Expert Panel on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Health

The Expert Panel on LGBTQ Health provides input on issues affecting the health care of individuals within the LGBTQ community, promoting nursing participation in research on LGBTQ health, and developing policy recommendations to reduce health inequities based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Inaugural Year: 2011

Chair:
Mary Foley, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director, Center for Nursing Research and Innovation
University of California San Francisco

Vice Chair:
Judith Cornelius, PhD, MS, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services

Board Liaison: Angela Amar 

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

Previous Chairs: ​Sheldon Fields (2020-2022), Craig J. Phillips (2019-2020), F. Patrick Robinson (2018-2019), Laura Hein (2017-2018), Kevin Mallison (2016-2017), Carol Boyd (2015-2016), Tonda Hughes (2014-2015), Richard Ferri and Susan Roberts (2011-2013)

​Publications: ​

• Practice Guidelines: International consensus-based policy recommendations to advance universal palliative care access (October 2021)
• Consensus Statement: Nursing's Roles in Ensuring Universal Palliative Care Access (October 2021)
• Policy Brief: Protecting vulnerable LGBTQ youth and advocating for ethical health care (September-October 2018) 
• Position Statement: The American Academy of Nursing opposes prevention and limitation of transgender individuals from serving in the United States military (September-October 2018)
• Policy Brief: Achieving advance care planning in diverse, underserved populations (May-June 2018)
• Press Release: Academy Supports Initiatives to Address Health of Transgender Individuals (October 13, 2016)
• Policy Brief: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health disparities are a global concern​. (May 2016) 
• Policy Brief: Position statement on employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity​. (May 2015)
• Policy Brief: Position statement on reparative therapy​. (May 2015) 
• Policy Brief: Same-sex partnership rights: Health Care decision-making and hospital visitation​. (January 2015) 
• Position Statement (July 2012): Support for Marriage Equality
• Press Release (April 2011): American Academy of Nursing Applauds Release of IOM Report on LGBT Health
• Press Release (June 26, 2013): American Academy of Nursing Supports the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Marriage Equality

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