Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program | Northwtern Medice

Contents:

• 139 DOCTOR AND GAY PATIENT STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS
• 154 HOSPAL GAY STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM
• IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

139 DOCTOR AND GAY PATIENT STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS

Over the past few weeks, the LGBTQ muny has ducted a uple of new ins and fac to the Gay Hall of Fame.

154 HOSPAL GAY STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS

Take Fredy Alanis, a 19-year-old gay man om Chigo dog what many the LGBTQ muny nsir to be a great service for his people. Virgia Gay Hospal.

Virgia Gay. Virgia Gay Nursg and Rehab has been entsted wh the re of olr adults sce 1962.

The missn of the Virgia Gay Hospal Health Care Foundatn is the ntuatn of health and medil re to people of the Virgia Gay Hospal service area.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM

Our ncern for humany is monstrated by a mment to obta and distribute funds through the Virgia Gay Hospal Health Care Foundatn that will promote, mata and rtore the health of the dividuals serv. People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr have a variety of health needs. We veloped this program after our rearch intified unmet needs among gay, bisexual, transgenr and other patients om sexual mori.

We ntue to rearch healthre needs, dispari and out for gay and bisexual men, and e those fdgs to provi prehensive re uniquely signed for our patients. We nduct rearch to unver how certa urologic ndns and therapi affect gay and bisexual men. We wele all gay and bisexual patients who were assigned male at birth; intify as male, or are genr-nonnformg or nonbary; and need urology re.

This year's list clus a rerd-breakg 718 healthre facili around the untry -- more than double the number clud on last year's 2013 HEI also clus a stunng 121 Veterans Health Admistratn medil centers, clud for the first time followg the 2011 repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the ary policy barrg open service by gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins, and last year's directive om the Obama Admistratn directg all hospals that recieve feral funds to regnize and grant equal accs to LGBT patients and their fai. Gay & Lbian Center, Los AngelUCLA Health System (4 facili), Los AngelContra Costa Regnal Medil Center, MartezKaiser Permanente (36 facili), OaklandPalo Alto Medil Foundatn, Palo AltoVA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo AltoEisenhower Medil Center, Rancho MirageUniversy of California Davis Medil Center, SacramentoUC San Diego Health System, San DiegoScripps Health (27 facili), San DiegoCalifornia Pacific Medil Center, San Francis (pictured)Lyon-Mart Health Servic, San FrancisSat Francis Memorial Hospal, San FrancisSan Francis General Hospal and Trma Center, San FrancisUCSF Medil Center, San FrancisSutter Materny & Surgery Center, Santa CzColorado (1)VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, DenverConnecticut (4)Bridgeport Hospal, BridgeportGreenwich Hospal, GreenwichYale-New Haven Hospal, New Haven (pictured)VA Connecticut Health Care System, Wt HavenDelaware (1)Christiana Care Health System (3 facili), WilmgtonDistrict of Columbia (6)MedStar Natnal Rehabilatn NetworkMedStar Washgton Hospal CenterMedStar Geetown Medil Center (pictured)Specialty Hospal of Washgton - HadleyVA Washgton DC Medil CenterWhman-Walker HealthFlorida (9)VA Bay P Healthre System, Bay PCare Rource, MiamiVA Miami Healthre System, MiamiJackson Health System (9 facili), MiamiVA Orlando Medil Center, OrlandoTallahassee Memorial HealthCare Inc., TallahasseeH.

IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER

Je Ramallo, who is board certified ternal medice and pediatrics and a member of the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn (GLMA) and the Amerin Amy of HIV Medice (AAHIVM), the Pri Clic’s team of clicians will brg their expertise addrsg the unique health needs of this muny, such as genr affirmg re, HIV preventn, adolcent health, STI treatment and preventn, and mental health. Curt, 66, diagnosis and surgery were only the begng of a “clil and psychologil and emotnal adventure” — one he felt that many urologists were not equipped to handle, bee he was gay and the majory of doctors and their patients were symptoms are siar for all prostate ncer patients, cludg urary ntence, erectile dysfunctn, dimished libido and loss of ejaculate.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But rearchers are fdg that those chang may echo through the liv of gay and bisexual men unexpected, and sometim more difficult, obstacl n be physil and emotnal, and may be reflected patients’ relatnships wh their partners. Channa Amarasekera, director of the Gay and Bisexual Men’s Urology Program at Northwtern Medice Chigo. Amarasekera, who has foced his reer on urologic re for gay and bisexual men and other sexual mori, is the program’s first is an emergg field of study driven part by the creasg number of prostate ncer patients who intify as gay or bisexual.

”The gay and bisexual men their 50s and 60s who are now enterg the prime mographic for prostate ncer also lived through the worst of the AIDS epimic. Amarasekera problem, experts the field say, is that the rearch about gay and bisexual men and prostate ncer is still woefully aquate.

“Historilly, most of the rearch on gay health was foced on H. V., and young gay men, bee that was the biggt killer, ” said Simon Rosser, a profsor of epimlogy and muny health at the Universy of Mnota, who led a study 2017 of gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer. “It’s only now that as the AIDS generatn grew olr, and aged to health problems like prostate ncer, that specialists are startg to see gay patients.