The University of Vermont College of Medicine Office of Diversity & Inclusion presented the 2nd Annual Vito Imbasciani, Ph.D., M.D.’85 and George Di Salvo LGBTQ Health Equity Lecture on December 9, 2015 in the Sullivan Classroom in the Medical Education Center. Featured speaker A. Evan Eyler, M.D., M.P.H., UVM professor of psychiatry and family medicine, discussed “Halfway Home: LGBT Health in 2015.” Link to a video of the lecture here.

In addition to his academic role at the UVM College of Medicine, Eyler serves as a consultation psychiatrist at the UVM Medical Center. Active in transgender medical care since 1995, he is a co-editor of the books Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery (Haworth Press, 2007) and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Aging: Challenges in Research, Practice and Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Prior to joining the UVM faculty in 2005, Eyler served as director of primary care services of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Gender Services Program. He is the recipient of the UVM College of Medicine’s 2014 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, which is presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Eyler received a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

In 2014, UVM College of Medicine alumnus Vito Imbasciani, Ph.D., M.D.’85, and his spouse, George DiSalvo, made a generous gift to the UVM College of Medicine to establish the Imbasciani-DiSalvo Lectureship Endowed Fund. The Lectureship aims to ensure the preparation of culturally-competent physicians who can provide medical care and prevention services that are specific to LGBTQ populations. Imbasciani, a urologic surgeon, was recently appointed secretary of the California Department of Veteran Affairs by California Governor Jerry Brown. He is also president-elect of the Los Angeles County Medical Association and since 1997, has worked at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, the past ten years of which he has been their director of governmental relations.