This resource is provided to expand acronyms, short forms, and other domain-specific terminology that may appear in coalition documents.
| ACD | Annual Clinical Day at Hamilton Academy of Medicine |
| BATA | Brantford Advocacy Trangender Alliance |
| BPD | Bipolar Disorder |
| CCE | McMaster Centre for Continuing Education (at James & King) |
| CME | Continuing Medical Education, often used to identify the education credits that doctors collect and become an incentive for participation when offered by an education program |
| EMR | Electronic medical record |
| FHT | Family Health Team. There are two in Hamilton: HFHT and MFHT. |
| FMPE | Foundation for Medical Practice Education |
| FP | Family Physician |
| GDC | Gender Diversity Clinic, a part of Adolescent Medicine at McMaster Children’s Hospital (n.b. the term ‘clinic’ here can lead to misunderstandings about capacity, see various minutes) |
| GRCHC | Grand River Community Health Centre (Brantford) |
| GSC | Good Shepherd Centre |
| GSFR | Gender Studies & Feminist Research program at McMaster, and/or placement students from that program |
| GSYS | Good Shepherd Youth Services |
| HAM | Hamilton Academy of Medicine |
| HATH | Halton Alliance for Trans Health |
| HCP | Health Care Providers |
| HFHT | Hamilton Family Health Team |
| HNHB | Part of the common name of LHIN 4 and an acronym for the area covered: Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand, Brant, Burlington and most of Norfolk |
| HTHC | Hamilton Trans Health Coalition |
| LHIN | Local Health Integration Network (see also HNHB; Hamilton is in LHIN 4) |
| MD | A practitioner with a Doctor of Medicine degree (a “doctor”) |
| NHCHC | North Hamilton Community Health Centre |
| NP | Nurse Practitioner |
| OCFP | Ontario College of Family Physicians |
| OTN | Ontario Telehealth Network (provider of eConsult) |
| PBL | Problem-Based Learning (a mode of medical education) |
| PH/PHS | Public Health Services |
| QTYC | Queer and Trans Youth Collaborative |
| RHO | Rainbow Health Ontario |
| RJCHC | Ron Joyce Community Health Centre |
| RN | Registered nurse |
| RNAO | Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario |
| ROI | Release of Information (a process by which one medical professional is able to receive private medical records of a patient under care from another medical professional) |
| SHN | Shelter Health Network |
| St. Joe’s | St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and its various sites and services |
| SW | Social worker |
| TAN | The AIDS Network |
| TDoR | Trans Day of Remembrance, Nov 20 |
| THC | Trans Community Health (clinic through SHN) |
| ToR | Terms of Reference |
| YWC | St. Joe’s Youth Wellness Centre |