Christina Milano, M.D.

  • Associate Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Milano's areas of research include:

Gender Affirming Care; Transgender Hormone Therapy; Reproductive Health and best practices in Contraceptive Care; Primary medical home development; Advanced Illness and Palliative Care; and Medical Education utilizing electronic media.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.A., 1994, Stanford University
    • M.D., 2005, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)

  • Residency

    • Oregon Health & Science University, 2008

  • Fellowship

    • Clinical leadership fellowship, Oregon Health & Science University, 2009

  • Certifications

    • American Board of Family Medicine, 2008

Areas of interest

  • Gender Affirming Care

Honors and awards

  • 2020-22, Portland Top Doc (Transgender Medicine)
  • 2022 OHSU Faculty Senate Annual Award for Outstanding Collaboration (Finalist)
  • 2016-20 OHSU Family Medicine Mentorship Award
  • 2019 Master Preceptor Award (Society of Teachers of Family Medicine)
  • 2019 OHSU School of Medicine Faculty Excellence Award in Education
  • 2018 OHSU Family Medicine Residency Faculty Teaching Award
  • 2018 OHSU Women in Academic Medicine Clinical Excellence Award
  • 2017 OHSU Faculty Senate Annual Award for Service (Finalist)
  • 2017 OHSU Gold Humanism Honor Society Inductee

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Selected publications

  • Oakes M, Arastu A, Kato C, Somers J, Holly HD, Elstrott BK, Dy GW, Kohs TCL, Patel RR, McCarty OJT, DeLoughery TG, Milano C, Raghunathan V, Shatzel JJ.  Erythrocytosis and thromboembolic events in transgender individuals receiving gender-affirming testosterone. Thromb Res. 2021;207:96-98.
  • Gold R, Muench J, Hill C, Turner A, Mital M, Milano C, Shah A, Nelson C, DeVoe J, Nichols G. Collaborative development of a randomized study to adapt a diabetes quality improvement initiative for Federally Qualified Health Centers. J of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved. 2012;23(3 Suppl):236-46.
  • Milano CE, Saultz JW. Resident Continuity Clinic: An Oxymoron? J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25(Suppl 4):S572-3.
  • Leistikow BN, Martin DC, Milano CE.  Fire Injuries, disasters, and costs from cigarettes and cigarette lights: a global overview Prev Med. 2000;31(2):91-9.
  • Milano C. A Growing Frontier in Family Medicine: Gender Affirming Care. Family Physicians of Oregon. 2019;8(2), 24-25.

Publications

  • Colorectal Cancer Screening in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients at Community Health Organizations

    Transgender Health
    1. Matthew W.H. Jones
    2. Derek Chen
    3. Nathalie Huguet
    4. Jean O’Malley
    5. Christina Milano
    6. Rachel Gold

  • Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery Requests Outside the Binary

    Transgender Health
    1. Mair Marsiglio
    2. Michele Fascelli
    3. Blair R. Peters
    4. Amy Penkin
    5. Daniel Dugi
    6. Christina Milano
    7. Geolani W. Dy

  • Regret after Gender-Affirming Surgery

    Plastic and reconstructive surgery
    1. Breanna Y. Jedrzejewski
    2. Mary C. Marsiglio
    3. Jess Guerriero
    4. Amy Penkin
    5. Kara J. Connelly
    6. Jens U. Berli
    7. Daniel Dugi
    8. Blair Peters
    9. Christina Milano
    10. Danielle Moyer
    11. Hayley Baines
    12. Carley Putnam
    13. Lishiana Shaffer
    14. Zbigniew Sikora
    15. Angela Carter
    16. Lynn Jansen
    17. Dorian Scull

  • An Effective Gender-Affirming Care and Hormone Prescribing Standardized Patient Case for Residents

    MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources
    1. Ben J. Hersh
    2. Rebecca E. Rdesinski
    3. Christina Milano
    4. Rebecca E. Cantone

  • Simulated electronic health record (sim-ehr) curriculum

    Academic Medicine
    1. Christina E. Milano
    2. Joseph A. Hardman
    3. Adeline Plesiu
    4. Rebecca E. Rdesinski
    5. Frances E. Biagioli

  • Are pediatric quality care measures too stringent?

    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
    1. Allison Casciato
    2. Heather Angier
    3. Christina Milano
    4. Nicholas Gideonse
    5. Rachel Gold
    6. Jennifer DeVoe

  • Collaborative development of a randomized study to adapt a diabetes quality improvement initiative for federally qualified health centers

    Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
    1. Rachel Gold
    2. John Muench
    3. Christian Hill
    4. Ann Turner
    5. Meena Mital
    6. Christina Milano
    7. Amit Shah
    8. Christine Nelson
    9. Jennifer E. DeVoe
    10. Gregory A. Nichols