Harvard Medical School Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program

Harvard Medical School-Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program

Application cycle for the 2024-2025 Fellowship Year will open on May 1st, 2023

About the Fellowship

The AMA Foundation-sponsored Harvard Medical School (HMS)-Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program equips primary care residency graduates with the skills needed to serve as influential physician leaders in the field of LGBTQIA+ health.

Applications will open on May 1st, 2023 for two Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Med-Peds, or Pediatrics physicians to join our 12-month (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025) academic and career development fellowship in LGBTQIA+ focused primary care.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree.
Applicants must anticipate completion of residency training in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics or med-peds by July 1, 2023.
Applicants are encouraged to apply during their final year of residency.
Applicants must be US citizens or lawful permanent US residents with a resident alien permit or green card. The fellowship is not able to sponsor J-1 or other visas.

Statement regarding diversity and inclusion:

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of this fellowship, which centers intersectional LGBTQIA+ communities; we are especially interested in applicants who are underrepresented in medicine and represent these groups. All fellowship sites are equal opportunity employers and offer intersectional DEI programs and support for employees and trainees.

Fellowship Content and Structure

The HMS-Fenway LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program combines the resources of HMS and HMS’s teaching hospitals with Fenway Health, an internationally renowned Federally Qualified Health Center with 50 years of experience serving LGBTQIA+ communities, a rich patient base, and an embedded institute dedicated to LGBTQIA+ health education and training, advocacy, and research. HMS’s system-wide Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative provides the ideal context for fellowship activities. Our fellows will have an opportunity to learn from preeminent leaders in the field of LGBTQIA+ health while engaging with a rich tapestry of Boston-area organizations that serve diverse LGBTQIA+ communities.

Clinical Activities (45%):

Each fellow will be assigned to a core outpatient clinical site (at Beth Israel Deaconess–Fenway, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, or Mass General Hospital), where they will provide comprehensive primary care for a panel of diverse LGBTQIA+ patients. In 2023-2024, both fellows will be assigned to BIDMC-Fenway.
Fellows will also rotate through clinical selectives across the HMS-Fenway network that are aligned with their interests and career goals. Examples include: LGBTQIA+ focused addiction recovery; dermatology; endocrinology; gender-affirming surgery; hepatology; high-resolution anoscopy; HIV care; intersex health care; mental and behavioral health care; pediatric and adolescent transgender health care (Gender Multispecialty Service, Center for Gender Surgery, Transgender Reproductive Health Service); nephrology; obstetrics and gynecology; reproductive endocrinology; sexual health (HIV/STI Counseling, Testing & Referrals and Sexual Health Clinic); urology; and violence prevention and recovery.
Inpatient care and overnight/weekend call are not anticipated unless specifically applicable to a fellow’s career goals.

Academic Activities and Leadership Development (45%):

During biweekly fellowship seminars, fellows will engage with local and national LGBTQIA+ health leaders while developing foundational skills in LGBTQIA+ health-focused program development, clinical quality improvement (QI), education and training, community engagement, health policy and advocacy, and research.
Each fellow will conduct a longitudinal, mentored LGBTQIA+ health leadership project, such as developing a new clinical program; performing a clinical QI project; designing and implementing a new curriculum; conducting a community needs assessment; developing a policy brief; or engaging in a collaborative health advocacy effort.
Fellows will have numerous opportunities to practice their leadership skills via teaching in one of our LGBTQIA+ health-focused UME, GME, CME (for the Whole Care Team or Training-the-Trainer) or National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center trainings; collaborating with organizational partners in the rollout of an LGBTQIA+ focused public health program; and serving on the Massachusetts Medical Society LGBTQ Committee.
Fellows will be encouraged to attend a leadership course offered by the BIDMC Clinician-Educator Track for Fellows, the HMS Center for Primary Care, the HMS Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, or the Harvard-Macy Institute.
Fellows will receive coaching to disseminate their work widely via local, regional, and national presentations and publications in both the lay press and peer-reviewed journals.

Community Engagement (10%):

Fellows will learn about the unique needs of specific LGBTQIA+ communities through visits with a wide variety of Boston-area LGBTQIA+ organizations. They will then select one organization to host their community engagement project and assist in moving that organization’s work forward.

