Browsing by Author "Morgan, Lucas E."

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    A Pediatric Provider’s Guide to Supporting the Family of a Gender-Expansive Child or Adolescent
    (Sage, 2022-06-22) Morgan, Lucas E.; Meininger, Eric T.; Donahue, Kelly L.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Sexual and gender-minoritized youth, especially those who are gender-expansive (GE)*, are at increased risk for mental health complications including anxiety, depression, suicidality, and substance abuse. From a minority stress perspective, this increased risk may be attributable to external and internal stressors associated with minority status such as abuse/harassment, victimization at school, institutional discrimination, and fear of rejection. Medical curricula lack training on these disparities and how to care for LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, or other sexual/gender identities) patients, particularly those who are transgender. While pediatric providers must learn to provide competent care for all individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, this review focuses on the needs of GE youth and their families. *Gender expansive is an umbrella term that refers collectively to transgender, gender-questioning, non-binary, gender-diverse, or gender-variant individuals.
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    Pediatric Program Directors Should have an Active Presence on Twitter
    (Elsevier, 2020-11-20) Heitkamp, Nicholas M.; Morgan, Lucas E.; Carmody, J. Bryan; Heitkamp, Darel E.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    For academic pediatricians, social media has become an important avenue for professional development through continuing education, professional networking, and academic collaboration. Pediatric residency program directors have recognized additional benefits of social media engagement via program promotion and resident recruitment. The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and subsequent move to virtual interviews for the 2020–2021 residency interview season have created a new urgency for pediatric program directors to establish an active social media presence, primarily as a means to engage applicants and provide them with information in lieu of cancelled away rotations and in-person interviews. Twitter is a free microblogging and social networking platform that allows real-time engagement among academic pediatricians. Here, we make the case that all pediatric program directors should have an active presence on Twitter.