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Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity
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We fight to combat systemic ableism! | Advocating for equality & accessibility; disability as a part of diversity & inclusivity.
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The National Council on Disability is requesting public input to help shape a policy brief on disability clinical care and competency training. Share your perspective by January 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST.

Share your input here:
www.ncd.gov/2025/12/01/d...
A blue and gold digital flier from the National Council on Disability announcing a public request for feedback. Large white headline reads: ‘NCD Requests Public Feedback.’ Below, text states that the National Council on Disability is inviting public comments to help inform a federal policy brief on disability clinical care and competency training for medical professionals. Community members, caregivers, healthcare providers, educators, and individuals with lived experience are encouraged to participate and share insight to help shape future standards in disability-inclusive healthcare. At the bottom left, text shows the submission deadline: January 6, 2026 — 11:59 PM EST. Bottom right includes a button labeled ‘Visit Website: Share your input.’ Decorative gold and white megaphone illustration is centered beneath the headline, and the top features the National Council on Disability logo.
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Our SMADIE founder and co-chair highlight why disability inclusion and community support matter, and how Giving Tuesday helps fuel this work.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Our SMADIE founder and co-chair highlight why disability inclusion and community support matter, and how Giving Tuesday helps fuel this work.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Hear from our SMADIE Director of Strategy and Engagement as she shares how building inclusive spaces, elevating disabled voices, and fostering mentorship drives lasting impact, and how your Giving Tuesday support helps make it possible.
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Hear directly from our SMADIE co-chair about why accessibility, mentorship, and disability inclusion matter and how your Giving Tuesday support helps turn these values into action.
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Hear from our SMADIE Director of Strategy and Engagement as she shares how building inclusive spaces, elevating disabled voices, and fostering mentorship drives lasting impact, and how your Giving Tuesday support helps make it possible.
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Hear directly from our SMADIE co-chair about why accessibility, mentorship, and disability inclusion matter and how your Giving Tuesday support helps turn these values into action.
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Join us as we highlight SMADIE’s work in accessibility, mentorship, and disability inclusion. Your support helps us keep these conversations going all year long.
Group photo of SMADIE members, students, and healthcare professionals together at SMADIE Positive Exposure Photo Gallery Premiere. Flyer text reads: GIVING TUESDAY December 2, 2025 Giving Tuesday is a global movement that celebrates generosity, community, and shared responsibility. It began as one day, but today, it represents something bigger: A reminder that giving isn't just about money. And it isn't just about one day. It’s about choosing to support change every day, in many ways. SMADIE works to make healthcare accessible, inclusive, and equitable for people with disabilities, not just in policy, but in training, design, and everyday care. Your support helps us: Elevate disabled voices in medical education, Grow mentorship and advocacy opportunities, Create training on accessibility and inclusive care, Build a community that designs for every body and mind. Giving Tuesday helps us fuel this work, not just for one day, but all year long. To support SMADIE’s mission, visit https://flowsto.com/r/UyUKRb2qV to donate or scan the QR code.
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Join us as we highlight SMADIE’s work in accessibility, mentorship, and disability inclusion. Your support helps us keep these conversations going all year long.
Group photo of SMADIE members, students, and healthcare professionals together at SMADIE Positive Exposure Photo Gallery Premiere. Flyer text reads: GIVING TUESDAY December 2, 2025 Giving Tuesday is a global movement that celebrates generosity, community, and shared responsibility. It began as one day, but today, it represents something bigger: A reminder that giving isn't just about money. And it isn't just about one day. It’s about choosing to support change every day, in many ways. SMADIE works to make healthcare accessible, inclusive, and equitable for people with disabilities, not just in policy, but in training, design, and everyday care. Your support helps us: Elevate disabled voices in medical education, Grow mentorship and advocacy opportunities, Create training on accessibility and inclusive care, Build a community that designs for every body and mind. Giving Tuesday helps us fuel this work, not just for one day, but all year long. To support SMADIE’s mission, visit https://flowsto.com/r/UyUKRb2qV to donate or scan the QR code.
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Come say hi tomorrow & enjoy ice cream in celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month
A colorful flyer for the "Ice Cream Social & Photo Exhibit" event hosted by SMADIE in celebration of National Disability Employee Awareness Month (NDEAM). The flyer features illustrations of ice cream cones and scoops in pastel colors. Event details include the date, Tuesday, September 30th, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, at Stanford Hospital, 500 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor. A QR code is included for registration, along with a link for more information. The background is a soft pink, enhancing the festive theme.
September 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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An amazingly successful 6th Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine with 1800 attendees from 52 countries! Thanks to our amazing speakers, and thank you all for attending!

