First Stanford Medicine LGBTQ+ Forum

Celebrating Visibility

Mission

The theme for Stanford Medicine's First LGBTQ+ Forum was Celebrating Visibility.

Establishing visibility is critical in advancing toward an academic environment in which LGBTQ+ students, trainees, staff, faculty, and alumni are included, valued, and recognized. The Forum featured personal and professional stories from LGBTQ+ members of the Stanford Medicine community, as well as networking opportunities and opportunities for allies to show support. This inaugural event promoted the continued growth of a visible Stanford Medicine LGBTQ+ community.

The LGBTQ+ Forum was featured in multiple media sources. Check out the following stories:

Scope is an award-winning blog founded in 2009 and produced by the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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The Stanford Daily is the independent, student-run newspaper of Stanford University.

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Agenda

Date/Time: October 10th, 2018 from 3:30 - 7:00 pm

Location: Berg Hall

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Registration

Tabling Organizations

4:00 - 4:07 pm

Welcome

Bonnie Maldonado, MD, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford School of Medicine

4:07 - 4:15 pm

Opening Remarks

Lloyd Minor, MD, Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine

4:15 - 4:30 pm

Introductory Remarks

Tim Keyes, MSTP Student at Stanford University School of Medicine and LGBTQ+ Forum Founder

4:30 - 4:50 pm

Keynote Speaker: Why We Need LGBTQ+ Visibility in Medicine

Arturo Molina, MD, MS

4:50 - 5:25 pm

Personal Stories

Leslee Subak, MD

Benji Laniakea, MD

Ann-Marie Yap

Marija Kamceva

5:25 - 5:30 pm

Closing Remarks

Tim Keyes, MSTP Student at Stanford University School of Medicine and LGBTQ+ Forum Founder

5:30 - 7:00 pm

Reception

Tabling Organizations

Speakers

Speakers hailed from the many diverse roles within the Stanford Medicine Community.

Keynote Speaker

Arturo Molina, MD, MS

President Elect, Stanford Medicine Alumni Association

Dr. Molina is Chief Medical Officer at Sutro Biopharma and President-elect, Board of Governors, Stanford Medicine Alumni Association (SMAA). Dr. Molina is a volunteer staff physician at the Oncology Clinic, Palo Alto Heath Care System. Previously, he was Vice President, Oncology Scientific Innovation at Janssen R & D (Johnson and Johnson, JNJ). While at JNJ he was responsible for the clinical development and New Drug Application (NDA) submission to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Medical Marketing Authorisation (MAA) submission to the European Medicines Association (EMA) for abiraterone acetate (Zytiga®), which is now approved for metastatic prostate cancer in more than 100 countries. He was Chief Medical Officer/EVP at Cougar Biotechnology, which was acquired by JNJ in 2009. Arturo also worked at IDEC, then Biogen-IDEC, ultimately becoming Head, Oncology Clinical Development. In collaboration with Genentech, he led the clinical Supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) filing activities resulting in FDA approval of Rituxan® in two first-line indications in 2006: follicular lymphoma and diffuse B-cell lymphoma.

From 1991-2002, Dr. Molina was a faculty physician in Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation and Medical Oncology/Therapeutics Research at the City of Hope (COH) Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he became an Adjunct Professor, member of the COH Medical Group Board of Directors and President-Elect of the COH Medical Staff. Arturo received his MD and MS (Physiology) from Stanford University, and completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Medical Oncology, Biological Science, and Bone Marrow Transplantation, all at Stanford.

Arturo was an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin where he received a BS in Zoology (Honors) and BA in Psychology (High Honors).

Dr. Molina is a member of the LGBTQ+ Subcommittee, Stanford Medicine Diversity Cabinet and SMAA mentor for the Stanford Medicine First Generation Program. Arturo’s greatest passion is raising his daughter, Kylie Guadalupe (13) and son, Arturo James (AJ, 4) with his partner of 12 years, Jim Malone.

