Providing Affirming Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth

1. INTRODUCTION .- 2. IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH.- 3. Gender Affirmation - Medical.- 4. Gender Affirmation - Surgical.- 5. Related Clinical Issues.- 6. Equity and Inclusivity.

Adam W. Dell, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine provider at the University of Utah. Dr. Dell's clinical interests include primary care for underrepresented groups including indigenous populations and LGBTQI youth. He enjoys providing gender affirming care and mental health services to gender diverse youth. Dr. Dell is an enrolled member of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Utah. Dr. Dell's research interests include expanding diversity, inclusion, and equity to resident education; bridging the gap between gender affirming care and primary care; and physician wellness. Dr. Dell feels that as healthcare providers, gender diversity needs to be more than accepted-it needs to be celebrated. It is his passion to help train more general pediatricians to be gender affirming champions. 

Jessica Robnett, PsyD, received her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from the Georgia School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University with practicum training at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. She completed her internship at Miami Children's Hospital and postdoctoral fellowship at Primary Children's Hospital, specializing in Pediatric Psychology. Dr. Robnett is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is in the Division of Pediatric Behavioral Health. Her primary clinical interests include assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with medical illnesses with work in both pulmonology and adolescent medicine. Her research interests include mental health in pediatric cystic fibrosis patients and integration of behavioral health services into subspecialty clinics. 

Dana N. Johns, MD, is a board certified plastic surgeon at the University of Utah and specializes in all areas of craniofacial surgery, including cleft lip, nose and palate deformities, craniosynostosis, ear