This live virtual session with Dr. Erin Ziegler took place on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, as part of the 2025 Primary Care Expert Series.
When and where
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET
Location: Live online
Learning objectives
Recognize and carry out transition specific support and management such as assessment, hormone therapy, monitoring and surgical assessment for transgender and gender diverse individuals.
Identify and plan strategies for creating safer and more accessible spaces for transgender and gender diverse individuals.
About the speaker
Erin Ziegler (she/her) is a primary health care nurse practitioner and an Associate Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University where she teaches in the NP program. She is the clinical lead of a transgender primary care program with Queen Square Family Health Team. She is the chair of the NPAO Rainbow Community of Practice. She is a faculty member with the Canadian Centre for Advanced Practice Nursing Research and the provincial course professor for the Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis course with the Ontario Primary Healthcare Nurse Practitioner program. Her research focuses on exploring barriers and facilitators to accessing healthcare within the 2SLGBTQ population; nursing education; and advanced practice nursing. She co-developed the online eLearning toolkit Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Nursing (www.soginursing.ca) which aims to improve nurses and healthcare providers’ understanding of cultural humility when caring for 2SLGBTQ individuals. She is an editorial board member for the Nurse Practitioner Open Journal and the journal Primary Health Care Research and Development.
Watch on demand
The 2025 Primary Care Expert Series is available on demand, with every session recorded.