Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
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Founder and Co-Chair, SMADIE
Clinical Professor of Radiology and of Medicine (Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Dr. Poullos received his M.D. degree at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California-San Francisco in 2002. He stayed at UCSF as a Gastroenterology fellow, but he decided to retrain in Radiology after a spinal cord injury in 2003. He did his Radiology residency at Stanford University, where he also completed a fellowship In Body Imaging in 2009. Dr. Poullos is now faculty in both the departments of Radiology and Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Poullos served as Associate Residency Program Director for the Stanford University Radiology Residency from 2009 through 2016. In 2018, he founded the Stanford Medicine Abilities Coalition (SMAC), now the Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity (SMADIE), for which he serves as Co-chair. In that role, Dr. Poullos advocates for students and healthcare providers with disabilities and health equity for disabled patients. He is a Faculty Advisor to the Stanford Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI) and the MSDCI National organization. Dr. Poullos and SMADIE have made significant contributions to the disability community, including starting the Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine, drawing over 1000 participants from 39 countries. He is the co-host of the popular “DocsWithDisabilities” podcast, has spoken internationally about disability access in medicine, and has written and researched in the field. He is a delegate to the International Congress On Disability Inclusion and Health and Disability Inclusion in Graduate Medical Education (DIGME). He enjoys teaching radiology to medical students, residents, and fellows at Stanford and across the nation.
Co-Chair, SMADIE
Instructor, Pediatrics – Nephrology
Dr. Ken Sutha is a clinician and basic science researcher in pediatric nephrology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford who brings his perspective as a two time kidney transplant recipient and previous dialysis patient. He has been a member of the Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity since 2019 and has served as co-chair since 2021.
Medical Student and Stanford MSDCI Chair
Stanford University School of Medicine
Amy Bugwadia (she/her) is a MD Candidate and Co-Chair of MSDCI (Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness) at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her lived experiences with ulcerative colitis and chronic illness has fueled her passion for patient empowerment and increasing representation, access, and support for individuals with disabilities. Amy’s work has centered various intersectional identities within the disability and medical communities, and she is involved in leading organizations including Generation Patient and the Crohn’s & Colitis Young Adults Network.
