Harvard Medical School Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program

Harvard Medical School-Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program

Now Accepting Applications for the 2026-2027 Fellowship Year!

About the Fellowship

The AMA Foundation-sponsored Harvard Medical School (HMS)-Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program equips primary care residency graduates with the skills needed to serve as influential physician leaders in the field of LGBTQIA+ health.

Applications will open in summer 2025 for one Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Med-Peds physician to join our 12-month (July 1, 2026-June 30, 2027) academic and career development fellowship in LGBTQIA+ focused primary care.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree.
Applicants must anticipate completion of residency training in family medicine, internal medicine, or med-peds by July 1, 2026.
Applicants are encouraged to apply during their final year of residency.
Applicants must be US citizens or lawful permanent US residents with a resident alien permit or green card. The fellowship is not able to sponsor J-1 or other visas.

Statement regarding diversity and inclusion:

Health equity is at the heart of this fellowship, which centers intersectional LGBTQIA+ communities. We strongly encourage physicians who are committed to health equity to apply.

Fellowship Content and Structure

The HMS-Fenway LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program combines the resources of HMS and HMS’s teaching hospitals with Fenway Health, an internationally renowned Federally Qualified Health Center with 50 years of experience serving LGBTQIA+ communities, a rich patient base, and an embedded institute dedicated to LGBTQIA+ health education and training, advocacy, and research. HMS’s system-wide Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative provides the ideal context for fellowship activities. Our fellows will have an opportunity to learn from preeminent leaders in the field of LGBTQIA+ health while engaging with a rich tapestry of Boston-area organizations that serve diverse LGBTQIA+ communities.

Clinical Activities (45%):

Each fellow will complete their outpatient continuity clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess–Fenway, where they will provide comprehensive primary care for a panel of diverse LGBTQIA+ patients.
Fellows will also rotate through clinical selectives across the HMS-Fenway network that are aligned with their interests and career goals. Examples include: LGBTQIA+ focused addiction recovery; dermatology; endocrinology; gender-care; hepatology; high resolution anoscopy; HIV care; intersex health care; mental and behavioral health care; nephrology; obstetrics and gynecology; reproductive endocrinology; sexual health; urology; and violence prevention and recovery.
Inpatient care and overnight/weekend call are not anticipated unless specifically applicable to a fellow’s career goals.

Academic Activities and Leadership Development (45%):

During biweekly fellowship seminars, fellows will engage with local and national LGBTQIA+ health leaders while developing foundational skills in LGBTQIA+ health-focused program development, clinical quality improvement (QI), education and training, community engagement, health policy and advocacy, and research.
Each fellow will conduct a longitudinal, mentored LGBTQIA+ health leadership project, such as developing a new clinical program; performing a clinical QI project; designing and implementing a new curriculum; conducting a community needs assessment; developing a policy brief; or engaging in a collaborative health advocacy effort.
Fellows will have numerous opportunities to practice their leadership skills via teaching in one of our LGBTQIA+ health-focused UME, GME, CME (for the Whole Care Team or Training-the-Trainer) or National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center trainings; collaborating with organizational partners in the rollout of an LGBTQIA+ focused public health program; and serving on the Massachusetts Medical Society LGBTQ Committee.
Fellows will receive coaching to disseminate their work widely via local, regional, and national presentations and publications in both the lay press and peer-reviewed journals.

Community Engagement (10%):

Fellows will learn about the unique needs of specific LGBTQIA+ communities through visits with a wide variety of Boston-area LGBTQIA+ organizations. They will then select one organization to host their community engagement project and assist in moving that organization’s work forward.

Mentorship and Support:

Mentorship is a signature focus of the HMS-Fenway LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program. Each fellow will have a:
- Core Clinical Site Mentor who will supervise the fellow’s primary care practice.
- Leadership Mentor who will provide guidance on the fellow’s longitudinal, LGBTQIA+ health leadership project.
Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in a broad spectrum of activities and supports offered by the DEI programs at HMS, each HMS affiliate, and Fenway Health.
Fellows may join the Harvard Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Health Equity Research Collaborative, where they can engage with other trainees and faculty from diverse disciplines.

