Our Mission: To create health equity for LGBTQ patients in our communities and around the world through better health care services, education, and advocacy.
Sam McClure serves as the executive director of The Center for LGBTQ Health Equity and serves on the Senior Executive Leadership Team of Chase Brexton Health Care. She is a passionate champion of the center’s mission: to create health equity for LGBTQ patients in our communities and around the world through better health care services, education, and advocacy.
In her previous role as Senior Vice President of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), McClure led affiliate relations, external affairs, public policy and advocacy, and supplier diversity teams, as well as serving on the organization’s executive leadership team.
McClure is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, commentator, panelist, and a subject matter expert on LGBTQ Economic Development and Health Equity. An award-winning strategist, she co-created the LGBT Business Builder initiative (a collaboration between the NGLCC and the US Small Business Administration) and built local collaboration models in 13 cities. This program ultimately won a “Bright Idea Award” from Harvard University. In June of 2019, McClure was named one of 48 Legacy Leaders by BEQ Magazine in recognition of our impact in Non-Profit and Community Development.
Awards
- 2019: Named one of 48 Legacy Leaders, Business Equality Magazine
- 2017: Harvard University Bright Idea Award for co-creating the LGBT Business Builder program
- 2016: Excellence Award Finalist, Veteran Practitioner Category, Women in Advocacy
- 2013: National Disability Leadership Award, World Institute on Disability
Publications
- 2015: “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusion: Business Imperative.” Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Public Policy Agenda For Uniting a Divided America. Edited by Wallace Swan
Kate Bishop, the education coordinator for The Center for LGBTQ Health Equity at Chase Brexton Health Care, is a seasoned professional development trainer with expertise in working with LGBTQ populations, sexual and reproductive health care, adolescent development, intimate partner violence, and sexual trauma. She is certified as a trainer through GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) as well as SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders).
Before joining the Chase Brexton team, Bishop developed the capacity building program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s STAR TRACK Adolescent HIV program, providing cultural responsiveness trainings for agencies that serve sexual minority youth of color. Ms. Bishop holds a Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies from Hiram College and a Masters in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University.
Designated Subject Matter Expert (SME)*
- Serving LGBTQ populations
- Substance misuse and suicide prevention in LGBTQ communities
- HIV/AIDS and youth
- IPV, sexual violence, and trauma
- Serving sexual minority youth of color
- Cultural humility and harm reduction approaches
Keynote Speaker, Panelist & Workshop Leader
- Creating Change: National LGBTQ Conference hosted by The Task Force
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) Conference
- Gender Journeys: Gender-Diverse Youth Health Care Conference
- Why Women Cry HIV Conference
- “In Plain Site” IPV Conference
- Maryland’s Annual Suicide Prevention Conference
- NOLOSE Conference (Fat Queer and Trans Pride)
- National Harm Reduction Conference
- Philadelphia Transgender Wellness Conference
- National Conference of Information and Referral Professionals
- BTAN Black Treatment Advocates Network Conference
* Designations by the U.S. Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), the HRSA AIDS Education & Training Center (AETC) and SAMSHA Technology Transfer Centers (TTCs).
Deborah Dunn is a family practice physician assistant and the gender-affirming health care coordinator for The Center for LGBTQ Health Equity at Chase Brexton Health Care. In addition to graduating from Howard University’s physician assistant program in 1983, she holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. In her specialty, Transgender and Gender Diverse Adult Primary Care, Dunn has completed the courses towards certification for WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health).
In her position at Chase Brexton, Dunn provides leadership and coordination of care for 4000 transgender-identified patients, establishes best practices for medical transgender care, trains other medical providers, provides consultation to external organizations on transgender-related issues including employee transition, engages in advocacy at the state level, and identifies research and funding opportunities related to transgender care. She recently served on a national team of expert transgender medical professionals to write guidelines for treating and prescribing medications for adults and adolescents who were transitioning. She also was part of the team that wrote Gender Joy (Journeys of Youth), a multidisciplinary program written for trans/gender diverse youth, adolescents, and families, which since its launch in 2017 has served more than 1,500 patients.
Dunn has presented at numerous national conferences, engaged in strategic planning with several nonprofit organizations, and volunteered throughout the local community. Dunn was named the Physician Assistant of the year 2018, awarded by the Maryland Academy of Physician Assistants.
Areas of Expertise
- Best practices for gender-affirming medical care
- Medication management for patients who are transitioning
- Health care provider training in gender-affirming care
- Employer best practices for transitioning employees
Awards & Certifications
- 2018 Physician Assistant of the Year, Maryland Academy of Physician Assistants
- Certified Physician Assistant
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health Certification (pending)
- Master of Business Administration, Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business
- Graduate of Howard University Physician Assistant Program
Dr. Elyse Pine is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist and lead physician for gender-affirming (transgender) care at Chase Brexton Health Care. She earned her BA in English and Natural Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and her MD at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her pediatrics residency training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and moved to the Baltimore area for fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Pine began working with gender variant children and adolescents while serving as an assistant professor at University of Maryland Medical Center. Gender-affirming care has been the most interesting, exciting, and rewarding part of her clinical practice. She has published research and clinical articles related to gender-affirming care, and lectures frequently. Dr. Pine is also the lead physician of the Gender JOY (Journeys of Youth) Program at Chase Brexton, which serves over 1400 transgender and gender diverse youth from ages 4-26.
Publications & Presentations
- Prevalence of Pectus Excavatum in Pediatric Transgender Patients. WPATH International Conference 2019- Poster Presentation. Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Transgender Care as a Pediatric Endocrinologist in a Community Health Care Setting: A Hybrid Model. WPATH International Conference 2019- Poster Presentation. Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Revisiting the Link: Evidence of the Rates of Autism in Studies of Gender Diverse Individuals. Strang JF, Janssen A, Tishelman A, Leibowitz SF, Kenworthy L, McGuire JK, Edwards-Leeper L, Mazefsky CA, Rofey D, Bascom J, Caplan R, Gomez-Lobo V, Berg D, Zaks Z, Wallace GL, Wimms H, Pine-Twaddell E, Shumer D, Register-Brown K, Sadikova E, Anthony LG. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 Nov;57(11):885-887. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.04.023.PMID: 30392631
- A Case of Benign Phyllodes Tumor in a Transgender Woman Receiving Cross-Sex Hormones. Richards SM, Pine-Twaddell ED, Ioffe OB, Bellavance EC. Int J Surg Pathol. 2018 Jun;26(4):356-359. doi: 10.1177/1066896917743011. Epub 2017 Nov 23. PMID: 29169272
- Cross-Sex Hormones and Metabolic Parameters in Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria. Jarin J, Pine-Twaddell E, Trotman G, Stevens J, Conard LA, Tefera E, Gomez-Lobo V. Pediatrics. 2017 May;139(5):e20163173. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-3173. Epub 2017 Apr 6.
- Insurance Coverage of Puberty Blocker Therapies for Transgender Youth. Stevens J, Gomez-Lobo V, Pine-Twaddell E. Pediatrics. 2015 Dec;136(6):1029-31. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-2849. Epub 2015 Nov 2.
