Positive Exposure

SMADIE

To celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), SMADIE presents this photo exhibit of health care providers with disabilities. These SMADIE members enhance diversity visibility and are photographed by Rick Guidotti, an award-winning photographer and the founder of Positive Exposure. Learn more about Guidotti and his work at positiveexposure.org.

Peter Poullos, MD

Clinical Professor of Radiology
Founder/Co-Chair, Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity (SMADIE) at Stanford

Dr. Poullos was a Gastrointestinal (GI) Fellow at UCSF and in 2003 became a C3-C4 incomplete quadriplegic. He then decided to retrain as a radiologist at Stanford Medicine, joining their Radiology faculty in 2009 in the Body Imaging Division. In 2018, Dr. Poullos founded and now co-chairs the Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability, Inclusion & Equity (SMADIE) organization.

Inclusion of disabled health care providers is not only a moral imperative but crucial to improving health equity for our patients. Oned day we will view disability not as a weakness or a liability, but something to celebrate as a strength.

Ken Sutha, MD, PhD

Instructor, Pediatrics - Nephrology at Stanford Children's Health
Co-Chair, Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity (SMADIE) at Stanford

Dr. Sutha is a pediatric nephrologist scientist and NIH-funded investigator. In addition to his work in the lab and his clinical work caring for children with kidney disease, he is a two-time kidney transplant recipient, former dialysis patient, and co-chair of the Stanford Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity.

Our work is important to me for the collective power of those with different kinds of disabilities/chronic illness and their allies to bring about chagne for the better in medicine.