Lisa M Meeks, PhD, MA
@meekslisa
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Equity focused HPE researcher @uicdme @umichmedicine PI & Founder #DocsWithDisabilities | Host @docswith🎙️ 🏳️🌈♿️ 🧘 #AccessInMedicine #MedEd #STEM
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2020
Really encourage folks to nominate for this award! So many good people doing amazing work in #HPE. The @SocialMissionEd is an incredible group and we need to lift up those continuing the work, especially in today's climate. Help spread the word and retweet! 💕
Nominations are open for the 2026 @macyfoundation Awards for Excellence in Social Mission! 🌍 Honor leaders advancing #Equity and #SocialMission in #HPE 🏆 5 categories 📅 Due Nov 3, 2025 🎉 Honored at #SMA2026 (Mar 30–31 | LA) 🔗
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New @AcadMedJournal article in the theme Disability at the Intersections! 🌺Centering a Justice-Based Approach to Disability Inclusion in #MedEd A powerful final piece shifting #MedEd from access → ✨justice✨ 🔗 https://t.co/ozSOuuL7LZ
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🌙 DREAM Research Rounds #MedEd New in @JAMANetworkOpen From Diagnosis to Denial: Disability, Race, and Step 1 Accommodations 🗓 October 28, 2025 | 12–1 PM ET 🔗 Register: https://t.co/f0SwzCEc0M
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How does uncertainty around disability status impact student well-being? Find out in @AcadMedJournal 🌸 Demographic Factors and Burnout Outcomes Associated With Disability Status Uncertainty in U.S. Medical Students🌸 https://t.co/Ao7H4Ueuhl
#MedEd #DocsWithDisabilities
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📢Next theme drop! 🌸Disability at the Intersections 🌸 This section explores how disability interacts with race, class, gender & background—revealing the compounded factors shaping learning in #MedEd. 🔗 https://t.co/zFZ4ZWvpQQ
#DisabilityInclusion #Intersectionality
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If you read one paper this week, make it this new @JAMANetworkOpen publication from the Meeks and Boatright labs. 👏 Huge thanks to @MytienTNguyen for leading this important work and to our entire team—dedicated to reducing disparities and advancing equity for marginalized
New in @JAMANetworkOpen : Among 45,705 #MedicalStudents those with disabilities—especially Asian, Black & Hispanic women report higher general, gender & race-based discrimination. Discrimination Experiences Among Medical Students
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New Article:🌸Strengthening Disability Inclusion in #MedEd: The Role of Disability Resource Professionals Through Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Framework, by Triano & @meekslisa in @AcadMedJournal 🌸 https://t.co/kgWJcLTB3F
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edical students with disabilities (MSWDs). Despite national calls for institutional commitment to accessibility, only 9% of U.S. medical schools employ a dedicated DRP, leaving many MSWDs without...
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Myth: “No one gets Step 1 accommodations.” Fact: In our @JAMANetworkOpen study, 69% of requests were approved. But inequities remain for Asian students, psych disabilities, & dx during med school. Next step? Combat rumors, 📈access to DRPs,📉wait times https://t.co/Rusrr9CkQT
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🌸Enhancing the learning environment is key for #DisabilityInclusion in #MedEd! The @AcadMedJournal supplement articles in this theme demonstrate how schools can exceed compliance by expanding frameworks, standardizing language & empowering DRPs. 🔗 https://t.co/Vg2Z66ElFV
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🌸✨ Disability inclusion is reshaping the future of #MedEd ! ✨🌸 The @AcadMedJournal Disability Inclusion in UME supplement — Landscape of Disability Inclusion in Medical Education section— maps the state, challenges & opportunities in #MedEd. 🔗 https://t.co/Vg2Z66DNQn
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🌸 “There is no failure in refusing to unfold.” 🌸 Honored to share One Arrangement?—a powerful poem by Dr. Megan Brown in the @AcadMedJournal supplement on Disability Inclusion in #MedEd reminding us: blooming takes many forms. https://t.co/FJbTQz2Y79
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Join me for the launch of the @AcadMedJournal Supplement on Disability Inclusion in Undergraduate Medical Education 🩺📚 🗓️ Thurs, Sept 25 | 12–1 pm ET 🔗 Register: https://t.co/smrIB6V5lu
#MedEd #DisabilityInclusion #AcademicMedicine
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Today is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. I am talking to @HansaBhargavaMD for @Medscape about it on @instagram in a few hours if you want to join and learn more... And, if you need help call @PhysicianLine: 1 (888) 409-014 You. Are. Not. Alone. #NPSA #mentalhealth
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1/4 In @JAMAInternalMed Jennifer & John Ruddell share the story of their son, Jack Ruddell, MD—a brilliant med student who died by suicide months before graduation and Call for Mental Health Reform in #MedEd 📖 Read:
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This essay by parents of a medical student who died by suicide calls for medical schools to better address the pressures of medical training and prevent suicide, burnout, and mental stress among...
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Thank you to @DisRightsFL for this powerful convo 💬 In her most personal interview yet, our founder @meekslisa shares how childhood experiences + encounters with the health system shaped her mission. https://t.co/kvhOXgbWt3
#MedEd #NursingEducation @DocsWith
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We interview Dr. Lisa Meeks of the Docs with Disabilities Initiative, and discuss the HBO Max show, The Pitt.
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📢 Join us Sept 25, 12–1 PM ET for Disability Inclusion in Medical Education: Launch of the @AcadMedJournal Supplement. Guest Editor Dr. @meekslisa & authors will discuss tackling ableism & building accessible learning environments in #MedEd. 👉 https://t.co/AUdHKs19Pz
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Join us as we gather for the Inaugural Jack Ruddell Memorial Talk with Dr. Justin Bullock, MD, MPH—honoring Jack’s life and confronting the urgent need to address mental health in medical education. 💙 📅 Sept 18 | 7 pm ET 🔗 https://t.co/iczOa9NZTv
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This fall, the Docs With Disabilities Initiative (DWDI) is excited to share a lineup of events that combine remembrance, research, and resources to advance equity in #MedEd. Join US! #DocsWithDisabilities
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Dear Colleagues and Friends, This fall, the Docs With Disabilities Initiative (DWDI) and partners invite you to a series of events that honor lives, share new research, and spotlight practical...
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📢 New publication from our core member Dr. @meekslisa et al!
A new study in @AcadMedJournal study standardizes language for 75 #MedEd vetted clinical accommodations across 6 domains. 💬 How does lack of specificity in accommodations language impact your institution? 🔗 https://t.co/XpgBwCnwAa
#DisabilityInclusion #AccessInMedicine
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