Docs With Disabilities

Dr. Lisa Meeks•www.docswithdisabilities.org

Join hosts Drs. Lisa Meeks, Peter Poullos and guest hosts as they take a deeper dive into the experiences of health care providers with disabilities through critical conversations with the doctors, researchers, administrators, faculty and policy makers that work to ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession.

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Dr. Peter Poullos, MD, Part 2

In this 2-part episode, Dr. Meeks visits Stanford to get a glimpse of a “day in the life” of Dr. Peter Poullos, a clinical associate professor of radiology and gastroenterology & hepatology, and a person with a physical disability. During this visit, Dr. Meeks observes Pete in action, interviews his interns, and chats with Pete about his experience retraining after disability, his ascent to leadership, and his hope for the future of disability in medicine. Key Words: Physical Disability, Whe...

Nov 23, 2020•25 min•Ep. 25

Dr. Peter Poullos, MD, Part 1

Nov 23, 2020•29 min•Ep. 25

Dr. Ruta Nonacs, MD, PHD

Dr. Nonacs is a staff psychiatrist with the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program at MGH, with an appointment as an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Dr. Nonacs discusses identifying as a doctor with a disability, her experiences with training and employment and the changes needed in medical education. Key Words: Physical Disability, Visual Disability, Stargardt’s Disease, Psychiatry

Oct 28, 2020•38 min•Ep. 24

Dr. Walker Keenan, MD, Psychiatry Resident, Yale University Hospital

In this episode we chat with Walker Keenan, a psychiatry resident at Yale University and graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. In this episode, Walker discusses his path to self-advocacy, how his multiple marginalized identities inform medicine, what it means to be ableist and why #DocsWithDisabilities are a benefit to the physician workforce. Key Words: Cognitive Disability, Nonverbal Learning Disorder, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Psychiatry...

Oct 14, 2020•32 min•Ep. 23

Alice Wong, Part 1

In this episode we chat with Alice Wong, disability activist, media producer, and a consultant. She is the founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, a project collecting oral histories of people with disabilities in the United States that is being run in coordination with StoryCorps. The Disability Visibility Project was created on the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As of 2018, the project had collected approximately 140 oral historie...

Sep 29, 2020•26 min•Ep. 22

Diana Cejas and Alice Wong, Part 2

In this episode we chat with Alice Wong, disability activist, media producer, and a consultant. She is the founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, a project collecting oral histories of people with disabilities in the United States that is being run in coordination with StoryCorps. The Disability Visibility Project was created on the 25th anniversary of the Americans withDisabilities Act of 1990. As of 2018, the project had collected approximately 140 oral histories...

Sep 29, 2020•41 min•Ep. 22

Medical School Admissions for Students with Disabilities

The National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) conference was canceled due to COVID-19, but this scheduled panel moved to an online format in the form of this Podcast! Given the intense competition for admission to US medical schools pre-medical students with disabilities, whether they're learning, psychological, physical, sensory, or chronic health, face additional challenges including: 1) Determining whether or not they're going to disclose information about their disa...

Aug 03, 2020•52 min•Ep. 21

After the Conference: A Critical Conversation about Next Steps

On Saturday, June 20th, Dr. Poullos hosted the Stanford Med School of Medicine's first annual Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine. The event was an enormous success and attended by over a thousand people in over five countries. Dr. Poullos and Meeks debriefed after the conference, and shared a common question. What's next? This is a big question to be sure, and one filled with possibilities for what inclusion in medicine could be. Dr. Poullos and Meeks invited some colleagues and...

Jul 11, 2020•49 min•Ep. 20

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