Lgbt health forum. This is actually a very, very special one for us. And were doing a number of wonderful things, celebrating our fifth year of our program, and ill tell you about the program in a moment. But not the least of which is this incredibly Powerhouse Panel we put together, and on a topic thats fairly urgent right now. If youre not familiar with our forum, this is our Public Outreach mechanism. We do this every year with the start of our annual summer residency, which begins our program. During the residency, all of our students who are in the new cohort are in town from all over the country and many times all over the world. And this is our way of sort of reaching out to the public, letting you know who we are and what we do. Our program is a graduate certificate program, and our mission is to train medical and Mental Health professionals, Health Professionals in the broader sense, to improve the quality of care for lgbt people. Thats our mission. We started this around 2011
Fifth year of our program. Not the least of which is this incredible powerhouse panelist will put together. The topic is urgent right now. If you are not familiar with our forum, this is our Public Outreach mechanism. We do this every year with the start of our annual summer program. Students in the cohort are here in town from all over the country and many times all over the world and this is our way of sort of reaching out to the public to let them know who we are and what we do. Our program is a graduate Certificate Program and our andion is to train medical Mental Health professionals in empathyder sense to quality of care for og bt people. People. We thought there might be something to do here, a number of key things happened so we started the wheels moving. Years later. Ive if you know anything about academia and what it takes to keep program launched and going, five years is really special so i am proud of that. I am fed of our new class and alumni. In collaboration for just a m