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Watch Dr. Marshall Forstein and Dr. Kenneth Mayer discuss the early days of AIDS, its parallels to and differences from what we're currently experiencing with COVID-19, and what we can learn and apply today. Through sharing their own expertise and discussing questions from viewers, they discuss the...

Watch Harvard Medical School LGBTQ faculty and residents in psychiatry discuss strategies for getting through COVID-19—for both their patients and themselves. They discuss the impact of changes to routines and living arrangements, holding onto your LGBTQ+ identity, the importance of community, and...

Those at HMS entrusted with providing a world-class education to the next generation of doctors and biomedical researchers know that they must continually scrutinize and evolve the School's medical curriculum. That includes ensuring that graduates have the knowledge and training to provide expert...

Every child deserves to be part of a loving family, and establishing a secure legal relationship known as parentage between parents and their children is critical to the well-being of all families. This provides stability and security for children and allows parents to care for their children...

A new paper by Sean Singer, HMS student starting dermatology residency, and Alex S. Keuroghlian, HMS Associate Professor of Psychiatry, describes the potential benefits of Isotretinoin in treating acne related to HRT for transmasculine people. The paper also discusses the current barriers to...

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...

"There are a lot of misconceptions about health related to sexual and gender minority people," said Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, director of the National LGBT Health Education Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. "There's a lack of training of clinicians in this area, and both patients...