638 - This Ability Clinic's Dr. Stephanie Van on Disability Advocacy, Accessibility, and Appreciation
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
For Disability Pride Month, Dr. Stephanie Van, a Johns Hopkins rehabilitation physician and founder of YouTube's @ThisAbilityClinic, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about her work as a pain management specialist and disability advocate. They discuss how she helps patients with newly acquired disabilities and what she's learned about the disability community in the process, as well as what needs to change from the individuals to industries to make the world a little more inclusive. This episode is also available as a video here: https://youtu.be/T2PUYFOBVYk
Learn more about disability and accessibility with the resources recommended in this episode by Dr. Van:
Hashtags to follow on social media: #Disability, #Accessibility, #DisabilityVisibility
Read or listen: Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
This episode was co-produced by Aliza Rosen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:32.1 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.3 | Today, as part of Disability Pride Month, I'm speaking with Dr. Stephanie Van, a Hopkins |
| 0:39.4 | rehabilitation physician and founder of YouTube's This Ability Clinic. Just to note that what you're |
| 0:46.2 | about to hear was recorded as a video that you can watch on our YouTube channel at Johns Hopkins |
| 0:51.8 | SPH, or you can click the link in the show summary. Also, did you know that we |
| 0:57.1 | have transcripts available for every episode of this podcast? Check out our pinned tweet on the |
| 1:03.0 | at Public Health Pod account to see how you can access them. That's at Public Health Pod on |
| 1:09.9 | Twitter. Let's listen. Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of |
| 1:15.1 | Public Health on call. I am a white woman with medium-length blonde hair sitting in front of a |
| 1:21.9 | podcast microphone, and my Zoom background is blurred. And I'm here today with Dr. Stephanie Van, |
| 1:29.0 | who's a Johns Hopkins rehabilitation physician, |
| 1:32.2 | specializing in interventional pain management. |
| 1:34.9 | She's also the founder of YouTube's This Ability Clinic, |
| 1:38.1 | which is a disability conscious healthcare education platform |
| 1:42.3 | that's accessible and entertaining for everybody. Dr. Van, |
| 1:47.0 | thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here. |
| 1:52.6 | I'm Dr. Stephanie Van. I'm going to sign an ASL. My name is Dr. Van. I'm a Vietnamese woman with |
| 1:59.9 | long dark hair wearing a Navy Hopkins blazer and a black |
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