Special Interest Session

SIS-18 - LGBTQ Disparities in Pain Care

Friday, September 8, 2023

9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST

Location: Castellana 1 & 2

CE: Contact Hours: 1 | ANCC RX: 0| AANP RX: 0 | Mate: 0

Co-Presenter(s)

Michael E. Schatman, PhD

Clinical Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care & Pain Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Kingston, Massachusetts
Hannah Fudin, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist - Transgender and Women's health
George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center
Midvale, Utah

Slides
Mayank Gupta, MD

President & CEO
Kansas Pain Management & Neuroscience Research Center, LLC
Kansas City University
Overland Park, KS

This symposium will be presented by clinical specialists dedicated to treating pain and/or mental health conditions for the LGBTQ patient population. Presenters include a pain psychologist/bioethicist, an interventional anesthesiologist, and a clinical pharmacy specialist. Presented will be current data regarding LGBTQ disparities in pain care, addressing challenges of interventional pain medicine in the transgender population, particularly relating to structural changes in patients’ bodies as they transition, and pain disparities for the transgender population in the United States and among U.S Veterans. Experiences of treating patients with chronic pain individually and combined with mental health conditions will also be discussed, including overcoming unique disparities among the transgender patients served in a dedicated primary care clinic at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center.