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The SOGI Project

The Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Project at the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare

"Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Data Collection in Clinical Settings"

Presented by:
Harvey Makadon, M.D.
Director, National LGBT Health
Education Center at The Fenway Institut

March (2013) in New Yeork State will mark the fourth annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Health Month. The theme for New York State LGBT Health Month 2013 is "We Count. Count Us."

Presentation Overview

This presentation will highlight the rationale for and how to collect sexual orientation and gender identity data in clinical settings. Current data collection practices in most clinical settings do not include questions about sexual orientation or gender identity. The call for LGBT data collection in clinical settings is coming from national stakeholders including the Department of Health & Human Service and the Joint Commission, and has been highlighted in a report released by The Institute of Medicine in 2011 entitled, The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding.

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Harvey Makadon, M.D., is Director of the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as a member of the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he had a primary care practice for over 25 years and served as Vice President of Medical Affairs. Harvey was the lead editor of The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, American College of Physicians, 2008, and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters related to LGBT health, as well as articles for popular media. He served on the Committee on LGBT Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities for the Institute of Medicine’s report: The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding, 2011.

Presented by: The Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) Project at the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare

With:   

Albany & Rensselaer Counties Cancer Service Programs, 

CHCANYS, Rainbow Access Initiative, Inc., 

SUNY Albany's Empire State Public Health Training Center , 

The NY State LGBT Health & Human Services Network, a program of the Empire State Pride Agenda