA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, LGBT community. Particular interests include experiences and Transgender People In Medicine (LGBTPM) Advocacy Action Committee. While at the Keck School of Medicine,

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Brian served as a coordinator of the University of Southern organizational development. In preparation for his transition California Keck School of Medicine (Keck SOM) Medical into health policy, Joseph recently earned his MPH at the Gay and Lesbian Organization – to date, the only LGBT Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. student group to have been twice awarded the nationally- For his practicum, Joseph produced for AIDS Community recognized AMSA-GLMA LGBT Health Achievement Award. Research Initiative of America a foundational white paper Brian intends to pursue a career in addiction medicine on HIV and aging. The memo was widely distributed across following residency training. the federal bureaucracy and contributed the formation of a working group on HIV and aging at the NIH. In his free Sel Hwahng, PhD time, Joseph is an avid runner, coffee connoisseur, and Sel J. Hwahng, PhD, is currently a visiting scholar more recently, a booster of all things D.C. and adjunct professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University and Myoung Jin Kim, PhD was a Research Investigator on the New York Dr. Kim is the college statistician of Mennonite College Transgender Project from 2004-09 at National of Nursing at Illinois State University. He has consulted on Development and Research Institutes, Inc. statistical methods of numerous research projects and this Dr. Hwahng has received several awards, grants, and consultation experience as a co-PI and/or a statistician fellowships from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the prepare him to meet the statistical needs of many research National Institutes of Health, the American Public Health projects. Statistical Methods and statistics education are his Association, and the International AIDS Society. Publications declared research focus. Dr. Kim is working on both internal include over 17 articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed and external grants for presentation and publication. journals and edited volumes on various aspects of research on health disparities, HIV/STIs, substance use, mental health, Kevin Kapila, MD abuse/victimization, child/adolescent development, and Medical Director of Mental Health at Fenway Health where sexual violence focusing mostly on LGBTQ, women, and/ he spends half his time working in the field of Psychiatry and or people of color populations. Dr. Hwahng is currently Co- the other half of his time practicing Internal Medicine with a Investigator of an HIV study in India and on the National focus on Men’s Health and People living with HIV. Advisory Board of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, University of California at San Francisco. JoAnne Keatley, MSW JoAnne Keatley received her Master of Social Welfare Daniel Ingram degree from the University of California, Berkeley. At Danny Ingram served for 6 years in the United UCSF, she is the director of the Center of Excellence for States Army from 1988 to 1994, when he became Transgender Health and the PAETC minority programs one of the first members of the military to be manager. JoAnne has directed multiple federally funded discharged under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law research and HIV prevention transgender projects. following a 1992 statement he made in support JoAnne has consulted on transgender health at the NIH, of candidate Bill Clinton’s promise to end the ban CDC, HRSA, and SAMHSA. JoAnne received the UCSF against LGBT service members. Danny serves as national CAPS International Women’s Day Award in 2000, the president of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER), the UCSF Chancellor’s award for LGBT Leadership in 2001, the oldest and largest LGBT Veterans Service Organization in the American Immigration Law Foundation Community Service nation with chapters from New York to Hawaii and member Award in 2004, a GLMA Achievement Award in 2007, a LA service from World War II to Afghanistan. Danny traveled Children’s Hospital Community Leader Angel award in 2008 extensively to Washington, DC, in 2010, working for the and in January 2009 received the UCSF Martin Luther King repeal of DADT, including trips to the Pentagon to meet with Jr. Staff award for advancing cultural diversity and social the Pentagon Working Group, the military team charged justice on campus. with investigating repeal. Danny was invited by the White House to witness President Obama sign the Repeal Act into Mara Keisling law last December. Mara Keisling is the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, DC, F. Joseph Jefferson, MPH where she leads advocacy on federal legislation and Joseph is the new senior policy associate for the policy affecting transgender people in the U.S. Mara is a National Coalition for LGBT Health. His arrival to the transgender-identified woman and a parent. As one of policy arena is preceded by 15 years in nonprofit the nation’s leading voices for transgender equality, Mara management, where he worked with a range has appeared on many news television shows and has of LGBT and HIV/AIDS service providers on both been quoted extensively in print media as well. She is a co- coasts on fund development, strategic planning, author of “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National marketing/communications, change management, and Transgender Discrimination Survey.”

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Robert Kelly, MS Rabbi Joshua Lesser, MHL Bobby Kelly is currently a third year medical student at Rabbi Joshua Lesser leads the dynamic Drexel University College of Medicine and plans on going Congregation Bet Haverim as a place into the field of Adolescent Medicine. He is currently dedicated to celebrating all aspects of Jewish the AMSA Gender and Sexuality Committee Grassroots life and creating a spiritual home that balances Coordinator for his region and is the former Co-President the needs of a diverse community. He served of the LGBT People in Medicine student group at DUCOM. in the first Teach For America Corps in New He was actively involved in the formation of Philadelphia Orleans, founded the Rainbow Center, a Jewish response LASOH (LGBTQ Alliance of Students Organized for Health), to LGBTQ people and their families. He is the co-editor and has volunteered extensively at the Mazzoni Center, of the groundbreaking book Torah Queeries: A Weekly Philadelphia’s LGBT Health Center. In 2009, Bobby received Commentary on the Hebrew Bible. Throughout his tenure the Jonathan Lax Scholarship, a grant program created at Bet Haverim, Rabbi Lesser has worked with a wide variety to honor the memory of the late, openly gay entrepreneur of groups and coalitions to build a better community for who was a pioneering HIV/AIDS activist in Philadelphia. He Atlanta by focusing on building bridges between diverse was also the principal organizer of the LGBT Health Student communities as demonstrated through being a founder Symposium, which will be held in Chicago in 2012. of the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta and serving as the co-chair of Georgians Against Discrimination. He is solidly Brandon Kraft, JD dedicated to human rights for all. As a supporter of people Brandon Kraft is program associate at the Gay and Lesbian with he has worked as a special educator and Victory Fund and Leadership Institute. His responsibilities was a co-founder of Camp Big Heart - a camp for children primarily include the Presidential Appointments Project, and adults with special needs. Currently, he is training to which assists openly LGBT individuals in attaining become a Jewish Spiritual Director. appointments within the Obama/Biden administration. Specifically, Brandon liaises with STEM and health experts Dru Levasseur, JD to assist them in finding appointments within health and M. Dru Levasseur is the science agencies. Brandon also oversees the Leadership Attorney for Lambda Legal, the oldest and Impacts Program, which tracks and analyzes the impacts largest national legal organization committed of openly LGBT elected and appointed officials worldwide. to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of Previously, Brandon was a Consultant for the Organization LGBT people and people with HIV. Levasseur for Economic and Cultural Development within their Science focuses his work on impact litigation, advocacy, and Technology Directorate and a Climate Change and community education to advance the civil rights of Research Assistant for the Harrison Institute for Public Law at transgender people nationwide. Before joining Lambda Georgetown University Law Center. He holds a BA in Biology Legal, Levasseur was staff attorney for Transgender Legal from Boston University and a law degree from Georgetown Defense & Education Fund, where he advocated for University Law Center. transgender equal rights through test-case litigation, public policy efforts, community organizing, and public education. Diana Lee, MPP Prior to that, Levasseur served for two years as law clerk to Diana Lee is the HIV/AIDS program manager at the Center 12 Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court. In 2007, for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. (CPACS), located in he co-founded the Jim Collins Foundation, a nonprofit that Chamblee, GA. CPACS was founded in 1980, and its mission is raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries. to create and deliver culturally and linguistically competent and comprehensive health and social services. The focii Jennifer Levi, JD of CPACS’s HIV/AIDS programs are to provide prevention Jennifer L. Levi is one of our nation’s leading experts counseling, free HIV testing, education, and outreach to on transgender legal issues. She has been with GLAD the Asian & Pacific Islander (API), immigrant, refugee, and since 1998, and has served as lead counsel in a number limited-English proficient communities of metro-Atlanta and of precedent setting cases establishing basic rights for its 13 surrounding counties. Diana has a masters degree transgender people. These cases include: Doe v. Yunits, in public policy; a bachelors degree in sociology, with a in which Jennifer represented a transgender student concentration in gender and sexuality; and, in her spare denied the right to attend school because of the clothing time, is a member of an all-women’s advocacy Korean folk she wore; Rosa v. Park West Bank, which established key drumming group. protections for transgender people under federal law; Beger v. DMA, which resulted in a reversal of Division of Medical Assistance’s refusal to cover breast surgery for a transgender woman, among many others. Jennifer was also co-counsel in the case of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, which established the right of same-sex