Featured Speakers

Leslee Subak, MD

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Leslee Subak, M.D., is the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an expert in urogynecology and pelvic surgery, and is the principal investigator for federally-funded research projects on the epidemiology of urinary incontinence in women. This research focuses on studying the female bladder, urethra, and pelvic floor, and has involved multidisciplinary cooperation between basic and clinical investigators alongside experts in biostatistics and epidemiology. She is dedicated to building future leaders in women’s health. Dr. Subak received her medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1991 and afterwards developed a distinguished career at UCSF, in which she served the institutionally critical roles of scientist, clinician, and educator. Upon her appointment to chair of OB/GYN, Dr. Subak returned to Stanford Medicine as the first openly LGBTQ+ departmental chair. While at medical school at Stanford, Dr. Subak met her wife, Linda McAllister, MD, PhD. You can find them and their three teenagers actively supporting Stanford Women’s Soccer and Basketball teams.

Benji Laniakea, MD

Clinical Instructor, Primary Care, Stanford University School of Medicine

Benjamin Laniakea (Huang), M.D., is a board-certified family medicine physician and a Clinical Assistant Professor in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree in 2013 from SUNY University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and went on to graduate from the UCSF Fresno Family and Community Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Laniakea came to Stanford University School of Medicine in 2016. He specializes in full-spectrum Gender and Sexual Minority health (also known as LGBT health). He is passionate about addressing the health disparities that affect LGBTQ+ populations and works to raise awareness for them within the greater medical community. He is an active member of the Stanford Medicine LGBTQ+ Subcommittee and has implemented numerous LGBTQ+ initiatives within the School of Medicine, including serving as the Faculty Lead of Sexuality and Sexual Function. In his free time, Dr. Laniakea enjoys music and board games.

Ann-Marie Yap

Executive Director of Technology, Stanford Health Care

Ann-Marie Yap is the Executive Director of Technology for the Stanford Hospital and Clinics. She was hired to insource IT Infrastructure and Support Services. Prior to joining Stanford in July 2014, Ann-Marie was the Senior Director for IT Infrastructure at Sony PlayStation, building the infrastructure operations at the San Mateo campus from the ground up. Ann-Marie has led global infrastructure and application teams for over 25 years, including ten years at Cisco Systems in San Jose and multiple IT roles at BellSouth in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to her career in IT, Ann-Marie held several technical roles at Hughes Aircraft, working on Department of Defense contracts. She earned a BS in Computer Science from Mercer University in Atlanta. Ann-Marie and her partner Amy have been together for twenty years and raise their fifteen year old daughter and ten year old son in Santa Cruz, California.

Marija Kamceva

Medical Student, Co-President of LGBTQ-Meds, Stanford University School of Medicine

Marija Kamceva is a second year medical student, with an interest in psychiatry, neuroscience, and LGBTQ+ and women’s health. She is the current co-president of Stanford’s LGBTQ-Meds, a Graduate Community Developer with Stanford’s Queer Student Resources, and one of the co-founders for Medical School Pride Alliance, the first national LGBTQ+ medical school organization. She was born in Macedonia, is more recently from north New Jersey, and graduated from Yale in 2015 with a B.S. in Molecular Biology. In her free time, she enjoys writing and exploring the west coast.

Tabling Organizations

The LGBTQ+ Forum featured multiple organizations for the LGBTQ+ community and ways to individually engage.

Gender Inclusive Stanford, Trans Resources, and Queer Student Resources

For over a decade, different groups and individuals have worked to improve the administrative systems and lived experience of transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender non-binary students and members of the Stanford community. Gender Inclusive Stanford is the newest iteration of these efforts. GIS brings together a wide range of staff, faculty, and students to understand the necessity of a gender inclusive campus and our respective roles to play in creating that reality. Through the work of focus areas and cross-campus collaborations, they seek to identify priorities, set benchmarks, and work toward meaningful progress for all members of our campus community.

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Lane Medical Library

The mission of Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Center is to enable biomedical discovery by connecting people with knowledge. Through innovative means, they acquire, deliver, create, and integrate information to promote excellence in research, education, and patient care.

