Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders: Medical Students and Residents with Disabilities (IDEAS) - April 30

Recorded On: 04/30/2024

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Medical students and residents with disabilities play crucial roles as future leaders in healthcare, driving efforts to promote health equity and enhance the presence of physicians with disabilities. In this webinar, learners with disabilities will discuss their experiences applying to and entering medical school and residency, ways they have found support and mentorship at their institutions, challenges they have faced on their journeys, and their work and leadership enhancing genuine disability access and inclusion in medicine.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the significance of the representation of medical students and residents with disabilities in healthcare settings.
  • Learn about the experiences and perspectives of medical students and residents with disabilities in navigating their programs and finding support at their institutions.
  • Reflect on ways institutions can improve accessibility, inclusion, and support for learners with disabilities.
  • Gain insight into how medical students and residents can be allies for their peers with disabilities.

About IDEAS
The AAMC IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism) Learning Series provides actionable information about DEI strategies that you can put into practice to become a more effective and successful leader, educator, and member of the academic medicine community.

Christopher Moreland, MD, MPH (He/Him)

Professor, Internal Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Chris Moreland is a professor of internal medicine and hospitalist at Dell Medical School. He also serves as associate residency program director and interim division chief for hospital medicine. As a deaf physician, his collaborative advocacy and research have focused on the experiences, access, and trajectory of people with disabilities as healthcare professionals and as patients.

Ifeoma Ikedionwu, BS (She/Her)

M.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Ifeoma is a third-year medical student particularly interested in advancing racial and socioeconomic equity, disability justice, sexual health awareness, and mental health destigmatization. She intentionally works from the perspective of how systemic factors impact these related topics through volunteering, research, and advocacy.

Zainub Dhanani, MS (She/Her)

M.D. Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine

Zainub Dhanani is a medical student at Stanford School of Medicine and a recent graduate of its MS Health Policy program. She is the founder of the annual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine as well as the founder and board chair of the national nonprofit student-led disability advocacy organization, Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI). She has a keen interest equitable design of health systems as well as wellness and belonging amongst healthcare professionals and trainees.

Christopher Connolly, MD, MBA, MS (He/Him)

Combined Pediatrics & Medical Genetics Resident, Michigan Medicine

Chris is a C5-C6 incomplete quadriplegic, Chicago native, and graduate of Stanford University (BS/MS) and the University of Michigan (MD/MBA). While in medical school, Chris interned for the United States Senate and worked with Illinois lawmakers on improving fair housing opportunities for people with disabilities. In addition, through his business career, Chris has developed assistive technologies for clinicians with disabilities and worked in clinical development for an artificial intelligence-enabled protein engineering company that is developing therapeutics for people with rare diseases. Chris is currently a resident in Pediatrics & Medical Genetics at Michigan Medicine where he also serves on the medical school’s technical standards committee.

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