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“Emerge”ing Insights into Health Care for Transgender Adolescents

April 1, 2020

Read about the adolescent medicine team at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is working with transgender and nonbinary adolescents and learning their perspectives on improving mental health among transgender and nonbinary youth.

Caitlin McFarland ⋅ Perspectives in Research gender affirming care, LGBTQ, LGBTQ heath, nonbinary, transgender ⋅

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Diverse Perspectives

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Diverse Perspectives

December 14, 2018

Equal treatment for all is one of the values on which this institution was founded. In an 1873 letter from Mr. Johns Hopkins to Johns Hopkins Hospital trustees, he wrote that the hospital must care for “the indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require […]

biomedicalodyssey ⋅ Perspectives in Research diversity, ICYMI, inclusion, LGBTQ heath, race ⋅

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LGBTQ+ Health Disparities: Compassionate Care Is Admitting Ignorance

May 29, 2018

On Tuesday, May 1, I attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine-hosted seminar titled The Role of Health Care Professionals in Reducing LGBTQ Health Disparities, given by Andrew Hollenbach, an alumnus of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Hollenbach is an assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and the co-director of the basic science […]

Lisa Learman ⋅ Events and Happenings LGBTQ, LGBTQ heath ⋅

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