Publications I have participated in can be found here.

I am a transgender man and a medical student at University of Michigan. My academic interests are in patient-centered outcomes, surgical quality, and other health services research related to gender affirming care. I intend to train as a Urologist and to continue my research agenda as a clinician-investigator in academic medicine. I am motivated to care for my transgender community in this capacity by personal experience receiving and returning peer-led health promotion. I center this lived experience and work history in academic inquiry, and have a published in surgical outcomes, ethics, medical education, and community-based participatory research practices.

From 2014-2020 I worked for Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, an LGBTQ-focused Federally Qualified Health Center in NYC. I was primarily in the Health Outreach To Teens (HOTT) program, providing case management services to HIV+ and/or transgender youth ages 13-24. HOTT works to remove barriers to care for adolescents, and foster an experience in which they have voice and agency in their own health outcomes. By the time I left, I had developed internal policy and training related to gender affirming surgery, and helped to establish a state funded gender affirming surgery care navigation program. Since 2018, I have collaborated gender affirming surgery research with multiple academic medical centers.

I am active in the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) and volunteer my time as founder and co-facilitator of The Tool Shed, the nation's first peer-led support group for trans people seeking support and information about phalloplasty and metoidioplasty procedures. I am committed to healthcare access for all: Trans health cannot be separated from movements for disability, racial, economic, and women's justice. I belong to a diverse and beautiful LGBT community, and I enjoy art and social theory about trans, LGB, and HIV issues. In the summer, you can find me spending as much time as possible at New York's historically LGBT beaches, Riis and Fire Island.

The views expressed on this website are my own and do not represent any current or former employers or academic institutions.