Sexual & Gender Minority Health Research: (1) Informatics and Health Policy: Building the Evidence to Improve Transgender Health and (2) Reducing Health Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals

The NIH Sexual& Gender Minority Research Office is pleased to announce our inaugural Investigator Award Program. The Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Investigator Award Program was developed to recognize early-stage investigators who have made substantial, outstanding research contributions in areas related to SGM health and who are poised to become future leaders or are already leading the field of SGM health research. Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a board-certified physician anesthesiologist with a background in clinical research, advocacy, and health care policy. He currently is a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He serves as Director of Education Research for the Vanderbilt Office of Health Sciences Education, Associate Director of the Anesthesiology& Perioperative Informatics Research Division, and Director of the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health. He also is the Chair-Elect of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees. Dr. Ehrenfeld ’ s research interests include biomedical informatics and the application of information technology to increase patient safety and reduce health care disparities, studying how information technology can improve overall system reliability and performance. He currently serves in the U.S. Navy and as an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He also has served as a special advisor to the 20th U.S. Surgeon General. In recognition of his staunch LGBTQ health advoca...
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