Episode 38: Dr. Emmanuel Asenso Jr

In this episode, Dr. Meeks speaks with Emmanuel Asenso Jr., a fourth year medical student at Rowan SOM. Throughout their conversation, they discuss how soon to be doctor Asenso navigates patient encounters with a disability, how his identity as a Black man and an individual with a disability affects his experiences within the medical world, and the barriers that need to be eliminated in order to welcome more disabled individuals and more Black individuals into healthcare spaces.

Guests: 

Podcast Co-host, Lisa M. Meeks, PHD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Future Dr. Emmanuel Asenso Jr, Rowan School of Medicine 

Key Words: BIPOC, Cognitive Disability, Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder, Medical Student