Section Chief Spinal Cord Injury @Abilitylab, Assistant Professor of PM&R @NUFeinbergMed. SCI Fellowship @NorthwesternPMR. Wheelchair User, mom.Opinions my own.
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ALT Navy background with white outlined box and white text: "Allison Kessler, MD, MSc, is the Section Chief of Renée Crown Center for Spinal Cord Innovation. She is board-certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Medicine. Dr. Kessler is the Associate Director of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's SCI Medicine Fellowship. She holds appointments at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as Assistant Professor in the Department of PM&R and Teamwork and Leadership Curricular Thread Leader.”
ALT MENTORSHIP PROGRAM AIMS: To create a collective that will bring women with disabilities in medicine together for mentorship, networking, and collaboration. To provide social and practical resources, education, and other supports to promote success among women with disabilities in medicine. REQUIREMENTS: Be a current medical student, resident, or fellow in an MD or DO program, identify as a woman, and commit to one year of the program. ) Apply at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WWDIM24-25cohort by June 7th
ALT Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine sessions: “The Power and Impact of Storytelling: A Live Recording of the DocsWithDisabilities Podcast”, “Disability and Transgender Health”, “Fostering Inclusion by Embedding a Culture of Disability”, “Through their lens: Using storytelling to demonstrate the critical role of program access across the medical education continuum”, “The Disability in Medicine Mutual Mentorship Program (DM 3P)”, and “AI in Disability Healthcare”. For a full agenda visit: https://med.stanford.edu/smadie/events/5th-annual-disability-conference.html
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