Cancer Care Considerations for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients

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Mandi L. Pratt-Chapman

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, is associate center director, Patient-Centered Initiatives and Health Equity, The George Washington University Cancer Center, Washington, D.C. She is part of the executive leadership team for the GW Cancer Center. Her personal mission is to make evidence-based healthcare and disease prevention strategies available to more people as quickly as possible. Her research focuses on patient navigation, cancer survivorship, evidence-based cancer control, and health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) communities.

Jennifer Potter

Jennifer Potter, MD, is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; director of the Women's Health Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and director of LGBT Population Health and co-chair of The Fenway Institute, Boston, Mass. She has designed and implemented numerous training programs for health professionals focused on LGBTQ health and cancer survivorship, co-edited two seminal textbooks on LGBTQ health, and co-authored an Association of American Medical Colleges blueprint to assist medical educators in integrating LGBTQI health content across the undergraduate medical curriculum. Currently, Dr. Potter serves as an advisory dean and director of medical student wellbeing at Harvard Medical School and is faculty co-director of two Harvard Medical School curricular themes focused on sexual and gender minority health equity and trauma-informed care.