Docs With Disabilities

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In this episode, Dr. Poullos is joined by Dr. Michelle Meade, a professor within the University of Michigan Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Family Medicine and a practicing rehabilitation psychologist. Dr. Meade's research focuses on topics such as healthcare disparities, health self-management, and the employment of individuals with physical disabilities. She joins us today to talk about her career journey and some of her recent work.

Interviewee: Dr. Michelle Meade

Interviewer: Dr. Peter Poullos

Producer: Sofia Scholzman

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Transcript: https://bit.ly/Episode68_MichelleMeade

Key Words: PM&R; Rehab Psychology, Disability Studies, Disability Research, Psychologist, Physical Disabilities

Bio:

Michelle A. Meade, PhD is a Professor with tenure in the U-M Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Family Medicine within the School of Medicine, a practicing rehabilitation psychologist, affiliated faculty for IHPI, and a Co-Director for the CDHW. Dr. Meade also serves as PI and Director for the NIDILRR-funded Michigan SCI Model Systems (2022-2026) and the IDEAL RRTC (2018-2023). Her research expertise is in the areas of healthcare disparities, health self-management, and employment of individuals with physical disabilities, particularly among individuals with disabilities from marginalized populations.

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This BIPOC II episode is a continuation of Episode 67, part 1. In this episode, Drs. Green and Jain discussing the delicate distinction between the risk of stigma vs. the reward of accommodation and inclusion, and how people navigating the decision to disclose disability and request accommodation face a multitude of barriers.

Interviewee: Emily Green, MD, MA

Interviewer: Dr. Neera Jain

Producer: Lisa Meeks

Key Words: Dyslexia, ADHD, Residency, Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry, Advocacy, NBME, BIPOC, Black, Medical Education, DocsWithDisabilities disabled docs, disability.

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Dr. Emily Green is a current 3rd year resident at the University of Wisconsin in their General Psychiatry program. She received her Masters in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton college in 2010 and was a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois and worked in several not-for-profit organizations helping people with chronic mental health challenges until her transition to medical school in 2016. During her time in medical school she created the student group MSAE (Medical students for accessible education) which is a student-run support and advocacy group for medical students with disabilities. She is interested in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, specifically in helping students with disabilities gain easier access to 504 plans, IEPS, and accommodations throughout their schooling.

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https://bit.ly/DWD_Podcast_67_Part2

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In this BIPOC II episode Dr. Neera Jain, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at The University of Auckland interviews Dr. Emily Green, a PGY 3 psychiatry resident at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Drs. Jain and Green first met many moons ago as part of the AAMC lived experience project research study, which included interviews with trainees at all levels. At that time, Dr. Green was a medical student. In this episode, Dr. Green discusses how she navigates medicine as a black woman with a disability, how she uses her disability in powerful ways to connect with her patients, and why talking about disability is an important step in reducing stigma.

Interviewee: Emily Green, MD, MA

Interviewer: Neera Jain, PhD

Producer: Lisa Meeks

Bio:

Dr. Emily Green is a current 3rd year resident at the University of Wisconsin in their General Psychiatry program. She received her Masters in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton college in 2010 and was a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois and worked in several not-for-profit organizations helping people with chronic mental health challenges until her transition to medical school in 2016. During her time in medical school she created the student group MSAE (Medical students for accessible education) which is a student-run support and advocacy group for medical students with disabilities. She is interested in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, specifically in helping students with disabilities gain easier access to 504 plans, IEPS, and accommodations throughout their schooling.

Key Words: Dyslexia, ADHD, Residency, Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry, Advocacy, NBME, BIPOC, Black, Medical Education, DocsWithDisabilities, disabled docs, disability, disclosure.

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https://bit.ly/DWD_Podcast_67_Part1

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In this episode, Baylor College of Medicine Associate Professor Dr. Michelle Ludwig discusses navigating life as a deaf individual. Listen or read along as she and Dr. Meeks converse about accommodations in medical school and beyond, the importance of self-advocacy, and the benefits of mentorship through The Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses.

