37th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health
LGBTQ Health Across the Lifespan

Plenary Topics and Speakers

The GLMA Education Committee is excited to announce this year's plenary sessions. In each of the six plenary sessions, nationally recognized health professionals and advocates will explore and expand on this year's conference theme, LGBTQ Health Across the Lifespan.

Plenary 1: Improving Care for LGBT Older Adults

Thursday, September 12, 8:00AM – 9:45AM

From left: Jim Meadows, LMSW, Executive Director, New Orleans Advocates for GLBT Elders (NOAGE); and Catherine Roland, EdD, LPC, NCC, Member, Board of Directors, NOAGE

Plenary 2: Panel: How Health Professional Associations Advance LGBTQ Health Equity

Thursday, September 12, 4:15PM – 5:45PM

Top, from left: Diane Bruessow, PA-C, DFAAPA, Secretary-Treasurer, American Academy of PAs; Mary Foley, PhD, RN, FAAN, Secretary, American Academy of Nursing, Past President, American Nurses Association; Gal Mayer, MD, President, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality

Bottom, from left: Shilpen Patel, MD, FACRO FASTRO, Chair, LGBTQ Advisory Committee, American Medical Association; Margaret Rosario, PhD, Past President, Division 44, American Psychological Association; Kathryn Conley Wehrmann, PhD, LCSW, President, National Association of Social Workers

Plenary 3: The NIH-Funded Trans Youth Study: Baseline Findings, Challenges and Opportunities

Friday, September 13, 8:00AM – 9:30AM

From left: Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, Division Chief, Adolescent Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Ellie Kim, MD, Research Associate, Feinberg School of Medicine

Plenary 4: Fighting for LGBT Health Policy Protections: Health Providers' Crucial Role in Advocacy

Friday, September 13, 3:00PM – 4:30PM

From left: R. Nicholas Gorton, MD, DABEM, Emergency Medicine Physician, Sutter Davis Hospital; Sharita Gruberg, JD, Policy Director, Center for American Progress LGBT Research and Communications Project; Harper Jean Tobin, JD, MSSA, Director of Policy, National Center for Transgender Equality

Plenary 5: Dying, Out Loud and Queer: Reflections of a Lesbian Widow on Palliative Care

Friday, September 13, 4:45PM – 6:15PM

Kimberly D. Acquaviva, PhD, MSW, CSE, Betty Norman Norris Endowed Professor, University of Virginia School of Nursing

Plenary 6: U=U and PrEP: Living in a Status Neutral World

Saturday, September 14, 8:30AM – 10:00AM

Kenneth Mayer, MD, Medical Research Director, Fenway Health