According to the American Medical Association (AMA), nearly 20 percent of Americans have disabilities, yet professional students in key health fields and health care providers with disabilities still encounter serious barriers throughout their training and careers – barriers that reflect the challenges too many Americans with disabilities still face in accessing health care that others take for granted.

In observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), ACL is hosting a webinar on October 24, 2018 at 3pm ET with medical professionals with disabilities who are flipping the script and working to enhance inclusion of people with disabilities by working to improve health care training curricula and increase the access to and quality of health care for people with disabilities.

The webinar will include discussion of cultural competency, accessibility & inclusion in medical education, as well as the stigma that surrounds employment of medical professionals with disabilities.

Speakers include:

• Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSC, Harvard Medical School
• Neera Jain, PhD Candidate, University of Auckland
• Karen McCulloh, RN, Founder, National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities
• Michael McKee, MD, MPH, University of Michigan 

Registration Link: https://www.mymeetings.com/emeet/rsvp/index.jsp?customHeader=mymeetings&Conference_ID=8192309&passcode=1858645