Co-Lead
Program Manager - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Co-lead, Clinical Care Working Group, Dean's Advisory Council for LGBTQI Affairs; Co-chair, Yale LGBTQ Affinity Group; Co-chair, Trans Specific Issues Committee, Yale LGBTQ Affinity Group
DAC Working Groups
The DAC consists of Working Group Members with particular interest/expertise to address respective Working Group domains.
Clinical Care
The Clinical Care Working Group is focused on augmenting and improving the clinical care of the LGTBQI community provided by the Yale medical system. In order to achieve this goal, we are developing a comprehensive LGBTQI Healthcare Program proposal that will engage stakeholders throughout the system. It will involve researching, documenting and implementing the most current and best practices, to support an initial implementation plan approved by the team leadership.
Co-Lead
Associate Professor Term; Director, HIV Clinical Services, Internal Medicine; Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, Yale Medicine
Community/Visibility
The Community and Visibility (C&V) Working Group strives to build a culture of acceptance and support for LGBTQI+ identified individuals across the medical campus and beyond. The group is particularly interested in promoting a culture where the LGBTQI+ identities are respected, valued, and celebrated. They aim to do this through supporting activities that bring LGBTQI+ people around the medical campus together and projects that improve the institutional experiences of LGBTQI+ persons and the patients they serve.
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Assistant Professor of Pathology; Executive Associate Residency Program Director, Pathology
Curriculum
Partnering with educators to construct LGBTQIA+ health-related training
The Curriculum Working Group aims to enrich LBGTQIA+ health content throughout Yale undergraduate and graduate education (including residency & fellowship). The Curriculum WG projects include establishing a glossary of LGBTQIA+ identity and health terms as a classroom resource, conducting learner reviews of current curricular offerings, and to facilitate awareness of LGBTQIA+ resources, terminology, and health in medical and basic science curriculums.
Co-Lead
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Director for Curriculum and Educator Assessment, Teaching & Learning Center (SOM)
GME
The GME group is working to advance recruitment, and retention of trainees while ensuring that current trainees feel safe, welcomed and engaged in their LGTBQi community within YNHH and the YSM. We are collaborating with other working groups to focus on standardizing residency LGBTQi curricula, recruitment of faculty focused on LGBTQi healthcare and building an LGBTQi network within the greater New Haven community that includes the hospital and the university.
Policy
Assistant Professor Adjunct of Medicine (Physician Assistant Online Program); Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, PA Online Program; Core group member, Dean's Advisory Council (DAC) on LGBTQI+ Affairs, Yale Medicine Outlist; Committee member, Academic Affairs, PA Online Program, Yale Medicine; Committee member, Progress committee, PA Online Program, Yale Medicine; Committee member, Joint Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Mission Statement committee, PA programs, PA Online Program
Q-Forward
Co-Lead
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Deputy Director, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity, Yale Cancer Center; Board Member, Dean's Advisory Council for LGBTQI+ Affairs, Yale University; Co-Founder, Expect With Me, CDE
Research
The Research Working Group aims to promote LGBTQI+ research and growth of LGBTQ+ research personnel at Yale’s medical associated schools, create visibility for LGBTQI+ research and researchers at Yale’s medical associated schools, and build a community of and for LGBTQI+ researchers at Yale’s medical associated schools.
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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Methods Core, Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center; Director, Research Design Clinic, Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center; Consultant for Observational Studies, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS)
Public Health
Co-Lead
Susan Dwight Bliss Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Co-Lead
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS); Director, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS; Assistant Cancer Center Director, Global Oncology, Yale Cancer Center