#DocsWithDisabilities #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabilityRights #CreatingChange #HealthEquity
May 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Dr. Pete Poullos and Claudia Center (Legal Director at
@dredf.bsky.social) discuss the status of #DisabilityRights in our 7th #SMADIE25 session.

They explored how the wellbeing of #DisabledPeople, #Immigrants, & others are interwoven - and threatened by current proposed cuts & policy changes.
Photo of Dr. Poullos at a desk filled with several monitors, a laptop propped on a tampon box, and multiple large metal cups with straws. Dr. Poullos is positioned on the righthand side of the frame, viewed most from behind. On the left, a monitor displays the conference interface showing video feeds of multiple participants. Claudia Center and the ASL interpreter are most visible. A framed black and white photograph from Dr. Poullos' wedding hangs on the cream-colored wall above the workspace.
April 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Rick Guidotti's work with the disabled healthcare community is phenomenal. (Session 6 of the 6th annual #SMADIE25 conference happening now!)

"Change how you see, see how you change... we all have the talent to change how the world sees difference," he reminds us.

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Positive Exposure - Promoting a more inclusive world through Photography, Film and Educational Programs!
For 25 years, Positive Exposure has operated as a 501(c)(3), building a more equitable, compassionate world for individuals and communities at risk of stigma and exclusion. We all share the same need:...
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April 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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LOVING Dr. Stacy Greeter's rich, engaging, and playful slides. They're extremely effective for communicating her message.
She advocates for doctors "bringing [their] whole autistic selves" to medicine.

#SMADIE25
#AutisticDoctors
Screenshot from Stanford's "6th Annual Conference on Disability in Medicine" (April 26, 2025). The presentation features a humorous slide titled "Receiving ADHD Diagnosis at Age 5/6" comparing different brain types using food analogies. The left side shows "My Brain!" as a runny, messy scrambled eggs labeled "Undercooked and Running All Over the Place," while the right shows "Other Kids' Brains" as neat, fluffy scrambled eggs labeled "Light, Fluffy, and Organized!" A childhood photo of presenter "Dr. Greeter, age 4/5" appears in the top left. The four-person video grid shows Interpreter-Julie (she/her) signing, Stacy Greeter, MD (she/her) presenting, Alicia Cho, D.O. (she/her), and Laura Carravallah, MD (she/her/hers). The bottom banner reads "FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING: BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS FOR AUTISTIC MEDICAL TRAINEES TO SUCCEED IN MEDICINE" with Stanford Medicine branding.
April 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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On now: The 5th session in our #SMADIE25 conference,

"From Surviving to Thriving: Breaking Through Barriers for Autistic Medical Trainees to Succeed in Medicine."
April 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Dr. Soyoung Choi, PhD, RN, presented "Shared Vision: A Nursing Researcher’s Exploration of Healthcare Accessibility with a Blind Partner" at #SMADIE25 in our 4th session.

Her research builds on dual-ethnographic research in her own family to consider disability accessibility in medicine.
Screenshot from Stanford's "6th Annual Conference on Disability in Medicine" (April 26, 2025). The slide titled "Lessons from Research with Blind Participants" features "Technological Solutions Enhancing Accessibility" section on "Haptic and Tactile Technologies." It details the Swell-Form Printer that creates tactile graphics on special paper using heat to raise black inked areas, forming touchable textures. An image shows example tactile documents. Partial text below reads: "To make blind people to use their touch sensory to access visualize." Two video participants appear on right: Soyoung Choi (she/her/hers) in white jacket with pearl necklace against autumn trees and brick buildings, and below her, Interpreter-Julie (she/her) with blonde hair signing. Red banner states: "SHARED VISION: A NURSING RESEARCHER'S EXPLORATION OF HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY WITH A BLIND PARTNER."
April 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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"As this little adorable possum in a trash can on fire says, the horrors persist, but so do, and so will I our disability research lab as long as I can keep it going. So we would love to have you join us.
- @drkaraayers.bsky.social
in our 4th session

