Raphael Kohn Email & Phone Number

I am the youngest ever elected Chair of GLADD having been elected at the age of 21, working to engage students and qualified professionals in LGBTQ+ advocacy and visibility through events and activism projects. GLADD is a leading organisation in LGBTQ+ health, advocacy and visibility, working with the GMC, BMA and others to promote its aims. It is the only organisation that unites and represents LGBTQ+ doctors, dentists, medical and dental students from all over the country.

I worked as a Student Representative of GLADD from 2022-2024. I helped run an essay prize and worked as a marker of the submissions alongside other GLADD committee members and our guest judges: the Editor of Student BMJ, Doctor and Author Adam Kay, and Author Jacqueline Wilson.I participated in a variety of projects, including the establishment of the GLADD digital Student Network, and the organisation and successful running of three London Pride parade groups from 2022-2024 and one at Birmingham Pride in 2022. I represented GLADD at the ASME 2022 conference after just over a month in the role, discussing GLADD's work with conference attendees and engaging attendees in our work. I put particular effort into promoting GLADD's Medical Schools' Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ 'Conversion Therapy', contributing to the joining of multiple medical schools. I was the lead author on GLADD's rapid response in the BMJ to an article about So-Called LGBTQ+ 'Conversion Therapy'.It was great to contribute to GLADD's social programming in the absence of an elected or paid events coordinator, and I assisted in organising a regional dinner social and a group trip to a theatre in London to watch a comedy drag play.Education has always been an interest of mine and I was fortunate to co-deliver multiple lectures on LGBTQ+ health and issues to students at Aston University and the University of Birmingham in 2023 (UoB only) and 2024 (both universities).

I taught on the Medicine Summer School programme, delivering sessions to 14-17 year-olds on a range of medical topics. These included history taking, cardiology, respiratory medicine, suturing, psychiatry and psychiatric ethics, as well as a session on general surgery. These were all tailored to stretch them beyond the GCSE and A-Level curricula, and inspire them to learn more beyond their school courses on these subjects.I also taught a bit of an 11-14 year-olds course on medicine, teaching neurology, paediatrics and surgery. These sessions were designed to explore these topics for students who had not yet covered this in their school learning yet.

I am the primary reviewer in Birmingham and the West Midlands, reviewing theatre at the Birmingham Rep Theatre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Old Joint Stock Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, among others.I also cover theatre in London when possible at a variety of venues, and particularly specialise in reviewing Shakespeare and Opera productions, engaging my love of Shakespeare and over a decade of classical music tuition.To read my (and my colleagues') reviews, please visit https://www.allthatdazzles.co.uk/

I trained and qualified with MDA in July 2022, having spent time learning a foreign language in advance in order to be able to competently complete the training programme and work safely.I worked for 160 hours as a volunteer emergency medical responder in their ambulances, doing both morning and night shifts. I saw a wide variety of cases and treated many patients, including hands-on CPR experience, and a large multi-car high-speed accident on a motorway.This was generously funded by a Northcott Travel Scholarship to enable me to participate in the expensive training course and assist with travel expenses.

I assisted in the establishment and development of a digital archive of UJS documents and a variety of projects in the office.

Mbchb Medicine And Surgery, Medicine

Activities and Societies: Won a music scholarship through competitive application, in which I studied oboe with Melinda Maxwell, Secretary.

Ba Medical Humanities, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies, First

Activities and Societies: Tenor: Gilbert and Sullivan Society - RuddigoreSelected as Valedictorian for the class of 2024. Modules studied.

Education record

Activities and Societies: I was chosen to be House Captain by my Head of House. I was selected by the biology department to teach.