A Conversation about Adolescent Health, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity with Dr. Rachel Levine, Secretary of Health and Physician General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Levine will focus on the psychological, social, and medical issues that face young people who are transgender and gender non-binary. A panel discussion will follow Dr. Levine’s talk, facilitated by Phoenix Schneider, of Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia.
Register by Thursday, April 5.
This program was made possible by the Behrend Lecture Fund
Contact: Alicia Broudy: Abroudy@rodephshalom.org.
Dr. Rachel Levine is currently the Secretary of Health and Physician General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. Her previous posts included: Vice -Chair for Clinical Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She graduated from Harvard College in 1979 and the Tulane University School of Medicine in 1983. Dr. Levine completed her training in Pediatrics at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City in 1987 and then did a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Mt. Sinai from 1987-88.
