The Doctor Speaker Series-Dr. Nelson Sanchez

Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Nelson Sanchez. Dr. Sanchez currently serves as an urgent care physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering. He has a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a medical degree from NYU School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at NYU Medical Center During his medical training, Nelson conducted research exploring LGBT health and health care. He completed research on medical students' attitudes and clinical experiences with gay, lesbian, and transgender patients, and New York City transgender residents' access to medical care and hormone therapies. His research has been published in various journals, including Family Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health. At Weill Cornell, he currently leads the Safe Zone LGBT Allies Training Workshops, he teaches a course on LGBT health for the first-year medical student class, and he collaborates with medical students on educational initiatives to improve physician training in the care of LGBT patients.

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When	Sep 07, 2016 from 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm
Hosting organization	Pre-Health Advising Office
Speaker	Dr. Nelson Sanchez
Speaker Information	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Urgent Care Physician chairperson of Weill Cornell Medical College’s LGBT Steering Committee
Where	Hunter West 415
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