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Jacob Rha is a 3rd year MD/MBA student at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He previously studied mathematics and economics at Baylor University. Originally from Dallas, TX, he enjoys playing volleyball and ringing handbells in his free time.
Caroline Liang is a second year MD/MBA student at Tufts University School of Medicine. Originally from Minnesota, she studied biology and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to medical school, she worked as a research economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, her agency collaborated with the White House Coronavirus Task Force to monitor and analyze economic data, government responses, and health outcomes.
Zoie Sheets is a 3rd year medical student at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), as well as a member of the Urban Medicine, Patient-Centered Medicine, and James Scholar programs at UIC. During her Masters of Public Health program, Zoie became interested in the disparities that folks with disabilities are facing when trying to access primary care. She believes that disability education in medical school curriculum has the potential to shift the attitudes that can exist toward disability within healthcare. To explore this further, she has developed and piloted simulated patient models of disability, training disabled patients to teach and give feedback to medical students.
Currently, Zoie is a member of the Meeks Lab at the University of Michigan, focusing on thematic analysis of the lived experiences of doctors with disabilities, as captured in the #DocsWithDisabilities podcast. She teaches a seminar to undergraduate students on the experiences of those with disabilities in healthcare -- both patients and practitioners.
As a disabled future physician, Zoie is dedicated to increasing accessibility for fellow practitioners and patients. You can follow her @ZoieSheets on Twitter.