Carl G. Streed Jr. is an American physician, researcher, and advocate for the

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. He is an assistant professor of medicine at

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Early life and education

Streed grew up in

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. He completed a B.S. in biological chemistry and B.A. in chemistry at

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in 2007. While at Chicago, Streed became an advocate for LGBTQ issues and served on the university's committee for enhancing support for the LGBTQ community. He

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as gay to his family before graduating. Streed volunteered at the Broadway Youth Center with their HIV and

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services. He worked as a clinical research coordinator and manager at the

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and served as a member of the Chicago Department of Public Health HIV Prevision Planning Group. Streed volunteered for

Equality Illinois Equality Illinois (EI) was founded in 1991 to work towards building a better Illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy, and protection of the rights of the LGBTQ community. Structure The Equality Illino ...

to bring

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to his state. In 2013, he earned an M.D. at

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, th ...

. Streed completed an LGBT Health Policy & Practice certificate at

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in 2015. For his certificate

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, Streed reviewed the implicit bias and attitudes of health professional students in relation to health care outcomes of

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patients. In 2016, he completed an internal medicine residency at

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. He earned an M.P.H. in clinical effectiveness from

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

in 2018. He completed a general internal medicine fellowship at

Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH or The Brigham) is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two ...

in 2018.

Career

Streed is a physician, researcher, and advocate for the

. He is an assistant professor of medicine at

Awards

In 2014, Streed received the

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. He is a

Fellow of the American College of Physicians The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a Philadelphia-based national organization of internal medicine physicians, who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of adults. With 161,000 members, ACP is the largest medical-specialty or ...

References

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