Gender Affirming Care Across BU/BMC

Join us for a panel to learn more about gender-affirming care initiatives for BU students, staff, faculty, and our family. From direct services and providers to our medical school curriculum, panelists will speak about current initiatives and services that Boston University and Boston Medical Center currently provide in support of gender-affirming care.  Although the panel will be focused on BU and BMC, panelists will also speak about the national landscape and recent restrictive legislation and attacks on gender-affirming care across more than half the states in the US as well as federally. Panelists include: Moderator: Angie Harris, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Executive Director, Faculty Development – Boston University Medical Campus; and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine – General Internal Medicine Beth Cohen, Medical Director of the GenderCare Center at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Mandy Coles, Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Transgender Center for Health (CATCH) at Boston Medical Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatric at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Judy Platt, Chief Health Officer and Executive Director, BU Student Health Services Ann Zumwalt, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Lead of the gender and sexual diversity thread of the medical school curriculum Co-sponsored by: GenderCare Center (GCC) and Child and Adolescent Transgender Center for Health (CATCH) at Boston Medical Center; and the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center, and Student Health Services at Boston University