Mentorship and Support:

Mentorship is a signature focus of the HMS-Fenway LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program. Each fellow will have a:
- Core Clinical Site Mentor who will supervise the fellow’s primary care practice.
- Leadership Mentor who will provide guidance on the fellow’s longitudinal, LGBTQIA+ health leadership project.
- Career Development Mentor who has completed the Harvard Sexual and Gender Minority Health Mentoring Program, designed to meet the unique needs of mentees whose work focuses on LGBTQIA+ populations and who are frequently themselves members of underrepresented groups.
Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in a broad spectrum of activities and supports offered by the DEI programs at HMS, each HMS affiliate, and Fenway Health.
Fellows may join the Harvard Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Health Equity Research Collaborative, where they can engage with other trainees and faculty from diverse disciplines.

Salary and Benefits:

Fellows will be employed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and paid as PGY-4 residents. Benefits are included and there is an ample budget for CME. For more information on benefits, please visit the Trainee Benefits and Resources website.
Fellows will receive the title of Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Program Lead

Jennifer Potter, MD

Jennifer Potter, MD (she/her) is an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Professor of Medicine, Advisory Dean, and Co-Cirector of the Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative (SGM HEI) at Harvard Medical School (HMS); and Co-Chair of the Fenway Institute. Dr. Potter’s contributions to the field of LGBTQIA+ health include founding one of the first practices centering lesbian and bisexual women in New England; developing a national LGBTQIA+ health curriculum blueprint published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); curating a collection of LGBTQIA+ health-focused curricular tools for MedEdPORTAL; designing, implementing, and assessing the effectiveness of numerous LGBTQIA+ health curricula; engaging in classroom teaching and clinical supervision of learners across the medical education continuum; and serving as mentor for LGBTQIA+ trainees. Dr. Potter is also involved in the leadership of local and national medical education initiatives promoting trauma-informed care and anti-racism, both highly relevant to LGBTQIA+ health.

Program Assistant

Anna Kozler

Anna Kozler (they/them) is the Administrative Coordinator for the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute. They graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor’s of Arts in English and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, with an emphasis on transgender and gender diverse identities, and have worked in non-profit education and advocacy for over half a decade.

Fellowship Faculty

Kevin Ard, MD MPH

Kevin Ard, MD MPH (he/him) is the Director of the Sexual Health Clinic at MGH, where he is a practicing clinician and faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and Medical Director of the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, Dr. Ard’s interests include LGBTQIA+ health and the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and HIV.

Shalender Bhasin, MB BS

Shalender Bhasin, MB BS (he/him) is a Professor of Medicine at HMS and co-directs the Transgender Program at BWH. An internationally recognized endocrinologist with nearly 400 publications and substantial NIH funding, Dr. Bhasin leads large interdisciplinary clinical and research programs focused on reproductive disorders, transgender health, and the biology of sex hormones. He has provided care for transgender and gender diverse people for nearly 35 years and is an experienced medical educator. Dr. Bhasin will serve as BWH site lead.

Sean Cahill, PhD

Sean Cahill, PhD (he/him) is Director of Health Policy Research at the Fenway Institute, Affiliate Associate Clinical Professor of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He also serves on the Massachusetts Special Legislative Commission on LGBT Aging and the HIV and Aging Policy Action Coalition. Associate Editor at LGBT Health, Dr. Cahill has published numerous articles and monographs on LGBTQ+ health, LGBTQ+ public policy issues, and HIV/STI prevention and care.

Brittany Charlton, MSc, ScD

Brittany Charlton, MSc, ScD (she/her) is an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute whose research focuses on SGM reproductive health disparities and family planning. She also co-directs the Harvard Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Health Equity Research Collaborative, serves as an SGM HEI curriculum fellow, and designed and is implementing a first-in-kind mentorship program to meet the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ trainees.

John Dalrymple, MD

John Dalrymple, MD (he/him) is an obstetrician gynecologist at BIDMC whose clinical practice focuses on gynecologic oncology. He has held many academic and educational leadership roles, including Officer of the National Chicano Health Organization, Clerkship and Course Director, Vice-Chair for Education, Director of Curriculum Affairs, Director of Clinical Skills Education, and Division Director. Professor and Associate Dean for Medical Education Quality Improvement at HMS and Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Faculty Affairs in the Department of OB-GYN at BIDMC, he is integrally involved in all aspects of curriculum development, implementation, and assessment. He also serves as faculty chair of the HMS LGBT Advisory Committee and co-directs the HMS SGM Health Equity Initiative. Dr. Dalrymple will serve as HMS site lead.

Stephen Dunn, DO

Stephen Dunn, DO (he/him) was born and raised in Connecticut, and went on to graduate from the University of Connecticut in Storrs with a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology. He attended the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) in Biddeford, Maine. After graduation, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, MA, before moving to Boston to start work at Fenway Health. His clinical interests include HIV medicine, gender-affirming healthcare, and preventative healthcare. Dr. Dunn will serve as Fenway site lead.

