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ForwardDiversity Summit 2024: Advancing Disability Rights: Perspectives and Progress
Overview
This conference focuses on key issues in disability rights and inclusion. Learners will explore how to improve patient care by addressing the impacts of ableism in medicine, strategies for delivering better care to patients with disabilities, and how to create supportive environments for learners, faculty, and staff with disabilities or neurodiversity. Additionally, the conference will address practical ways to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging within organizations. The goal is to provide useful insights and actionable steps for improving accessibility and support across various settings.
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Social Scientists, Pharmacy Professionals, Social Workers, Psychologists, Athletic Trainers, Registered Dietitians, and other Healthcare Professionals.
Learning Objectives
As a result of this educational activity, members of the healthcare team will be able to:
- Identify key ways in which ableism affects medical practice and patient outcomes.
- Develop strategies for delivering more inclusive and effective care to patients with disabilities.
- Implement best practices for creating supportive environments for learners, faculty, and staff with disabilities or neurodiversity.
Elements of Competence
- American Board of Medical Specialties:
- Professionalism
- Interprofessional and communication skills
- Patient-centered care
- Interprofessional communication
- Values and ethics
- Teams and teamwork
- DEI Competencies
- Address health disparities
Agenda
| 3:00 p.m. -3:20 p.m. | Welcome Remarks - Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, MA, CDM |
| Opening Remarks - Dean Robert N. Golden, MD | |
| 3:20 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Keynote Address: Disrupting Ableism & Promoting Disability Inclusivity & Representation - Anjali Forber-Pratt, PhD |
| Q&A Session | |
| 4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Break |
| 5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. | Choose a breakout session |
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| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Reception in the HSLC - Disability Pride Flag event takeaways activity |
The Summit will also be livestreamed to the SMPH Video Library, so you can watch it by clicking the following link: https://videos.med.wisc.edu/live/.
Parking information
Attendees coming from outside the west part of campus for the summit are strongly encouraged to take public transportation or share a ride with other attendees. Parking in the UW Health Patient & Visitor lot 75 is very limited and we would like to make sure that patients and visitors have space to park. Lot 76 next to Nielsen Tennis Stadium has slightly more capacity for visitor parking, we encourage you to park there before considering lot 75.
Planners/Presenters
- Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, MA
SMPH Associate Dean for Diversity & Equity Transformation; UW Health Vice President/Chief Diversity Officer - Ruben Mota, PhD
PhD, UW-Madison Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Coordinator - Patricia Cisneros Prevo, M.Ed
Program Manager, UW Health Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Mari Magler, JD
JD, Director of the McBurney Disability Resource Center - Ann K Kowaliczko, MS
School of Medicine and Public Health Disability Services Advisor - Tyler Lane
UW Health Education, Optimization, and Support Analyst; UW Health/SMPH Disability and Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group Co-Chair - Genevieve Marvin
UW Health Patient Access Lead; UW Health/SMPH Disability and Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group Co-Chair
Keynote Speaker
Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, PhD
Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Ph.D. is the Director of Research at the American Association on Health & Disability (AAHD), a disability activist, and a two-time Paralympian. Prior to this role, she served as the Director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) in the Administration for Community Living. She holds three degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a researcher, her primary area of work relates to disability identity development. She presents regularly at state, national, and international conferences and is author on numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters. As a wheelchair-user for over 40 years, Dr. Forber-Pratt is nationally and internationally recognized as a disability leader and mentor. She was a White House Champion of Change in 2013 and the American Psychological Association awarded her the 2020 Citizen Psychologist Award for Advancing Disability as a Human Rights and Social Justice Issue Award.
Policy on Disclosure
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) to identify, mitigate and disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education (CE). In addition, speakers, presenters, and authors must disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation.
For this accredited continuing education activity all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated and detailed disclosures are listed below.
| Name | Role(s) | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of Unlabeled/Unapproved Uses of Drugs/Devices in Presentation? |
| Shiva Bidar-Sielaff | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Anjali Forber-Pratt | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Ruben Mota | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Patty Cisneros Prevo | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Mari Magler | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Ann K Kowaliczko | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Tyler Lane | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Genevieve Marvin | Planner /Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical services directly to patients to be ineligible companies.
Accreditation Statement
 | In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. |
Credit Designation Statements | |
American Medical Association (AMA) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. | |
 | American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 2.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. |
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live in-person activity for a maximum of 2.25 ANCC contact hours. | |
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this activity for a maximum of 2.25 hours or 0.225 CEUs. Credit can be earned by documented attendance during the session. Credit will be provided to NABP CPE Monitor within 60 days after the activity completion. | |
 | Association of Social Work Board (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 2.25 hours of continuing education credits. |
 | American Psychological Association Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co‐sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs |
 | BOC‐AP Category A Hours/CEUs The University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) (BOC AP#: JA0000358) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs). This program is eligible for a maximum of 2.25 Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program. |
 | Commission on Dietetic Registration Completion of the RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics‐related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60‐minute hour = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion. |
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 0.225 CEUs or 2.25 hours. | |
Available Credit
- 2.25 AAPA Category 1 CME
- 2.25 ACPE Contact Hours - Pharmacist
- 2.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.25 ANCC Contact Hours
- 2.25 APA CE Credits
- 2.25 BOC Category A CEUs
- 2.25 CDR CPEUs
- 2.25 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
- 2.25 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Program Changes
Emergency situations occasionally occur and may necessitate topic or speaker changes. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP reserve the right to alter or substitute a topic or speaker without prior notification.
Accessibility
The University of Wisconsin provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX requirements. The University of Wisconsin fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please notify us at help@icep.wisc.edu