Improving the Health and Well-being of Young Transgender Women – Intersections of research, policy and practice

ORWH Women's Health Seminar Series Nadia Dowshen is a board-certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist. She is a faculty member at Policy Lab at Children ’ s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and serves as Director of Adolescent HIV Services in the Craig Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at CHOP. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute. In addition to specialized care for youth living with HIV/AIDS, Dr. Dowshen also provides general adolescent medical care at CHOP and Covenant House, PA, a youth shelter located in Philadelphia. She co-founded and serves as the medical director of the CHOP Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic which now provides medical and psychosocial support to more than 1000 transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. Dr. Dowshen ’ s research focuses on using youth-friendly technology to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and engagement in care for adolescents living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS. She is also interested more broadly in addressing health inequality, access to care and promoting resilience for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. Dr. Dowshen received the 2010 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine New Investigator Award for her research identifying protective factors against HIV infection among transgender youth. She was named an NIH Adolescent Trials Network (ATN) ...
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