FCM Grand Rounds creates a space for clinicians, researchers, educators, and community leaders to learn together about the forces shaping primary care and community health. Through conversations grounded in equity and lived experience, sessions illuminate emerging challenges and share actionable strategies for improving care for the communities we serve.
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Upcoming 2026 Grand Rounds
March 6 - Understanding the history of queer pathologization and reflections on agency-based alternatives
Kat Reilley Harlow, JD
Queer communities have a complex relationship with the practice of medicine, which has often pathologized and dehumanized LGBTQ+ people, while also providing tools for engaging with law and society. Understanding this history can empower healthcare professionals to better understand how to care for LGBTQ+ patients while respecting their dignity and autonomy.
This presentation will discuss how mid-19th century medical models provided the basis for modern understandings of queer identity and legal recognition, while also coercing or silencing patients whose lived experiences clashed with the expectations of their doctors. The troubling history of the gender clinic system of the 1970s will be examined, as well as contemporary issues in treating LGBTQ+ patients, particularly when providing gender affirming care, that arise today as a result of this history.
Kat Harlow, JD, is a Berkeley Law graduate and legal fellow at Lambda Legal, where she researches the role of medical experts in LGBTQ+ impact litigation. She is a founding member of the Berkeley Law Queer Justice Project (QJP), which connects volunteer law students with civil rights litigators to research legal issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community. Kat has written on trans and intersex privacy rights under the California Constitution, and has a particular interest in legal strategies that support queer self-determination. She is based in the Bay Area with her spouse, a family medicine doctor.
4/3 – Mariam Carson, MS, and Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH
Forensic Medical Evaluations
5/1 – Hannah Snyder, MD, and Simone Vais, MD
Addiction Medicine
6/5 – Catherine Gathu, MBChB, MMed, MSc, FHEA
From Bot to Bedside: AI Patient Actors for Training in Clinical Reasoning and Communication Skills
8/7 – Sondos Al Sad, MD
Menopause Connection
10/2 – Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH
EHR, Primary Care, AI
11/6 – Sandeep P. Kishore, MD, PhD
Blood Pressure Control – UC Way on HTN
12/4 – Kristen Marchi, MPH, and the UCSF Center for Health Equity
California Maternal and Infant Health