Lisa Meeks
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Lisa M. Meeks is an American specialist in disabilities in health professions education and faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School. She has co-authored several articles in journals including The New England Journal of Medicine,[1] The Lancet,[2][3] JAMA (journal),[4][5] and Academic Medicine (journal)[6][7] and published books on the subject of disability in medical education, helping to inform policy and best practice. She is also creator of the web-based campaign #DocsWithDisabilities[8] and host of the Docs With Disabilities Podcast.[9] She also contributed to the formation of International Council on Disability Inclusion in Medical Education[10] which aim to create shared standards regarding the support of qualified learners with disabilities in the medical profession that will serve as a benchmark for nations where rules on inclusion do not exist. Her work has been featured on NPR, the Washington Post, CNBC, in Slate, cleveland.com, Bloomberg Law, the Chicago Tribune and in The New Physician magazine from the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).
Selected works
- Disability as diversity a guidebook for inclusion in medicine, nursing, and the health professions. Cham: Springer. 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-46187-4.</ref> Lisa M. Meeks , Leslie Neal-Boylan (2020). Disability as Diversity: A Guidebook for Inclusion in Medicine, Nursing, and the Health Professions. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-46186-7
- Lisa Meeks and Neera Jain. Accessibility, Inclusion, and Action in Medical Education: Lived Experiences of Learners and Physicians with Disabilities (2018). University of California, San Francisco and Association of American Medical Colleges[11]
- Lisa Meeks and Neera Jain. The Guide to Assisting Students With Disabilities: Equal Access in Health Science and Professional Education, 1st Ed(2016). Springer. ISBN 978-0-8261-2374-9
Awards and honours
- 2018: Association for Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Award[12]
- 2020: Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award[13]
References
- ^ Swenor, B; Meeks, LM (30 May 2019). "Disability Inclusion - Moving Beyond Mission Statements". The New England Journal of Medicine. 380 (22): 2089–2091. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1900348. PMID 31141629. S2CID 169038170.
- ^ Reed, NS; Meeks, LM; Swenor, BK (August 2020). "Disability and COVID-19: who counts depends on who is counted". The Lancet. Public Health. 5 (8): e423. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30161-4. PMC 7373402. PMID 32707124. S2CID 220666651.
- ^ Meeks, LM; Maraki, I; Singh, S; Curry, RH (14 March 2020). "Global commitments to disability inclusion in health professions". Lancet. 395 (10227): 852–853. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30215-4. PMID 32171395. S2CID 212698423.
- ^ Meeks, LM; Plegue, M; Case, B; Swenor, BK; Sen, S (1 July 2020). "Assessment of Disclosure of Psychological Disability Among US Medical Students". JAMA Network Open. 3 (7): e2011165. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.11165. PMC 7378748. PMID 32701156. S2CID 220716862.
- ^ Meeks, LM; Case, B; Herzer, K; Plegue, M; Swenor, BK (26 November 2019). "Change in Prevalence of Disabilities and Accommodation Practices Among US Medical Schools, 2016 vs 2019". JAMA. 322 (20): 2022–2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.15372. PMC 6902201. PMID 31769816.
- ^ Meeks, LM; Herzer, K; Jain, NR (April 2018). "Removing Barriers and Facilitating Access: Increasing the Number of Physicians With Disabilities". Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 93 (4): 540–543. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000002112. PMID 30248081.
- ^ Curry, RH; Meeks, LM; Iezzoni, LI (1 September 2020). "Beyond Technical Standards: A Competency-Based Framework for Access and Inclusion in Medical Education". Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 95 (12S): S109–S112. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003686. PMID 32889921.
- ^ Meeks, LM; Liao, P; Kim, N (May 2019). "Using Twitter to promote awareness of disabilities in medicine". Medical Education. 53 (5): 525–526. doi:10.1111/medu.13836. PMID 30907444. S2CID 85497856.
- ^ "Transforming Medical Education | Family Medicine | Michigan Medicine". Family Medicine. 30 July 2019.
- ^ Meeks, LM; Maraki, I; Singh, S; Curry, RH (14 March 2020). "Global commitments to disability inclusion in health professions". Lancet. 395 (10227): 852–853. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30215-4. PMID 32171395. S2CID 212698423.
- ^ The guide to assisting students with disabilities : equal access in health science and professional education. New York: Springer Publishing Company. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8261-2374-9.
- ^ "Faculty awarded honor from the Association for Higher Education and Disability | Family Medicine | Michigan Medicine". Family Medicine. 22 July 2018.
- ^ "Seven honored with Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Awards – Michigan Medicine Headlines".