LGBTQIA+ Support & Engagement

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Welcome to LGBTQIA+ Outreach and Engagement at Harvard Medical School for MD students through ORMA (The Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs).

Our goals include:

  • Developing a supportive community among students, faculty and staff
  • Increasing visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer, intersex and two-spirit (LGBTQIA+) students, faculty and staff
  • Engage the LGBTQIA+ community through programming and workshops
  • Discussing issues particular to being an LGBTQIA+ doctor, trainee and dentist
  • Fostering awareness of the needs and concerns of LGBTQIA+ patients

Curricular Development: Sexual & Gender Minority (SGM) Health Society Theme

Ensuring understanding and inclusion in the MD curriculum of LGBTQIA+ health topics

Events:

  • Spill the High Tea Event (September welcome event)
  • Networking Events (once a semester)
  • "Camp" Harvard (during Accepted Students Preview Days)
  • Celebration Banquet (May)
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Faculty Advisors

Alex Keuroghlian, MD

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, is a clinical psychiatrist, educator, and researcher. He is primary course director for the fourth-year elective clerkship, “Care for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities,” and the national continuing education conference, “Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health.” His clinical practice and research focus on sexual and gender minority health. He directs two federally-funded centers for sexual and gender minority populations, The National LGBT Health Education Center and the Evidence-informed Interventions Center for Coordinating Technical Assistance. Dr. Keuroghlian is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at HMS, the Public & Community Psychiatry Curriculum Director for the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean psychiatry residency program, and Director of the Division of Education and Training Programs at The Fenway Institute. Dr. Keuroghlian serves as a Faculty Advisor for the LAHMS student group. He can be reached via email at: akeuroghlian@mgb.org.

Mary W. Montgomery, MD

Mary W. Montgomery, MD

Dr. Mary Montgomery is a clinician educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from UCSF, completed her internal medicine residency at BWH, and her infectious diseases fellowship at the combined BWH/MGH program with a specialty focus on HIV. Dr. Montgomery takes care of a cohort of HIV patients and teaches residents and fellows on the inpatient ID consult service. She is also interested in the care of LGBTQIA+ patients, patients with substance use disorders and the overlaps between human and animal medicine. At HMS she is the director of the internal medicine sub-internship and co-directs the BWH Practice of Medicine course. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her wife and daughter. Dr. Montgomery serves as a Faculty Advisor for the LAHMS student group. Email: mwmontgomery@bwh.harvard.edu

Staff

LAHMS (Student Group)

LAHMS (LGBTQIA+ & Allies at Harvard Medical School) is the Harvard Medical School lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and allies student organization. LAHMS works to provide a supportive community among students, faculty, and staff. They also work to increase visibility of the lives of  LGBTQIA+ people, awareness of the needs and concerns of LGBTQIA+ patients, and create a community of local faculty and house staff to serve as allies and mentors. The organization sponsors films, speakers, workshops, and social events.

Connect with LAHMS by reaching to the student leader listed on the Student Council website or to ORMA staff.

OutList

These LGBTQIA+ and Ally faculty, staff, and trainees are available to Harvard Medical School students for mentoring and advice as you navigate medical school and your future career as a doctor and/or researcher. Email ORMA@hms.harvard.edu with any questions about this list.

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