LGBTQ+ Healthcare Cultural Competency Training

Dr. Dustin Nowaskie is psychiatry resident at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Nowaskie has had significant interest in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) healthcare since founding the national nonprofit LGBTQ organization OutCare Health in May 2015. He conducts academic research in general LGBTQ and transgender-specific healthcare. Specific studies include evaluating LGBTQ cultural competency among healthcare providers, residents, and students; Internet platforms in promoting LGBTQ cultural competency; patient satisfaction with multidisciplinary transgender care; and eating disorders psychopathology in the transgender population. Dr. Nowaskie's work has led to various accolades, academic conference presentations across the country, and academic publications. His long-term goal is to transform this work into a vehicle of social and public health change for the LGBTQ community.

Dr. Janine Fogel is the Medical Director of the Eskenazi Transgender Health and Wellness Program and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the IU School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in Toronto, Canada where she also completed her Family Medicine residency. She has been on faculty at IUSM and Eskenazi Health since 1996.

Dr. Juan Carlos Venis is a family physician and native Hoosier who in addition to practicing primary care, provides transition-related care at the Eskenazi Transgender Health and Wellness Program. He completed his family medicine residency at the IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. He also has a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Venis has experience in primary care clinic management, quality improvement, and care management practices. He has researched and presented on important current medical issues, including LGBTQ+ primary care, PrEP for HIV prevention, topics in obstetrics and family planning, and the patient-centered medical home. He is extensively involved as an active member in a variety of professional bodies and is a proud founding board member of Muncie OUTreach, an organization started in 2012 to serve LGBTQ+ identifying youth as well as transgender persons of all ages in the Delaware County area.

Amy Jacobs, LMSW is a Clinical Social Worker and therapist who works in the HIV/AIDS Treatment Program at the University of Michigan. She has been an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community for over 25 years and has worked in HIV specifically for almost 20 years. Amy has specific interest and experience in LGBTQ+ mental health, HIV, shared identities of providers and patients, consensual non-monogamy, BDSM/Kink, and erotic transference and countertransference.