Interviewee: Michelle Ludwig, MD

Interviewer: Lisa Meeks, PhD

Producer: Sofia Scholzman

Bio:

Dr. Ludwig is an associate professor of radiation oncology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She went to Purdue University for undergraduate work, received her medical degree and master of public health degree from Emory University and completed residency at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and then served there as faculty there for 3 years. Additionally, she completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology at The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. She currently specializes in breast and gynecological cancer, including a high volume of gynecologic brachytherapy, and her research interests include cancer prevention, health education and clinical trials. Her career goals are to improve the oncologic care of breast and gynecological cancer patients by studying to improve radiation treatment and training the next generation of learners. Since the age of 2, she has been profoundly deaf and is the faculty sponsor for the Baylor group for students with disabilities. She is active with AMPHL (American Medical Professionals with Hearing Loss), reads lips and currently has her second Canine Companions hearing dog, Pam.

Key Words: DHOH, radiation oncology, Deaf, Service Dog, Sign Language Interpreting, Captioning, accommodations, medical education, operating room, AMPHL.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/Episode66_Transcript

TRIGGER WARNING:

This episode contains discussion of violence against minorities, depression, and suicidality. We advise that you use discretion when listening. For any U.S. listeners, if you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can be reached by dialing 988, and additional resources will be available in the show notes of this episode.

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In today's episode, guest interviewer Dr. Justin Bullock, a nephrology fellow at the University of Washington School of Medicine, interviews Dr. Chase Anderson, an Assistant Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at UC San Francisco. Friends and colleagues since college, Dr. Anderson and Dr. Bullock discuss how they hold their identities as Black, gay, public-facing figures in medicine, the forms that activism can take when complicated by one's marginalized identities, and how medical professions and mental health might be made more kindred spirits.

Chase Anderson Bio: (in his own words)

Hi, Chase Anderson here! My interests in medicine revolve around mental health and advocacy for LGBTQ+ and minoritized populations. I hope to work with as many kids as I can so they might feel more safe with their own minds, are able navigate the world being minoritized and having mental illness, and to work with the family as a whole around healing.

Outside of the hospital, I like to write op-eds about race, LGBTQ+ matters, diversity, minority stress, and other topics (including how they relate to psychiatry), give talks at universities around minority stress, read fantasy novels, listen to Kpop, go for long walks, plan group dinners with friends, and talk with others about how to make the world better. Oh, and gay clubbing.

I'm also active on Twitter (not as much as before, but I tweet sometimes!), where I speak about racism, homophobia, and bigotry in medicine and the wider world. My handle is @ChaseTMAnderson, and my Instagram is @AresTMusesDreamCooper.

Dr. Justin Bullock bio:

Justin Bullock is a fellow in nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Bullock is a passionate medical educator, teacher, researcher, and lifelong learner. His primary research focus centers on how educators can minimize identity threats in the learning environment.

Key Words:

Psychological disability, LGBTQ+, psychiatry, nephrology, depression, mental health, suicide, BIPOC

Transcript: https://bit.ly/Episode65_ChaseAnderson

Episode 64

Interviewee: Andrea Dalzell, The Seated Nurse

Interviewer: Drs. Lisa Meeks and Pete Poullos

Description:

We are excited to bring you the continuation of our series on Voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with Disabilities in Medicine. These episodes amplify the voices of healthcare providers at the intersection of disability and BIPOC identity, enlightening our understanding of challenges for multiple marginalized populations. By elevating these stories and sharing these lived experiences, we hope to advance critical conversations about race and disability and facilitate a greater understanding of the challenges and benefits at the intersections. Funding for this project was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Together, we believe that a culture of health requires the dismantling of structural racism and ableism so that everyone has the chance to live the healthiest life possible.

