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We want to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Lauren Beach, JD, PhD, who recently received the Friend of Nursing Award from the Vanderbilt University Nursing School Alumni Board. Lauren is the former Director of LGBTQ Research for the Program for LGBTQ Health. She now the interim director of the EDIT program at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. We are so proud of Lauren and look forward to her contributions to the field of LGBTQ health in the future!

Pride month got off to a great start this year as we welcomed our 2021 summer interns, Jacob Zimmerman and Julia Grey! Jacob and Julia both applied for our 2020 internship program, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were unable to join us last year. Later in the month, Melvin Lewis was added to our crew.

February is Black History Month, and we want to celebrate by highlighting the Black LGBTQ figures in history that are too often over-looked. From Miss Major to Pauli Murray to Bayard Rustin, we encourage you to learn more about the Black LGBTQ individuals who have shaped our history.

The Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health and the VUMC Office for Diversity Affairs are working to create the first OUTlist for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center! The VUMC OUTlist will be used to increase visibility of the LGBTQ community at VUMC, help LGBTQ individuals connect to mentors and resources, and build community among VUMC's LGBTQ employees and allies. more . .

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) appointed Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, director of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin (AHW) Endowment and senior associate dean at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) School of Medicine effective September 1, 2019 . . . .

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.