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LGBTQ Healthcare Advocacy & Inclusion Week planned at Health Sciences Center

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Student Healthcare Alliance for Promoting Equality, along with the WVU Departments of Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Plastic Surgery, are sponsoring a week-long lecture series in the Health Sciences Center Oct. 23-27 focusing on LGBTQ Health with the goal of sponsoring advocacy and inclusion at our institution. All lectures are open to WVU students, faculty and staff, as well as the surrounding community.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP online.

  • Monday, Oct. 23

    • 7 a.m. - Transgender Medicine & the Surgeon, Okey Patteson Auditorium

    • Noon - LGBTQ History, 1905

    • 3 p.m. - Safe Zone Training, G119A

  • Tuesday, Oct. 24

    • Noon - Legislation & LGBTQ Community, 1905

  • Wednesday, Oct. 25

    • 8 a.m. - Communicating with LGBTQ Families, Fukushima Auditorium

    • Noon - LGBTQ Primary Care

  • Thursday, Oct. 26

    • Noon - Social with WVU LGBTQ+ Center, Pylons Area

    • 1:30 p.m. - Safe Zone Training G119B

  • Friday, Oct. 27

    • 8 a.m. - Achieving Health Equity: Meeting the Health Care Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, Fukushima Auditorium

    • Noon - Gender Confirmation Hormone Therapy, 1905

Direct questions to Kacie Kidd at kkidd3@hsc.wvu.edu.