ASCO DCCC Town Hall Sponsored by VSP Global

ASCO DCCC Town Hall Sponsored by VSP Global

Working with People with Disabilities: Providing Quality Care for People Who are Often Marginalized

Join us on Friday, February 25, 2022, from 1:00-3:00 PM ET for ASCO’s Diversity and Cultural Competency Committee’s Town Hall on Working with People with Disabilities: Providing Quality Care for People Who are Often Marginalized. 

This session will focus on the challenges people with disabilities experience when accessing comprehensive eye care. The World Report on Vision and the Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities highlight the fact that persons with disabilities are entitled to the same level of care as their physical and neurotypical peers however many research articles have documented the gaps in accessing same equitable levels of care. A recent survey of primary care physicians revealed that general discomfort exists when caring for patients with disability and, though this study didn’t survey optometrists specifically, the sentiment is likely the same. 

Lisa Noble, an Illinois Special Olympics athlete, will share her experiences about the barriers and facilitators in receiving quality health care. Dr. Sandra Block will highlight several hurdles that need to be addressed within optometric educational programs. Additionally, she will discuss the importance of teaching our future doctors how to serve people with disabilities in order to ensure services are equitable, accessible, and affordable. Most of the patients present are capable of cooperating in a full primary care exam without much modification and the goal of this Town Hall is to encourage the confidence and competence needed to provide equitable care to this population. 

Register today. For more information, contact LaShawn Sidbury Duckett, director of meetings and special interest groups, at lsidbury@opted.org.

A special thank you to VSP for their generous support of this program.