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couples to marry in Massachusetts. Jennifer is a Professor presence at Atlanta LGBT events, including Atlanta Pride of Law at Western New England College. She serves on the Festival and AIDS Walk Atlanta. He has been outspoken Legal Committee of the World Professional Association for in his support for marriage equality, equal employment Transgender Health and is a founding member of both the opportunity, anti-hate crimes legislation, HIV prevention Transgender Law & Policy Institute and the Massachusetts and treatment and other important issues affecting LGBT Transgender Political Coalition. Jennifer is a graduate of people. In a 2003 Boston Globe opinion piece in support Wellesley College (1985) and the University of Chicago Law of marriage, he wrote: “We cannot keep turning our backs School (1992). She clerked for Judge Michael Boudin at the on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual Jed Levine, MA orientation.” This year, Congressman Lewis was awarded Jed A. Levine is executive vice president and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. director of programs and services at the New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Leandris Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA He has been associated with the chapter for over Leandris Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA, serves as director of the 22 years, the past 20 of those as a staff member. Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the Centers He developed the wanderer’s safety program for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA in NYC, which was one of the prototypes for the National where she provides agency leadership, direction, and MedicAlert + Safe Return program. accountability for CDC’s policies and programs to ensure they are optimally effective in improving minority health Nathan Levitt, RN and achieving health equity. In this capacity, Dr. Liburd Nathan Levitt is a RN who graduated from NYU College also serves as the agency lead in coordinating CDC of Nursing and has worked for 5 years at Callen-Lorde engagement with HHS, other federal agencies, national Community Health Center. Nathan is a transgender activist organizations, and the public on issues of health equity. Dr. who has worked as a community organizer, program Liburd has over 25 years experience in public health having coordinator, researcher, consultant, trainer, and health worked at the local, state, and federal levels. Prior to educator with international and national organizations for joining the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, Dr. over 10 years. He currently trains universities, community Liburd served for 7 years as chief of the Community Health health centers, medical and nursing schools, hospitals, and and Equity Branch where she directed a broad range of community based organizations on LGBT health needs. public health programs addressing community health, the elimination of health disparities, the social determinants of United States Representative John Lewis health, and achieving health equity including the REACH Often called “one of the most courageous US program which is one of CDC’s flagship health disparities persons the Civil Rights Movement ever initiatives. Dr. Liburd has written extensively on community- produced,” U.S. Representative John Lewis has based public health approaches to chronic disease dedicated his life to protecting human rights, prevention and control, the influence of culture and gender securing civil liberties and building what he calls on health beliefs and behaviors, and the elimination of “The Beloved Community” in America. As a health disparities. Her first edited volume titled “Diabetes college student, he helped organized sit-in demonstrations and Health Disparities: Community-based approaches for at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In Racial and Ethnic Populations” was published by Springer 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides Publishing Company (2010). Dr. Liburd holds a Bachelor of and risked his life on those Rides many times by simply Arts degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, sitting in seats reserved for white patrons. He was also a Master of Public Health in Health Education from the beaten severely by angry mobs and arrested by police for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts in challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the Cultural Anthropology, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree South. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, from in Medical Anthropology from Emory University. 1963 to 1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and he was Emilia Lombardi, PhD an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March Emilia Lombardi, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University on Washington in August 1963. In 1981, he was elected to of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health. Dr. Lombardi’s the Atlanta City Council and he was elected to Congress research examines the role discrimination and in 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgias plays on people’s health and access to health care, Fifth Congressional District since then. particularly concerning HIV prevention and treatment, and substance use. In addition, she supervises needs Congressman Lewis has been a longtime champion of assessments and program evaluations that occur within a equal and civil rights for LGBT people and has been a regular project studying HIV-prevention knowledge, attitudes, and

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access to service of people at risk of HIV infection, and of healthcare advisory group. Since coming to Boston in 1977 HIV experts throughout the state, excluding Philadelphia. to do his residency training at Beth Israel, Harvey has been This study, using focus groups and interviews and funded on the forefront of efforts to improve care for people with by the CDC and State Department of Health, is being used HIV as well as for the LGBT communities. He chaired the to develop an HIV-prevention plan for Pennsylvania. Dr. HIV/AIDS Curriculum Stewardship Committee at Harvard Lombardi is also a member of the University of Pittsburgh’s Medical School and developed the primary care based Center for Research on Health and Sexual Orientation. HIV/AIDS program at Beth Israel Hospital. He was a member of the US Public Health Service, Health Resources and D Magrini Services Administration’s AIDS Advisory Committee. Harvey D Magrini, health education program director. Ms. Magrini was the founder and chair of the steering committee of the began her professional career in 1991 as a community health Boston AIDS Consortium. He founded and chaired the AIDS outreach and education specialist for vulnerable lesbians of Task Force of the Society of General Medicine. In that role color, and as a member of the Women’s Health Consultants he received the first educational grant from the American Collective (from 1991 – 94) who trained third year medical Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR) to develop an students and seasoned providers how to conduct a sensitive AIDS curriculum for general internists and primary care well-woman exam respectful of the woman’s perspective. providers and to edit a supplement on AIDS for the Journal Ms. Magrini also served as the program coordinator/liaison of General Internal Medicine. He was co-director of HIV for the Women’s Health consultants program at Howard Prevention: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, a collaboration University, working closely with medical school instructors to with the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF funded assure students’ learning goals were met and evidenced by by the Kaiser Family Foundation which focused efforts on evaluation. Ms. Magrini joined Mautner Project as a health the role of clinicians in HIV Prevention in the late 1980’s. He educator in 1994, then continued this work as the primary organized a White House Conference on Clinical Aspects health educator at the Lesbian Services Program of Whitman of HIV Prevention and subsequently chaired a panel at the Walker clinic in Washington, D.C. from 1997– 2006. In 2006, AMA which wrote and disseminated guidance on this topic Ms. Magrini rejoined Mautner Project as Health Education to all primary care physicians across the country. He was program director. Ms. Magrini attended American University a member of the HIV Clinical Practice Guidelines Panel for and served as a sergeant in the US Army. the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research of the US Public Health Service. He has written numerous articles and Shail Maingi, MD reviews on HIV care and education. He edited a text, HIV, Shail Maingi, MD, graduated from Temple University School published by the American College of Physicians in April of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine training 2000. A second edition was published in 2003. The book at Montefiore Medical Center. She then completed a came out with its first Indian edition in 2004 with a special Pain and Palliative fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering focus on care in resource limited countries. Cancer Center and a Hematology-Oncology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center. Her clinical interests include Harvey has also been very involved in developing both cancer symptom management, cancer survivorship issues, educational and clinical programs to serve the gay, lesbian, and minority access to quality end-of-life care. She works bisexual and transgender populations. Early in his tenure as a with a diverse, urban patient population that includes board member at Fenway, he worked to develop systems to transgender individuals. In addition to being a member insure that patients cared for at Fenway Community Health of GLMA and NYGLP, she volunteers and does advocacy Center, the largest provider of HIV care and care to the gay work for LGBT patients. She is currently the secretary of the and lesbian population in New England, had continuity of board of directors of the National LGBT Cancer Network, care at nearby hospitals with Fenway physicians getting the first program in the country to address the cancer risks staff appointments as well as appointments to the faculty and survivorship needs of the entire LGBT community. at Harvard Medical School. At Beth Israel Deaconess, he worked to ensure that BIDMC staff had appropriate Harvey J. Makadon, MD educational support to provide quality care for gay and Harvey J. Makadon, MD, is clinical professor of lesbian patients. At BIDMC, he developed a program to medicine at Harvard Medical School and director train faculty on developing programs for LGBT care: Hearing of education and training at The Fenway Institute, All Voices, Better Health Care for the LGBT Communities. He Fenway Community Health in Boston. He is a also worked with the Sydney Borum Health Center, affiliated member of the Division of General Medicine at with the Justice Resource Institute. He guided this health Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he center, which focused on the care and support of gay, has had a primary care practice in Healthcare Associates. lesbian and transgendered (GLBT) adolescents and young He was previously vice president, Medical Affairs at Beth adults, as it became connected to a tertiary care center Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. when the need arose. In this work, he mentored a number He is also an associate partner, Kurt Salmon, an international of physicians who cared for patients at both Fenway and

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Borum. Several have subsequently become leaders in the Kabir Matharu field of care for LGBT adolescents. Outside the local area, Kabir Matharu is a third-year student at UC Davis School of Dr. Makadon also led an effort with the AAMC to create Medicine. He has conducted research in the field of medical educational opportunities for clinicians to learn about LGBT humanities and graduate health education. Through the care. He pioneered efforts with the Massachusetts Medical Departments of English Literature and Internal Medicine, he Society (MMS) addressing the same issues, and organized a created an informal educational module in which medical regional faculty development conference on Lesbian, Gay students, faculty members, and social workers read scenes and Bisexual Issues, co-sponsored by that society and the from plays to better understand the cultural undercurrents Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is now on of poor health. His works have been published in “Literature the LGBT Committee at the MMS. He has continued these Compass,” “Medical Humanities,” and “Virtual Mentor.” His efforts abroad—developing HIV education efforts through plans include residency training in internal medicine with a a foundation he co-founded in Mumbai and with Sri Ramachandra Medical and Research Institute in Chennai. focus on LGBT and minority health. He also chairs the International Health advisory board at the Humsafar Trust in Mumbai—the largest organization in Alicia Matthews, PhD Asia focused on the needs of the MSM and transgender Dr. Alicia Matthews is a clinical psychologist and associate communities. Harvey is the lead editor on a book on professor in the College of Nursing at the University of LGBT health with TFI co-editors Kenneth Mayer and Hilary Illinois at Chicago and a Principal Investigator at Howard Goldhammer and Jennifer Potter from BIDMC that was Brown Health Center. For the past 15 years, she has been published by the American College of Physicians in 2007. involved in research aimed at identifying and intervening on He also wrote an article, Improving Health Care for the sociocultural determinants of physical and mental health Lesbian and Gay Communities, that appeared in the New disparities in African American and LGBT populations. The England Journal of Medicine on March 2, 2006, has written primary focus of her research is on cancer prevention and the section of Up to Date on Primary Care of Gay Men, and control activities. She has received foundation and federal in November 2006 published an article on Optimizing the grants to conduct her community-based research studies. Care of Men who have Sex with Men with Kenneth Mayer Currently she is the principal investigator on two federally and Rob Garofalo in JAMA. He is currently working with funded grants including funding from NINR to develop a colleagues at Fenway to disseminate educational programs patient navigation curriculum aimed at reducing barriers to and materials about LGBT health. The Fenway Institute and the American Medical Association have collaborated to breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening among offer grand rounds on LGBT Health at academic medical LGBT adults and funding from NIDA to evaluate a culturally centers in the United States. Over the past year rounds have targeted smoking cessation intervention for LGBT smokers. been held at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; The Cleveland Clinc and Metro Health Hospital, Cleveland; Kenneth Mayer, MD Emory University, Atlanta; University of Massachusetts, Dr. Kenneth Mayer is professor of Health and Worcester, MA; The Brigham and Woman’s Hospital and Community Medicine at Brown University School Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. He is currently servicing of Medicine in Providence, RI; Medical Research on a study group of the Institute of Medicine of the National Director at Fenway Health, Boston, MA, and Academy of Sciences working on a report on LGBT Health Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. in the United States. For his work Dr. Makadon has won the He is the founder and co-chair of The Fenway Community Service Award and the Harold Amos Diversity Institute, the research, training and health policy division Award at Harvard Medical School, an Achievement Award of Fenway Health. Dr. Mayer has served on the national from the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, and the boards of the HIV Medicine Association, the American Michael Tye Leadership Award from Fenway Health. Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. He received recognition awards from Liz Margolies, LCSW the Governor of Massachusetts for AIDS Research (1986), Liz Margolies, LCSW, is the founder and executive director the Rhode Island Medical Society and American College of of the National LGBT Cancer Network. In 2010, the Network Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and was hired by the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. He currently create the first LGBT cultural competence training for all serves on the national CDC/HRSA HIV Advisory Board for a HHC employees. The Network now markets its own training four year term. Dr. Mayer has been funded by the NIH since materials, “Reexamining LGBT Healthcare”, to healthcare 1987 to study the sexual transmission of HIV and to develop providers, social service organizations, LGBT community groups, and universities across the country. In addition to culturally-appropriate prevention interventions. He served her public work on alleviating LGBT health disparities, Liz is a as the PI of the an HIV Prevention Trials Unit, funded by psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in trauma, NIAID to conduct behavioral and biological interventions loss, and sexuality. to prevent HIV transmission in New England and in Chennai, India. He currently is PI of the Fenway Clinical Trial Unit for HIV Prevention and Microbicide Research. He is chair of the

