HSLIC News

Blog written by Danielle Maurici-Pollock, Laura Hall, and Varina Kosovich. 

March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility, a time to celebrate the trans community, their resilience, and their accomplishments. It is also an opportunity to recognize the ongoing advocacy needed to ensure equity, dignity, and access to healthcare. You belong, and you matter today and every day. 

This year, our transgender family, friends, and neighbors continue to face threats to their rights, safety, and well-being, often fueled by harmful rhetoric and misinformation. As the UNM Health Sciences Center Library & Informatics Center, we aim to provide accurate information about healthcare for transgender patients, including gender-affirming care, and amplify the voices of transgender individuals who have benefitted from this often life-saving care. 

While gender-affirming care is protected in New Mexico, we acknowledge the struggles to access healthcare due to provider shortages and systemic barriers. Transgender folks routinely encounter these barriers and discrimination when seeking any type of healthcare, making it essential for all providers to be informed about transgender care and lived experiences. Combating misinformation—particularly from unreliable sources—is crucial. Equally important is sharing stories of the joy and empowerment that can come from receiving gender-affirming care. 

Below find first-person narratives from transgender folks as well as health resources for patients and providers from New Mexico and beyond.

Trans Stories 

What Trans Youth Want You to Know: An article from ACLU New Mexico. Three kids discuss their lives, experiences, and perspectives on life in the trans community. 

UCLA Health Patient Stories: read stories about gender-affirming care from Chloe, Alice, Dany, and Darius. 

What Trans People Want Healthcare Professionals to Know: A video from the PBS series Vitals. Dr. Alok Patel and registered nurse Sheena Williams answer questions from trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming folks.

Unapologetically Myself: Listen to Lucas Segal, a trans man living in Arkansas, share his experiences with transitioning, growing up trans in a small town, and receiving gender-affirming care. An interview with the Human Rights Campaign. 

Experiences, Challenges, and Hopes of Trans and Nonbinary US Adults: Findings from 2022 Pew Research Center focus groups that include topics of navigating gender day-to-day, seeking medical care for gender transitions, policy and social change, and more. 

Southern Story Bank: A GLAAD video series that focus on LGBTQ+ Southerners living in states without anti-discrimination laws. Hear narratives from Quentin Bell, Dee Dee Watters, Jasmine Davis, and more.  

Resources

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico: Includes a provider directory, information about Casa Lola, their transitional housing program, and the organization's drop-in center. 

NM Gender Affirming Care ECHO Program: this program will build the knowledge and capacity of those in health care settings to increase access for patients, as well as to make it clear that access to health care for all is valued and protected here in New Mexico.

Gender-Affirming Health Care in NM: Information about ACLU of NM about getting gender-affirming care in the state, including protections, what to expect if you are traveling from out of state to receive care, and a FAQ section.  

Transgender Resources & Clinician Resources: Guidance from Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health. For patients, find information for parents of LGBTQ youth, information about gender affirmation services, and crisis resources. For providers find guidelines for care, information on making patients feel welcome, and clinical resources.  

Learning Resources-Transgender Health: A wide variety of clinical resources from the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center. Topics include behavioral health, intersex health, information on caring for LGBTQIA+ patients of all ages, and more. 

World Professional Association for Transgender Health: A non-profit organization devoted to transgender health. Promotes evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health. 

Medical Association Statements in Support of Health Care for Transgender People and Youth: From GLAAD. Collects statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, among many others. 

If you would like to support our trans community in New Mexico or help a family move, consider donating to the following organizations: 

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

North Texas TRANSportation Network 

Are you a healthcare professional looking to enhance your clinical research skills? Join us for our upcoming workshop, " Integrating Zotero with Your Writing: From Research to Publication. " 

This course is designed to empower healthcare professionals with essential skills in reference management. Participants will learn to efficiently use Zotero throughout their research process, from initial literature searches to final manuscript preparation. The course covers Zotero's core functionalities and advanced features, emphasizing practical application in academic writing and research collaboration.

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to:

• Install and configure Zotero, including the Zotero Connector for web browsers

• Efficiently collect and save references from web pages and databases using Zotero

• Organize references by creating and managing collections, subcollections, and tags

• Insert citations and generate bibliographies in Microsoft Word and other word processors

• Manage PDFs within Zotero, including annotation and full-text search capabilities

• Utilize advanced Zotero features, including sync, collaboration tools, custom citation styles, and ZoteroBib for quick online bibliographies

Workshop Details:

Date: April 8, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: Online via Zoom

Don't miss this opportunity to supercharge your research skills! Space is limited to 25 participants, so register early to secure your spot.

To register, visit: https://goto.unm.edu/hslicevents

For more information about using Zotero, check out our LibGuide: https://libguides.health.unm.edu/zotero

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

HSLIC is excited to announce the launch of its new Traveling Exhibits Project in partnership with New Mexico State Library! 

With the support of an internal seed funding grant, Deirdre Caparoso, Abbie Olivas, and Amy Weig-Pickering, created two exhibits to circulate to public libraries throughout the state utilizing the State Library’s Courier and Delivery Service. Claire Hannon, HSC Marketing and Communications, designed the informative panels. Each exhibit features highlights from HSLIC's Special Collections and includes opportunities to share consumer health information. The two traveling exhibits, one on infectious disease and the other on diabetes, feature resource kits and suggested activities with an emphasis on healthy living.

