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Ryan Sallans is an internationally utilized gender subject matter expert. Ryan specializes in building inclusive environments and trauma-informed care for students, patients, employees and clients. His unique approach uses the craft of storytelling, guided by his academic degrees and experiences in cultural anthropology, English and educational psychology.
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Over the past decade, ways of defining self in relation to gender identity and forms of expression have widely expanded. Along with this expansion of identifying language, there has been an increase in medical professionals and clinics specializing in providing gender care. Yet many barriers to providing this care still exist for clinicians-includi...
The Office of Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, in collaboration with the Nebraska Cancer Coalition (NC2) and with input from the Nebraska Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NECCCP), conducted a statewide cancer community health needs assessment during 20...
Cervical cancer is most frequently diagnosed in patients ages 35 to 44, but risk persists as individuals age. Among patients who are regularly screened via the Pap test, cancer is rare and death rates have dropped dramatically in the United States. Nevertheless, access to regular screening can be difficult for transgender men (individuals assigned...
It is not uncommon for transgender patients to avoid sharing information about their identity and medical history with health care professionals, due to past negative experiences within health care settings. Professionals who show sensitivity to the topic and express care about health record documentation can increase a transgender patient's trust....
This article considers healthcare experiences of transgender patients on their transition journeys. One case illuminates ways in which binary-dominance—the prevailing assumption that a person must be either male or female to be normal—is a species of cultural imperialism that can influence the quality of clinical encounters. We focus specifically o...
