Calendar of Events
Tara Cook, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics
Division of General Internal Medicine
Krissy Moehling, PhD, MPH
Senior Research Project Coordinator, PittVax
Department of Family Medicine
Michael Halpern, MD
Associate Professor, Health Administration and Policy
Temple University College of Public Health
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
3:00 - 5:00 pm 1414 Cathedral of Learning
Afternoon Panel: Traditional and Emerging Methods for Narrative Research: Tools for data collection and analysis
5:30 - 7:15 pm G23 Public Health
Evening Panel: Narrative Methods Laboratory: A conversation with the widow of a double hand tranplant patient
Jasbir K. Puar, PhD
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Rutgers University
Ami McKay
Journalist, playwright, and novelist
Nova Scotia, Canada
Mary Zaborskis
Dietrich School Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
Affiliated with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
and the Children’s Literature Program
Opening Lecture:
Incentives for Promoting LGBTQ Youth Health
Craig Konnoth, JD
Associate Professor of Law
University of Colorado Law School
Abstract: Law and social mores have engaged with parents of LGBT youth in three ways: originally, they would incent parents to engage in LGBT-harming activities (e.g. sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts). Today, the law somewhat prohibits such harmful interventions, but leaves many gaps that increase risks to young people’s health and well-being. There are legal efforts to address those gaps, but legislation is needed. Moving forward, social and legislative initiatives should incent LGBT-promoting activities.
Keynote Lecture:
Empowering LGBT Youth to Thrive
Zena Sharman, PhD
LGBTQ+ health advocate, author and strategist
Director, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Abstract: This talk will explore strategies for empowering LGBT youth and what the adults who care for, serve, and study them can do to support LGBT youth to thrive. Drawing on evidence from research and practice, the talk will demonstrate the importance of approaches to LGBT youth health and wellbeing that are strengths-based, that situate youth in families, communities, and cultures, and that are grounded in an intersectional analysis of systemic oppression and root causes of health disparities. By examining lessons from the past, the talk will conclude with reflections on how we can empower LGBT youth to imagine a future in which they and their peers are able to thrive.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry
Jim Lavery, PhD
Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics
Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health
Jan Herman, MA
Retired Historian of the Navy Medical Department
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series