Acclaimed gay doctor to be honored at LGBT History Month event
Dr. Jake Kleinmahon, a gay pediatric cardiologist and pediatric heart transplant specialist, is scheduled to be honored Oct.
1 by the Equality Forum at its annual LGBT History Month Kickoff and Awards Celebration in Philadelphia. He has been named a recipient of the Equality Forum’s 28th annual International Role Model Award.
Kleinmahon became the subject of national news media coverage in early August when he announced he was leaving the state of Louisiana with his husband and two children and ending his highly acclaimed medical practice in New Orleans after the state legislature passed bills targeting the LGBTQ community.
He had been working since 2018 as the medical director of pediatric heart transplant, heart failure, and ventricular assist device programs at Ochsner Hospital for Children in New Orleans.
