37th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health

The 37th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health is organized by GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality and will be held from Sep 11 - 14, 2019 at Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.

Target Audience:
GLMA’s Annual Conference draws over 400 participants from various health professions including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, mental and behavioral health specialists and social workers, dentists, pharmacists, researchers, educators, health policy specialists, advocates, administrators, public health practitioners, health profession students and others interested in improving health for LGBTQ individuals.

Continuing Education:
19-21.5 Credit Hours of Educational Programming

Conference Description:
This year's conference theme, LGBTQ Health Across the Lifespan, highlights the importance of understanding the ever-changing healthcare needs of LGBTQ people throughout their lives, from birth to end-of-life care. The GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health will focus on comprehensive and team-based approaches to healthcare and research that optimize the mental and physical wellbeing of LGBTQ people from all age cohorts, while taking into consideration the intersection of sexual orientation, gender identity, and age with other identities. Abstracts and proposals addressing this theme will be prioritized.

General topics presented at GLMA’s Annual Conference include:
• Academic health (medicine, nursing, etc)
• Behavioral health
• Bisexual health
• Cancer
• Cultural competence
• Differences of sex development
• Emerging LGBTQ health concerns
• Families, fertility and relationships
• Gay/MSM health
• Health across the lifespan (e.g., youth, aging)
• Health policy and advocacy
• Health professions education
• HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and STI prevention, testing and treatment
• Lesbian/WSW health
• Mental health
• Original, scientific research
 • Primary care
• Public health
• Resilience factors in LGBTQ communities
• Reproductive health
• Sexual health
• Substance abuse treatment/prevention
• Transgender health