Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP is the author of In Shock, a critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir based on her own illness. A critical care physician and faculty member of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, she completed her medical degree at Wayne State in 2002 where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society, her residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York, and her fellowship training at Henry Ford Hospital where she serves as the current Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program. She also serves as Medical Director of Care Experience for the entire Health System. Dr. Awdish’s mandate as well as her passion is to improve the patient experience across the system and speak on patient advocacy at health care venues nationally.

After suffering a sudden critical illness, herself, she has devoted much of her career to improving empathy through connection and communication. She lectures to physicians, health care leaders and medical schools across the country. Her book has been integrated into the curriculum of medical schools and universities across the US and Europe. She was awarded the Speak-Up Hero award in 2014 for her work establishing a workshop-based program called CLEAR (Connect, Listen, Empathize, Align, Respect), which trains faculty and trainees in relationship-based communication skills utilizing improvisational actors. She was named Henry Ford Hospital’s Critical Care Teacher of the Year in 2016. She was named the National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year by The Schwartz Center as well as Physician of the Year by Press Ganey in 2017. She has been interviewed by The Times, The Telegraph, The BBC, NPR, the Today Show online, MedPage, Health Leaders Media, and Beckers Hospital Review. She has written for Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, as well as the New England Journal of Medicine. Her NEJM Perspectives article, A View from the Edge, went viral garnering over 120,000 views and is ranked in the 99th percentile for reach.

Key Words: BIPOC, Physical Disability, Sudden Critical Illness, Miscarriage, Serious Medical Complications, Psychological/ Mental Health, Distress, Emotional Burnout, Depression, Critical Care, Pulmonology, Pulmonary Hypertension, Research

In this final portion of our 3-part conversation with Dr. Jain, the conversation moves from Political Disclosure to Dr. Jain’s theory about the accommodation paradox, and the closely related capability imperative.

Guest: Dr. Neera Jain: Disability Scholar, The University of Auckland, Faculty of Education and Social Work

Key Words: Law, Education, and/or Research, Research, Rehabilitation Counselor, Advocate

In this 3-part series we talk with Dr. Neera Jain about her research on disability in medical education. In Part 2, Dr. Jain continues the discussion of her work, and how the “isms” work together to create oppressive systems.

Guest: Dr. Neera Jain: Disability Scholar, The University of Auckland, Faculty of Education and Social Work

Key Words: Law, Education, and/or Research, Research, Rehabilitation Counselor, Advocate

In this 3-part series we talk with Dr. Neera Jain about her research on disability in medical education. The discussion begins with Part 1, where Dr. Jain discusses her work, the topic of political disclosure, and who enacts political disclosure.

Guest: Dr. Neera Jain: Disability Scholar, The University of Auckland, Faculty of Education and Social Work

Key Words: Law, Education, and/or Research, Research, Rehabilitation Counselor, Advocate

In this episode, Dr. Meeks speaks with Drs. Cron and Meiss from the OBGYN residency program at Yale New Haven hospital about their article in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education titled, Training as a Doc with Disabilities. They also discuss the road to Lauren’s “match”, the process of disclosing a disability in residency applications, seeking accommodations as a trainee, Yale’s newly founded advocacy/support group for trainees with disabilities, and Dr. Cron and Meiss’s commitment to educating OBGYN programs about the benefits of training physicians with disabilities.

Guest: Dr. Lauren Meiss, OBGYN Resident, Yale New Haven Hospital

Dr. Julia Cron, Assistant Professor; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Residency Program Director, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

JGME article: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/12/2/229/442179/Training-as-a-Doc-With-Disabilities?searchresult=1

Citation: Lauren Meiss, Julia Cron; Training as a “Doc With Disabilities”. J Grad Med Educ 1 April 2020; 12 (2): 229. doi: https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-20-00050.1

Key Words: Illness, Cystic Fibrosis, Law, Education, and/or Research, OBGYN

Steven Losorelli, Claire Rhee, and Maïté Van Hentenryck are Stanford Med students and co-founders of Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI). In this lively and slightly irreverent episode, we discuss their motivation for starting the organization, their personal sense of disability and identification, navigating medicine with humor, and challenges with disclosure and accommodations.

Guests:

Podcast, Co-host, Dr. Peter Poullos, Associate Professor of Radiology, Stanford Medicine

Steven Losorelli, Stanford School of Medicine student

Claire Rhee, Stanford School of Medicine student Maïté Van Hentenryck, Stanford School of Medicine student

Key Words: Chronic Illness, Psychological/ Mental Health, Physical Disability, Medical Student, Advocacy, Medical Education

In this episode, Dr. Meeks speaks with Dr. Chris Sterwald, chief psychiatry resident at the University of Texas Southwestern about navigating medical training with a physical disability and creating diverse communities in medicine-- including disability.

Guest: Dr. Christopher Sterwald, Chief Psychiatry Resident, UT Southwestern

Key Words: Physical Disability, Psychiatry

The DocsWithDisabilities Podcast is growing. In a special 6-series run, Dr. Meeks will be joined by co-host Dr. Peter Poullos from the Stanford Medicine Abilities Coalition. In this first episode of the series, Dr. Meeks and Poullos interview each other about the origin of the podcast and their respective motivations to grow this resource. They also discuss their views on building a diverse health professions workforce and delve into some personal questions that give us a peek into the personalities of these advocates for access.

Guests:

Podcast, Co-host, Dr. Peter Poullos, Associate Professor of Radiology, Stanford Medicine

Podcast, Co-host, Dr. Lisa Meeks, Assistant Professor Family Medicine, UMMS

Key Words: Advocate, Medical Education

The challenges to help-seeking for medical students and physicians is well-documented, yet solutions to reducing these barriers are lacking. We need a radical reboot. In this 3-part episode we have a critically honest conversation about the barriers to help-seeking and discuss potential next steps to reboot medical education and practice.

Key Words: Law, Education, and/or Research

The challenges to help-seeking for medical students and physicians is well-documented, yet solutions to reducing these barriers are lacking. We need a radical reboot. In this 3-part episode we have a critically honest conversation about the barriers to help-seeking and discuss potential next steps to reboot medical education and practice.

Key Words: Law, Education, and/or Research