Campus to Salute Three for GLBT Leadership on Monday
A clinical professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Kelly, MD, is known as one of the most compassionate, caring and well-respected faculty members in that department. As an openly gay faculty member, he has raised the bar for others in the UCSF School of Medicine in coming out as a member of the campus community. Kelly has served as vice chair and chair of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on GLBT Issues, bringing important concerns to light. He has reached out to faculty, students and residents by being a role model and a mentor for many in the UCSF GLBT community, including organizing a session for GLBT medical students on issues of being "out" in the residency application process and during residency. This forum brought together students, residents and faculty in a safe space to address their questions and fears. In addition, Kelly serves as an expert panelist at weekly Pediatrics Chair Rounds, discussing gender identity, sexuality, and intersex issues as related to how children are raised. He also advises residents and medical students on issues they may face in caring for GLBT patients.
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Timothy Kelly, Tamsin Levy, Chancellor Bishop, John Dwyer |
A member of the UCSF community for the past four years, John Dwyer works as the program manager for the Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Unit of the Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). He has served on the UCSF Chancellor's Advisory Committee on GLBT Issues, participated on "the Visibility Project," the campuswide awareness campaign spotlighting the personal stories and achievements of 10 very active, out and compelling GLBT members of the campus community. Dwyer has collaborated with many GLBT-centered programs and participates in the foundational meetings for Magnet, the gay men's sexual health clinic. He also was instrumental in the fundraising efforts for, as well as coordinating the delivery of, H.E.R.O., a medical record management system used at SFGH's HIV unit. As Sister Constance Craving with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Dwyer seeks to improve clinical outcomes for people living with HIV by conducting "street ministry" and outreach, often referring people to the Positive Health Program, the Positive Health Practice and the AIDS Health Project, and promoting all the services UCSF has to offer. Dwyer also has served on the LGBT and HIV/AIDS advisory committees of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC), and has participated in organizing a highly successful joint commission hearing of the HRC and Aging & Adult Services. That hearing explored the need and exposed the lack of support for the city's aging GLBT population. The hearing resulted in generating a laundry list of recommendations for improvements to the city, community service providers and other agencies, including UCSF's Institute for Health & Aging. Recently, Dwyer returned to school, entering the UCSF School of Nursing Master's Entry Program in Nursing so that he could improve the quality of GLBT health in San Francisco by becoming a health care professional. Tamsin Levy
While a student at UC Berkeley, Levy volunteered as a legal advocate for disabled homeless, interned at the National Association of Child Advocates and worked as a site coordinator at Break the Cycle, a UC Berkeley organization of undergraduate students who teach and mentor disadvantaged Berkeley elementary school students in math and science in after-school programs. Levy was co-director of the Child Care Waiting List Project, part of a policy analysis of California education. After graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology, Levy worked for six years in numerous community-related and health service jobs, and volunteered at the San Francisco Free Clinic and as a support group co-facilitator at Shanti, an organization that provides education, practical assistance and emotional support to people in need living with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer. A member of UCSF's medical class of 2008, Levy continues to take on leadership roles in numerous service activities. She co-facilitated a support group for patients with cancer at SFGH through Cancer Awareness, Resources and Education (CARE), and served as a member of the admissions committee. As a curriculum ambassador for the medical school, Levy revised the GLBT content in the preclinical medical curriculum and created a map of current GLBT content in the curriculum. Last year, she co-coordinated the GLBT Health Care Elective, a course open to all UCSF students that features speakers from UCSF and the community. She has served as president of the GLBT Student Association, as a member of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on GLBT Issues and as a participant in "the Visibility Project."