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Scientific Review Committee of the HPTN (2006-2013) and at MedZou, a free community health clinic that is run by serves as Protocol Chair for MTN 007. Dr. Mayer was the PI or medical students. co-PI of 4 Phase I anti-HIV vaginal microbicide studies and trained colleagues in techniques to recruit and follow high Michael “Mito” Miller, MSW risk cohorts in southern India. As co-PI of the Harvard-Fenway Michael “Mito” Miller, MSW, is a second-year graduate HIV Vaccine Trials Unit, he has participated in several major student at the NYU Silver School of Social Work where he preventive vaccine trials and related immunological studies. served as the Senator on the Student Senate Council and Dr. Mayer and colleagues have also studied the use of non- as the Lead Organizer for Pride in Practice, the Queer/ occupational post-exposure prophylaxis for primary HIV LGBTQ student organization. Mito is the co-founder of prevention, and recent studies of pre-exposure prophylaxis Counterpublic NYC, a new organization dedicated to (funded by the CDC and NIAID/Gates Foundation), as well free education for queer communities and their providers as testing interventions to integrate HIV prevention into that offers an interdisciplinary, nuanced and deepened primary care for people living with HIV (supported by NIMH understanding of issues, identities, and politics that queer and HRSA). He is currently protocol co-chair of HPTN 061 and queer people of color face in the current mainstream (a study of the social and sexual networks of Black MSM in 6 LGBTQ climate. As one of the founding members of the U.S. cites), HPTN 063 (a study of HIV prevention for infected Providers and Resources Offering Services to Sex Workers patients in care in 3 international settings), HPTN 069 (a study (PROS) Network, a coalition of social workers, organizers, of Maraviroc and other antiretrovirals for chemoprophylaxis), direct service providers, advocates, and media makers, Mito and MTN 007 (a study of the safety of Tenofovirgel applied has launched several important initiatives to educate NYC rectally.) During 15 years as the PI of a Fogarty International students, professionals, providers, and community members AIDS Research Training Program, he has overseen the about young LGBTQ sex workers of color involved in the sex education of almost 100 laboratory, clinical, behavioral trade. Mito designed, recruited, and implemented a peer and population sciences investigators from several Asia education and peer outreach program that was funded countries and Kenya. Over the past two decades, Dr. Mayer by MAC AIDS and supported by prominent harm reduction and colleagues at Fenway have studied the behavioral leaders and organizations in NYC. This project lasted three and clinical factors associated with HIV transmission among years before funding was pulled in the economic downturn, more than 1,500 high-risk MSM. They have developed a yet Mito continues to share the data at no cost as a PROS large relational database that has facilitated cross-study member until a new program is launched. Currently, he analyses of behaviors and biomarkers by academic volunteers at the Hetrick-Martin institute to facilitate group collaborators, as well as a specimen repository that contains discussions, a new program called Safe Coins, on this sequentially collected, well-characterized blood and other bodily fluid samples that go back to the earliest days of the subject. AIDS epidemic in New England. He has co-authored more than 450 peer-reviewed and other publications, primarily Lisa Mottet, JD related to HIV and LGBT health, is a member of the Editorial Lisa Mottet is the director of the Transgender Civil Rights Board of Clinical Infectious Diseases, the editor of three texts Project at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which related to the impact of AIDS on diverse disciplines, as well she has led since 2001. She works on various transgender- as “The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases” (Academic related policy and legislation at the local, state, and federal Press) and is Associate Editor of The Fenway Guide to LGBT level, with a focus on non-discrimination laws. Health (2008). Mottet co-authored “Transitioning Our Shelters: A Guide to Making Homeless Shelters Safe for Transgender People” Jane McElroy, PhD and “Opening the Door to the Inclusion of Transgender Jane A. McElroy, PhD, is an assistant professor People: The Nine Keys to Making LGBT Organizations Fully in the Family and Community Medicine Transgender-Inclusive.” She is a co-author of “Injustice Department, part of the Epidemiology Group at at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender MU Research Reactor and an Adjunct Assistant Discrimination Survey.” Professor in the Master of Public Health Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has Laurie Muggleton Robins, MDiv, MA a decade of experience in epidemiology work including Laurie is an ordained minister with the United surveillance and evaluation. She is co-director on the Church of Christ and is currently a Staff Chaplain highly successful Checkout Project, a serial funded project for Infectious Disease and Palliative Care at examining tobacco use and intervention to reduce Grady Hospital. As a certified Associate ACPE tobacco use in the LGBT community in Missouri. Dr. McElroy Supervisor, Laurie trains lay and formal ministerial also teaches Principal of Epidemiology and GIS for Public candidates to offer quality spiritual/pastoral care. Health to Masters of Public Health students. She instructs Laurie is also a member of Bet Haverim, a Reconstructionist lst and 2nd year medical school students. Dr. McElroy is Synagogue with her wife Dr. Diana L. Robins. Together they a faculty advisor for the educational outreach program are raising their two daughters as Jews and spiritual beings

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in a broader sense. Laurie has been incorporating Buddhist and co-chair of the Asian American Students’ Association. concepts and meditation practices lately to empower her to provide quality spiritual care to patients and her students Sean O’Mahony, MD alike. Laurie believes deeply in hospitality and community Dr. Sean O’Mahony graduated from University College as our source of healing and connecting with G-d. in Dublin, Ireland. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center Daniel Munoz, PhD and his Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Dr. Munoz received his Masters and Doctoral degree in Kettering Cancer Center. He was the medical director for clinical psychology from the University of New York at the Palliative Medicine service at Montefiore in the Bronx Albany in 2006. He is currently an assistant professor of from 2000-2010. He recently joined Rush University Medical clinical psychology at Pacific University of Oregon’s School Center as the d irector for the Palliative Medicine Program. of Professional Psychology. His research and clinical work His clinical interests include end-of-life care, chronic pain has focused in the area of eating disorders, obesity, body management, and the palliation of the sequelae of chronic image, and GLBT issues. He has authored or co-authored illnesses. His research and teaching interests include pain nearly over two dozen research papers and presentations management, end-of-life and palliative care, quality-of-life for peer-reviewed journals, national, and international at the end-of-life, and clinical outcomes and effectiveness scientific conferences. He was awarded the 2009 Academy of palliative care programs. of Eating Disorders Young Investigator award. Samuel Pang, MD Allison Myers, MPH Samuel C. Pang, MD, medical director at the Reproductive Allison Myers attended the University of Pennsylvania as Science Center of New England (RSCNE), is subspecialty an undergraduate, where she majored in the Biological board certified in Reproductive Endocrinology. Prior to Basis of Behavior. Prior to starting medical school, she joining RSC New England in 1993, he trained in reproductive did qualitative research on post-partum depression and endocrinology at UCLA. Under Dr. Pang’s leadership, RSCNE health literacy. During her first two years at Drexel University is currently one of the largest in vitro fertilization (IVF) centers College of Medicine, she served as co-president of the in the U.S., noted for being among the most successful with LGBT People in Medicine student group. Between her MS2 a very low incidence of multiple gestations compared to and MS3 years, she completed a Master of Public Health other IVF centers in the country. Dr. Pang has been director degree with a concentration in Community Health and of the Third Party Assisted Reproduction program at RSCNE Prevention at Drexel’s School of Public Health. For her thesis since 1997, serving couples who utilize IVF with donor eggs project she worked with Connect to Protect®: Partnership and/or a gestational surrogate to have children. He has for Youth Prevention Interventions. There, she studied helped male couples have children with donor eggs and structural change and its impact on HIV risk reduction gestational surrogacy since 1998, and almost every male among housing-insecure young MSM. With the help of couple who has done this at RSCNE has been successful. Dr. other students, she formed LASOH in 2010 and continues to Pang and his husband have two sons through this process. serve as the group’s president. She is currently an MS3 with plans to pursue a career in Family Medicine. Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD, is a professor Henry Ng, MD of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Henry Ng, MD, is an Internist-Pediatrician at where much of her work has focused on child MetroHealth Medical Center. He completed development in lesbian- and gay-parented both his BS in Biochemistry and his MD at Michigan State University. He completed his residency and families. Patterson’s research with children chief residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at and families has been published in the field’s MetroHealth Medical Center and subsequently top journals, and she has co-edited three books on the joined the faculty in 2006. He is an Assistant Professor at psychology of sexual orientation. She was a guest editor Case Western School of Medicine. Henry helped develop of the 2008 special section of Developmental Psychology and currently serves as the Clinical Director of the PRIDE focused on ‘Sexual Orientation Over the Lifespan’, and Clinic, Ohio’s only medical home for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, has served as a member of several editorial boards. and Transgender (LGBT) patients. Patterson is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) as well as of the American Psychological Bradley Nguyen Association (APA), and a past-president of the Society for Bradford is currently a Junior studying Biology at Stanford. He Psychological Research on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues is currently working on two research projects: LGBT Health (APA, Division 44). She has won many awards, including the Stories for LGBT Medical Education Research Group and Outstanding Achievement Award from the APA Committee Butterfly Genetics with the Watt Lab. Aside from this, he is a on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns, the Distinguished brother of Alpha Kappa Psi, and alto in the Stanford Band, Scientific Contributions Award from APA Division 44, and

