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After more than two years of planning, the new Vanderbilt Clinic for Transgender Health will open on Friday, Aug. 24. The clinic, open Friday afternoons to start, will provide comprehensive gender-affirming services in a single convenient location. Initially, the clinic will co-locate in Bellevue at the Vanderbilt Walk-In Clinic before moving to its permanent home in One Hundred Oaks in January 2019.

We are very pleased to officially announce that we're (slightly) changing our name to the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health. We formerly adopted "LGBTI" to mirror language used by the National Institutes for Health.

Once again, we have the good fortune to host a spectacular team of summer interns who are engaged in a variety of research and capacity-building activities for the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health.

Did you miss last month's LGBTQ Health Grand Rounds? It's now available on our YouTube playlist. Just click here to watch. About the video: Magda Houlberg, M.D., Chief Clinical Director of Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago, presents "Transgender Healthcare at the Crossroads," offering a compelling look at the state of care for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals and offering insight on what's needed to achieve greater health equity.