“Queer Eye for the Clinician and PI:
Ethically Caring for LGBTQ Individuals”
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD
Director, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities
Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine
Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Population Health
University of Texas Medical Branch
Although there is growing social acceptance of LGBTQ individuals, this population still faces health disparities due to stigma and discrimination. In the clinical context, LGBTQ individuals may experience subpar care and worse health outcomes.
The goal of this talk is to discuss issues affecting LGBTQ groups to identify strategies for providing inclusive, high-quality healthcare for all.
Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, 12 to 1:30 p.m.
Via Zoom: https://utmb.us/5xv
The lecture will be CME, CNE, and Social Work Ethics CEU eligible.
Please contact Kirk Nealy at kdnealy@utmb.edu for any questions.
Lisa Campo-Engelstein is the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine Professor, the Director of the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, and an Associate Professor in Preventive Medicine and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Trained in philosophy, she approaches topics in medicine from a feminist and queer perspective. She is particularly interested in how cultural norms, especially gender norms, influence science and medicine and vice versa. Her main research area is reproductive and sexual ethics, especially male contraception, fertility preservation, reproductive/sexual organ transplants, and abortion.
Dr. Campo-Engelstein is an award-winning teacher and scholar, and has been interviewed about reproductive ethics topics by leading national and international news organizations including National Public Radio, The New Yorker, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC recognized her research as engendering a better future for women, naming her as one of the 100 “inspiring and influential” Women of 2019.