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the Carolyn Attneave Diversity Award, for contributions Fellowship to India where he conducted commuinty-based that advance understanding and integration of diversity participatory research with the hijra community in Mumbai into Family Psychology, from APA Division 43. Patterson was and New Delhi. He is interested in pursuing infectious disease also the recipient of APA’s 2009 Distinguished Contributions and specifically wants to work to decrease rates of HIV/AIDS to Research in Public Policy Award. She recently served among marginalized communities. as a member of the United States Institute of Medicine Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Chad Putman, LMSW Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities. Chad Putman, LMSW, received his Masters in With Anthony R. D’Augelli, she is currently co-editing the Social Work from the School of Social Welfare at Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation, due from SUNY Albany. He works full-time as a chemical Oxford University Press in 2012. dependency counselor in an outpatient treatment program. He is the board president Lynn A. Paxton, MD, PhD of Rainbow Access Initiative (RAI, acting Dr. Paxton is the leader of the Antiretroviral Prophylaxis and Executive director) which is a 501 c/3 with no paid staff. Microbicides team within the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention RAI’s mission is to ensuring the local LGBT community has at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). access to culturally competent and compassionate health She is a captain in the US Public Health Service (USPHS). She and human services. RAI is a member of the NYS LGBT represents CDC on matter pertaining to microbicides and Health and Human Service Network and National Coalition HIV pre- and post exposure prophylaxis. of LGBT Health. His leadership led to the development of the Capital District LGBT Medical Clinic Coalition formed Susan Pereira, MD to explore and develop a local LGBT medical clinic. He is Susan L. Pereira, MD, is a clinical assistant professor of Family an active member of the New York State LGBT Health and and Community Medicine. She is a graduate of University Human Service Network, Health Committee which was of Missouri School of Medicine and has been on the faculty responsible for the creation of NY LGBT Health Month (2nd of the Curtis and Ann W. Long Department of Family and annual - March, 2011). Community Medicine at the University of Missouri since 1997. In addition to practicing outpatient medicine, Dr. Pereira Nicole Rosendale serves as a Family Medicine Inpatient Attending Preceptor Nicole Rosendale is a third year medical student at the for 1st-3rd year family medical residents, and teaches 3rd New York University School of Medicine. She graduated year medical students in the outpatient setting. She has been cum laude from Smith College with a BA in comparative awarded Family Medicine Teacher of the year. Dr. Pereira literature and worked in post-production in Los Angeles is on the board of the Check-Out Project, examining LGBTQ for three years before attending medical school. At NYU, smoking behaviors, and worked in that capacity to assist she served as co-president of the LGBT People in Medicine researchers in developing a plan of change for the state student group and worked to develop a supplemental of Missouri targeting the LGBTQ community. She has given curriculum in LGBT Healthcare and an associated certificate lectures on the primary care of the transgendered patient and of the LGBT patient for University of Missouri students. program. Additionally, she served as co-director of the NYC Free Clinic and currently serves as the Executive Clinic Tonia Poteat, MMSc, PA-C, MPH Coordinator. She is interested in the issue of substance abuse Tonia Poteat graduated from Emory University’s Physician and has performed research in the treatment of opiate Assistant (PA) Program in 1995. During her 15 years as a dependence through the Bellevue Hospital Buprenorphine PA, she has devoted her clinical practice to providing Clinic. medically appropriate and culturally competent care to members of the LGBTQ community as well as people living Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE with HIV. She currently cares for patients at Chase Brexton Dr. Bayer earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Health Services in Baltimore while completing her PhD at from Xavier University in Cincinnati, a Master’s Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her research interests in Adult Education and a Doctorate in Human include qualitative and quantitative examinations of stigma, Sexuality Education from Widener University human rights, and sexual health among LGBT populations in outside of Philadelphia. She serves on the board the U.S. and Africa. of directors for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and is one of the national conference co- Siddarth Puri chairs for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Medical Student Research Fellowship awarded by the Counselors, and Therapists. Dr. Bayer is currently a Research UC Davis School of Medicine. Siddarth Puri is a first-year Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health medical student at UC Davis. Prior to coming to medical and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine school, he studied art history as an undergraduate and and runs the sexual health components of the Satcher graduate student at UCLA. He then received a Fulbright Health Leadership Institute’s Health Policy Leadership

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Fellowship Program. She teaches medical students, MPH Dr. Schneider has served on the board of directors of the students, and residents and serves as the faculty advisor Gay & Lesbian Medical Association for over nine years. He for the MSM Alliance, a student group focusing on cultural currently holds the position of immediate past president. He competency related to gender, gender identity, gender also represents the interests of the LGBT community on the expression, and sexual orientation. Health Disparities Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Noell Rowan, PhD Dr. Noell Rowan is assistant professor and director, BSW Mark Simone, MD Program, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville. Mark J. Simone, MD, is a geriatrician in the Her dissertation research was a quantitative study of testing Division of Gerontology at Mount Auburn a statistical model of treatment success for LGBT chemically Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He is director of dependent clients. Subsequently, she has collaborated the Ambulatory Clinic, and practices geriatric with national colleagues on several grants to explore the primary care and consultation. Dr. Simone is also predictors of success in treatment of LGBT clients of gay- an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical specific and mainstream addiction treatment centers. She School and actively involved in teaching and educational is a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar in Cohort research. He is a recipient of the Health and Human XI and is currently conducting her research on resiliency Resources Geriatric Academic Career Award. Dr. Simone and quality of life of older lesbian adults with alcoholism. In completed his geriatric fellowship in 2008 at Harvard 2009, she was honored for the Best Research in LGBT at the Medical School in the Division of Gerontology at Beth Israel Diversity Symposium held at Ball State University. Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass. He is interested in the unique needs of older adults who are part of the Maya Rupert, JD lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, as well Maya Rupert is the Federal Policy Attorney for the National as those who are living with HIV, and he works to educate Center for Lesbian Rights where she oversees the work NCLR providers on the concerns of these groups. To contact him, does on federal policy and legislative issues. Before joining please e-mail [email protected]. NCLR, Maya Rupert was an associate with Sidley Austin LLP’s Los Angeles office, where she served as public interest Holiday Simmons, MSW fellow with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. She was an Holiday Simmons, MSW, comes from a award-winning columnist for the L.A. Watts Times, where background in Social Work, Education, and she wrote on issues of race, gender, and politics. Maya Performing Arts & Activism. He has worked with clerked for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the Sixth Circuit youth in foster care, taught GED, has managed Court of Appeals. She graduated in 2006 from the University education initiatives, and has facilitated of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where numerous creative writing and spoken word she was editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, workshops with groups of youth, queer and trans people, Law and Justice and a notes and comments editor of the women, and Africana and Latino communities both in African American Law and Policy Report. the U.S. and abroad. Holiday is currently the Community Educator for Lambda Legal’s Southern Regional Office in Jason S. Schneider, MD, FACP Atlanta, GA. Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national Dr. Jason Schneider is an assistant professor at legal organization committed to achieving full recognition Emory University’s School of Medicine. He works in of the civil rights of LGBT people and people with HIV. She is the Division of General Medicine based at Grady a Black Cherokee, genderqueer, two-spirit person, aspiring Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta, a large to be a parent in the near future. public-hospital serving a mostly indigent urban population. He serves as an associate program Terra Slavin, JD director for the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Terra Slavin is the lead staff attorney and project manager of Program and participates in regular small-group teaching the Domestic Violence Legal Advocacy Project at the L.A. as part of the pre-clinic undergraduate medical curriculum, Gay & Lesbian Center. She is responsible for overseeing the both at Emory. Dr. Schneider works primarily in Grady delivery of comprehensive legal services for LGBTQ survivors Hospital’s Primary Care Center, precepting residents in their of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. She is also continuity clinic and caring for his own panel of patients. He responsible for training domestic violence and legal service joined the Emory faculty after completing the Primary Care providers on LGBTQ sensitivity and legal issues and has Internal Medicine residency at Emory. He received his MD provided trainings to hundreds of attorneys and advocates from New York University School of Medicine in Manhattan. across the country. Attorney Slavin served on the advisory His clinical and academic interests include sexual health board of the American Bar Association’s Legal Assistance and sexuality, the interaction of psychiatry and general and Education for LGBT Victims of Domestic Violence medicine, and primary care for LGBT patients. Project. Slavin co-chairs the LGBT DV Issues Committees of

