Mona Rae Mason to Present Findings of the Transgender Project at Tiffany Club FE 2010
Published on: September 30th, 2009 12:01am by: TCNE
http://www.theopenpress.com/index.php?a=press&id=58740Waltham, MA (OPENPRESS) September 30, 2009 -- Mona Rae Mason, the project coordinator for the recently completed Transgender Project will present the findings of this landmark study at two back to back workshops at First Event 2010. "We are thrilled to have Mona present at this year's conference," says Claire Johnson, FE 2010 Workshop Coordinator.
The Transgender Project was a longitudinal study from 2004 – 2009 of the male to female transgender population of the greater New York City metropolitan area. This research project was conduced by National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. and funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (R-01) from a grant proposal "HIV/STD's In a High Risk Urban Population: Male to Female Transgender" To date, it is the most in depth and largest study of its kind. Dr. Larry Nuttbrock (NDRI) was the Principal investigator. Dr's. Walter Boctking, Andrew Rosenblum, and Sel Hwahng were the co-investigators: Jeffrey Becker, MPH, MSW and Monica Macri, MPH, were the research associates.