Ariel Frey-Vogel, MD MAT

Ariel Frey-Vogel, MD MAT (she/her) is an internist and pediatrician who currently cares exclusively for transgender and gender diverse patients of all ages and directs Child and Adolescent Services at MGH. Previously, she was a primary care physician at a community practice in an underserved area of Boston. She has an extensive background in medical education, serving as Associate Program Director for the MGH for Children’s (MGHfC) Pediatric Residency Program and Director of the MGHfC Pediatric Education, Innovation and Research Center.

Frances Grimstad, MD, MA

Frances Grimstad, MD, MA (she/her) is a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) who founded the Transgender Reproductive Health Service, dedicated to clinical care, research, advocacy and education surrounding reproductive health for transgender and intersex patients.  She has been involved in trans health advocacy since adolescence, when she was inspired to pursue medicine to address health disparities faced by these communities.

Carly Guss, MD, MPH

Carly Guss, MD, MPH (she/her) is a pediatrician at BCH who co-directs the Boston HIV Adolescent Provider and Peer Education Network for Services (HAPPENS). Assistant Professor at HMS, her research interests include transgender and gender-nonconforming adolescents’ experiences in primary care, the relationship of gender identity to body image, and pre-exposure prophylaxis in adolescents.

Ole-Petter Hamnvik, MB BCh BAO, MMSc

Ole-Petter Hamnvik, MB BCh BAO, MMSc (he/him) is an endocrinologist at BWH who provides care for many transgender and gender diverse patients in the Transgender Program, which he co-directs. Assistant Professor at HMS, he serves as Program Director for the BWH Endocrinology Fellowship and Education Editor at NEJM Group.

Michael S. Irwig, MD

Michael S. Irwig, MD (he/him) is an adult endocrinologist at BIDMC, where he directs the Gender-Affirming Services program and trains residents and fellows. Associate Professor of Medicine, he has presented >50 invited lectures nationally and internationally on transgender health, co-authored 2 chapters in WPATH’s Standards of Care 8, and is a member of the Endocrine Society’s Transgender SIG and Committee on Diversity & Inclusion. His research focuses on the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy. Dr. Irwig will serve as BIDMC site lead.

Sabra Katz-Wise, PhD

Sabra Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at BCH, in Pediatrics at HMS, and in Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH. She also co-directs the SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative, is Senior Faculty Advisor for the BCH Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, and serves as an SGM HEI curriculum fellow, where she leads community engagement efforts. Her research investigates SOGI development in adolescents and young adults, and psychosocial functioning in families with transgender youth.

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH (he/they) is the Michele & Howard J. Kessler Chair and Director of the MGH Division of Public & Community Psychiatry. At HMS, he directs an advanced elective on LGBTQIA+ health, co-directs a novel advanced integrated science course - Sex- and Gender-Informed Medicine - and directs 3 national CME conferences on SGM Health. He also directs two federally funded centers for SGM health education/training: the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and the Evidence-informed Interventions Center for Coordinating Technical Assistance. Dr. Keuroghlian is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Public & Community Psychiatry Curriculum Director for the MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Program, and Director of the Division of Education and Training Programs at the Fenway Institute.

Douglas Krakower, MD

Douglas Krakower, MD (he/him) is a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at BIDMC, Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, and Associate Professor in Medicine at HMS. His research focuses on ways to optimize HIV prevention in healthcare and community settings with a focus on implementing HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). His clinical practice encompasses both general infectious diseases and HIV treatment and prevention.

Jessica Kremen, MD

Jessica Kremen, MD (she/her) is a pediatric endocrinologist at BCH, and Assistant Medical Director of the BE-U clinic, where she provides care for intersex patients and supervises students and trainees interested in intersex health. She also attends in the GeMS clinic, which focuses on transgender and gender diverse youth. She leads the Pediatric Endocrine Society's DSD SIG Education Subcommittee and is an HMS SGM Health Equity Curriculum Development Initiative fellow. Her research focuses on clinical outcomes in intersex and transgender populations. She is an advocate for access to safe, affirming care for all children and adolescents.

JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, MACP

JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, MACP (she/her) is Professor of Medicine and Michael & Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at HMS, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at BWH. Widely known for her public leadership and advocacy in the field of women’s health, she is Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI of several research studies, including the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Center in Boston, the cardiovascular component of the Nurses’ Health Study, the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL); the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), and the VItamin D for COVID-19 (VIVID) trial. Her major research interests include sex-specific factors in cardiometabolic health; randomized clinical prevention trials of nutritional and lifestyle factors related to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer; the role of endogenous and exogenous estrogens as determinants of chronic disease; and biomarker predictors of CVD. Recently, Dr. Manson co-developed a novel advanced integrated science course at HMS – Sex- and Gender-Informed Medicine - that considers the of sex and gender diversity on health and disease.

Camila M. Mateo, MD, MPH

Camila M. Mateo, MD, MPH (she/her) is a pediatrician at BCH whose academic work centers anti-racism, health equity, and diversity and inclusion within health professions education and training environments. She is the Morgan-Zinsser Associate Director of Faculty Development in Inclusive Teaching and Antiracism at HMS, Diversity Officer for the BCH-Boston Medical Center Combined Pediatrics Residency Program, and faculty member at the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy at CHA.

Kenneth Mayer, MD

Kenneth Mayer, MD (he/him) is Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute. He is also a Professor of Medicine at HMS; a Professor, Department of Global Health and Population at HSPH; Director of HIV Prevention Research and Attending Physician at Beth Israel Lahey Health; and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown University. His areas of research include international HIV/AIDS, gay and bisexual men’s health, HIV/AIDS prevention, microbicides, PrEP, PEP, vaccines, secondary prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, and antibiotic use and molecular epidemiology of antibiotic resistance.

Shimontini Mitra, MD

Shimontini Mitra, MD (she/her) was inspired to pursue a career in medicine after witnessing health inequities related to HIV/AIDS while growing up in Kenya. While working as a nephrologist at BIDMC and Fenway Health, Dr. Mitra completed a fellowship at the CHA Center for Health Equity and Advocacy during which she developed a decarceration program for transgender women of color. Recently, Dr. Mitra was awarded a Rabkin Medical Education Fellowship to assist in developing the HMS-Fenway LGBTQIA+ Fellowship curriculum.

William (Rusty) Phillips, MD

William (Rusty) Phillips, MD (he/him) is a hospitalist at BIDMC, where he serves as Director of Recruitment and Retention for his group in Hospital Medicine and teaches medical concepts to physicians around the world. As a curriculum fellow in the SGM HEI, he developed a curriculum that teaches medical students how to obtain inclusive sexual histories. This program uses standardized patient actors with LGBTQIA+ identities to allow students to have a more authentic experience in a safe learning environment.

Sari Reisner, ScD

Sari Reisner, ScD (he/him) is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose research focuses on transgender health, HIV and other STIs, and mental health/substance abuse risks and resiliencies in adolescents and young adults. Director of transgender research programs at both BWH and The Fenway Institute, Dr. Reisner has a global portfolio of community-engaged research, >220 peer-reviewed publications and is founding Associate Research Director for the PubMed-indexed journal Transgender Health.

Jenny Siegel, MD

Jenny Siegel, MD (she/her) is an internist at MGH, where she directs the Transgender Health Program and serves as Lead for Health Equity and Community-Based Education for the MGH Department of Medicine Residency Program. She is on the faculty at both HMS and Boston University School of Medicine, where she was formerly Associate Program Director of the Boston Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program and Medical Director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Siegel will serve as MGH site lead.

Laura Sullivan, MD

Laura Sullivan, MD (she/her) is Chief of Family Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). Passionately committed to social justice, she has experience caring for vulnerable patients in rural, prison and underserved urban settings. She has been president of the medical staff, medical director of the East Somerville Health Center, and championed CHA’s patient-centered medical home model of care. Dr. Sullivan is developing an integrated model of care for gender diverse patients across primary care practices at CHA. She will serve as CHA site lead.

Ricardo Wellisch, MD

Ricardo Wellisch, MD (he/him) is an internist at Mount Auburn Hospital (MAH) whose practice focuses on LGBTQ+ patients. He chairs the IM Residency Program’s Clinical Competence Committee and DEI Curriculum Development Committee for Ambulatory Medicine Training and precepts in the Primary Care Center and Primary Care Elective. He also directs the Museum Education Curriculum, which uses art to center dialogue on cross-cultural perspectives in pain management, gender-affirming care, and trauma related to residents’ immigration narratives. Dr. Wellisch will serve as MAH site lead.

The online application for the 2024-2025 fellowship year will open on May 1st, 2023.

An informational webinar for prospective applicants will be held on June 14th, 2023 at 7 PM Eastern Time. For more information, please email akozler@fenwayhealth.org.

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