Teddy Goetz

Medical Student

Columbia University

Biography

Teddy G. Goetz (he/him or they/them) is a fourth-year medical student at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Co-Director of Research for the Medical Student Pride Alliance, the first national LGBTQ medical student organization. Previously, he studied biochemistry and gender studies at Yale, conducting research on a wide spectrum of biologically- and socially-determined aspects of gender-based health disparities, including earning his M.S. developing the first animal model of transgender hormone therapy. His interests include psychiatry, LGBTQ health, women’s health, narrative medicine, and physician advocacy. Outside of the hospital, he can be found writing poetry, taking pictures, on long runs/bike rides/hikes, listening to podcasts, and hosting potlucks.

Interests

Psychiatry
LGBTQ health
Women’s health
Medical education
Narrative medicine
Physician advocacy
Science, Technology, and Society Studies

Education

M.D. Candidate, 2021 (expected)
Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
MS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, 2017
Yale University
BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2017
Yale University

Selected Current Projects

Gendered legibility of faces

An ethnographic and quantitative juxtaposition of digital categorization algorithms with embodied experiences of transgender individuals

Self(ie)-Recognition

An ethnographic exploration of how trans individuals resolve tensions between seeking self-recognition of an internal authentic truth versus external recognition, or legibility, as desired

Sex/gender differences of opioid Addiction and treatment

Reivew Article

Substance use and misuse in transgender individuals

Considering binary/non-binary identity, minority stress factors, and treatment acceptability factors

The Patients Beneath White Coats

A survey-based exploration of medical student professional identity formation with regards to identifying as a patient/loved one vs. as a medical provider, and if this differs based on the medical specialty in which the personal experience occurred (supported by Steve Miller Fellowship, Columbia VP&S)

Recent Publications

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Cultivating Compassion While Battling Exhaustion

Teddy G Goetz

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Current State of Transgender Medical Education in the United States and Canada: Update to a Scoping Review

Background: The published literature on education about transgender health within health professions curricula was previously found to …

Ian T. Nolan, Gaines Blasdel, Samuel N. Dubin, Teddy G. Goetz, Richard E. Greene, Shane D. Morrison

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Feelings Behind a Face: a Medical Student Counseling Workshop in Facial Reconstructive Surgery

Teddy G. Goetz, Scott H. Troob

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Medical Student Pride Alliance: The first national LGBTQ+ medical student affinity organisation

Teddy G. Goetz, Shana Zucker, Timothy Keyes, Michael Gisondi

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Gained in Translation

Laura G Goetz

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Conference Presentations

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Prescription drug misuse in transgender individuals: Association with non-binary identity and minority stress

American Public Health Association Conference: San Francisco, CA Oct 2020

Network for Change: Research, Advocacy, and Community-Building with the Medical Student Pride Alliance

LGBT Health Workforce Conference: New York, NY Jun 2020

Faculty Outness Promotes a Sexual and Gender Minority Diversity Pipeline

Women in Medicine Conference. Puget Sound, WA: May 2020 *Cancelled due to COVID-19 May 2020

Supporting LGBTQ Medical Trainees: Reflections on Research and Advocacy with the Medical Student Pride Alliance

Women in Medicine Conference. Puget Sound, WA: May 2020 *Cancelled due to COVID-19 May 2020

Sexual and Gender Minority Diversity and Curriculum within Otolaryngology Residency: A National Survey of Program Directors

Triological Society 123rd Annual Meeting at COSM: Atlanta, GA *Cancelled due to COVID-19 Apr 2020

Making a Face: Integrated Counseling and Surgical Workshop in Facial Reconstructive Surgery

Women in Medicine Conference: Philadelphia, PA Aug 2019

Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Affinity Groups at U.S. Medical Schools: A Needs-Assessment Towards A National Medical Student Forum

Women in Medicine Conference: Philadelphia, PA Aug 2019

Student Led LGBT Health Initiatives

LGBT Health Workforce Conference: New York, NY May 2019

Climate of LGBTQ+ Inclusion at a Health Professions Campus

LGBT Health Workforce Conference: New York, NY May 2019

Addition of estradiol to testosterone therapy and implications for treating transgender youth in mice. Invited speaker for mini-symposium “Setting the research agenda for transgender medicine in 2018

Society for Reproductive Investigation Meeting: San Diego, CA Mar 2018

Cross-Sex Testosterone Therapy Is Not Sufficient for Bone Development in Female Mice: Implications for Treating Transgender Youth

Society for Reproductive Investigation Meeting: Orlando, FL Mar 2017

Hepatic Metabolic Gene Dysregulation in a Mouse Model of Endometriosis

Society for Reproductive Investigation Meeting: Montreal, Canada Mar 2016

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Reported by Trans and Genderqueer Students: The 2015 AAU Sexual Climate Survey

The National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Conference: Chicago, IL Jan 2016

Prevalencia De Anemia En Mujeres Qom De Un Barrio Peri-Urbano De Formosa

Jornadas Nacionales de Antropología Biológica: Corrientes, Argentina Sep 2015

Conference Presentations

Posters

Transgender Healthcare Education: A Literature Review with Focus on Educational Assessment

LGBT Health Workforce Conference: New York, NY Jun 2020

Sexual and Gender Minority Diversity and Curriculum within Otolaryngology Residency: A National Survey of Program Directors

Student Research Day, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons: New York, NY *Cancelled due to COVID-19 Mar 2020

Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Affinity Groups at U.S. Medical Schools: A Needs-Assessment Towards A National Medical Student Forum

37th Annual GLMA Conference on LGBTQ Health: New Orleans, LA Sep 2019

Developing an Olfaction-Based Go-No-Go Task for Social Memory

Student Research Day, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons: New York, NY Mar 2019

Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Affinity Groups at U.S. Medical Schools: A Needs-Assessment Towards A National Medical Student Forum

QForward LGBTQI+ Leadership Conference: New Haven, CT Mar 2019

Modeling a Genetic Variant Associated with Human Endometriosis

Student Research Day, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons: New York, NY Mar 2018

Sex Differences in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Dopamine Release and the Relationship to Tobacco Smoking Treatment Outcomes

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Meeting Mar 2017

Treatment with Icon, Results in Regression of Red Lesions in a Non-Human Primate Model of Endometriosis

Society for Reproductive Investigation Conference: Orlando, FL Mar 2017

Sex Differences in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Dopamine Release and the Relationship to Tobacco Smoking Treatment Outcomes

NeuroReceptor Mapping Meeting Jul 2016

Iron deficiency in Women of an Indigenous Community in Argentina: Impact of diet composition and reproductive patterns

American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting: Atlanta, GA Apr 2016

Bisphenol-A Exposure In Utero Programs a Sexually Dimorphic Estrogen Response of Metabolic Genes in the Murine Liver

Society for Reproductive Investigation Conference: Montreal, Canada Mar 2016

Teaching Experience

Psychiatric Medicine: Online Content Generation

COVID-19 Student Service Corps, Columbia University, VP&S

Mar 2020 – May 2020

Writing standardized patient scenarios for teaching first-year medical students the psychiatric interview, and differential diagnosis skills

Psychiatric Medicine: Small Group Preceptor

COVID-19 Student Service Corps, Columbia University, VP&S

Mar 2020 – May 2020

Teaching the psychiatric interview, differential diagnosis skills, and playing a standardized patient in first-year medical student Psychiatric Medicine small groups

Foundations of Clinical Medicine Senior Student Seminar Group Leader

Columbia University, VP&S

Jan 2020 – Feb 2020

Monthly co-facilitation of discussions of clinical year students about humanism in medicine

Tutor: Histology and Pathology, The Body in Health and Disease, Clinical Clerkships; Lecturer: Infectious Diseases

Student Success Network,Columbia University, VP&S

Sep 2019 – Present

MIndividual weekly tutoring of first, second, and third year students on pre-clinical curriculum and clinical skills
Creating a review lecture on antibiotic mechanisms and utility

Making a Face: Integrated Counseling and Surgical Workshop in Facial Reconstructive Surgery

Columbia University, VP&S

Apr 2019 – Apr 2019

Wrote and co-facilitated an integrated workshop for second-year medical students, applying medical empathy and counseling skills to plastic surgery education; published in Academic Psychiatry (2020)

Selected Poetry:

Girl Code. In: The Impossible Beast: Queer Erotic Poems Anthology. Damaged Goods Press. 2020. [In press]
Green Thumb. The Healing Muse Magazine, SUNY Upstate Medical University Center for Bioethics & Humanities. Vol. 20. 2020. [In press]
Keyhole. Beyond Words Literary Magazine. 2020. [in press]
Goliath. Open Minds Quarterly. Summer 2020.
Double Helix. Lifelines Magazine, Dartmouth Medical School. 2020.
Contracted. Lifelines Magazine, Dartmouth Medical School. 2020.
White(coat) Noise. The Medical Student Press Journal. 2020.
A Great Big World. Journal of the Medical Humanities. 2020.
Pieces. Tendon Magazine, Johns Hopkins University Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine. Spring 2020.
7 West. Harmony Magazine, University of Arizona Medical School. 2020.
Caterpillar. Harmony Magazine, University of Arizona Medical School. 2020.
CFTR. The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Fall 2019.
Monsoon Season. Watershed Review, 2019.
Seedling. Watershed Review, 2019.
64th Street. Heirlock Magazine. Vol. I, Issue II, 2019.
Daylight Savings Time. Heirlock Magazine. Vol. I, Issue II, 2019.
Extra Heart Sounds. Heirlock Magazine. Vol. I, Issue II, 2019.
Mixed Signals. Heirlock Magazine. Vol. I, Issue II, 2019.
Xanthopsia. Wards Literary Magazine. Issue 04. 2019.
Karpas. Ponder Review. Vol. 3, Issue 2. 2019.
Bastante. SIREN Magazine. Canto IV, 2019.
Mind the Gap. SIREN Magazine. Canto IV, 2019.
Granddaughter Gould. Reflexions Literary Magazine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. 2019.
Cerros. The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Spring 2019.
Inside Out. Reflexions Literary Magazine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. 2018.
Formosa Hermosa. La Madrugada Magazine. 2015.
Amistad y nada más. Vitality LGBTQ Magazine. 2015.
Seen at 11:21 pm. Vitality LGBTQ Magazine. 2015.
Capítulos no vistos. La Madrugada Magazine. 2014.
Letter To My Future Daughter. Fatale. 2013.

Photography

To inquire about hiring for photography services, please email

Selected Professional Photography Work:

Headshots

Freelance; for business and theatrical use (06/2017-Present)
Bard Hall Players Theater Ensemble (02/2018-Present)

Events

Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (01/2019-Present)

Performances

Bard Hall Players Theater Ensemble (02/2018-Present)

Selected Photography Art Exhibitions and Showcases:

Arts and Humanities StudioLab Showcase (01/28/2020)
- Columbia University, Department of Narrative Medicine

Selected Published Photography:

Photosensitive. Ailment: Chronicles of Illness Narratives. Vol. 1. 2020.
Irish Proverb. SIREN Magazine. Canto IV, 2019.
Meditation in Motion. SIREN Magazine. Canto IV, 2019.
Photophobia. SIREN Magazine. Canto III, 2019.
Travel Log. SIREN Magazine. Canto III, 2019.
Diffraction. Reflexions Literary Magazine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. 2018.