Schedule of Presentations
NEPA Trans Health Conference
April 21, 2025
9:00 am - Morning Welcome/Introduction
9:15 am – Jessica McDonough, Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, NCC, LPC “Healing Together: Navigating Gender Dysphoria with Trans Teens and Their Families”
10:15 am – Keynote -- Dr. Brandy Schillace, Author, Adventurer at the Intersections, Historian, Medical Anthropologist (https://brandyschillace.com/about/) “Weinmar Under the Shadow of the Third Reich, The Forgotten Story of the World’s First Center for Homosexual and Transgender Rights” Presentation with Q and A
11:30 pm - Lunch Break
12:00 pm – Asha Kaufman (Parent) & Jennifer Joyce (Physician, Educator, Supporter, and Advocate)
“Building Community & Understanding Through Sharing Narrative” Participants are welcome to enjoy the shared lunch while participating in this directed opportunity for sharing experiences and connections as transgender people or as parents or loved ones of transgender people. This workshop is held concurrently with lunch.
1:00 pm – Afternoon Welcome/Introduction
1:15 pm – Martin Russo, “A Trans Man’s Journey” A Personal Experience Talk on Social and Medical Transition
2:00 pm – Caroline Bandurska M.D. “Pediatric Gender Affirming Care, A Physician’s Overview”
3:00 pm - Trans Life Experience Panel Discussion Q and A
NEPA Trans Health Conference
April 21, 2025
9:00 am - Morning Welcome/Introduction
9:15 am – Jessica McDonough, Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, NCC, LPC “Healing Together: Navigating Gender Dysphoria with Trans Teens and Their Families”
10:15 am – Keynote -- Dr. Brandy Schillace, Author, Adventurer at the Intersections, Historian, Medical Anthropologist (https://brandyschillace.com/about/) “Weinmar Under the Shadow of the Third Reich, The Forgotten Story of the World’s First Center for Homosexual and Transgender Rights” Presentation with Q and A
11:30 pm - Lunch Break
12:00 pm – Asha Kaufman (Parent) & Jennifer Joyce (Physician, Educator, Supporter, and Advocate)
“Building Community & Understanding Through Sharing Narrative” Participants are welcome to enjoy the shared lunch while participating in this directed opportunity for sharing experiences and connections as transgender people or as parents or loved ones of transgender people. This workshop is held concurrently with lunch.
1:00 pm – Afternoon Welcome/Introduction
1:15 pm – Martin Russo, “A Trans Man’s Journey” A Personal Experience Talk on Social and Medical Transition
2:00 pm – Caroline Bandurska M.D. “Pediatric Gender Affirming Care, A Physician’s Overview”
3:00 pm - Trans Life Experience Panel Discussion Q and A
Registration Will be Announced in March 2025.
WHAT IS THE NEPA TRANS HEALTH CONFERENCE?
Our Mission and Goal
The NEPA Trans Health Conference was conceived in 2012 as an educational forum for Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) area health care professionals, their staffs, educators, and others to learn from the transgender community and from those who treat and support them about the necessary care, respect, and understanding of people who are transgender.
The primary goal of the conference is to overcome provider knowledge gaps and to reduce the psychological harm and medical neglect that is done to transgender people when their lived experience and the professional consensus that directs their care and treatment is not well understood by care providers and others.
The primary goal of the conference is to overcome provider knowledge gaps and to reduce the psychological harm and medical neglect that is done to transgender people when their lived experience and the professional consensus that directs their care and treatment is not well understood by care providers and others.
Registration is Free But you must Register