$115, includes lunch and materials
Reduced fee for UW-L staff, faculty and students
.8 ceus or 8 contact hours

A community-campus conference designed for medical and mental health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, therapists, student services and program administrators.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

8 a.m. — Registration

8:30 a.m. — Transgender 101 (Berg and Feldman)
This session provides a primer on transgender identity, including an overview of the physical, medical, and mental health processes and issues.

• Describe the following four components of sexual identity (biological sex, gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation).
• Define the term “transgender.”
• Identify the steps of the coming out process and how might they apply to a transgender person.
• Describe the medical interventions that a transgender person might choose to pursue.

11:45 a.m. — Lunch

12:30 p.m. — Transgender Panel
The panel will discuss ways to provide culturally sensitive and competent care. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions.

1:15 p.m. — Concurrent Sessions
Participants are invited to learn the fundamentals of providing culturally competent care as medical staff or mental health
providers.

A. Dilemmas and Themes in Therapy With Transgender Clients (Berg)

• Understand the historical conceptual frameworks used in the therapeutic treatment of transgender people and assess their applicability.
• Describe the assessment and diagnostic phase of treatment.
• Develop strategies to transcend the “gatekeeper role” in therapy with transgender clients.
• Identify therapeutic themes and how they apply to transgender clients.

B. Medical and Preventive Care for Transgender Patients (Feldman)

• Learn how to conduct a sensitive and thorough physical exam of their transgender patients
• Know the general effects and side effects of masculinizing and feminizing hormone therapy
• Learn appropriate preventive care for their transgender patients

3:30 p.m. — Building Cooperation (facilitated by campus and community providers)
The conference concludes with facilitated discussion among participants. This session’s goal is to identify existing resources and gaps, and begin to develop appropriate practices for delivering quality care to transgender patients, clients, students and community members.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Dianne R. Berg, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Human Sexuality/Center for Sexual Health Medical School, University of Minnesota. As a psychologist, she provides clinical services to adults, adolescents and children with sexuality concerns, including compulsive sexual behavior, transgender issues, and the treatment of sex offenders. Working with pediatric endocrinology, urology, genetics and newborn screening, Berg provides a clinic for children/adolescents with Disorders of Sex Development (DSD). She is part of a CDC funded grant focusing on attachment theory and sex-related delinquent behavior. Berg earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and completed a postdoctoral clinical/research fellow in 2001.

Jamie Feldman, MD, Ph.D., received her MD and Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of Illinois, and completed residency training in Family Practice at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. in 1996. A board-certified family physician, Feldman is now an associate professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. As part of the Center for Sexual Health, Feldman provides medical services including evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunction and transgender care. She has presented and published extensively on transgender health issues, including primary/preventive care guidelines. She has also been involved with HIV/AIDS issues since 1987 and is the author of Plague Doctors: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America. Feldman trains medical students and residents in sexual health and maintains a primary care practice at the Women’s Health Center at the University of Minnesota.

Printable Brochure with Registration Form (2 page PDF)