Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
Photo credit: Rick Giudotti
Join us for the Sixth Annual Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine on Saturday, April 26, 2025 via livestream!
This virtual conference aims to support students and healthcare providers with disabilities, training healthcare providers to better care for patients with disabilities, and provide research into the intersection of providers and patients with disabilities.
This conference will be a deep learning opportunity for medical students, residents and fellows, medical doctors, nursing students and nurses, PA students and PA’s, hospital administration, and additional interested healthcare providers and allies.
Sincerely,
Pete Poullos, MD and Ken Sutha, MD, PhD
Co-Chairs
8:00am – 8:20am
Opening Remarks/Welcome
Peter Poullos, MD
Amy Bugwadia, MS
8:20am – 9:00am
Session 1: Subversive disability justice education: Spoken word poetry as a bidirectionally humanizing pedagogy for nursing students and disabled people.
Moderator: Tess Carichner
Sabrina Jamal-Eddine, PhD, BSN, RN
9:00am – 9:40am
Keynote: Shifting Perspectives: Collective Action for Disability Inclusion in Health Professions Education
Moderator: Heidi Joshi, PsyD
Lisa Meeks, PhD, MA
9:40am – 10:30am
Session 2: A Collective Approach to Promoting Disability Access and Inclusion across MedEd
Moderator: Carleigh Kude, MPA
Carleigh Kude, MPA
John Kugler, MD
Preetha Basaviah, MD
Georgiana Burnside, MSIII
Amy Bugwadia, MS
10:30am – 10:40am
AM Break
10:40am – 11:40am
Session 3: Promoting Disability Inclusion in Healthcare: Employment Disparities, Mentorship, and Allyship for Workers with Disabilities
Disparities in Employment and Work Conditions Among Health Care Workers with Disabilities: Insights from the American Community Survey
Mentorship Through a Disability Cultural Humility Lens: Transforming Healthcare Education From Within
Moving the Needle and Watching it get Stuck: Mixed Results from Piloting Disability Allyship Modules in Health Professions Education and Beyond
Moderator: Heather Evans, PhD
Danbi Lee, PhD, OTD, OTR/L
Kara Ayers, PhD
Heather Evans, PhD
Carli Friedman, PhD
Heather Feldner, PT, PhD, PCS
11:40am – 12:25pm
Lunch
12:25pm – 1:15pm
Session 4: Shared Vision: A Nursing Researcher’s Exploration of Healthcare Accessibility with a Blind Partner
Moderator: Mahya Beheshti, MD
Soyoung Choi, PhD, RN
1:15pm – 2:05pm
Session 5: From Surviving to Thriving: Breaking Through Barriers for Autistic Medical Trainees to Succeed in Medicine
Moderator: Nikhil Rao, MD, MSc
Stacy Greeter, MD
Laura Carravallah, MD
Alicia Cho, DO
2:05pm – 2:15pm
PM Break
2:25pm – 2:55pm
Session 6: Change How You See, See How You Change, Injecting Art into Medicine to See Beyond Diagnosis and Disability with Award Winning Photographer, Rick Guidotti
Moderator: Baraka Floyd, MD, MSc
Rick Guidotti
2:55pm – 3:35pm
Session 7: Disability Justice 2025
Rebecca Cokley
Claudia Center
Ma’ayan Anafi
3:35pm – 3:45pm
Closing Remarks
Peter Poullos, MD
We strive to make this conference as accessible as possible. We will be providing presentation materials prior to the event. During the event, we will provide ASL interpretation and live closed captioning. Please fill out any additional accessibility needs on your registration form.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
American Medical Association (AMA)
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Stanford Health Care Department of Rehabilitation is an approved provider for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy for courses that meet the requirements set forth by the respective California Boards. This course is approved for 6.00 hour(s) CEU for PT, OT, and SLP.
View full CME information and disclosure summary at https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/2025disabilityinhealthcare
The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) has generously awarded a grant to SMADIE to help fund the 6th annual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine.
