Friday, May 13, 2005, 12-2 PM
Center for LGBT Life - 02 West Union Bldg.

The Center for LGBT Life invites all LGBT and allied students that are graduating or completing their Certificate in the Program for the Study of Sexualities to participate in Lavender Graduation.

• Remarks by Dr. Kate O'Hanlan, M.D., Duke Trinity '76
• Lunch Reception
• Certificate Distribution for all Participatin g Graduates
• Rainbow Tassels for all Participating Graduates
• Ally and Activist Leadership Awards
• Live Music

Streaming Video

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Procession of Students

Remarks by Dr. Katherine O'Hanlan

Recognition of Graduating Students

Leadership Awards

About Dr. Katherine O'Hanlan, M.D. (http://www.ohanlan.com/resume.htm)

Former associate Director of Gynecologic Cancer Surgery at Stanford University, Dr. Kate O'Hanlan's research and publishing focus has been on cancer prevention and surgical biology of each of these cancers, as well as health issues facing lesbians and gay men. Dr. O'Hanlan founded the lesbian Health Fund, which has made seventeen research grants totaling over $175,000. She was president of the Gay and Lesbian medical Association and wrote "Homophobia As a health Hazard: Report of the Gay and Lesbian medical Association." Dr. O'Hanlan co-authored "Anti-Gay Discrimination in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Physicians." In 1994, she wrote the policy statement passed by the American Medical Women's Association endorsing legislation for adoption and custody, and the right to marry for gay men and lesbians. Dr. O'Hanlan presented "Recruitment and Retention of Lesbians in Health Research," at the national Institutes for Health, the President's Cancer Panel, and the Office of Research on Women's Health asking that prevention, research, and treatment outreach efforts be focused on the gay and lesbian community. she is co-principal investigator the NIH Grant at Stanford University, studying support and coping strategies of lesbian with breast cancer. Dr. O'Hanlan published "Lesbian Health and Homophobia: Perspectives for the Treating Obstetrician/Gynecologist," and the first Chapters on lesbian health in Copeland's Gynecology textbook, in Behavioral Medicine.