Amy Andre, M.A.

Lecturer and author Amy Andre has a master's degree in sexuality studies from San Francisco State University. Her scholarship and writing focus on bisexual community, intersections of sexuality and race, and bisexual women's identity and health. She shares a home with her partner, an independent filmmaker and women's studies professor.

 

Katharine Baratz

Katharine Baratz is a senior at Haverford College in Philadelphia.  She is currently studying Classical Culture and Society, with an emphasis on gender dynamics in ancient literature.  Katharine plans to enroll in medical school in the Fall of 2007 and hopes to practice Pediatric Endocrinology.  Through her mother, Arlene Baratz, MD, Katharine has become involved with the Androgen Insensitivty Support Group and looks to continue to advocate for this and other DSD support groups.

 

Eliav Barr, M.D.

Eliav Barr is Senior Director of Biologics Clinical Research and head of the HPV Vaccine Program at Merck Research Laboratories. His group recently showed that administration of a vaccine targeting 4 common HPV Types to young women was highly effective in preventing development of cancers, precancers, and genital lesions caused by these types.

 

J. Michael Berry, M.D.

J. Michael Berry, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Associate Director of HPV-Related Clinical Studies.  In 1993, he joined the UCSF Anal Neoplasia Study, where the group pioneered the use of high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) as a tool to prevent anal cancer in patients at risk.

 

Vinona Bhatia, MD  
Vinona Bhatia is a Medical Oncologist at UCSF with specialty training in breast cancer and cancer related to HIV. Her clinic is at San Francisco General Hospital where she cares for many low income and indigent patients. Vinona has spent much of the past 2 years doing HIV-related research in East Africa. Originally from the Midwest, Vinona loves the Bay Area and has been here for almost 5 years.

 

Ulrike Boehmer, Ph.D.

Ulrike Boehmer is a sociologist by training and Assistant Professor of Health Services at Boston University School of Public Health. She has completed and is currently funded to conduct breast cancer studies that involve sexual minority women and focus on disparity due to sexual orientation.

 

Barbara Buckley, LCSW

A clinical social worker at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, Barbara provides supportive and practical services to cancer patients and their loved ones.  Her work includes facilitating a LGBT caregivers group.

  

Jack Burkhalter, Ph.D.

Dr. Burkhalter is Assistant Attending Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City.  As Assistant Director of the MSKCC Smoking Cessation Program, he provides clinical care and conducts research in smoking cessation, lung cancer survivorship, tobacco use among HIV+ persons, and LGBT persons and cancer.  Research activities include National Cancer Institute-funded projects with LGBT smokers and smoking cessation within cancer.  Psychosocial and health behavior interventions to improve quality of life in lung cancer survivors are also key interests.  As a member of the Thoracic Disease Management Team at MSKCC, he provides psychotherapy to individuals with lung cancer and their families.  He collaborates with the Manhattan LGBT Community Center in developing and evaluating a community-based smoking cessation program targeted to LGBT smokers, and together they are proposing to test this intervention in a randomized clinical trial. 

 

David Cameron

David Cameron was born in Canada and grew up in Pleasant Hill, CA. He is a former international school teacher, having taught in Thailand and Egypt. When he was 29, David was diagnosed with XXY sex chromosomes (Klinefelter's Syndrome) and was masculinized with testosterone therapy without his 'informed' consent.  He is a former Board member of the Intersex Society of North America and currently volunteers at the STOP AIDS Project. In addition, he serves as an appointed member of San Francisco's Human Rights Commission's LGBT Advisory Committee and is a Coordinating Collective member of the LGBTI Health Summit to be held in Philadelphia in March 2007.

 

Milton Diamond, Ph.D.

Dr. Diamond's professional life has been involved mainly with research and education on sex related issues of social concern.  The topics studied range from sex education, sexual orientation, pornography, abortion and family planning, to transgender, transsexuality and intersexuality matters. This work has resulted in 10 books and more than 150 articles in basic science, medical, ethical and legal journals.

 

Suzanne L. Dibble DNSc, RN

Suzanne Dibble is Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging, UCSF.  She received her doctoral education at the University of California, San Francisco and her research activities for more than two decades has been focused on the care of individuals with chronic illnesses. That care may either be in elucidating knowledge about the potential for a chronic illness, such as breast cancer, or aiding individuals and their families with terminal care. In 1999, Professor Dibble founded the Lesbian Health Research Center, an international research center, specifically and uniquely concerned with health and wellness issues about lesbians, bisexual women, trans-gendered individuals, their families, and health care providers.

 

Ronit Elk, Ph.D.

Dr. Ronit Elk is the Scientific Program Director for Cancer Control Research at the American Cancer Society. She also directs the research program directed at Medically Underserved Populations and in that capacity, has shepherded several applications focusing on GLBT populations, through the highly-competitive funding process. During her tenure several large (over $1m each) research applications dealing with GLBT populations have been funded. Dr. Elk serves on the Board of the Atlanta Lesbian Cancer Initiative.

 

Lori J. Fresina

Ms. Fresina joined the staff of M+R Strategic Services in September 2006 as Senior Vice President and Boston Office Director, following four years with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids where she served as the Northeast Regional Advocacy Director.
Prior to joining CTFK, Ms. Fresina was employed by the American Cancer
Society serving in a variety of advocacy positions since 1994, including
the Coordinator of Grassroots Advocacy for Massachusetts, Director of
Advocacy for Massachusetts, and the Director of Smoke-Free New England.
Ms. Fresina has developed an expertise in community mobilization
strategies, regional collaborations, grassroots development and public
health communication for a political audience.
In 2002, Ms. Fresina was awarded the TOYL award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Jaycees as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders of 2002”.
She has a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Emerson College and a masters degree in Public Policy and Citizen Participation from Tufts University.

