Breaking barriers to health care

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GLBT community faces unique concerns

Because the health-care system can include intolerance or ignorance, too, she said, she has dedicated herself to educating her fellow medical students at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the doctors who teach them and the wider health-care community.   


For her efforts Ms. Wang, a second-year medical student, was honored with the 9th Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Achievement Award. Her leadership of QMass, the medical school's 23-member GLBT group, and her curriculum initiatives were singled out by award judges from the American Medical Student Association and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. She is what is known as a "heterosexual ally" in QMass, which she explains simply.