2025 Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE

Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity

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Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity

Stanford Medicine ADIE

2025 Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine

Saturday, April 26, 2025
8:00am - 3:45pm

Photo credit: Rick Giudotti

Dear Community,

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

2025 SMADIE Disability Conference

Agenda

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 – 2:00pm

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

Moderator: TBD

Rebecca Cokley

Claudia Center

3:35pm – 3:45pm

Closing Remarks

Peter Poullos, MD

Accessibility

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.

CME

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

Conference Sponsors

MSDCI - Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness
Stanford Medicine | Radiology
Chemical and Systems Biology
CEDIO