Transgender patients face mental health challenges
Dr. Ahmed is a second-year resident in the department of psychiatry at the Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York. His interests include public social psychiatry, health care policy, health disparities, mental health stigma, and addiction psychiatry. Dr. Ahmed is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the American Association for Social Psychiatry.
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