Events:
Wednesday, Jun 13, 2018, 12:00pm
-Wednesday, Jun 13, 2018, 01:00pm
In support of LGBT Pride Month, please join us (or invite your institutional LGBT leader) for a special webinar entitled: Overview of Sexual and Gender Minority-Related Activities and Training Opportunities at NIH Time: 4pm - 5pm EST Date: June 13, 2018 Learning Objectives: Review the mission and...
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Thursday, Oct 04, 2018, 08:30am
-Thursday, Oct 04, 2018, 10:00am
The midterm elections are coming soon, which means that every member of the House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, and 36 governors are up for re-election, not to mention a host of local ballot issues in Mass and other states. Are you prepared to have your voice heard? As future physicians...
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Monday, Nov 12, 2018, 01:30pm
-Monday, Nov 12, 2018, 02:30pm
Jessica Halem, MBA LGBT Program Director Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs Burritos, chips and salsa will be served! Jessica Halem isn’t your typical Small-Town Ohio Jewish Feminist Lesbian who turned to stand-up comedy to make sense of the world. She trained in Chicago at the famous...
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Tuesday, Dec 18, 2018, 12:30pm
-Tuesday, Dec 18, 2018, 02:15pm
Speakers: Genny Beemyn, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Laura Peimer, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Sari L. Reisner, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Moderator: Jen Manion, Amherst CollegeThis panel aims to begin an interdisciplinary conversation in...
Harvard Medical School on Thursday slammed the Trump administration's reported plan to eliminate federal recognition of transgender, intersex, or gender non-binary individuals, calling the proposal “overly simplistic, medically inaccurate and antithetical to our values as healthcare providers.” Read...
In college, a professor cautioned me that future patients would feel “much more comfortable” if I dressed and acted more “femininely.” One medical school interviewer found 4 different ways to ask if I thought it would be awkward to interact with female patients as a queer woman in obstetrics. A...
Neal Baer is an award-winning television writer and producer—and a Harvard Medical School-trained pediatrician (MD ’96). Through his pioneering work on hit shows such as ER and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as his leadership in connecting media producers with doctors and scientists...
By M.R.F. Buckley When Neal Baer was attending Harvard Medical School in the 1990s, he says there were only two out gay students in his class and next to nothing was ever mentioned about LGBTQ health. Baer received his degree in 1996 and became a pediatrician, an adjunct professor of preventive...