Clinical Mentorship Call

Trans Care BC’s clinical support initiative is a weekly, virtual lunch-hour meeting for providers who are supporting Two-Spirit, trans, and gender diverse people.

Trans Care BC's Clinical Mentorship Call is held every Thursday from 12:10 -1:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). If you would like to be involved, please email trans.edu@phsa.ca to be included on our distribution list. Meeting minutes will be made available to all members.

Participants are encouraged to bring questions, scenarios, and share from their clinical experience. Mentors will share from their experience, support discussion, and answer questions.

Rotating themes:

  • Medical care (i.e. primary care, gynecological care, surgery, hormones)
  • Child, youth, and family care
  • Psychosocial care
  • Readiness assessment
  • Special topics (i.e. ethics, legal, intersecting identities and experiences, peer and community supports, etc.)

Get to know our upcoming mentors

Click on a session date and name below to learn more about our clinical mentors.

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Lauren Galbraith started providing gender affirming care in summer 2019 after completing a mentorship at the Trans Specialty Clinic during her UBC Fellowship in Reproductive and Sexual Health. She practices general family medicine in both Nelson and Salmo and appreciates the longitudinal care that this career allows for. She also has a special interest in gender affirming care, contraception and sexual health.


Dr Galbraith was born and raised in Nelson and is happy to be back home practicing, where she can easily get into the mountains and on the water on her days off with her dog and family.

Join Dr. Marria Townsend and Dr. Ingrid Cosio to continue the discussion from the Gender Affirming Care in Children and Adolescents webinar  (April 2023).

To view the webinar, enter the passcode: TCBCWebinar2023! 



Cora Beitel is a midwife and community organizer whose people are settlers of European Jewish ancestry. They work and live on the traditional and unceded homeland of the Coast Salish peoples. 


Cora is a founding member of the Strathcona Midwifery Collective, a practice located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver where they serve a diverse clientele, including many queer and trans clients. As well as providing midwifery care, they run a Trans and Queer Pregnancy and Parenting group and provide education on inclusive care to diverse health care providers in the hospitals and in community settings. 


When not working, they are spending time with family, sharing food, on their bike or out in nature as much as possible.



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