 

Stephen E. Goldstone, M.D.

Dr. Stephen E. Goldstone, M.D., and author of the best-selling book The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex -- A Medical Handbook for Men, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has a surgical practice in New York City. He is the medical director of the web site Gayhealth.com.  At the forefront of gay health and wellness issues, Dr. Goldstone has spoken at conferences around the world. He has done extensive research on human papillomavirus (HPV) and has published in many prestigious medical journals. He has developed a surgical technique to treat anal HPV dysplasia and is currently involved in testing both prevention and treatment vaccines for HPV.  He resides in New York City with his partner and two sons.

 

Tania Katan

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David Latini, Ph.D.

Dr. Latini is an Assistant Professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Before joining Baylor, Dr. Latini was at UCSF for 6 years, where he facilitated a prostate cancer support group for gay men (2005-2006). His research focuses on management of treatment-related symptoms in men with localized prostate cancer. His research has been funded by the American Cancer Society, DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program, and National Cancer Institute.

 

Yoseñio Lewis

Yoseñio V. Lewis is a dark skinned Latino female to male transsexual who has been an activist since 1973.  A health educator, speaker, writer, performer, trainer, facilitator and spiritual hugger, Yoseñio is on the Board of Directors of the Task Force (NGLTF).  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Tenderloin Health. He is also on the 'Cancer in Our Lives' Planning Committee.  Yoseñio is also a co-founder of Big Boys' InkT Productions, a theatrical writing and performing company.  Yoseñio is also a co-founder of 'The TransAms', a barbershop quartet composed of transsexual men. Yoseñio has been a subject of several documentaries, including Christopher Lee's 'Trappings of Transhood' and the television channel A&E's 'Transgender Revolution.'

 

Mark Litwin, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Litwin graduated from Duke University in Economics and from medical school at Emory University.  He trained in urology at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital.  He was a research fellow at RAND and earned his Masters in Public Health from UCLA.  He has authored numerous original articles, reports, reviews, and book chapters in urologic oncology and outcomes research.  His research includes medical outcomes assessment, health-related  quality of life, urologic oncology, cost-efficacy and resource utilization, and patient preferences.  In 2001 he received the American Urological Association's prestigious Gold Cystoscope Award, given annually to the young urologist who has made the most substantial contributions to the field of urology.  His current grants include a $73,000,000 program that provides free prostate cancer treatment to low-income uninsured men in California.  He teaches in UCLA's Schools of Medicine and Public Health and practices urologic oncology at UCLA.

 

Mani Bruce Mitchell

Counsellor - Educator - Change Agent.  Member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. Chairperson of his local branch. Mr. Mitchell has a small private practice that specializes in working with trauma, identity, gender and difference issues.  He also lectures and runs workshops in New Zealand, Australia and America.  In 2004 he received a civic award from the city of San Francisco recognizing his work in the area of intersex education and awareness.

 

Kate O’Hanlan, M.D.

Dr. O'Hanlan is a Gynecologic Oncologist with 37 journal articles. She is past President of GLMA, author of 'Homophobia As a Health Hazard: Report of the GLMA', 'Lesbian Health: Perspectives for the Treating Obstetrician/Gynecologist,' the first chapter on lesbian health in Copeland's Gynecology Textbook, and published the first evidence of HPV transmission by lesbians. She is co-principal investigator of one of the first NIH grants to study lesbians with breast cancer. She has been an invited presenter on LGBT health issues at the National Institutes for Health, the President's Cancer Panel, the Office of Research on Women's Health, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She wrote the American Medical Women's Association policy endorsing adoption, custody, and the same-gender civil marriage. To increase peer-reviewed information on lesbian health, she founded the Lesbian Health Fund in 1992, which has fostered 47 articles, with 31 grants from over $400,000.

 

Sara Orozco, Ph.D.

Sara Orozco, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at Commonwealth Psychology Associates, LLC in the Back Bay/South End area in Boston, MA.  She specializes in family, couples, and individual therapy with diverse clinical populations including GLBTI.  Dr. Orozco created and runs a 10-week Psycho-Education Gay and Lesbian Parenting Group.  Dr. Orozco has also worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and at the Wellness Community Center,  an international non-profit organization dedicated to providing free support, education and hope to people with cancer and their loved ones. Dr. Orozco graduated in 1993 with her Ph.D. in psychology with a specialty in Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and then completed a 2- year clinical post-doctoral training in the Department of Neuropharmacology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.  After completion of her post-doctoral training, she accepted a fulltime position at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA and a Harvard Medical School faculty appointment.     

 

Angela L. Padilla, Esq.

 Angela Lucia Padilla is the co-founder and leader of Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS), the only support and activist group for women under 45 affected by breast cancer in the Bay Area. She is currently forming Mighty Moms, a support group for women with young children who are affected by cancer. Last year Angela was nominated by Lifetime Television as a breast cancer hero.

Joyce Pierson

 

Shane Snowdon

Shane Snowdon is Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex (LGBTI) Resources at the University of California San Francisco. She has lectured and written extensively on LGBTI health issues for both medical and general audiences, designed and delivered a wide variety of LGBTI health trainings, and convened numerous LGBTI health-focused events. In the cancer realm, she served as first Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action, co-founded women's cancer projects in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, and coordinated an international cancer prevention campaign created by Bella Abzug. She has also served as Executive Director of a domestic violence agency, an urban redevelopment organization, and an environmental education center. Her writing on LGBTI issues has appeared in a number of publications, and she has consulted to and served on the boards of multiple LGBTI groups.