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the L.A. City Domestic Violence Taskforce and Los Angeles care setting in the U.S. She has developed LGBT curricula County Domestic Violence Council, and she serves on the for a variety of health professional schools, she lectures Governance Committee of the National Coalition of Anti- and writes extensively on LGBT health topics, and in 2010 Violence Programs. She graduated from Northeastern she convened the First National Summit on LGBT Issues in University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. Medical Education. She has also provided LGBT health training and consulting to clinics, hospitals, and health Allen Smith, DNPc, MSN, RN, CRNP groups throughout the country. Her groundbreaking work As a Doctor of Nursing Practice candidate, a nurse educator has been recognized by GLMA’s Health Achievement and a primary care provider, I am committed to care for the Award, among other honors. community in which I live. As a gay American, I am compelled to believe that I must do my part to improve standards of Anne Tamar-Mattis, JD care for the next generation of LGBT individuals. These beliefs Anne Tamar-Mattis, JD, is the executive director of are best addressed through awareness and education. I Advocates for Informed Choice, the first organization in the have dedicated the past 15 years of my professional career country providing legal advocacy on behalf of children advocating for the care of patients with HIV and AIDS. In with DSD. She is in demand nationally as a speaker on that time, I developed multiple educational programs and legal and bioethical issues relating to medical treatment of received recognition for my work. My years of experience children with DSD and she teaches Sexual Orientation and in healthcare have taught me that evidential support must Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. be provided to facilitate change. Through research, I am investigating evidence-based educational strategies that Suegee Tamar-Mattis, DO improve the empathic skills of students enrolled in allied Suegee Tamar-Mattis, DO, is a family practice physician and health programs who will care for LGBT patients. long-time intersex and LGBT rights activist. A former director of Dimensions Clinic for LGBT youth in San Francisco, Suegee Brett Smith-Hams has spoken widely on matters of transgender and intersex Brett Smith-Hams recently finished her post-baccalaureate health care, in venues ranging from the UCSF School of pre-medical certification at Mills College in Oakland and Medicine to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. is applying to medical school for the fall of 2012. In 2007, Suegee is the founder of the TranSonoma Clinic, a clinic she earned her BA in Gender and Women’s Studies from providing primary care to over 150 transgender patients the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the Stanford annually in rural and semi-rural Sonoma County, CA. University School of Medicine Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Medical Education Research Group Hendry Ton, MD (LGBT MERG) while searching for opportunities to apply Hendry Ton, MD, is associate professor of Psychiatry and her background in and passion for social Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis justice-driven research in the medical field. She has been an Investigator with the group since May of 2010. She is currently School of Medicine. Dr. Ton serves as chair of the Cultural involved in the group’s efforts to disseminate and advocate Competency Committee for the School of Medicine and is a for its work developing curricular changes to improve LGBT member of the Task Force for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation health education for medical students. Previous research and Gender Identity in the Electronic Health Record. includes “Feminist Justice in Practice: Witness Experiences of Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Sud BiH” Eric Tran while studying with the School for International Training in Eric Tran is a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate for Creative Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina; and “Forging a Queerless Writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He Nation: Republican Nationalist Discourse in the 2008 has studied at Stanford University and Oxford University. He is Presidential Election Campaign”, her senior thesis at the a member of the LGBT Medical Education Research Group University of California, Berkeley. She has been dedicated at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Originally from to advocating for gender and sexual equity in healthcare the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently lives in Wilmington, throughout her undergraduate and post-baccalaureate North Carolina, where he has developed a love for the careers, as an employee at NARAL Pro-Choice California, beach in September and for fried okra year round. a sexual health peer educator, and campus grassroots campaign organizer. She hopes to go on to become an Linda Travis, PsyD OB/GYN, and is committed to advocating for LGBT health Linda A. Travis completed her BA in psychology at the equity throughout her medical career. University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO), her MA in psychology at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), and Shane Snowdon her PsyD in Clinical Psychology at the Georgia School of Shane Snowdon is founding director of the Professional Psychology (Atlanta, GA). Dr. Travis brings nearly UCSF Center for LGBT Health & Equity, the only 30 years of experience in a variety of geriatric health settings LGBT office in a health education or health (primary care, emergency room care, specialty care,

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home care, independent living, assisted living, long term African American MSM population, more specifically, care) and mental health settings (psychiatric, community, conducting research on how to recruit and retain AAMSM medical), serving in the roles of clinician, supervisor, in clinical research and social services such as HIV, STI, and consultant, director, instructor, and scholar/researcher. She mental health. As part of the AAMSM population, he fears is very committed to working with underserved populations that there has not been enough research conducted on this in the areas of health issues, wellness, and resilience. She target population to effectively offer projects and services particularly enjoys working with LGBT older adults, their that are beneficial to him and his community. loved ones, and their families of choice. Additionally, she is committed to working with health care providers to Rebecca Weiss, PsyD become more aware and responsive to the unique needs Rebecca Weiss, PsyD, is currently completing a post-doctoral of LGBT older adults. fellowship in Behavioral Medicine and Psychology with Dr. Callahan, She is a member of the Task Force for Inclusion Brette Tschurtz of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Electronic Brette A. Tschurtz is an associate project director Health Record. Dr. Weiss is also working with the Academic in the Joint Commission’s Division of Healthcare and Staff Assistance Program at UCDMC. Quality Evaluation. She is currently the Project Manager for Advancing Equitable and Patient- A. Robin Williams, MD, MA Centered Care, a study designed to promote A. Robin Williams, MD, MA, is a resident in the the integration of patient- and family-centered Department of Psychiatry at New York University care into national patient safety and quality efforts. She and Bellevue Hospital. He received his medical recently served as the project manager for Cultural and degree and a Masters in Bioethics at the Linguistic Care in Area Hospitals, a study examining what University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation, tools, resources, and services are available in South Florida he was awarded the Kenneth E. Appel award hospitals to meet their patients’ culture and language by the Department of Psychiatry and the Russell J. needs. Ms. Tschurtz has provided research assistance to Stumacher, MD Memorial Prize for medial arts and letters. His numerous grant-funded studies, several of which resulted in undergraduate major was in the Woodrow Wilson School publications. In previous work with The Joint Commission, of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Ms. Tschurtz was an associate director of Field Analysis, where he concentrated in documentary photography. His monitoring the external environment for trends which could recent photo work with trans populations, “My Right Self,” impact Joint Commission standards. Ms. Tschurtz holds a was awarded a fellowship by the Open Society Institute Bachelors of Arts degree in Communications from the Documentary Photography Project and exhibited at the University of Iowa. Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, TX. His booklet, “Transgender Considerations,” has been distributed Lance Wahlert, PhD to 5,000 care providers nationwide. He has been published Lance Wahlert is an associate in the Center for Bioethics at in Academic Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine. the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founding director of the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity André Wilson, MS that seeks to demarcate a sub-field within bioethics that André Wilson consults with employers, advocacy groups, focuses on the intersection of LGBTQI issues and medical and health professionals seeking to provide transgender- ethics (http://www.queerbioethics.org). Dr. Wahlert earned inclusive health services and workplace benefits. As Senior his PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds Associate with Jamison Green & Associates, André has Master’s degrees in History of Science and Medicine from served as lead consultant on trans-inclusive insurance The Imperial College of Medicine (London) and in Irish coverage to the HRC Workplace Project. Awarded the 2008 Poetry from the Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on Michigan Pride Banquet Unity Award, André currently serves the history of medicine, , and LGBT bioethics. on the Ann Arbor Human Rights Commission, Michigan’s Department of Community Health Family Planning Advisory Jermel Wallace, MHS Council and Department of Education Sexual Minority Youth Jermel has been involved in HIV prevention for nearly 20 Working Group. years and is passionate about Black Men’s Health. He is a graduate of Lincoln University where he received his Tarynn Witten, PhD, LCSW, FGSA Master’s in Human Services. His thesis topic was Breaking Tarynn M. Witten is currently associate professor of Down Barriers: Including Men’s in Reproductive and Sexual Emergency Medicine and Gerontology at Virginia Health. Employed by Emory University, he conducts Commonwealth University. She formerly served on the behavioral health science research within the Rollins School founding Board of Directors of NAHOF. She is also the of Public Health for the Brothers Study. Currently a doctoral founder and director of the Transgender Longitudinal student, his professional interest includes researching the Aging Research Study. She has published over 40 research