Salary and Benefits:

Fellows will be employed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and paid as PGY-4 residents. Benefits are included and there is an ample budget for CME. For more information on benefits, please visit the Trainee Benefits and Resources website.
Fellows will receive the title of Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

The online application for the 2026-2027 fellowship year is now live!

The priority deadline for application is Friday, August 15th, 2025, at 5:00pm Eastern Time.

The final deadline for application is Monday, September 15th, 2025, at 5:00pm Eastern Time.

The following materials must be received by the application deadline:

Completed online application form
CV and essay responses, which you will be prompted to upload at the end of the application form
Three letters of recommendation, emailed to [email protected] by your recommenders
- Please note that one letter of recommendation must come from your residency program director

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis after the August 15th priority deadline.

Please feel free to email [email protected]g with any questions. We look forward to reviewing your applications!

The online application for the 2025-2026 fellowship year is now live!

The deadline for application is Friday, August 16th, 2024, at 5:00pm Eastern Time.

The following materials must be received by the application deadline:

Completed online application form
CV and essay responses, which you will be prompted to upload at the end of the application form
Three letters of recommendation, emailed to [email protected] by your recommenders
- Please note that one letter of recommendation must come from your residency program director

An informational webinar will be held for prospective applicants on Wednesday, July 24th at 7pm EDT. Register by clicking here or by following this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PPxiAuyKQYSdtXMDEtKS6w

Please feel free to email [email protected] with any questions.

Program Lead

Jennifer Potter, MD

Jennifer Potter, MD (she/her) is an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Professor of Medicine, Advisory Dean, and Co-Cirector of the Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative (SGM HEI) at Harvard Medical School (HMS); and Co-Chair of the Fenway Institute. Dr. Potter’s contributions to the field of LGBTQIA+ health include founding one of the first practices centering lesbian and bisexual women in New England; developing a national LGBTQIA+ health curriculum blueprint published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); curating a collection of LGBTQIA+ health-focused curricular tools for MedEdPORTAL; designing, implementing, and assessing the effectiveness of numerous LGBTQIA+ health curricula; engaging in classroom teaching and clinical supervision of learners across the medical education continuum; and serving as mentor for LGBTQIA+ trainees. Dr. Potter is also involved in the leadership of local and national medical education initiatives promoting trauma-informed care and anti-racism, both highly relevant to LGBTQIA+ health.

Program Assistant

Noah Kozler

Noah Kozler, BA (they/he) is the Operations Coordinator for the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute, and Program Assistant for the Harvard Medical School-Fenway Health LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program. They graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor’s of Arts in English and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, and will begin their MPH candidacy at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health this fall. Noah has a strong passion for transgender health, and hopes to help improve access to inclusive, culturally responsive, gender-affirming care for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, fat, and disabled communities through his work in public health spaces.

Fellowship Faculty

Pam Adelstein, MD

Pam Adelstein, MD (she/her) has worked at community health centers in and around Boston since she finished residency at UMass Worcester in 2000. She enjoys teaching and mentoring, and has worked with many medical students and residents over the years. She is passionate about LGBTQIA+ health, integrative medicine, immigrant health, and reproductive health. She has an acupuncture certification and her narrative writing essays have been published in medical journals and lay press. She enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 college-aged children. When she’s not working, Pam can be found on a yoga mat, in a kayak, on a bicycle, or in the woods.

Kevin Ard, MD MPH

Kevin Ard, MD MPH (he/him) is the Director of the Sexual Health Clinic at MGH, where he is a practicing clinician and faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and Medical Director of the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, Dr. Ard’s interests include LGBTQIA+ health and the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and HIV.

Shalender Bhasin, MB BS

Shalender Bhasin, MB BS (he/him) is a Professor of Medicine at HMS and co-directs the Transgender Program at BWH. An internationally recognized endocrinologist with nearly 400 publications and substantial NIH funding, Dr. Bhasin leads large interdisciplinary clinical and research programs focused on reproductive disorders, transgender health, and the biology of sex hormones. He has provided care for transgender and gender diverse people for nearly 35 years and is an experienced medical educator. Dr. Bhasin will serve as BWH site lead.

