On March 16 and 17 2012 the Broward County Health Department in collaboration with the Florida Caribbean AETC, WNN, The Poverello Center, and SunServe, will host the second Transgender Medical Symposium. This event is scheduled to take place at the Broward General Hospital from 9:00AM to 4:30 PM.on the 2nd floor, conference rooms A, B, C.

This 2 day symposium based on “open book” presentations provides a series of relaxed workshops by Dr. Marilyn Volker, Dr. Carole Clark, Dr. John Toney, the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine- Dr. Estes, Dr Salgado and Dr. Alvarez, the Center of Excellence for Transgender Medicine, UCSF and several others. Culturally sensitive topics addressing the transgender client or patient consist of Medical, Mental Health and HIV. Provisions to accommodate request for continuing education credits will be made available at no charge.

It is our goal to be able to reduce barriers to care by providing basic quality health care education targeting the medical and provider community, School Board members, and allied health professionals. It is important that those working in the health field have some knowledge of the community that they may be called upon to serve. Overwhelming results from last years symposium, community conversations and T Houseonline.com surveys showed that 73% of the transgender community found basic medical care difficult to access , while 93% found providers lacked enough knowledge to treat or assist them , and 91% were discriminated against by healthcare providers, administration staff, emergency rooms and ambulance services. Hopefully we will be able to change the community norm by providing culturally competent healthcare within our community.

Attached is a registration form and overview of the workshop topics. We look forward to bringing you the best possible medical information by the best experienced medical providers.