Disability Awareness Month Featured Speaker Event -

The program will explore the ways that intersectional forms of oppression (ableism, racism, sexism, xenophobia) appear in the medical training environment. We will explore how medical education is a model of extraction, removing individuals from the communities from which they come. The speaker will propose sustaining as the educational alternative to extraction. Drawing on both personal narrative as a bipolar physician and narrative of participant trainees, he will introduce the construct of identity safety as a major way that medical education can sustain trainees with disabilities and other minoritized identities. 

All UCR students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend. Dr. Bullock will do a meet and greet session for participants after the formal program. Refreshments will be served.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Justin Bullock is a clinician researcher in Nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Co-director of the Docs with Disabilities Initiative. Justin is passionate about creating safe environments in medicine where everyone in the hospital is able to bring their authentic selves to work in the spirit of healing. Justin is a passionate medical educator: a teacher, researcher, and lifelong learner. His primary research focuses on how educators can foster identity safety in the learning environment. In addition to his education scholarship, Justin is outspoken about his lived experience as a gay, Black, bipolar physician. Drawing on his dual identities as a patient and provider with serious illness, Justin believes deeply that medicine is a lifelong journey of healing as much for providers as it is for patients.

This event is co-sponsored by:

UCR Student Disability Resource Center

UCR School of Medicine

UCR LGBT Resource Center

UCR Health, Humanities, and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative 

UCR WELL