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This month's Around the Table discussion will focus on healthcare for transgender individuals. During Pride Month and with an array of controversial and elevated national conversations related to the transgender community, we want to provide guidance to healthcare professionals to understand the unique needs of transgender individuals in order to deliver affirming, compassionate treatment—ensuring health and safety for all.
NYAM President Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS, will be joined by David Rosenthal, DO, PhD, the founding medical director of the Center for Transgender Care; the medical director for the Center for Young Adult, Adolescent and Pediatric HIV; and an attending physician in the Division of Allergy/Immunology, all at Northwell Health. Dr. Rosenthal will discuss the importance of asking the right questions, listening carefully to the answers, and using them as a starting point for an honest discussion about all aspects of a patient’s well-being.
Around the Table, a quarterly series of roundtable discussions, focuses on relevant health equity issues and offers tested, actionable solutions. A key feature of the program will be a “What can I do?” segment at the end of the discussion. These action items will also be shared with attendees and the public following the event on NYAM’s whatcanido.nyc website.
Special thanks to the NYAM Advocates for Health Equity for their generous support of our public programming.
About the Speakers
David W. Rosenthal, DO, PhD, AAHIVS, is the medical director for the Center for Transgender Care at Northwell Health and the Center for Young Adult, Adolescent and Pediatric HIV. These Long Island and Queens based-programs are supported by $1.7M/year from New York State Dept of Health, and HRSA. As the founding medical director for the Center for Transgender Care, he coordinates care for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and has developed clinical, research, educational, and infrastructure changes throughout Northwell Health to address the needs of the transgender community. He led a sexual orientation and gender identity health informatics transformation project at Northwell, and regularly teaches to undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate medical audiences.
Recent publications include outcomes of LGBT medical school curriculum and a survey of transgender education in OB/GYN residency programs throughout the USA. Dr. Rosenthal went to medical school at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, did an Internal Medicine residency at Seton Hall University, a fellowship in Allergy/Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and earned his PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine.
In addition to his work with transgender care, he clinically cares for adolescents and young adults living with HIV, and also provides HIV prevention with PrEP. Dr. Rosenthal is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS, is President of The New York Academy of Medicine and is leading its strategic vision to advance health equity. Dr. Salerno is a physician executive and one of the nation’s pre-eminent leaders in health and healthcare. Prior to coming to NYAM, she served as President and CEO of Susan G. Komen ™, the world’s largest breast cancer organization. She also served as the Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Consultant for Geriatrics and Extended Care for the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Salerno is board-certified in internal medicine and holds an MD degree from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Science in Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2018 and was elected as a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine in 2017.
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