Adrianna Boulin

Adrianna Boulin (she/her) is the Director of Racial Equity, Social Justice, and Community Engagement at Fenway Health, where she is responsible for leading and managing initiatives that address racial disparities and promote inclusivity, equity, and justice. She is a Professor at Northeastern University teaching the course Race, Ethnicity, and Health, and President of Boston Pride for the People, whose mission is to amplify the beauty, rich diversity, unique culture, and intersectionality of the LGBTQ+ community through empowerment, education, commemoration, and celebration.

Sean Cahill, PhD

Sean Cahill, PhD (he/him) is Director of Health Policy Research at the Fenway Institute, Affiliate Associate Clinical Professor of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He also serves on the Massachusetts Special Legislative Commission on LGBT Aging and the HIV and Aging Policy Action Coalition. Associate Editor at LGBT Health, Dr. Cahill has published numerous articles and monographs on LGBTQ+ health, LGBTQ+ public policy issues, and HIV/STI prevention and care.

Brittany Charlton, MSc, ScD

Brittany Charlton, MSc, ScD (she/her) is an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute whose research focuses on SGM reproductive health disparities and family planning. She also co-directs the Harvard Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Health Equity Research Collaborative, serves as an SGM HEI curriculum fellow, and designed and is implementing a first-in-kind mentorship program to meet the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ trainees.

Alexis Drutchas, MD

Dr. Alexis Drutchas (she/her) is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan and trained in Family Medicine at Brown University during which time she co-founded the RI Trans Health Conference. Alexis worked as a PCP at Fenway Health and went on to complete the Harvard Palliative Care Fellowship. She remained at MGH thereafter and co-leads serious illness communication training with The Continuum Project and co-leads the fellowship's health equity education efforts. She is very interested in LGBQT+ inclusive palliative care and teaches fellows about this topic as part of their curriculum. Alexis loves to write and was chosen to be a 2021 OpEd Public Voices Fellow. Her work has been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, NBC, CNN, Newsweek, and The Annals of Internal Medicine, among others. Alexis lives with her wife and their toddler, Oliver.

Stephen Dunn, DO

Stephen Dunn, DO (he/him) was born and raised in Connecticut, and went on to graduate from the University of Connecticut in Storrs with a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology. He attended the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) in Biddeford, Maine. After graduation, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, MA, before moving to Boston to start work at Fenway Health. His clinical interests include HIV medicine, gender-affirming healthcare, and preventative healthcare. Dr. Dunn will serve as Fenway site lead.

Ariel Frey-Vogel, MD MAT

Ariel Frey-Vogel, MD MAT (she/her) is an internist and pediatrician who currently cares exclusively for transgender and gender diverse patients of all ages and directs Child and Adolescent Services at MGH. Previously, she was a primary care physician at a community practice in an underserved area of Boston. She has an extensive background in medical education, serving as Associate Program Director for the MGH for Children’s (MGHfC) Pediatric Residency Program and Director of the MGHfC Pediatric Education, Innovation and Research Center.

Frances Grimstad, MD, MA

Frances Grimstad, MD, MA (she/her) is a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) who founded the Transgender Reproductive Health Service, dedicated to clinical care, research, advocacy and education surrounding reproductive health for transgender and intersex patients.  She has been involved in trans health advocacy since adolescence, when she was inspired to pursue medicine to address health disparities faced by these communities.

Carly Guss, MD, MPH

Carly Guss, MD, MPH (she/her) is a pediatrician at BCH who co-directs the Boston HIV Adolescent Provider and Peer Education Network for Services (HAPPENS). Assistant Professor at HMS, her research interests include transgender and gender-nonconforming adolescents’ experiences in primary care, the relationship of gender identity to body image, and pre-exposure prophylaxis in adolescents.

Ole-Petter Hamnvik, MB BCh BAO, MMSc

Ole-Petter Hamnvik, MB BCh BAO, MMSc (he/him) is an endocrinologist at BWH who provides care for many transgender and gender diverse patients in the Transgender Program, which he co-directs. Assistant Professor at HMS, he serves as Program Director for the BWH Endocrinology Fellowship and Education Editor at NEJM Group.

