The Diversity Council will be hosting two events in June in recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.  Both will take placthe Old Red Amphitheatre.  A flier is available for posting in your area at the following link,

This is the first of two Brown Bag lunches featuring Distinguished Guest Speaker, Dr. Michael Kauth, Director for the LGBT Health Program for the Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Patient Care Services in Washington DC. Dr. Kauth will be discussing “The Current State of Affairs of LGBT Healthcare.”

MICHAEL R. KAUTH, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist located at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, TX.  He is one of the two Directors for the LGBT Health Program for the Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Patient Care Services in Washington DC.  Dr. Kauth is also Co-Director of the VA South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), a regional research and clinical education center encompassing 10 VA medical centers.  In addition, Dr. Kauth is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), where he teaches a course on LGBT Health to second year medical students.  He has published more than 50 journal articles, 2 books, and 14 book chapters on topics that include health psychology, LGBT veteran health disparities, sexual health, implementation of educational interventions, an evolution of human sexual attraction.  Dr. Kauth is currently editing a book (with Dr. Jillian Shipherd, the other Director of the LGBT Health Program) on adult transgender care for mental health professionals for Routledge.

These events are sponsored in part by Allies in Medicine https://alliesinmedicine.wordpress.com/ and the Title IX Office https://www.utmb.edu/studentservices/departments/title-ix.