#SMADIE25
#DocsWithDisabilities
Screenshot from Stanford Medicine's "6th Annual Conference on Disability in Medicine" (April 26, 2025). The presentation slide asks "What's next for our Disability Research Lab?" with two burgundy bullet points: "We continue to apply for funding" and "We continue recruiting and mentoring." The slide features a humorous cartoon illustration of a distressed Possum sitting in a green dumpster engulfed in flames with the caption "THE HORRORS PERSIST BUT SO DO I" - representing resilience amid challenges. On the right side is a video feed showing Interpreter-Autumn, a woman with wavy light brown hair actively signing with both hands raised. The bottom features a decorative blue and burgundy wave design with a small circular profile photo in the bottom left. A prominent red banner spans the bottom stating "PROMOTING DISABILITY INCLUSION IN HEALTHCARE: EMPLOYMENT DISPARITIES, MENTORSHIP, AND ALLYSHIP FOR WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES." The Stanford Medicine logo appears in the bottom
April 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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You can join our 6th annual Stanford Medicine Conference on Disability in Medicine and Healthcare here!
radiologyweb.a2hosted.com/SMADIE-conf/
#SMADIE25
April 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Powerful keynote address from @lisameeks.bsky.social, asserting solidarity is not a luxury—it’s a survival mechanism.

@stanfordsmadie.bsky.social’s annual disability conference is happening right now, and it’s free to join online!

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Screenshot of Lisa Meeks speaking at the SMADIE conference giving a keynote on collective action. There is an ASL interpreter shown as well.
April 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Remember to follow
@docswithdisability.bsky.social !

Founder and co-director Lisa Meeks is our #SMADIE25 conference keynote speaker.
April 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The Disability in Medicine Mutual Mentorship Program (DM3P) was shouted out by Dr. Poullos in introductory remarks at the 6th annual #SMADIE25 conference!

Check them out!
dm3p-social.bsky.social (DM3P) Disability in Medicine Mutual Mentorship Program @dm3p-social.bsky.social · Apr 26
HELLO WORLD!
We are the Disability in Medicine Mutual Mentorship Program (DM3P). Our organization supports disabled health professionals and trainees in their careers via a mutual mentorship model.
Monthly, we host guest lectures and group discussion on zoom.
JOIN US!
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April 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Excited and thankful to announce our grant from the NBME to support our work in disability justice in healthcare & medicine!
About SMADIE: med.stanford.edu/smadie.html
About DM3P: disabilitymedmentors.org
#DocsWithDisabilities #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabilityRights #DisabilityResearch
Announcement graphic featuring the NBME logo and a quote from Dr. Peter Poullos expressing gratitude to the NBME and the team for their dedication and impact. Mentions the upcoming April 26 virtual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine
April 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Presenting the 7th session of the conference happening THIS Saturday!
Theme: Disability Justice 2025, featuring
Claudia Center, Rebecca Cokley, and Ma’ayan Anafi.
#DocsWithDisabilities #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabilityRights #CreatingChange #HealthEquity
April 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Excited and thankful to announce our grant from the NBME to support our work in disability justice in healthcare & medicine!
About SMADIE: med.stanford.edu/smadie.html
About DM3P: disabilitymedmentors.org
#DocsWithDisabilities #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabilityRights #DisabilityResearch
Announcement graphic featuring the NBME logo and a quote from Dr. Peter Poullos expressing gratitude to the NBME and the team for their dedication and impact. Mentions the upcoming April 26 virtual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine
April 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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We wanted to thank our incredible sponsors who are making our 6th Annual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine possible! @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @stanfordohns.bsky.social

#DocsWithDisabilities #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabilityResearch
White background, titled “Conference Sponsors” with logos and titles of the sponsors: MSDCI (Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness), Stanford Department of Radiology, Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford Medicine Office of the Chief Community Engagement Officer, Stanford Medicine Otolaryngology, Department of Medicine at Stanford, and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), with text that says ‘The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) generously awarded grant SMADIE help fund the 6th annual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine.'
April 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM