title: First Annual LGBT Health Workforce Conference: Empowering Our Health Workforce to Better Serve LGBT Communities.
abstract: The Institute of Medicine has identified significant health disparities and barriers to health care experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. By lowering financial barriers to care, recent legislation and judicial decisions have created a remarkable opportunity for reducing disparities by making health care available to those who previously lacked access. However, the current health-care workforce lacks sufficient training on LGBT-specific health-care issues and delivery of culturally competent care to sexual orientation and gender identity minorities. The LGBT Healthcare Workforce Conference was developed to provide a yearly forum to address these deficiencies through the sharing of best practices in LGBT health-care delivery, creating LGBT-inclusive institutional environments, supporting LGBT personal and professional development, and peer-to-peer mentoring, with an emphasis on students and early career professionals in the health-care fields. This report summarizes the findings of the first annual LGBT Health Workforce Conference.
authors.affiliation: 1 Weill-Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , New York, New York.
authors.forename: Nelson F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.affiliation: 2 Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Initiative, Hispanic Center of Excellence; Einstein LGBT Steering Committee, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York , New York, New York.
authors.forename: John Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.affiliation: 3 Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco , and Stanford LGBT Medical Education Research Group, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Mitchell R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Lunn
authors.affiliation: 4 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Penn Medicine Program for LGBT Health , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Baligh R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Yehia
authors.affiliation: 5 School of Medicine, University of California-Davis , Sacramento, California.
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Callahan
keywords: LGBT; access to care; public policy and advocacy; sexual orientation