LGBTQ+ Members
Information on the members of the LGBTQ+ subgroup
Dr Jayne Kavanagh (Staff)
I’m an Associate Professor at UCLMS and an abortion provider at Homerton Hospital in East London.
I’ve worked at UCLMS for over 20 years. My roles have included Ethics and Law academic lead, co-chair of the EDI committee which I founded in 2019, academic lead of Target Medicine, which I set up with a medical student in 2008, and academic lead for the Year 1 toolkit.
Away from UCL, I co-chair Doctors for Choice UK (a campaigning organisation for the decriminalisation and destigmatisation of abortion) and am co-director of the charity Abortion Talk.
Throughout my career I've been lucky enough to work on projects that help to promote the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people, such as setting up specialised sexual health clinics, setting up a mentoring scheme for LGBTQ+ medical students, introducing sessions on LGBTQ+ equality, health and wellbeing into the MBBS curriculum, supporting the UCLMS Medics Network and working with students and staff to develop an LGBTQ+ inclusivity toolkit for medical educators.
Jess Salkind
Jess Salkind is a paediatric trainee in London. She is particularly interested in adolescent medicine, safeguarding and the experiences of LGBTQ+ young people when accessing healthcare. She helped to introduce LGBTQ+ health education into the UCLMS curriculum and has researched experiences of discrimination by medical students.
She was part of a small group who updated the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health curriculum to make it LGBTQ+ inclusive.
Jess is excited to work with the LGBTQ+ EDI sub-group to make UCLMS the best and safest place for LGBTQ+ medical students and staff to be able to bring their whole selves to work, and for LGBTQ+ patients to receive the best possible care.
