Dr. Lisa Meeks and Dr. Peter Poullos

Docs With Disabilities

Education EN ↓ 138 episodes

Join hosts Drs. Lisa Meeks, Peter Poullos and guest hosts as they take a deeper dive 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.

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Dr. Lisa Meeks and Dr. Peter Poullos

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Episode 10: Sarah Sternlieb, MD 19.12.2019 26:30

Interviewee: Dr. Sarah Sternlieb, MD Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Description: Sarah Sternlieb, a current internal medicine resident, had a circuitous route to medicine, but gained a great deal of insight with the aid of mentors and the disability community. In this interview, Dr. Sternlieb recounts her positive experiences in medical education, the difficulty with assumptions and stereotypes in m...

Episode 9: Bonnie Swenor, PhD, MPH 09.12.2019 29:42

Interviewee: Dr. Bonnie Swenor Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Description: Dr. Bonnie Swenor's research aims to improve the health of persons with disabilities, by transforming traditional thinking on health disparities research. Over the past decade, there has been an increased focus on identifying and addressing health disparities among racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic minority groups; however, p...

Episode 8: Dr. Satendra Singh, MBBS, MD 25.11.2019 29:14

Interviewee: Dr. Satendra Singh, MBBS, MD Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Description: In this podcast, Dr. Singh discusses his work in advocating for equal access in medical education and his success with ensuring competencies around the care of patients with disabilities are taught to every medical student in India. Key Words: BIPOC, Law, Education, and/or Research, MBBS, Advocate, Medical Educatio...

Episode 7: Alexandra Adams, Part 2 12.11.2019 25:58

Interviewee: Alexandra Adams Host: Dr. Lisa Meeks Guest narrator: Joseph Murray Description: In Part 2 of our interview Dr. Meeks and Alexandra discuss the power of social media to bring people together, crowd sourcing information, and finding mentorship from anywhere in the world. Alexandra also shares her experiences coming to the US where she found a medical environment where disability was oft...

Episode 7: Alexandra Adams, Part 1 11.11.2019 28:59

Interviewee: Alexandra Adams Host: Dr. Lisa Meeks Guest narrator: Joseph Murray Description: In Part 1 of our interview we talk to Alexandra about her formative experience as a patient, her desire to be a doctor, and the process of applying to medical school. Alexandra and Dr. Meeks also discuss navigating accommodations in the UK and the US and the respective views about #DocsWithDisabilities in...

Episode 6: Dr. Michael Argenyi, MD, MPH, MSW 28.10.2019 31:21

Interviewee: Dr. Michael Argenyi Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Descriptipon: Michael Argenyi's story is well-known. His historic legal case is one of the most cited cases regarding the inclusion of DHOH individuals in medical education. In this podcast, we move beyond the case and talk to Michael about his experiences across the medical education continuum, starting with the decision to apply to med...

Episode 5: Dr. Nichole Taylor, Part 2 14.10.2019 20:31

Interviewee: Nichole Taylor, DO Interviewer: Joseph Murray, MD Host: Lisa Meeks, PhD, Description: As a physician-educator and administrative leader with a disability Dr. Nichole Taylor is in a unique position to effect change. In this second part of her interview, Dr. Taylor discusses disclosure, help seeking behavior and the benefit of early identification and accommodation for learners with di...

Episode 4: Dr. Marley Doyle, MD 01.10.2019 31:09

Interviewee: Dr. Marley Doyle Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks In this podcast, Dr. Meeks interviews Dr. Marley Doyle, a psychiatrist with a visual disability. Through a recounting of Dr. Doyle's experiences, they touch on several items including the ethical responsibility to disclose a disability, the difficulties surrounding disclosure, the choice of a specialty that will not impose concerns regardin...

Episode 3: Dr. Laura Pratesi, AUD, CCC-A, FAAA 17.09.2019 24:12

Interviewee: Dr. Laura Pratesi Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Description: In this podcast Dr. Pratesi discusses her path to becoming an audiologist including her diagnosis, living with and without accommodations and assistive devices, working with disability resources in college, helping others request accommodations in the workplace and finding a way to engage with her passion of theatre and music...

Episode 2, Part 3: Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA 23.08.2019 27:39

Interviewee: Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Description: In this three-part series we talk with Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, a Psychiatry resident and researcher at the University of Toronto, and embark on a winding and multi-layered conversation about the barriers in medical education for individuals with disabilities. Within this series, we touch on the unwritten curriculum, stu...

Episode 2, Part 2: Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA 22.08.2019 24:43

Episode 2, Part 1: Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA 21.08.2019 23:07

Episode 1: Dr. Nichole Taylor 30.07.2019 26:16

When you are a physician, and disability occurs post-training, you may have to pivot. Join us to hear the first-person account of Dr. Nichole Taylor and how she took her passion for medicine and her deep commitment to training learners, and crafted a unique position in medical education that has a powerful impact on shaping UME and GME perceptions of disability. For episode transcript, go to MDisa...