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Fox Awarded $500,000 Grant

To Study Transgender Health

Results May Make Oneonta Center of New Specialty
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The teams consists of, from left, P.A. Villa, Dr. Woolner-Wise, the Drs. Wolf-Gould, and Dr. Georgeson.

ONEONTA – Five practitioners from Fox Hospital's Gender Wellness Center in Oneonta have been awarded $500,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program to study establishing a Transgender Center for Excellence within the Bassett Network.

This is part of a national program to improve health and reduce disparities in wellness and longevity across the United States.

Drs. Carolyn and Christopher Wolf-Gould, Dr. Diane Georgeson, physician assistant Tania Villa, and Justine Woolner-Wise, LCSW, are among the first cohort of 25 fellows nationally selected through a competitive process for the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program.

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