After a successful first year, the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health is excited to host the 2nd Annual Southern LGBTQ Health Symposium on Saturday, March 2 in Light Hall at VUMC. Register now by clicking here.

Please join Tara McKay, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, and Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health, as they present the new documentary film TransMilitary at Sarratt Cinema on campus at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5. One of the film's stars, Laila Ireland, a retired transgender army combat medic, will be in attendance and hosting a Q&A after the film screening.

Dr. Shayne Taylor, medical director of the new Vanderbilt Clinic for Transgender Health, will be delivering LGBTQ Grand Rounds from noon until 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14 in 208 Light Hall.  Dr. Taylor will be providing an update on the new clinic, which opened on Aug. 24, and offer important information on the care of transgender patients. Our team will follow up with a separate email for instructions on how to RSVP and receive continuing education credit. Please stay tuned.

Please join us in congratulating Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., MPH, Director of the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health, for recent recognition given for his commitment to diversity and inclusion. On Oct. 9, he was given the Levi Watkins, Jr. Faculty Award during a ceremony and annual lecture at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. The award is given in honor of Watkins, who was the first African American medical student at Vanderbilt University and went on to be the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator in a human patient.

Join Our AIDS Walk Team to Support Nashville CARES! Join Vanderbilt's new LGBTQ employee resource group at the Nashville AIDS Walk and 5K Run to be held on Saturday, Oct. 6 at Public Square Park. Help us raise money to support the work of Nashville CARES in ending the HIV epidemic in Middle Tennessee.

After more than two years of planning, the new Vanderbilt Clinic for Transgender Health will open on Friday, Aug. 24. The clinic, open Friday afternoons to start, will provide comprehensive gender-affirming services in a single convenient location. Initially, the clinic will co-locate in Bellevue at the Vanderbilt Walk-In Clinic before moving to its permanent home in One Hundred Oaks in January 2019.

We are very pleased to officially announce that we're (slightly) changing our name to the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health. We formerly adopted "LGBTI" to mirror language used by the National Institutes for Health.