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papers, books, and book chapters related to gender- demographics and technology are changing medical identity issues in the elderly. Dr. Witten’s work has appeared practice. Dr. Wynia is the author of more than 125 published in a number of widely read books and journals, among articles, book chapters and reports and a book on fairness them the Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender which, until the in health care benefit design. His work has been published most recent issue, did not contain an entry on Transgender/ in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Transsexuality. Her book, (The Tao of Gender,) is a Taoist Affairs and other leading medical and ethics journals. He view of the transgender experience and has sold over is contributing editor for bioethics and public health at the 1,000 copies. Her newest book, (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & American Journal of Bioethics. He has been a guest on Transgender Aging: Challenges in Research, Practice and ABC News Nightline, the BBC World Service, NPR, and other Policy) is soon to appear under the Johns Hopkins Medical programs. In addition to his work at the AMA, Dr. Wynia is University Press logo. She is the 2009 winner of VCU’s Burnside- a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Watstein award for her services to the GLBT community. Humanities (ASBH), and has chaired the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Ethics Evan Wolfson, JD Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine Evan Wolfson is founder and president of Freedom to Marry, (SGIM). He cares for patients at the University of Chicago the national campaign to end marriage discrimination. Evan Hospital, where he is a clinical assistant professor of medicine was co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case that in the Division of Infectious Diseases. launched the ongoing global movement for the freedom to marry, and has participated in numerous gay rights and Stewart Yang HIV/AIDS cases. He earned a BA in history from Yale College Soo Ryum (Stewart) Yang is a 2nd year medical student at in 1978, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He joined the LGBT Togo, West Africa, and graduated from Harvard Law School curriculum committee during his first year to help make in 1983. Citing his national leadership on marriage and his medical education more inclusive, current, and relevant for appearance before the US Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of the LGBT patient population. He is currently on the executive America v. James Dale, the National Law Journal in 2000 board for Gay-Straight Alliance at the medical school and named Evan one of “the 100 most influential lawyers in is involved in organizing lectures and workshops that focus America.” In 2004, Evan was named one of the “Time 100,” on health issues impacting the LGBT community. In addition, Time magazine’s list of “the 100 most influential people in he works in a vision neuroscience lab and is investigating the world.” Evan’s book, Why Marriage Matters: America, how attention is achieved in the higher visual cortex areas Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry, was published by using novel imaging techniques. He also volunteers as a Simon & Schuster in July 2004. social worker in Shade Tree Clinic Vanderbilt’s free, student- run health clinic for the uninsured. He wishes to continue Lisa Woodrich, MS his advocacy for LGBT and other underserved patient Lisa Woodrich is a doctoral student at Pacific University populations and pursue his research and clinical interests in School of Professional Psychology. Her dissertation research cognitive neuroscience. is focused on piloting a modified Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) protocol for dually diagnosed Justin Young, MD populations with psychosis. Additionally, she is a research Dr. Justin Young is a surgery resident from Stone assistant on a grant funded project developing a measure Mountain, GA. He is a 2008 graduate of Meharry of mindfulness based on qualitative research findings. Lisa Medical College in Nashville, TN and a 2002 is a member of the LGBT research team headed by Dr. graduate of the University of North Carolina Munoz, PhD, and is working on several projects related to at Chapel Hill with a BS in Biology and BA in gender and sexual identity. Psychology. After completing two years as a resident in Emory’s Department of Surgery and taking some Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP time off from residency in 2010 he plans to change his focus Director, Institute for Ethics & Center for Patient and enroll as an Emergency Medicine resident in July of Safety at the American Medical Association Dr. 2012. He has an interest in pediatric emergency medicine, Wynia is an internist and specialist in infectious global health, and international travel. Outside of the diseases. He directs both the Institute for Ethics hospital he can be found rock climbing, skiing, or plotting and the Center for Patient Safety for the American his next road trip, as well as raising funds through the NYC Medical Association. In these roles he oversees a Marathon for Grassroot Soccer, a world-wide HIV/AIDS wide range of research, education and outreach projects, prevention program. Ultimately he would like to blend his on topics including: learning from medical errors, physician experience in surgery, emergency medicine, and service professionalism, ethics and epidemics, medicine and the through international health programs. holocaust, inequities in health and health care; and how

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Darrin Adams Danielle Brigham Darrin Adams has been actively involved in Originally from Erie, PA, Danielle Brigham is a LGBTI health and human rights for the past second year medical student at Drexel University decade. His experience covers the USA, College of Medicine (DUCOM). She is one of the Caribbean, and Southern Africa. For over three co-presidents for the LGBT People in Medicine years in Lesotho, he built the capacity of the group at DUCOM. Dani also volunteered at the local LGBTI population in HIV awareness, sexual LGBT Health Student Symposium in Philadelphia health, and community-led research. His work culminated this past spring. In 2008, she graduated magna cum laude in two research firsts for the country – UNDP-funded from Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) with her Bachelor investigations among men who have sex with men (MSM) of Science degree in Neuroscience and Psychology. At and women who have sex with women in Lesotho. Most Allegheny, she graduated with honors in her department, recently he was the study coordinator for a Swaziland as well as Phi Beta Kappa, and was also captain of the Ministry of Health-initiated and USAID-funded investigation Women’s Varsity soccer team. Between undergraduate among MSM and commercial sex workers. Like in Lesotho, and medical school, Dani was a Post-baccalaureate he engendered these communities to advocate for their Intramural Research Training Award Recipient, and spent 2 own health and human rights. Darrin is completing his years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) researching Master’s of Science in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins memory. Bloomberg School of Public Health and wants to continue using community-led research as a means of empowering Coyote Capasso marginalized populations in Africa. My name is Coyote Capasso. I am a nursing student in Northern Kentucky and work as a nurse Teresa Bair aide. I am a father of two girls, ages 8 and 6. I Teresa Bair is a second-year medical student enjoy cooking, volunteerism, gardening, knitting, at the University of New England College and playing the violin. I’ve come to nursing in of Osteopathic Medicine. Originally from a round about way. My past work experiences Portland, Oregon, she moved to Maine to study include long-haul truck driving, farm work, massage osteopathic primary care, with an emphasis on therapy, childcare, and tutoring. I have volunteered with community health and working with medically a local AIDS center, and with a GED program tutoring underserved populations. She is currently a co-president of Spanish speakers. I went back to college at 28 years old to both Q-Med, UNECOM’s queer/straight alliance, and their go into Social Work, but quickly realized that I was drawn chapter of Medical Students for Choice. She is a national to the medical field. It is deeply rewarding to me to help representative for the local Student American Academy of people, and I do everything I can to learn how to become Osteopathy chapter and is the gender and sexuality chair a good, educated, caring nurse. for UNECOM’s American Medical Students Association chapter. She recently completed AMSA’s national Sexual Dwight Chambers Health Scholars program, and also serves as a medical My name is Dwight Chambers and I am a 2nd school representative for her university’s LGBTQ advisory year medical student from the Emory/Georgia board. She is very active in curricular reform around Tech MSTP program in Atlanta, Georgia. I am LGBT health and as an advocate for other medically originally from Nashville, Tennessee where I underserved groups. She enjoys travel, community, and attended college at MIT and studied Nuclear playing the ukulele. Science and Engineering. There I became interested in radiation biology and mutagenesis. Presently, Jordan Becerril I am interested in an academic career with a focus on Jordan Becerril is a second year medical student oncology. Since moving to Atlanta, I’ve become active at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. in the Emory Medical Alliance, a GLBT medical advocacy Originally from Woodinville, Washington, Becerril group. This has been very helpful as a forum for examining attended Santa Clara University receiving his intersections of medicine and sexuality/gender and I look BS in Biology. In addition to serving as student forward to learning and participating more at this year’s council co-president, he oversees Rush Pride, GLMA Conference. the university-wide LGBT advocacy group. Becerril is currently a Schweitzer Fellow, addressing education disparities among low-income and homeless LGBT youth at the Center on Halsted, a Chicago non-profit with a wide-range of LGBT services.

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Tiffany Chen Yarden Fraiman Tiffany Chen is a second year medical student Yarden Fraiman, originally from Chicago, at the University of Central Florida. She is completed his undergraduate studies in 2009 originally from Orlando, FL. She attended Johns with a BA in Religion from Princeton University. Hopkins University, where she studied the History Following graduation, Yarden moved to San of Art and Africana Studies. Outside of classes, Francisco where he worked as a Research she spent her time directing a free after-school Associate at the University of California, tutoring program for inner-city children, cooking dinners at San Francisco studying congenital heart defect repair the local women’s day shelter, and volunteering weekly and palliative surgery in the Department of Pediatric at a clinic for homeless persons. Working in the community Cardiothoracic surgery and the Pediatric Intensive Care was a truly transformative experience and she could not Unit. He is currently a second year medical student at forget the inequalities she saw firsthand. She also learned the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. During how much power students have to create positive his first year at Johns Hopkins, he organized the “Wear change if they are willing to voice their opinions and act Purple” campaign to raise awareness and show solidarity on their beliefs. As a medical student now she is leads the for LGBTQ-related bullying. Women’s Health Interest Group, serves as vice president of Community Engagement in AMSA, and helps coordinate Hannah Galey a free health clinic. Hannah is currently a second-year medical student at Georgetown University School of Jules Chyten-Brennan Medicine in Washington D.C where she is the pre- Jules is a second year osteopathic medical clinical chair of the Student Medical Education student at the University of Medicine and Committee, vice president of the Hoya-Med Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). He holds a Alliance, and procedural coordinator of the BA in Government and Gender and Women’s Family Medicine Interest Group. Ms.Galey received her MS Studies from Connecticut College and worked in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University in as a licensed massage therapist in NYC for 2010. She graduated from Columbia University in 2009 with three years before heading back to school. He has been a BA in Neuroscience, where she received Academic All- involved with LGBT activism since high school and most American Honorable Mention accolades. At Columbia, recently, founded a Stratford UMDNJ chapter of the LGBT she was a member of the varsity women’s swimming and Association for Students of Health (LASOH). He is also diving program receiving First-Team All-Ivy honors. Ms. currently an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, through which he Galey is an intern with the Mautner Project, the National organized a Trans Health Symposium in Philadelphia earlier Lesbian Health Organization where she is working on the this month. Jules is most interested in providing healthcare DOH funded M.O.V.E. project, which is a weight loss/risk for marginalized people within the LGBT community and reduction program for lesbian, bisexual and transgender plans to work both domestically and abroad. He is excited women. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her girlfriend, to be attending his first GLMA conference, and looks Emily. forward to meeting like-minded people! Gregory Goldgof Christopher Downing Gregory Goldgof was raised in Tampa, Florida Christopher Downing is a fourth year medical until moving to California to attend Stanford student at the University of Florida College University. During college, he organized the of Medicine in sunny Gainesville, Florida. He student campaign against Proposition 8 and completed an undergraduate degree at the founded the school’s LGBT rights student group. University of Central Florida in Orlando. His fields More recently, Greg has authored resolutions of study were Molecular Biology and Piano on LGBT bullying and youth suicide for the AMA and was Performance. Christopher is from Tampa, Florida and elected to the AMA House of Delegates. He is currently enjoys marathon running, audiobooks, eating sushi, and investigating how to make LGBT students eligible for travel. He will be entering the field of Diagnostic Radiology diversity grants from the NSF and NIH and would love for residency. Christopher is excited to be at this year’s help with this project. Academically, Greg is interested GLMA conference and plans to make use of this learning in infectious diseases and the developing world. He spent experience at his medical school. He would like to thank the summer after college traveling and volunteering in all of the student scholarship contributors. India and the following year researching tuberculosis at St. Mary’s Hospital London as a Whitaker International Fellow. Greg is currently a second year MD/PhD student at UC San Diego.

