Queer Health Lecture Series
Each spring LGBT-Meds presents a lunchtime lecture series about queer health issues. The lecture series began with great success in the spring of 2003 and has continued since. Topics include everything from queer parenting to making your practice safe for your queer patients. In addition each year there is a panel presentation by queer youth from Project Outlet who speak about their interactions with the medical system and how the physicians they interacted with made them feel welcome or not.
Prominent speakers such as Dr. Kate O'Hanlon, former president of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), Dr. Ben Barres, Professor of Neurobiology at SMS, and Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, former director of the Callen Lorde Clinic of New York City have lectured in the series.
The lecture series is usually on Fridays from 12-1:00pm in M114 of the medical school. The series is sponsored by the department of pathology at Stanford and is coordinated by a student teaching-assistant. The TA position is 15% and is typically held by a first-year student.
The 2006 Lecture Series:
4/7: Civil Rights Parallel Health Rights
Dr. Kate O’Hanlan- Gynecological Oncologist & Former President of Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
4/14: Health Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: What do you need to know?
Dr. Ellen Haller- Full time faculty of UCSF and Director of the Adult Psychiatry Clinic and of the WomenCare mental health program at Langley Porter.
4/21: The Health Issues of Women Who Have Sex With Women
Dr. Dawn Harbatkin Medical Director of Lyon Martin Clinic in San Francisco.
4/28: Transgender Healthcare
Dr. Nick Gorton, Emergency Room Physician, Primary Care Provider at Lyon Martin Clinic and author of Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide For Health Care Providers
5/5: A Conversation about Gender Identity with A Transgender Stanford Medical School Professor
Dr. Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, and Neurology and a board-certified neurologist.
5/12: UNIQUE - Understanding Issues of the Queer Experience-A Youth Panel with Members of Project Outlet
5/19: Mental Health and your Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Patient
Michael Barbee is a Clinical Psychologist working in community mental health for the City and County of San Francisco.
5/26: Anal HPV infection and anal cancer- what every men who has sex with men (or their doctor) needs to know
Dr. Palefsky is Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Program Director of the UCSF/Moffitt General Clinical Research Center.
6/2: Findings and Recommendations of the Intersex Report: Its impact on changing standards-of-care in the treatment of disorders of sexual differentiation and intersex
Marcus Arana is a Discrimination Investigator for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission Marcus and a transgender cultural competency trainer.
The 2005 Lecture Series:
The 2004 Lecture Series:
April 2: Dr. Kate O’Hanlan. Politics of LGBT Health.
April 9: Project Outlet. Queer Youth Health Panel.
April 16: Dr. Karnik. Mental Health Issues of Youth and Coming Out.
April 23: Marcus Arana and Guest. Transgender Health Panel.
April 30: Dr. Levy. Making a Safe Space as a Physician.
May 7: Dr. Ben Barres. Academia and Medicine as a Transgender Individual.
May 14: Eileen Walsh. Grief and Death & Dying, LGBT Issues.
May 21: Michael Byrne. HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Activism.
May 28: Jill Jacobs and Deborah Wald. Gay Parenting.
