2025 Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
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This panel will present an innovative approach to promoting inclusive and accessible medical education through strategic partnerships among students, Learning Community (LC) faculty, and Disability Resources. The session will emphasize the value of collaboration among clinical educators, staff, and students who have lived experience, highlighting the collective responsibility for ensuring meaningful access throughout the medical curriculum, from preclinical studies to clerkships and beyond.
Director of Disability Resources, Office of Medical Student Affairs
Stanford University School of Medicine
Carleigh Kude is the inaugural Director of Disability Resources at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a member of the board of Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity. Carleigh’s career in disability inclusion spans 20 years, specializing in accommodation processes, accessibility in postsecondary and medical education, and advocacy. She graduated with Honors from California State University Long Beach School of Public Policy and Administration and is a JD candidate at the McGeorge School of Law. She believes deeply in community and collaborative solutions.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford
John Kugler is a graduate of the University of Virginia Medical School. He completed his internal medicine and chief year at Stanford University before joining the faculty as a hospitalist. His academic interests have been focused on clinical skills teaching especially point of care ultrasound. He is a founding member of the Stanford 25 as well as the Society of Bedside Medicine. He is the Stanford Internal Medicine Clerkship Director as well as the Co-Director of the Educators for Care program at Stanford.
Assistant Dean for Advising and Inclusive Learning, Clinical Professor of Medicine
Stanford Medicine
Pree Basaviah received her BA ’91 MD ’95 from Brown and completed her training in internal medicine, chief residency, and an education fellowship at Harvard. Previously on faculty at Harvard Medical School and UCSF, she joined Stanford in 2006 where she has served roles as Practice of Medicine Course Director (decade), inaugural Assistant Dean for Preclerkship Education (decade), inaugural and current Educator for CARE (15 years). Currently, she serves as the inaugural Advising Dean for Inclusive Learning and Co-Director for Educators for CARE at Stanford Medical School. She is honored to have received several teaching and mentoring awards as well as to have served leadership roles in regional and national general medicine and education in academic organizations (SGIM, AAMC, SHM, and WGEA).
Medical Student
Stanford Medicine
Georgiana is a third year medical student at Stanford Medicine living with a spinal cord injury. She is passionate about accessible education in the clerkship environment and working on ways to guarantee equitable experiences in medical training.
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.