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LGBTQ+ Forum

Stop by the event table to sign up for the OUTlist and ALLYlist, to participate in PRIDE events, and to suggest additional efforts.

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LGBTQ Meds

An activist and social organization dedicated to raising awareness of queer health issues and promoting equal social and political rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.

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LGBTQ+ Postdocs

The LGBTQ+ Postdoc Group at Stanford works to provide a space for community building and networking through monthly happy hour socials, coffee chats, and other meetups. These events are important for community building and support among postdocs who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is more than an award-winning hospital. They offer comprehensive health care for kids and pregnant moms in more than 60 locations across the Bay Area through pediatric and obstetrics services, specialty locations and partnerships with community hospitals.

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Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

Creating excellence through a diverse and inclusive faculty community. The OFDD puts on a variety of programs focused on networking, diversity, and leadership for faculty within the School of Medicine.

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Queer and Asian at Stanford

Queer & Asian (Q&A) aims to build a supportive network amongst members of the Stanford community who are interested in exploring queer & Asian identities and issues. They provide a safe space for all of our members to socialize with others, talk about their lives and common problems, and learn more about issues that are important to them.

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Stanford Health Care

Stanford Health Care seeks to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

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Stanford Medicine Staff PRIDE

PRIDE is an employee resource group that is dedicated to developing and sustaining a strong LGBTQ+ community at Stanford Medicine. PRIDE strives to be the leader in the healthcare industry as an LGBTQ+ friendly workplace.

Stanford PRIDE

The mission of Stanford Pride is to create and foster a diverse Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex (LGBTQQI) affirming community of alumni, students, faculty and staff.

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Forum Videos

LGBTQ+ Forum Introduction Video

Welcome:
Bonnie Maldonado

Introductory Remarks:
Timothy Keyes

Stanford Medicine
Personal Stories

Opening Remarks:
Lloyd Minor

Keynote Speaker:
Arturo Molina

Closing Remarks:
Timothy Keyes

Forum Photos

Event Sponsors

The LGBTQ+ Forum was generously funded by the following organizations:

Alumni Association

The Stanford Medicine Alumni Association seeks to reach, inspire, serve and engage Stanford alumni; to promote and celebrate excellence, diversity, collegiality and alumni involvement, and to provide the School of Medicine and all of Stanford Medicine with goodwill and support.

iThrive

iThrive offers courses, workshops, discussion groups and student internship opportunities to examine the research-based knowledge and skills to flourish at Stanford. They offer academic courses, workshops, web-based tools, and they enjoy great connections with many student groups.

LGBTQ Meds

An activist and social organization dedicated to raising awareness of queer health issues and promoting equal social and political rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.

Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

Excellence promoted through a diverse and inclusive faculty community.

Office of the Vice Provost for Education

The VPGE office works collaboratively within the University to broaden the participation and promote the academic success of graduate students from a variety of backgrounds, including those underrepresented within research universities

Queer Student Resources

Queer Student Resources strives to advance student development and learning; foster community engagement; promote diversity, inclusion and respect; and empower students to thrive.

Stanford Biosciences Student Organization

It is the belief of the Stanford Biosciences Student Association (SBSA) that each Stanford graduate student is valuable and is capable of realizing a self-defined vision of success.

Therefore, the mission of SBSA is to empower Biosciences graduate students to make the most of our graduate experience by building a united community, promoting student wellness and happiness, facilitating student-run programs, and advancing student interests.

Stanford Health Care

Stanford Medical Student Association

The Stanford Medical Student Association serves first and foremost to advocate for the student body. They function as a liaison between students, faculty, and the administration. As a responsible custodian of student body resources, SMSA supports student groups and promotes education, community service, social well-being, and leadership.

Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance

The goal of the Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA) is to increase diversity in the health professions in order to better care for underserved communities. SUMMA is a coalition of Stanford medical students that strives to provide support to Stanford's minority medical students as they work toward their degrees and to a future in health care with better outcomes for minority patients.