New JAMA study using NRMP® data reveals that learners with disabilities face challenges matching for medical specialties, especially orthopedic & general surgery.

This emphasizes the need for #AntiAbleist training to reduce bias & equitable evaluation strategies 4

My favorite part of talking to Maya Feller MS,RD and Kavita Patel M.D. was that they asked me 0 personal questions. I didn’t get asked when I got diagnosed. I didn’t get asked what it looks like when I stim. I got treated like a professional, albeit one from a specific minority group.

I had so much fun reporting and producing this episode on how people can hear the eclipse using an accessibility device and why it's important: wbfo.org/local/2024-04-… for WBFO

New article by Mannor and Needham about ableism and population health: frontiersin.org/journals/publi…

Anyone have a Airchat invite?

Wow.

I don’t just “have autism;” I am autistic’ theslateonline.com/article/2024/0…

The upcoming eclipse is not just a visual experience, it is sensory! For WBFO's Disabilities Beat led by Emyle Watkins ♿️, I visited the planetarium at Williamsville North School to explore eclipse materials available for students with vision disabilities. wbfo.org/local/2024-04-…

How Generative AI Done Right Could Help Democratize Health Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

A friend brought up tonight that not only are many disabled students not taught Sex Ed, but most Sex Ed is not disability inclusive. It would be amazing for schools to normalize and educate on disabled sexuality, parenthood, reproductive freedom, and health.

I care a lot more about whether you treat autistic people as human than whether you say condition or disorder, autistic or person with autism, awareness or acceptance.

Language isn’t a cheat code.

'Attitudes of Autistic Adults toward Genetic Testing for Autism' — Read it on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

As a soon to be medical student and person with a disability, I
hope to echo and further what’s talked about in this podcast. Big thanks to The DocsWithDisabilities Initiative , Allison Kessler, MD , and AAMC for leading these efforts!

Kara Ayers Thank you for inviting me, it was a real pleasure. My project still has an open call for writing submissions : radical-guide.com/disabled-radic…

I can't thank Richard Amm ♿️🌍👨‍🦼 (richamm.bsky) enough for coming to our Disability Research Lab meeting today and giving us so many exciting things to think about. I just shared some of it with my afternoon students. Thanks for lighting our brains ablaze. I hope you feel better soon.

Chatting with my students about how ridiculous it is that the U.S. FDA is (yet again) asking for comments about (and before) banning electrocuting children...Best believe I'll comment but geez.

We cannot look away....I didn't know this was the largest cohort of pediatric amputees in history.

Grateful my colleague/friend Elizabeth Lanphier is chiming in on these discussions about health inequities resulting from the $$$$ of new treatments for sickle cell disease (and other conditions).