Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 12/01/2021: The HQA got together to watch “How to Survive A Plague”, a documentary about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. We learned about the community’s response and how activism impacted the development of effective medical treatments. It was interesting…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 02/02/2021: HQA heard from a panel of mental health professionals involved with the LGBTQ+ community. We discussed mental health disparities and what we should know in our future careers to better understand and advocate for our patients. The panel was moderated…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 01/20/2021: Equal Access Clinic Network (EACN) and HealthQueer Alliance (HQA) hosted a session led jointly by Dr. Jennifer Janelle, a respected member of our faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, and by Gay Koehler Sides, MPH, CPH,…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 11/17/2020: This event was a continuation of our Trans Awareness Month series and featured Dr. Dina Greene, a laboratory chemist at University of Washington with research interests in transgender care. Dr. Greene spoke about how she became interested in transgender health…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 11/09/2020: HQA heard from Dr. Kristin Dayton, a pediatric endocrinologist here at UF, about providing affirmative care for transgender youth. Dr. Dayton did her Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship here at UF and is now head of the UF Youth…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 09/22/2020: Join Dr. Phillip Cushman and HQA for a discussion of being queer within medicine over the past few decades. Dr. Cushman did his psychiatry residency at UF and worked as an army psychiatrist before moving intro private practice. Recently retired,…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 08/25/2020: HealthQueer Alliance (HQA) held our annual introductory meeting! We met our fellow LGBTQ+ friends and allies and discussed queer health care disparities and ways to be an inclusive individual. It was great to see all of the lovely and interested…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 11/14/2019: HQA was thrilled to have Dr. Sanchez give us a very interesting and informative talk on transgender and gender expansive health care. As a pediatrician that has cared for gender expansive children and teens, he had a great deal of…
Event held by HQA – HealthQueer Alliance on 08/26/2019: HQA members were welcomed back to the 2019 fall semester! We had a discussion about gender and the use of pronouns in the clinical setting. We also talked about future events HQA would like to participate in within the medical…
