L101425 HYBRID Legacy Lecture Series: Loni, Friedel, David and Jeffrey Stillerman Lectureship: Risk and Resilience: Navigating LGBTQ Mental Health in times of uncertainty

October 14, 2025

This year's Loni, Friedel, David and Jeffrey Stillerman Lectureship is presented by Aron Janssen, MD.

Aron Janssen, MD

Aron Janssen, MD, is a clinical Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Janssen is an expert in transgender mental health across the lifespan, and his primary clinical and research interests have focused on understanding co-occurring mental health disorders and suicidality among transgender and gender diverse youth and young adults. His most recent book is Affirmative Mental Health Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.

Dr. Janssen’s work has been widely published, and he has had the privilege to present locally, nationally and internationally on his work. He has served an associate editor of the journal Transgender Health, and sits on several international workgroups that are setting the standards of care for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. He is the Primary Investigator for the Lurie Children’s Suicide Prevention and Research Collaborative (L-SPARC). He is the chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and on the advisory board for the Trevor Project.

Loni, Friedel, David and Jeffrey Stillerman Lectureship

Dr. Allan Stillerman is a retired allergist-immunologist in Minneapolis. Dr. Stillerman practiced at multiple hospitals in the area, including Children's Minnesota Hospital and Allina Health Abbott Northwestern Hospital. ​

Dr. Stillerman completed his medical degree from University of the Witwatersrand and his pediatrics residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. He completed combined fellowships in Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Pediatric Pulmonary Disease at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. As an allergist and immunologist, Dr. Stillerman practices, lectures and researches extensively on asthma, food allergy and environmental allergy. ​

The Loni, Friedel, David and Jeffrey Stillerman Lectureship aims to further the educational, clinical and programmatic excellence of Children's Minnesota by providing a lecture on the topics of public health and social determinants of health general. 

This presentation will be held both in-person in the 2nd Floor Education Center on the Minneapolis Campus with lunch provided while quantities last or virtually. We will try our best to provide a meal for you; however, all is dependent on final number of attendees.

When you register, you will be asked to enter whether you will be attending in-person or virtually.

Target Audience

Healthcare clinicians caring for pediatric patients and their families. 

Learning Objectives

  • Elucidate the complex relationship between laws and mental health outcomes of gender and sexual minority (SGM) youth
  • Highlight repeated historical patterns of interactions between SGM youth and societal structures
  • Describe risk and resilience factors and highlight actionable interventions to improve mental health in SGM youth
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Attendance
    • 1.00 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Course opens: 
07/02/2025
Course expires: 
11/14/2025
Event starts: 
10/14/2025 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
10/14/2025 - 1:00pm CDT
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PRESENTER: Aron Janssen, MD

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT:

It is our intent that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It is not assumed any potential conflicts will have an adverse impact on these presentations. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker’s outside interest may reflect a possible bias, either the exposition or the conclusions presented.                                                                                                               

Planning committee members and presenter(s) have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing selling re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients and have disclosed that no conflict of interest exists with the presentation/educational event.

 

 

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, Children’s Minnesota is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Children’s Minnesota takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific interest of its accredited continuing education events.

Credit Statement:

AMA

Children’s Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent to their participation in the activity.

ANCC

Children's Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC nursing contact hour. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

ACPE

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs will have their attendance reported in the CPE Monitor for ACPE credits provided they have entered their NABP-ePID and birth month and day where indicated when setting up their profile.

This program offers 1.0 contact hours of continuing education.  Most medical professional organizations accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  It is the individual’s responsibility to determine whether an education activity meets the continuing education requirements of their respective licensures and/or professional boards.  Go to your respective organization’s website for more detailed information regarding credit requirements.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Attendance
    • 1.00 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Required Hardware/software

You will need a computer or phone with either internet or Wi-Fi access if attending virtually.