Alex Keuroghlian

A top queer health researcher, Alex Keuroghlian leads educational efforts on gender-affirming care for physicians across the U.S. — thereby helping to increase sensitivity and awareness as well as educating primary health care providers about topics like managing gender-affirming hormones. “We make gender-affirming care specialty care, and that automatically creates barriers in terms of access and a bottleneck,” they told STAT last year. As more states consider legislation restricting trans health care access for minors and even adults, Keuroghlian — who also teaches medical students at Harvard about gender-affirming care and taking care of LGBTQ+ patients more broadly — will become an even more high-profile expert on related issues.