Michael S. Irwig, MD

Michael S. Irwig, MD (he/him) is an adult endocrinologist at BIDMC, where he directs the Gender-Affirming Services program and trains residents and fellows. Associate Professor of Medicine, he has presented >50 invited lectures nationally and internationally on transgender health, co-authored 2 chapters in WPATH’s Standards of Care 8, and is a member of the Endocrine Society’s Transgender SIG and Committee on Diversity & Inclusion. His research focuses on the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy. Dr. Irwig will serve as BIDMC site lead.

Sabra Katz-Wise, PhD

Sabra Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at BCH, in Pediatrics at HMS, and in Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH. She also co-directs the SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative, is Senior Faculty Advisor for the BCH Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, and serves as an SGM HEI curriculum fellow, where she leads community engagement efforts. Her research investigates SOGI development in adolescents and young adults, and psychosocial functioning in families with transgender youth.

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH (he/they) is the Michele & Howard J. Kessler Chair and Director of the MGH Division of Public & Community Psychiatry. At HMS, he directs an advanced elective on LGBTQIA+ health, co-directs a novel advanced integrated science course - Sex- and Gender-Informed Medicine - and directs 3 national CME conferences on SGM Health. He also directs two federally funded centers for SGM health education/training: the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and the Evidence-informed Interventions Center for Coordinating Technical Assistance. Dr. Keuroghlian is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Public & Community Psychiatry Curriculum Director for the MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Program, and Director of the Division of Education and Training Programs at the Fenway Institute.

Douglas Krakower, MD

Douglas Krakower, MD (he/him) is a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at BIDMC, Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, and Associate Professor in Medicine at HMS. His research focuses on ways to optimize HIV prevention in healthcare and community settings with a focus on implementing HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). His clinical practice encompasses both general infectious diseases and HIV treatment and prevention.

JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, MACP

JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, MACP (she/her) is Professor of Medicine and Michael & Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at HMS, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at BWH. Widely known for her public leadership and advocacy in the field of women’s health, she is Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI of several research studies, including the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Center in Boston, the cardiovascular component of the Nurses’ Health Study, the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL); the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), and the VItamin D for COVID-19 (VIVID) trial. Her major research interests include sex-specific factors in cardiometabolic health; randomized clinical prevention trials of nutritional and lifestyle factors related to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer; the role of endogenous and exogenous estrogens as determinants of chronic disease; and biomarker predictors of CVD. Recently, Dr. Manson co-developed a novel advanced integrated science course at HMS – Sex- and Gender-Informed Medicine - that considers the of sex and gender diversity on health and disease.

Kenneth Mayer, MD

Kenneth Mayer, MD (he/him) is Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute. He is also a Professor of Medicine at HMS; a Professor, Department of Global Health and Population at HSPH; Director of HIV Prevention Research and Attending Physician at Beth Israel Lahey Health; and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown University. His areas of research include international HIV/AIDS, gay and bisexual men’s health, HIV/AIDS prevention, microbicides, PrEP, PEP, vaccines, secondary prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, and antibiotic use and molecular epidemiology of antibiotic resistance.

William (Rusty) Phillips, MD

William (Rusty) Phillips, MD (he/him) is a hospitalist at BIDMC, where he serves as Director of Recruitment and Retention for his group in Hospital Medicine and teaches medical concepts to physicians around the world. As a curriculum fellow in the SGM HEI, he developed a curriculum that teaches medical students how to obtain inclusive sexual histories. This program uses standardized patient actors with LGBTQIA+ identities to allow students to have a more authentic experience in a safe learning environment.

Sari Reisner, ScD

Sari Reisner, ScD (he/him) is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose research focuses on transgender health, HIV and other STIs, and mental health/substance abuse risks and resiliencies in adolescents and young adults. Director of transgender research programs at both BWH and The Fenway Institute, Dr. Reisner has a global portfolio of community-engaged research, >220 peer-reviewed publications and is founding Associate Research Director for the PubMed-indexed journal Transgender Health.

