Smith College graduate Dr. Lauren B. Meade, who is board certified in internal medicine, and who serves as co-director of transgender health at Baystate Health's High Street Health Center, has been named the first recipient of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Award from the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Dr. Lauren B. Meade

According to a release, the award recognizes a medical student, or physician, who has made outstanding contributions to LGBT health. The release quotes Meade's nomination for the award by colleagues who state that “she has dedicated immense time and energy to the LGBT community in Massachusetts, and to the development of skilled and open-minded providers to care for this often marginalized group…. She has built expert collaborative teams to improve the access and quality of care for our LGBT community… and has dedicated her time and leadership to a multitude of projects that have impacted and improved the care of our LGBT community.”

According to the release, Meade, who lives in Northampton, is also director of faculty development for the department of medicine at Baystate, and co-chair of Baystate’s LGBT health leadership committee. She is also chair of Women Advancing and Achieving in Medicine at Baystate.

Meade is currently a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar at Baystate, focusing on inter-professional education and the transition of care. She is the first such scholar at Baystate. She is also an associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine at Baystate.

A cum laude graduate of Smith College, in Northampton, where she majored in biology, Meade earned her medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco. She completed her internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her residency at Baystate Medical Center. She resides in Northampton.

The Massachusetts Medical Society, with more than 24,000 physicians and student members, is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country.

Related:

http://baystatehealth.org/AcademicAffairs/Main+Nav/Departments/Medicine/Faculty/Meade

