The OutCare Mentorship Program

Dr. Alvaro Tori is an intensive care physician at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health and focuses on teaching pediatric critical care in a family-centered care environment. He is the recipient of numerous Riley Red Shoes awards, which recognize outstanding care from patients' families.Dr. Tori also serves as chair of Riley’s Code Committee and director of respiratory care, which focuses on improving the field of critical care medicine and improving patient safety. He mentors a diverse group of residents and fellows, which he regards as part of a personal mission to influence the next generation of practitioners and ensure diversity among their ranks.

Clayton M. Smith, M.D., FACP, is an Assistant Professor in the University of Louisville Department of Medicine and serves as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Training Program. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, then attended medical school at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL. He completed residency and served as a Chief Resident at the University of Louisville. Dr. Smith sees patients at University Hospital and the University of Louisville Physicians Outpatient Care Center. He has developed a reputation in LGBT healthcare and serves on a national committee to promote diversity in internal medicine training programs. In addition, he also travels regularly to Washington D.C. to advocate for legislation that supports medical education.

"I've got the best job in the world! I love teaching in the clinical setting and challenging our residents to learn something from every patient every day. To watch them mature into competent, caring physicians over the course of three years is a true honor."

I am an attending family physician and director of Transform Health, our LGBTQ* initiative at the University of Kentucky. We see patients for full scope primary care as well as hormone therapy and PrEP and have many educational, research and outreach projects. I am a graduate of UK, did residency at Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in MA, and did a fellowship in Primary Care Policy and faculty development in Washington DC.

I have been serving LGBTQ* patients for over 5 years and at higher volume through Transform Health since July 2016. I have had a 2 year research fellowship in which I conducted interviews and surveys with Appalachian LGBTQ residents and continue to be a Co-I on on many research projects. My passion is education in this area and I lead a residency track in LGBTQ care and do many presentations all over campus.

Clint is a doctoral student at Eastern Kentucky University. He is a Licensed Psychological Associate and is currently conducting research on state personality traits of transgender individuals before and after transitioning. At EKU, he serves as the LGBT+ Initiatives graduate assistant for Student Life where he implements LGBT+ programming and works with administration to improve the campus community for LGBT+ students.

Clint is originally from Louisville, Kentucky. He began formally transitioning in 2012 and has spent most of his life in the LGBT+ community.

Richard Brandon-Friedman is a Doctoral Candidate and Associate Faculty member at the Indiana University School of Social Work. He has been a clinical social worker for over 12 years, six of them post-Masters level. His clinical work has focused primarily on male adolescents, both in home and in the child welfare system, but he has also worked with children as young as 3 years old and with adults. In his work, Richard incorporates trauma-informed therapy, familial and system integration, psycho-education, and behavioral/emotional self-management skills. He currently serve as the Social Work Supervisor for the Gender Health Program at Riley at IU Health, as the Chair of National Association of Social Worker's Indiana Chapter's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee, and as an Executive Board Member of GenderNexus, a community organization that serves gender diverse individuals. Over the past several years Richard has conducted numerous trainings on professional work with sexual and gender minorities, ranging from one hour to six hours in length. His current research focuses on the sexual development of youth in the foster care system and overall adolescent sexual identity formation. He has also recently published empirical and theoretical work on sexual health, sexual identities, and sexual behaviors.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Huntsville, AL. I maintain a generalist practice, but am particularly passionate about my sub-speciality in working with LGBTQ+ individuals. I work to support LGBTQ individuals in their desire to live freely and authentically, by providing a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore aspects of their identities and relationships. I provide services to diverse individuals from adolescence through late adulthood, including LGBTQ affirmative care (individual/couples therapy), HRT/SRS evaluations and recommendation letters, and psychological assessment.

Dr. Andrew Roberts is an internal medicine physician within Community Physician Network working as a full-time hospitalist, but he also serves as medical director at an outpatient addiction clinic specifically focusing on opiate addiction. In addition, he volunteers as a faculty advisor at both the Indiana University School of Medicine and Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine and also serves on various committees at the local level such as on the ACP Indiana Diversity Committee. He founded the original Gay-Straight Medical Alliance at Indiana University School of Medicine back in 2009 and served as president for 2 years before graduating. He continues to stay active in the LGBTQ community and strives to advance the unique needs specific to this patient population.

Dr. Worly completed his undergraduate education at Columbia University in New York, NY, and then became a middle and high school science and math teacher for 3 years. Dr. Worly then attended the Michigan State University College of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Worly went to the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania for OB/GYN residency, and then practiced OB/GYN for 4 years in Philadelphia at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Worly moved to Columbus, Ohio in 2013, and continues to practice OB/GYN at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where he sees patients, teaches and mentors fellows, residents, and medical students, and performs research. Dr. Worly has run a Women's Sexual Health Clinic through the OSU Center for Women's Health since 2015, and has been a part of a national committee to improve medical student and OB/GYN resident Sexual Health education since 2016. Dr. Worly has spoken at national OB/GYN meetings about Sexual Health education.

Dr. Robert Schnarrs is a native of central Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in pre-medicine from the Pennsylvania State University. This was followed with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He then embarked upon his surgical training at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. He completed a general surgery residency and subsequently became board certified in General Surgery and recently recertified.

A Plastic Surgery Residency was then completed at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine in Norfolk. Virginia, and then followed with a fellowship in oculoplastic, orbital and aesthetic surgery, also at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine. Board certification in Plastic Surgery, as well as a Certificate of Added Qualification in Hand Surgery has been subsequently added. Dr. Schnarrs began practice in the Hampton Roads area in 1991 as an assistant professor on the full time faculty at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Department of Plastic Surgery. During that time, he also served as the assistant program director for the residency program. In 1994 he departed full time academic practice to begin private practice in Norfolk, Virginia. He has continued in that capacity since. He continues to hold a community faculty position with the Eastern Virginia Medical School and frequently lectures and instructs medical students and residents. Dr. Schnarrs has served and continues to serve on a number of academic committee appointments both locally and nationally. His most recent position was the President of the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Alumni Association. He has also served on numerous hospital committees locally including Chairman of the Sentara Hospitals, Department of Plastic Surgery on two separate occasions. He holds staff privileges at a number of local hospitals. He is a member of numerous local, state, regional, national, and international societies. He has been appointed to the Virginia Medical Malpractice Review Panel by the Virginia Supreme Court. He serves on two committees for National Plastic Societies and is also an accredited inspector for the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. He has published numerous articles in plastic surgery related journals, as well as several textbook chapters. He has also edited several educational videotapes. He has participated in numerous medical relief efforts in several developing countries and continues to donate time and effort to provide care and education to underprivileged individuals. He has served on the faculty for numerous educational symposiums and continues to actively lecture on a number of topics, both locally, regionally, and nationally to audiences ranging from lay public to subspecialty continuing education programs for physicians.

Dr. Schnarrs private practice deals predominantly with cosmetic plastic surgery and reconstructive breast surgery. He is regionally recognized as a leader in breast reconstruction for correction of congenital anomalies and after mastectomy for carcinoma. Dr. Schnarrs practice also encompasses the treatment of upper extremity and hand injuries and anomalies, as well correction of craniomaxilofacial injuries. He actively participates in the care of burn victims in association with the trauma service at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Dr. Schnarrs personal time is predominantly consumed with activities related to his three children, (two daughters and a son). ages ranging from high school and up. He enjoys outdoor activities and recently embarked on obtaining a pilots license.