Dr. Amir has a private practice with a la carte medication management, medication management with psychotherapy, and monthly Concierge options in the heart of Beverly Hills. He is also Director of Psychiatry at Los Angeles LGBT Center where he manages a team of psychiatric practitioners for the largest LGBT Center in the World. Since he has assumed this role, they have gone from all hourly staff to mostly Permanent staff members and they have more than doubled their number of patients.
LGBTQ+ adults may have a higher risk of poor brain health due to 'minority stress'. A new study sheds light on the issue.
We cannot ignore the factors of the health care system itself. Numerous studies, including the (US Trans Survey), consistently show that SGM populations are not always taken seriously by health care providers, and outright discrimination is common. This leads to patients not following up and tests not being done, and problems not being investigated, which can also lead to worse outcomes.