In Episode 64 we are joined by Andrea Dalzell, also known as "The Seated Nurse." As someone who has used a wheelchair full-time since the age of twelve, Andrea understands what it's like to constantly come up against barriers as she navigates a world often not built with disabled people in mind and has devoted her career to advocating for and working to support people with disabilities. In this episode, Andrea, Dr. Meeks, and Dr. Poullos discuss the strengths and challenges that having a disability and other marginalized identities has presented in her journey to become a nurse, as well as her visions for future disabled nursing and healthcare trainees and professionals as she drives forward her ongoing advocacy and education work.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/DWD_Ep64

Key Words: nursing, wheelchair, physical disability, advocacy

Bio:

Andrea Dalzell is the people's disability rights advocate. As someone who has used a wheelchair full-time since the age of twelve, she understands what it's like to constantly come up against barriers because life is built for the non-disabled. She challenges this narrative daily as "The Seated Nurse" – the first and only registered nurse in a wheelchair in all of New York State. Andrea's advocacy has won her national recognition over the years, including being named "New Mobility's Person of the Year" in 2021. She has also been featured in publications such as Unite Spinal, HomeCare, and Forbes.

In this episode we are joined by disability civil rights attorney Mary J Goodwin-Oquendo for a discussion about strategies and barriers for receiving accommodations throughout one's medical training. If you're a student with a disability, at any stage in your academic journey, we strongly encourage you to give this episode a listen.

Key Words: med ed, law, chronic illness, high-stakes exams, NBME, MCAT, Step 1, Clinical Accommodations, accommodations

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Bio:

Mrs. Goodwin-Oquendo is from Brooklyn. She has over a decade of disability civil rights experience. She has worked at Jo Anne Simon PC since 2008, where she represents individuals with physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities who have experienced discrimination and/or require accommodations from standardized testing and licensing entities and post-secondary and professional educational institutions.

Her passion for disability advocacy began when she watched her mother fight to make sure that her little brother received appropriate education placement and services when she was a child.

Interviewer: Dr. Pete Poullos

Interviewee: Mary Goodwin-Oquendo

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Donald Egan, MD, MPH is currently a psychiatry resident at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. His road to residency has been shaped by the challenges of growing up both gay and with cerebral palsy (CP). In medical school and residency, Dr. Egan has advocated for students with disabilities to matriculate to medical school and has written and presented about how the experiences that come with living with a disability or coming from a sexual minority group often make compassionate and empathetic physicians.

Dr. Egan is interested in medical education, addiction psychiatry, interventional methods, and LGBTQ+ mental health and is a Diversity Leadership Fellow for the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Outside of medicine, he enjoys running with his husband, Nick, and reading beside their cat, Nutella.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yf-d6KXxXgMyVWeHvZ16R-4LOCyl_pEIBEXgiGBkdNk/edit?usp=sharing

Key Words: LGBTQ+, Psychiatry, cerebral palsy, CP, medical education, mental health, physical disability, intersectionality, disclosure

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In this episode we are joined by a group of physicians from the University of Colorado Medical School who published a paper in the Journal of Surgical Education about their experiences accommodating a student with physical disabilities during a surgery clerkship. In this episode, the group discusses the processes behind the group's publication and the collective experience of creating an accessible experience in medical school for a student with a physical disability and students with disabilities more broadly.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/196kAwJznKqFULmlAtJmQfB-3_TNEwYRXz672nydXtBw/edit?usp=sharing

Key Words: wheelchair, T10 Spinal Cord Injury, SPI, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology, med student, medical education, physical disability

Description: In this episode we are joined by Dr. Conrad Addison. Dr. Addison recently completed a Sleep Medicine fellowship at the University of Utah and is now practicing as a Sleep Medicine physician in Billings, Montana. In this episode, he and Dr. Meeks explore the experiences Conrad faced when resuming his medical training with a newly acquired disability weighing the challenges and values of inviting others to take part in this process.

Key Words: Sleep Medicine, Physician, cervical spinal cord injury, SCI, physical disability, internal medicine, wheelchair user, accommodations, intermediatries

Bio: Conrad is a newly minted sleep medicine physician currently practicing in Billings, Montana. Notably, during his third year of medical school at the University of Washington in 2016 he sustained a cervical spinal cord injury in a mountain biking accident. He returned to clerkships full-time after a year of intensive rehabilitation and has since engaged his medical training uninterrupted. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Billings Clinic and recently finished a sleep medicine fellowship at the University of Utah. His experiences continue to inform his view that limitations are features, not bugs in the human experience; features that drive innovation and connection in surprising ways. Accessible systems allow us to leverage abilities of all learners and provide a more rewarding experience for patients and providers alike.

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