Building an Academic Transgender Medicine Center of Excellence: The 5-Year Johns Hopkins Experience. 2023

Andrew A Marano, and Melissa Noyes, and Lauren Eisenbeis, and Helene F Hedian, and Kara Segna, and Paula M Neira, and Kate Thomas, and W P Andrew Lee, and Richard J Redett, and Devin Coon
A.A. Marano is a gender and microsurgery fellow, Brigham Center for Transgender Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals is a multidisciplinary endeavor that requires organized efforts of many specialized practitioners. TGD individuals experience many health care barriers, including the scarcity of multidisciplinary teams formed to coordinate and deliver complex care in an efficient and affirming way. The Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health was founded in 2017 with the mission of decreasing health disparities and improving the health of the TGD community. The authors present their experience building the center around a service line model in which patients have 1 point of contact, they are tracked throughout the care process, and the multidepartmental practitioners involved in their care are aligned. This model allowed for a patient-centered experience in which all involved disciplines were seamlessly integrated and the patient could navigate easily among them. With the structure and mission in place, the next challenge was to develop an infrastructure for culturally competent care. Through competency training and adjustment of systems-based logistics, measures were put in place to prevent traumatic experiences, such as misgendering, use of culturally inappropriate vocabulary, and use of incorrect names. Partnerships among colleagues in the fields of plastic surgery, urology, gynecology, otolaryngology, anesthesia, psychiatry/mental health, internal medicine, endocrinology, fertility, nursing, social work, speech therapy, and pediatrics/adolescent care were necessary to provide the appropriate breadth of services to care for TGD patients. Since its inception, the center has seen steady and continual growth, with more than 2,800 patients in its first 5 years. By sharing their experience in creating and developing a center of excellence, the authors hope to provide a blueprint for others to expand health care quality and access for TGD individuals.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D003695 Delivery of Health Care The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. Delivery of Dental Care,Health Care,Health Care Delivery,Health Care Systems,Community-Based Distribution,Contraceptive Distribution,Delivery of Healthcare,Dental Care Delivery,Distribution, Non-Clinical,Distribution, Nonclinical,Distributional Activities,Healthcare,Healthcare Delivery,Healthcare Systems,Non-Clinical Distribution,Nonclinical Distribution,Activities, Distributional,Activity, Distributional,Care, Health,Community Based Distribution,Community-Based Distributions,Contraceptive Distributions,Deliveries, Healthcare,Delivery, Dental Care,Delivery, Health Care,Delivery, Healthcare,Distribution, Community-Based,Distribution, Contraceptive,Distribution, Non Clinical,Distributional Activity,Distributions, Community-Based,Distributions, Contraceptive,Distributions, Non-Clinical,Distributions, Nonclinical,Health Care System,Healthcare Deliveries,Healthcare System,Non Clinical Distribution,Non-Clinical Distributions,Nonclinical Distributions,System, Health Care,System, Healthcare,Systems, Health Care,Systems, Healthcare
D004704 Endocrinology A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the metabolism, physiology, and disorders of the ENDOCRINE SYSTEM. Endocrinology and Metabolism Specialty,Metabolism and Endocrinology Specialty
D005783 Gender Identity A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role. Gender,Gender Identities,Identity, Gender
D006176 Gynecology A medical-surgical specialty concerned with the physiology and disorders primarily of the female genital tract, as well as female endocrinology and reproductive physiology.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D063106 Transgender Persons Persons having a sense of persistent identification with, and expression of, gender-coded behaviors not typically associated with one's anatomical sex at birth, with or without a desire to undergo SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES. Trans-Feminine Persons,Trans-Masculine Persons,Transfeminine Persons,Transgendered Persons,Transmasculine Persons,Transexuals,Transgenders,Transsexual Persons,Two-Spirit Persons,Person, Trans-Feminine,Person, Trans-Masculine,Person, Transfeminine,Person, Transgender,Person, Transgendered,Person, Transmasculine,Person, Transsexual,Person, Two-Spirit,Trans Feminine Persons,Trans Masculine Persons,Trans-Feminine Person,Trans-Masculine Person,Transexual,Transfeminine Person,Transgender,Transgender Person,Transgendered Person,Transmasculine Person,Transsexual Person,Two Spirit Persons,Two-Spirit Person

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