Jason Schneider, MD, Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, AMA LGBTQ+ Section Chair

Dr. Schneider’s (he/him) primary focus is his work as a clinician-educator. His current teaching responsibilities include educating learners across the spectrum of medical education. Dr. Schneider regularly supervises and precepts clinical students and resident physicians in both inpatient and outpatient settings at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

For over ten years, he has served as an academic society faculty advisor for the School of Medicine, teaching and mentoring small groups of medical students from their first day of professional school until graduation. Additionally, Dr. Schneider served as an associate program director for the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2008 to 2017. In this role, he advised and mentored post-graduate trainees during their three years in internal medicine residency.

These educational and administrative roles have allowed Dr. Schneider to establish expertise in competency-based education and evaluation, faculty development for clinician-educators, and standardized clinical evaluations. His additional clinical interests include sexual health and sexuality, the interaction of psychiatry and general medicine, and primary care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients. Most recently, Dr. Schneider has received both intramural and extramural funding to supportthe launch of a clinic for transgender patients at Grady Hospital and to better understand incidence of HIV among transgender women.

Dr. Schneider served on the Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), a national professional organization dedicated to health equality for LGBTQ people, for over thirteen years, serving for two years as president.