Join hosts Dr. Lisa Meeks and the MDisability team as we take a deeper diver 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.
MDisability is a collaborative program focused on improving the inclusion of people with disabilities in healthcare research, education, practice and through community engagement.
Kate Panzer is a 2018 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied bioengineering, learned American Sign Language, and conducted research on neuroregeneration. After graduating, she moved to rural Ghana for one year and led research on disease prevalence for a nonprofit called Cocoa360. Upon relocating to Ann Arbor and completing the Summer 2019 MDisability Internship Program, Kate now works as a disability health research assistant for the University of Michigan's Department of Family Medicine and will enter medical school in 2020.
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Philip Zazove joined a team of experts that convened to reassess U.S. medical school technical standards. Their findings are published in Academic Medicine.
A new paper, from Lisa M. Meeks Ph.D., M.A., clinical lecturer, provides one of the first case studies of how deaf and hard of hearing medical students navigate rotations in subspecialties.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month ( NDEAM ). Marking this month, several U-M Family Medicine faculty members will be leading online and in-person discussions on disability access in the health sciences and medical professions.
Lisa Meeks, PhD, clinical lecturer interviewed over 40 physicians, medical students, and administrators for the report, which outlines best practices for diversity and inclusion of medical students with disabilities
Disability access leader Lisa Meeks was recognized for her significant impact on inclusion and access for people with disabilities.
The letter, written collaboratively with support from Lisa Meeks, Ph.D. and Philip Zazove, M.D., provides a public response to the WSJ article, “Colleges Bend the Rules for More Students, Give Them Extra Help,” published Friday, May 25, 2018.
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