Starting April 7, public libraries throughout the state will have the opportunity to check out an exhibit kit and have it delivered straight to their location. This is a terrific way for communities throughout the state to learn more about health history and health via UNM resources.

Before the exhibits begin their tour of New Mexico, please join us on Monday, March 31^st, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, for a special pop-up display of the panels on the library’s fourth floor.  

March is Women’s History Month and this blog post explores the career of Dr. Marion Hotopp (1900-1976). 

Born in New Jersey, Hotopp graduated from Cornell in 1934 with her MD and later received a master’s degree in public health from Harvard. After graduation, she completed an internship at the Medical Center of Jersey City and residencies at three hospitals. Following these experiences, Hotopp moved to New Mexico during the 1940s after accepting the position of director of the Maternal and Child Health Division of the New Mexico Department of Health. She was one of eight founding members of the New Mexico Pediatric Society, which was created in 1945. 

Based in Santa Fe, Dr. Hotopp significantly improved infant mortality rates and maternal health by stressing the importance of breastfeeding and nutrition for mothers. In particular, she recommended pregnant women supplement their diets with pinto beans for extra protein and rosehips for additional vitamin C. 

She received several grants during her long career in New Mexico, including a 1958 grant from the National Institute of Health that resulted in the project “Changing Public Health Approaches in Work with Spanish-Americans.” This project explored communication between primarily English-speaking health workers and Spanish-speaking residents in rural New Mexico. The work also involved collecting information about community health beliefs and later focused on nurse-patient communications. This research produced the publication Nurse-Patient Communication: A Manual for Public Health Nurses in Northern New Mexico. 

After her 1967 retirement from the New Mexico Department of Health, Dr. Hotopp did medical work in Central America. She passed away in 1976. 

Sources in Special Collections related to Dr. Hotopp’s career include:

• Oral history collection
• New Mexico Rural Health Survey records
• Nurse-Patient Communication: A Manual for Public Health Nurses in Northern New Mexico

Are you a healthcare professional looking to enhance your clinical research skills? Join us for our upcoming workshop, " Integrating Zotero with Your Writing: From Research to Publication."

This course is designed to empower healthcare professionals with essential skills in reference management. Participants will learn to efficiently use Zotero throughout their research process, from initial literature searches to final manuscript preparation. The course covers Zotero's core functionalities and advanced features, emphasizing practical application in academic writing and research collaboration.

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to:

• Install and configure Zotero, including the Zotero Connector for web browsers

• Efficiently collect and save references from web pages and databases using Zotero

• Organize references by creating and managing collections, subcollections, and tags

• Insert citations and generate bibliographies in Microsoft Word and other word processors

• Manage PDFs within Zotero, including annotation and full-text search capabilities

• Utilize advanced Zotero features, including sync, collaboration tools, custom citation styles, and ZoteroBib for quick online bibliographies

Workshop Details:
Date: March 24, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Online via Zoom

Don't miss this opportunity to supercharge your research skills! Space is limited to 25 participants, so register early to secure your spot.
To register, visit: https://goto.unm.edu/hslicevents

For more information about using Zotero, check out our LibGuide:
https://libguides.health.unm.edu/zotero

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Almost sixty digitized pamphlets and trade cards advertising patent medicines and food items from the George and Ruth Eisenberg collection of pediatric antiques are now available to view online via New Mexico Digital Collections. Dr. George Eisenberg was a pediatrician who later moved to New Mexico and joined the UNM School of Medicine in 1968. He and his wife Ruth stared collecting artifacts and images related to pediatrics during the 1940s.

The patent medicine and food product trade cards in the Eisenberg collection date from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The collection includes advertisements for products such as Burdock Blood Bitters, Dr. Jayne's Tonic, and the notorious Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, which was marketed for infants and children and sometimes included deadly amounts of morphine and alcohol. 

The term patent medicine described pre-packaged medicines sold without a doctor’s prescription. They became very popular by the mid-nineteenth century. Patent medicines were often heavily marketed, faced little to no regulation, and could be lucrative businesses. Unfortunately, sometimes these “medicines” contained dangerous ingredients. 

Some regulation of patent medicines (now known as over-the counter medications) began in the U.S. in 1906 with the Pure Food and Drugs Act.  Additional laws were passed in 1912 and in 1938 with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to help protect consumers. 

To view pediatric artifacts from the Eisenberg collection, please visit the exhibit on the main floor of the Domenici Center. 

We’re excited to share great news for researchers in microbiology! Our institution is now part of a Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement with the Microbiology Society. This model guarantees UNM-Albuquerque affiliated authors free Open Access (OA) publishing to the Journal of General Virology and the Journal of Medical Microbiology. This means there will be no article processing fees (APCs) if the article is accepted for publication.

What is Subscribe to Open (S2O)?

S2O is an OA publishing model that keeps journals subscription-based but makes content open access when enough institutions continue their subscriptions. This means no APCs for authors at institutions with an agreement if the journal reaches its subscription goal.

Benefits of S2O

• Published content can be accessed by anyone, anywhere
• Uncapped OA publishing
• Read access to journal content
• Supports wider transition to OA

How to Publish Under S2O

For more details on publishing OA via an instructional agreement, see the Microbiology Society’s Author Guide. Authors simply need to submit as the corresponding or co-corresponding author, using their institutional email address, in the relevant title.

More Information

For more information about OA publisher agreements at UNM, see https://libguides.health.unm.edu/openaccess/oa_agreements_unm.