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Ryan Guinness Rights Campaign, as a fundraiser, and have learned how Hi everyone! I am from Toronto, Ontario and much work there still needs to be done for the LGBT people recently finished my first-year at Dartmouth to have equal rights in the US. As a future nurse, (currently Medical School in New Hampshire. Along with my I am a BSN/MSN student at the Johns Hopkins School of parents and two younger brothers I have lived in Nursing). I clearly see that there is so much that should Ontario for the majority of my life, including my be improved, changed and totally revamped in so many time spent as an undergraduate at the University aspects of healthcare in order for my people to be treated of Western Ontario. This past year I was very involved with as everyone else. I aspire to dedicate my future career to our school’s qMD group; a social organization for LGBT that purpose and I am very excited and honored to be at students and allies, but also an interest group focused on the conference with like-minded people who are already LGBT health concerns. I also sat on the executive board doing so much in the field that I hope to contribute in the for the New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians as future. a student representative. I enjoy the simple things in life: scrabble, shooting stars, raisin bran, hugs, cold pillows, Jan Kaminsky reading, rain, sun, and my friends. I enjoy traveling and Jan Kaminsky is in her fourth and final year as want to go just about everywhere in the world. a PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, fully funded by the Jonas Brian Holoyda Center for Nursing Excellence in New York City. Brian Holoyda is a fourth year MD/MPH student She has also been a bedside nurse in the Pediatric at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of ICU for seven years. Her dissertation research is Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He has served as with a group of formerly incarcerated mothers and their the Student Representative on the GLMA board children in a prison nursery in New York State, looking at of directors for the last two years. He is interested attachment, maternal aspirations for their children and in forensic psychiatry and public health. Outside child discipline practices in this vulnerable group. Upon of medicine, Brian enjoys death metal, biking, hitchhiking, graduation, Ms. Kaminsky hopes to teach nursing students and camping. at the undergraduate level, to develop Nursing curricula that are more inclusive of GLBT health-care providers and Matthew Huddle patients and to conduct research with GLBT youth. She Matthew Huddle is a third year medical student and her partner have three lovely children and live in at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He spent northern New Jersey. last summer in Baltimore doing patient safety research. With a friend, Matthew has been Bobby Kelly working with members of the administration to Bobby Kelly is a fourth year medical student at add LGBT health issues to the curriculum, and Drexel University College of Medicine and plans is a member of the executive board of the Gertrude Stein on going into the field of family medicine. He Society, the LGBT group of the medical campus. In addition was the AMSA gender and sexuality committee to participating in an orchestra, Matthew stays active with grassroots coordinator for his region in 2010- cello performance in a medical student piano trio, which 2011 and is the former co-president of the LGBT has performed at a variety of school functions. Before People in Medicine student group at DUCOM. Bobby coming to medical school, Matthew was a Chemistry was actively involved in the formation of Philadelphia major at Illinois Wesleyan University. At this point, everything LASOH (LGBTQ Alliance of Students Organized for Health), is interesting and new, and Matthew has not yet decided and has volunteered extensively at the Mazzoni Center, which field to enter. Philadelphia’s LGBT Health Center. For the past two years, he has helped organize the LGBT Health Student Sonia Kagna Symposium, which have collectively brought together My name is Sonia Kagna. I am originally from over 200 health students, involving Fenway Health in Ukraine, which I still consider my beloved Boston and Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia. In 2011, Bobby homeland, despite of experiencing two was selected as one of the 43 nationwide Paul Ambrose different kinds of discrimination: as a Jew and as Scholars where he will work with other health professions a bisexual person. Growing up in that restrictive student and influential public health professionals to help environment, and then coming to America address public health challenges. where there is more freedom, made me an avid supporter of the rights of those who experience discrimination and are denied common freedoms and privileges that the majority enjoys without even realizing it. I worked for the Human

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Benjamin Margolis gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up Benjamin is currently in his second year of medical where I needed to be.” school at Yale University, and has an interest in surgery. He attended college at Johns Hopkins In his limited free time, Melvin enjoys reading, historical University and spent three months volunteering reenactment, camping, and spending time with his in Nepal before starting medical school. Ben is four kids. He also enjoys volunteering his time helping one of two “out” second year class members businesses become more LGBT friendly, guest lecturing on at Yale, and sees few positive LGBT role models at Yale, “Trans 101,” and has spent several years providing support especially among the Surgery Department. Benjamin is for individuals in the early stage of transition. He is also very thankful to receive this scholarship. It will allow him to speak involved with Emory’s LGBT alumni group (Emory GALA). with LGBT surgeons from around the country to discuss the specific aspects of “surgery culture” that make it the single He is incredibly grateful for this scholarship and thanks you specialty in which physicians report coming out at work as all for the opportunity to be here for this once in a lifetime a negative experience. opportunity, particularly with the transgender health symposium with WPATH and SCC. Jordan Marit My name is Jordan Marit. I grew up in the small, Stephanie Preston, MS rural Saskatchewan, Canada. In the community Stephanie Preston, MS, is a third-year student of Willow Bunch I did not know that I wanted at Pacific University’s School of Professional to be a physician once starting university. Psychology working toward a doctorate in Prior to acceptance into medical school, I clinical psychology (PsyD). She is an active obtained Bachelor of Science (2007) and member of her program’s IDEAS (Interest in Master of Science (2011) degrees from the University of Diversity Education, Awareness, and Service) Saskatchewan. It took seven years of university education, Committee, which organizes the school’s annual Diversity but I finally discovered that I wanted to become a Day, and co-president of their chapter of Psychology physician. Currently, I am a second year gay medical Students for Social Responsibility. She is also on the student at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Pacific University consulting team and a member of the Saskatoon is a small, beautiful city but does have some organizational consulting track. Stephanie is currently problems when it comes to LGBT health. While there are involved in research examining the effects of transition very open and accepting physicians, there is yet, at least on the body image of female-to-male . Her to my knowledge, no family physicians in the city that dissertation is an exploration of the literature on micro identify themselves as LGBT. As such, I hope to learn much aggressions and the development of a diversity training from this conference and use new found knowledge to that includes attention to this common form of prejudicial educate others in my community and cater to the LGBT behavior. In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys volunteering population. regularly for a number of causes, cooking, and hiking.

Melvin Marsh Nicole Rider, MA Melvin Marsh is currently finishing up an informal Nicole Rider completed her MA in Counseling post-baccalaureate at Georgia Perimeter Psychology at Pacific University in Hillsboro, College and is applying to medical school this Oregon. In Fall 2011, she will begin a PhD program year with an eye towards a future career in in Counseling Psychology at Howard University in LGBT health. Washington, DC. Her professional and research interests include intersections of identity (racial/ ethnic, gender and sexual identity variables in particular), A Florida native, Melvin earned his BS degree from Emory experiences of discrimination, multicultural issues and University in 2003 where he double majored in Anthropology body image. She is also passionate about leadership and & Human Biology and Medieval-Renaissance Studies. In advocacy in terms of racial and ethnic minorities who 2007, he earned a MS in Space Studies from the University identify within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and of North Dakota, concentrating in space life sciences queer spectrum. She recently completed her internship at and human factors in long duration spaceflight. He the Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center originally planned for a career in the very conservative (SMYRC) where she experienced firsthand that youth are field of aerospace sciences, but a few life-changing the most empowering leaders and creative activists when events (including his own transition and watching a mtf given visibility, a chance and a voice. In her free time, friend die from medical neglect) caused him to set his she enjoys playing with her two puppies, Boba Fett and sights permanently on medicine, specifically transgender Atari. She also wants to thank GLMA for awarding her this health. As Douglas Adams once said “I may not have scholarship.

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Carl G. Streed, Jr. hiking, acoustic guitar and philosophy. Finally, he would Carl G. Streed, Jr. is a third year medical like to express his gratitude to the leadership and members student at the Johns Hopkins University School of GLMA for making it possible for him to attend this year’s of Medicine. Carl came to medicine after GLMA Conference. a convoluted and tortuous journey through biological chemistry at the University of Chicago, Perry Tsai neighborhood anthropology at the Chicago Perry Tsai is a third-year student in the UNC Field Museum, and a stint as a bouncer at Sidetrack, Chapel Hill School of Medicine MD/PhD Chicago’s largest . Since moving to Baltimore, Program. He was born and raised in New Carl has been actively engaged in strengthening the Orleans, Louisiana, then moved to Cambridge, LGBT community: revitalizing the Gertrude Stein Society Massachusetts for his undergraduate studies for LGBT students, faculty, and staff of the Johns Hopkins at Harvard College. While at UNC, he spends Medical Institutes; serving as a founding member of the his time directing the MedUNCedoos a cappella group, Hopkins Network of LGBT Employees and Supporters; and coordinating HIV testing and counseling at the student advocating to add LGBT health to the curricula of the volunteer clinic and writing columns on sexual health for the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. Outside Daily Tar Heel. Currently, he is beginning to work in an HIV of school, Carl actively blogs for WebMD, serves as an laboratory towards his PhD in Microbiology/Immunology. ambassador for the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, He is excited to be attending this year’s GLMA conference is the National LGBT policy coordinator for the American where he hopes to learn the latest in LGBT health/health Medical Student Association, and is the Erickson-Zoellers education, bring it back to UNC to incorporate into their Point Foundation Scholar. curriculum, and meet with the many health care providers in GLMA who are so passionate about LGBT health. Christopher Terndrup Christopher Terndrup is a third year medical Brent Turner student at the Tulane University School of A native of Southwest Virginia, Brent started Medicine. He returned to Tulane following volunteering in the medical setting as a Spanish a year off, which was well deserved after interpreter at a local free clinic and later as a completing his BA in Spanish. He currently medical scribe in the emergency department. resides in Baton Rouge as part of the school’s As the first college graduate in his family, Brent LEAD Program (Leadership, Education, Advocacy and studied Biochemistry at the University of Mary Discovery). While working through clerkships to find where Washington. Afterwards, he attended The Johns Hopkins he belongs in medicine, his proximity to the capitol and a University Bloomberg School of Public Health where special elective month will allow him to pursue a project he studied Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in their in healthcare policy. He plans to use this opportunity to Reproductive Division. Brent focused his graduate studies increase LGBT visibility and sensitivity in Louisiana. He is co- on maternal health, family planning, contraceptive founder of Tulane’s LGBT medical student group (TOGA) technology and infertility treatment/prevention. He is and planned the school’s first-ever LGBT Health Week in currently working on a research project concerning oocyte January. His other interests in medicine include proper biology and the egg’s membrane block to polyspermy in language access, sexual health, and medical education. the Evans’ laboratory. He will be attending the Medical Outside of school he enjoys exercise, reading, and bad College of Virginia in Fall 2012. Brent hopes to pursue a romantic comedies. fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility in order to increase reproductive options for both the LGBT Zachary Threlkeld population and for those of lower socioeconomic status. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Zach is currently a fourth year medical student at the Maria Vargas University of Kentucky. He is the co-founder Ms. Maria Vargas is a graduate of the University of the health campus LGBT advocacy group, of Illinois in Chicago with dual degrees in Biology UK HOPE (Health Occupation Professionals for and Psychology. She is a current student at Equality), which serves six health professional DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois pursuing colleges and enjoys a large following. Prior to medical a Master’s in Public Health. Maria’s interest in school, he completed a BS in Chemistry and continues LGBT health issues developed when she began to exercise an interest in research. Zach is also excited working, as a research assistant, at the Howard Brown to be starting the residency matching process and plans Health Center in Chicago. Currently, she is working with to pursue a career in academic neurology. His interests team of researchers on an NIH funded project aimed outside of medicine and LGBT advocacy include writing, at increasing smoking cessation behaviors in the LGBT

