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Overlooked, misunderstood and at-risk: Exploring the lives and HIV risk of ethnic minority male-to-female transgender youth |
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Overlooked, Misunderstood, and At-Risk: Health Care For the Transgender Adolescent by Robert Garofalo MD, MPH
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All About Hormonal Therapy: ESTROGEN
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All About Hormonal Therapy: TESTOSTERONE |
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Dr. Robert Garofalo, MD
Howard Brown Clinic, Chicago
Clinical care issues:
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General health issues and risk factors
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Transgender-specific medical issues and treatment (hormones, silicone, HIV and
hormones)
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Clinic protocols and access to care
Dafna Wu, RN
Dimensions Youth Clinic, San Francisco
Access and advocacy:
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Barriers to care
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Lowering the threshold of access to care
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Psychosocial issues of trans youth
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Provider and parent relations
Moderator
Ben Singer is a PhD Candidate in English at Rutgers University
working on an ethnographic dissertation: “On the Medical Margins: Transgender
Risk Reduction in Public Health.” Since 1993, he has worked as a consultant and
trainer in the public health sector, specializing in reducing health
disparities through improving access to culturally competent care. He
integrates academic tools, leadership building and group facilitation skills
with evidence-based research, case studies, harm reduction philosophy and
diverse experience in multiple communities. He has applied these techniques to
projects ranging from HIV/AIDS prevention to threshold reduction for access to
healthcare services in government, academic, community and private settings. He
has consulted on local, state and national levels with the CDC, HRSA,
Philadelphia Department of Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, and
other health and human service organizations. Mr. Singer has applied his
knowledge to the successful design and implementation of government-funded
projects that includes founding the Trans-health Information Project (TIP), a
program of Prevention Point Philadelphia and the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS
Education Initiative, with funding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. From 2002-2004 he served as Director of TIP, contributing to
program design, authoring curricula, managing staff, overseeing utilization of
direct services, and presenting consumer based health information workshops, as
well as technically assisting other local social service providers. In addition
to presenting on transgender issues to government and community-based
organizations across the country, Mr. Singer most recently taught Transgender
Queries in Medicine, Law, Politics and Culture at Barnard College, in New York
City. Contact: bsinger@critpath.org and 215-243-0459
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Transgender Conference Calls: Presenter Biographical Information
Robert Garofalo earned his M.D. at New York University and a
Master of Public Health at Harvard University. He is Deputy Director at the
Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago, the Medical Director of HIV Services at
Children’s Memorial Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and
Preventative Medicine at Northwestern University’s Fienberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Garofalo’s clinical and academic career is devoted to the care of HIV
infected adolescents and other at-risk teen populations. At Howard Brown and
Children's Memorial Hospital, Dr. Garofalo conducts federally-funded clinical
and prevention-based research with HIV+ and LGBT youth. Since 2001, he has been
actively involved in the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG)
where he is a member of their Adolescent Research Advisory Committee. In 2003,
Dr. Garofalo received a 3 year NIH-supported Mentored Clinical Scientist Award
to pursue behavioral research specific to HIV and HIV prevention in at-risk
youth populations. He also received an individual NIH award to test the utility
of a Social-Personal theoretical model in explaining HIV risk behaviors in
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, and is currently working with the
NICHD-sponsored Adolescent Medicine Trials Network as the Principal
Investigator on the Transgender Research Youth Project, a study examining
coding and risk among male-to-female transgender youth. Contact:
rgarofalo@childrensmemorial.org and 773-388-8661.
Dafna Wu, RN, graduated from the University of
California—Santa Cruz in English Literature with Biology minor, and completed
her graduate studies in Nursing from San Francisco State University. Since
1994, she has served as staff nurse at the Castro Mission Health Center, where
she works with a substantial number of transgender youth clients. She was on
the founding team of Dimensions Queer Youth Health Clinic, a program of the
Castro Mission Health Center that serves LGBT and questioning youth. Her
ongoing advocacy work is dedicated to providing a nurturing and safe space
where LGBTQ youth can seek and receive quality primary care. Contact:
dafna_wu@sfdph.org and 415-487-7506.
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YES Center
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is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Health Policy’s Center for
Health Services Research and Policy (CHSRP) at GWU. He holds an MA in
Humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his
undergraduate degree in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma and
is currently working on his dissertation “The Effects of Funder Mandated
Organizational Activities on Minority AIDS Community Based-Programs” in the
doctoral program in the School of Business at Capella University. His HIV work
over the last 15 years includes academic research, direct client services,
administration, and project planning, coordination, management, and evaluation
on local, state and Federal levels. Parrish served as executive director of
AIDS Resources of Rural Texas for seven years, project officer for the Program
Development Branch in the HIV/AIDS Bureau at HRSA, and as a project director
for GWU’s Forum for Collaborative HIV Research before coming to CHSRP. During
his tenure as executive director of AIDS Resources of Rural Texas (ARRT), he
developed prevention and HIV counseling/testing programs for at-risk youth. The
programs were designed to provide local community colleges and universities an
opportunity to partner with ARRT to bring these services to their campus
medical clinics. Prevention-to-care programs were then developed by Mr. Parrish
as individuals were identified for services. As the organization grew, Mr.
Parrish designed youth support groups, activities, and outreach programs
specifically designed for hard-to-reach rural youth, especially Hispanic and
African-American adolescents. Mr. Parrish completed his work at ARRT by opening
a Title III medical clinic to provide care to underserved rural and minority
individuals living over 37 counties and 54,000 square miles. During Mr.
Parrish’s service in the HAB, he provided support to grantees preparing to
begin primary medical services to rural and underserved populations, including
60 organizations funded through the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI). Mr. Parrish
has extensive project manager experience having directed several projects for
the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, including the CDC/OAR-funded “Sex and
Gender in HIV” project and the HRSA/CDC-funded “Quality of HIV Care” project.
Mr. Parrish is co-author of “Quality of HIV Care – Closing the Gap,” a report
on the status of HIV primary care in the US, including for hard-to-reach and
underserved communities. He currently manages projects for the CHSRP including
“Routine HIV Testing in the Clinical Setting” and “External Quality Review of
Medicaid Managed Care Organizations in the District of Columbia.” Contact:
blainep@gwu.edu or 202-530-0286. |
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