Jenny Siegel, MD

Jenny Siegel, MD (she/her) is an internist at MGH, where she directs the Transgender Health Program and serves as Lead for Health Equity and Community-Based Education for the MGH Department of Medicine Residency Program. She is on the faculty at both HMS and Boston University School of Medicine, where she was formerly Associate Program Director of the Boston Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program and Medical Director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Siegel will serve as MGH site lead.

Community Partners

AndreAs Neumann-Mascis

(he/him)

AndreAs Neumann-Mascis (he/him) is a psychologist with a Masters in Family Therapy and a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He is a disabled queer/trans person that has lived and worked in both communities in Boston and in San Francisco for more than 25 years. AndreAs provides individual, relationship and group therapy, in addition to training, consultation, and social justice collaboration. AndreAs was part of developing a specialized trauma curricula for unhoused and chronically mentally ill populations, and is also active in education and training for universities, hospitals, providers, not-for-profits and community members, as well as a frequent conference lecturer. He founded and developed The Meeting Point (TMP), located in Boston, in 2008. As a multidimensional center for healing and growth, TMP is a collaboration of mental health providers and bodyworkers that serves a wide range of communities including queer, trans and disability communities. Through activism, connection and an intentional approach to wellness, The Meeting Point is continually growing to meet the unique strengths and needs of the communities it serves.

Bria Brown-King

(they/she)

Bria Brown-King (they/she) is a Black, queer, non-binary, and intersex person. Bria works as the Director of Engagement for interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. Bria got their start in intersex advocacy in 2018 as an interACT Youth Advocate, and in 2019 they became the first openly intersex person to speak about intersex issues on the steps of the Supreme Court. In their current role, Bria facilitates education on intersex issues, works to close the gap in intersex-affirming research and data collection, and serves on multiple advisory boards, representing intersex people both nationally and internationally.

Gary K. Daffin

(he/him)

Gary K. Daffin is Executive Director of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition. He is a long-time civil rights activist with the Mass. LGBTQ Political Caucus, and serves on the board of directors for Reproductive Equity Now and Boston Pride for the People. He is the recipient of the Gerry Studds Award from Fenway Health, the William A. Hinton Award from the Mass. Dept. of Public Health, and the Heroes in Action Award from AIDS Action Committee, among others. He lives in Jamaica Plain.

Kaden Mohamed

(he/him)

Kaden Mohamed serves as Positively Partners’ Client and Community Impact Manager acting as a liaison between our organization, clients, and communities. Through a lens of intersectionality and equity, he helps to foster and strengthen authentic partnerships and relationships with clients and provides project management, content delivery, training, and facilitation support.

Kaden began his career working full-time at Keshet, a national organization that works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and their families in Jewish life. He is the former Steering Committee Chair for the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition and former Interim Board President for the Transgender Emergency fund, still actively serving on MTPC’s governing body. Kaden has participated in numerous panels, has been interviewed about trans issues and rights by the New York Times, WBUR, the Rainbow Times, The Boston Sunday Review, and TBF News. He was featured in Spirit magazine’s 2017 Young Trailblazers list for activists under 30.

Kaden graduated from Wellesley College where he received his Bachelor’s Degree. His experiences and exploration there helped him understand and become comfortable with his own gender identity as part of the trans community and inspired him to get involved in social justice and activism.

The Network/La Red

The Network/La Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, kink, polyamorous, and queer communities. Rooted in anti-oppression principles, our work aims to create a world where all people are free from oppression. We strengthen our communities through organizing, education, and the provision of support services.

Pam Klein

(she/her)

Pam Klein got her start in gender-affirming health care at the Tom Waddell Clinic in San Francisco in the early 1990s. In 2008 she initiated a Transgender Program at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, and in 2016 she helped Boston Medical Center develop the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, now known as the GenderCare Center. Pam is involved in multiple local and national efforts to educate about and advocate for inclusive and equitable health care policies and environments. She feels indebted to the patients on both coasts who continue to inspire her.

Sabi Liu

(they/she)

Sabi [s-abby] (they/she) is the Program Manager at MAP for Health, an organization dedicated to the wellbeing of the Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ community. Sabi has a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from Boston University and is currently pursuing a JD at Northeastern University of Law.