AM:STARs LGBTQ Youth: Enhancing Care for Gender and Sexual Minorities (Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews) (Volume 29)
Brand: American Academy of Pediatrics
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Medicine & Health Sciences



Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1610021363
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Print length: 201 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1610021364
Edition: 1st
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Adolescent Health Dr. Michelle Forcier Dr. Joanna D. Brown Dr. Robert T Brown
review: Editorial Reviews Review **** 4-Star Review “This is a great guide for practitioners. This book provides a thorough overview of medical, psychosocial, and cultural topics affecting the LGBTQ youth community." Karyn Gerstle, MD, MPH University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Doody’s Book Review TM About the Author The Section on Adolescent Health (SOAH) provides an educational, representative forum for pediatricians who are interested in the health care of adolescents, and enables members to meet for the purpose of initiation, discussion and development of ideas and programs which will improve the health care of young people in their second decade of life. It provides an educational forum for the membership at large in expanding their basic pediatric knowledge and skills to include the adolescent patient. Joanna Brown, MD, MPH, serves as Associate Medical Director for a federally qualified health center, and teaches family medicine residents about adolescent medical homes. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Brown University Department of Family Medicine in Rhode Island. She is the former Medical Director at a juvenile detention center, where she directed a patient-centered medical home facilitation initiative. She trained as an adolescent medicine fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and her Masters in Public Health from Harvard.