Speaker: Mitch Lunn, MD, MAS, FASN
Objectives:
1. Describe sexual and gender minority populations.
2. Understand some causes and examples of SGM health and health care disparities.
3. Understand The PRIDE Study design and phases.
4. Appreciate how technology can be used to engage researchers and SGM communities in partnership.
Understand how meaningful community engagement fosters positive researcher-community relations.
Bio:
Mitchell Lunn is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health. He is the co-director of The PRIDE Study, an online, national, longitudinal cohort study of over 20,000 LGBTQ+ participants, and the co-director of PRIDEnet, a national LGBTQ+ community engagement network. Mitch has a special interest in using technologies to support participant recruitment, cohort management and retention, and results dissemination. Clinically, Mitch provides adult primary care in Stanford LGBTQ+ Health Program and attends on the inpatient nephrology consultation service at Stanford Hospital.
Mitch earned his Bachelor of Science degree with highest thesis honors from Tufts University in 2004, his Doctor of Medicine degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2010, and his Masters in Advanced Studies degree in Clinical Research from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2017. He completed internal medicine internship and residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2013 and nephrology fellowship at UCSF in 2016.