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community. Holding cultural competence as one of the most important values, the Howard Brown team culturally tailors each intervention for sexual minority populations based on health research. Maria intends to attend medical school to pursue a career as an infectious disease specialist.

John Zampella My name is John Zampella. I am 24 years old and I am originally from upstate New York. Currently, I am a medical student at Johns Hopkins SOM. I have two bachelor degrees from Siena College, one in Biology and the other in Spanish. I am currently pursuing a research project with a Howard Hughes Research Fellowship. I am looking to getting involved in LGBT groups, especially within the field of healthcare and I am excited for this upcoming conference in Atlanta as a way to kick start my involvement. I really think I will benefit from this conference in many ways and I appreciate the support for my attendance.

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GLMA Presidents

2009-2011 1994-1995 Rebecca Allison, MD Bob Cabaj, MD

2007-2009 1993-1994 Jason Schneider, MD Kate O’Hanlan, MD

2005-2007 1992-1993 Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH Larry Prater, MD

2004-2005 1991-1992 Tri Do, MD, MPH Jane Petro, MD

2003-2004 1989-1990 Kenneth A. Haller, Jr., MD Audrey Mertz, MD

2002-2003 1988-1989 Christopher E. Harris, MD Elizabeth Harrison, MD

2001-2002 1987-1988 William S. Gilmer, MD Peter Hawley, MD

2000-2001 1986-1987 Saul Levin, MD, MPA David Ostrow, MD, PhD

1999-2000 1985-1986 Donald I. Abrams, MD Alvin Novick, MD

1998-1999 1984-1985 Kathy Oriel, MD Brett Cassens, MD

1997-1998 1983-1984 Michael Horberg, MD Neil Schram, MD

1996-1997 1982-1983 Jocelyn White, MD Denny McShane, MD

1995-1996 Val Ulstad, MD

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Past GLMA Annual Conference Locations

2010 1996 San Diego, California Montreal, Quebec

2009 1995 Washington, DC Los Angeles, California

2008 1994 Seattle, Washington New York, New York

2007 1993 San Juan, Puerto Rico Portland, Oregon

2006 1992 San Francisco, California San Francisco, California

2005 1991 Montreal, Quebec Provincetown, Massachusetts

2004 1990 Palm Springs, California Toronto, Ontario

2003 1989 Miami, Florida San Francisco, California

2002 1987 Toronto, Ontario Minneapolis, Minnesota

2001 1986 New Orleans, Louisiana London, England

2000 1985 Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia

1999 1984 San Diego, California Chicago, Illinois

1998 1983 Chicago, Illinois New York, New York

1997 1983 San Francisco, California Denver, Colorado

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Exhibitors/Sponsors

Alzheimer’s Association Centers for Disease Control balanced life and personal health. The Alzheimer’s Association is the As a part of its overall public health As a practitioner at Group Health leading voluntary health organization mission, The Centers for Disease Control Physicians you will join a collaborative in Alzheimer care, support and and Prevention provides leadership team in a professionally satisfying, research. We provide services to those in helping control the HIV/AIDS patient-centered environment. Please affected by Alzheimer’s and related epidemic by working with community, come by our booth to learn more dementias; advocate for policy state, national, and international about the great opportunities awaiting change and research funding; and partners in surveillance, research, and you today at Group Health! advance research toward prevention, prevention and evaluation activities. treatment and cure. These activities are critically important Hope Clinic of Emory University because CDC estimates that about 1.1 The Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine American Academy of Physician million Americans are living with HIV, Center is an international center of Assistants and that 21% of these persons do not excellence and leadership for clinical The American Academy of Physician know they are infected. and translational research on vaccines Assistants is the only national and other biomedical interventions organization to represent physician CIGNA targeting infectious diseases with assistants (PAs) in all medical and CIGNA is a global health service public health importance. The Hope surgical specialties and work settings in company that values diversity in Clinic is a component of the Division the United States and federal services. the workplace and respects the of Infectious Diseases, and serves as Founded in 1968, the Academy works diversity of its customers. In 2007, the clinical arm of the Emory Vaccine to promote quality, cost-effective the company was named a Best Center. The clinic is physically located health care, and the professional Place to Work by the Human Rights in Decatur, Georgia, at the corner of and personal growth of PAs. For more Campaign Foundation, a distinction Church St. and Commerce Drive (603 information about the Academy and that’s awarded to companies that Church Street, Decatur, GA 30030) the PA profession, visit the AAPA web score 100 percent on the Foundation’s site at www.aapa.org. Corporate Equality Index. CIGNA is Human Rights Campaign also a national sponsor of GLMA’s The Human Rights Campaign Boston Scientific Provider Directory, which helps LGBT Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index Boston Scientific is a company on the individuals find nonjudgmental and is a self-evaluation tool that helps forefront of innovative, less-invasive competent health care professionals. healthcare facilities provide access devices. The Cardiology, Rhythm and to high quality, patient centered care Vascular Group works to develop The Fenway Institute for LGBT patients and their families. therapies for abnormal heart rhythms The Fenway Institute is an HRC is America’s largest civil rights and heart failure, diagnose and interdisciplinary center for research, organization working to achieve LGBT treat coronary artery disease, and training, education and policy equality. GLMA is an Endorsing Partner product lines in the areas of Peripheral development. Our focus is on national of the Healthcare Equality Index. Interventions, Neurovascular, Imaging and international health issues. Our and Electrophysiology. Close the mission is to ensure access to high- LBGT PA Caucus Gap, a Boston Scientific educational quality, culturally-competent medical The Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and initiative, addresses disparities in and mental health care and to reduce Transgender Physician Assistant (LBGT cardiovascular care for women, health disparities for traditionally PA) Caucus is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit black Americans and Hispanic/Latino underserved communities including organization that was founded in 1979 Americans. LGBT people and those affected by to achieve LGBT Healthcare Equality HIV/AIDS. We are motivated by the for Patients and the PA profession. The Brattleboro Retreat belief that everyone everywhere Caucus provides education, advocacy Mental illness and addiction can deserves access to high-quality and professional networking – efforts create walls of isolation. People healthcare. we believe are essential to eliminating sometimes feel cut off from family, health disparities for our LGBT patients, coworkers and community – and Group Health and for all LGBT PAs and PA students to uncomfortable or excluded by Group Health Physicians, the largest achieve their full potential. For more traditional mental health and group practice in the Northwest, is a information, please visit www.lbgtpa. addiction treatment programs. The multi-specialty, integrated medical org. Brattleboro Retreat’s Lesbian, Gay, group on the cutting edge of clinical Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) medicine and research. Not only do National Coalition for LGBT Health Program helps individuals overcome we pride ourselves on providing the The National Coalition for LGBT Health addiction, depression, anxiety and best quality coordinated care, but is committed to improving the health other mental health challenges in Group Health Physicians encourages its and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual a safe, confidential, respectful and staff to maintain care-focused patient and transgender (LGBT) individuals affirming environment. relationships and manage innovative and communities through public practices, while advocating a well- education, coalition building and

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advocacy that focuses on research, policy, education and training. The Coalition provides technical support, is a clearinghouse for LGBT health policy issues, establishes an LGBT presence within the national public health community, organizes forums and advocates for our comprehensive health needs at the federal level.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine The National Library of Medicine (NLM - http://nlm.nih.gov), provides free, authoritative information for health care professionals, patients, and families. Through a regional network of resource libraries (NNLM - http:// nnlm.gov), we provide access to information, training on information resources, and access to a network of health information resource centers. Stop by our booth to learn more about PubMed/MEDLINE, MedlinePlus (consumer health information), and other NLM resources designed to support health and well-being among diverse communities.

Saskdocs Saskdocs (Physician Recruitment Agency of Saskatchewan) is a one- stop shop for physicians wanting to live and work in Saskatchewan, Canada. We collaborate with many organizations to help find the right physicians for the right communities. We look forward to meeting delegates at the GLMA’s 29th Annual Conference. Drop by our booth at the conference, give us a call (1-888- 415-3627) or visit our website www. saskdocs.ca to find out more about the exciting opportunities available in Saskatchewan!

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