2025 Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
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Rick Guidotti’s Positive Exposure presentation will create opportunities for the audience to hear from and explore the experiences of children and adults living with a variety of genetic, physical, behavioral, and intellectual differences.
Rick will create opportunities to see each individual living with a variety of differences, first and foremost as a human being with his/her own challenges, rather than as a specific diagnosis or disease entity. At the end of the program, Rick will also introduce the transformative collaboration with Stanford, Medicine Alliance for Disability, Inclusion and Equity (SMADIE). The final section will challenge our assumptions and biases surrounding disability in the medical environment and broader social arena.
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Baraka D. Floyd is a pediatrician, Clinical Associate Professor, and Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. She is also Medical Director of the Peninsula Family Advocacy Program: A Medical Legal Partnership (FAP). She is a former member of the DULCE National Center Technical Assistance Team, which used QI methodology to spread an innovative primary care intervention to proactively address social determinants of health and promote healthy infant development to clinics across the US.
Dr. Floyd co-directs the Health Equity Advanced through Learning Initiative (HEAL), a multimodal educational initiative that includes Health Equity Rounds (HER), case based sessions providing opportunities to apply individual tools, process improvement, and quality improvement tools to address inequities in care, ranging from language and disability access to lack of resources. The HEAL team is also building out Presence 5 for Racial Justice Pediatrics, in collaboration with the Presence 5 team, which provides humanistic communication tools to build trust and partnership with Black pediatric patients and their caregivers..
Dr. Floyd has also spearheaded local initiatives around postpartum/perinatal depression, behavioral health, educational supports, screening for and holistically addressing social determinants of health, including co-founding Diapers at the Doctor.
She is a graduate of Morehouse School of Medicine and Stanford Pediatric Residency and is the treasurer of the Pediatrics section for the National Medical Association.
Founder and Director, Positive Exposure
Rick Guidotti, an award-winning photographer, worked in NYC, Milan, Paris and London for a variety of high profile clients including Yves St Laurent, Revlon and L’Oreal. His work has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals as diverse as GQ, Elle, People, the American Journal of Medical Genetics, The Lancet, Spirituality and Health, New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly and LIFE Magazine.
Rick has spent more than twenty-five years collaborating internationally with non-profit organizations, hospitals, medical schools, educational institutions, museums, galleries, advocacy groups and communities to effect a sea-change in societal attitudes towards individuals living with genetic, physical, behavioral or intellectual difference.
Rick is the founder and director of POSITIVE EXPOSURE, a non-profit organization that promotes a more inclusive, equitable and compassionate world for individuals and communities at risk of stigma and exclusion through photography, film, community storytelling, education, and advocacy.
