Deaf Hub News

Determined to empower future deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) healthcare students with skills for success and strategies for navigating and minimizing the challenges that she had to face in medical school, Tiffany Panko, MD, MBA, executive director of NTID’s Deaf Health Care and Biomedical Science Hub, established the Mentor Supported Shadowing Program (MSSP) in 2023. The MSSP was designed to provide NTID-supported students with a team of mentors, shadowing opportunities with healthcare professionals, and an accessible experience with real connections.

Let’s learn more about Emily Stamaris, our fifth preceptor in this Shadowing: Behind the Scenes Series!

Researchers have identified an AED that includes visual and text prompts, making it accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing users and those not familiar with the English language.

“Why does one person with a brain injury recover faster than another? Or why does someone in their 90s still live independently while another faces early cognitive decline? I want to understand what makes the difference,” says Experimental Psychology MS soon-to-be grad Bo Allaby.

Over the past few months, RIT student Hannah DeFelice has looked forward to going to her internship office—a paddock in the center of a Holliston, Mass., farm—and spending quality time with her co-workers, a herd of 11 horses and three donkeys.

Emma Kane, a third-year public policy major from Brighton, N.Y., has spent the past year working at the Deaf Health Laboratory, led by the mentors at the Deaf Health Care and Biomedical Sciences Hub (Deaf Hub) at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Another Deaf Hub Vital Signs has been completed in our book of memories! We invited Dr. Ashina Singh to share her experience as a late-deafened individual navigating through the fields of transplant hepatology and gastroenterology. Her presentation was titled “Overcoming Barriers: Underrepresented Minority Experience in an Ableist Field.”

Let’s learn more about Joseph “Joe” Samona, DDS, our third preceptor in this Shadowing: Behind the Scenes Series!

Raised in a family with healthcare professionals, Yasmine Lee fell in love with science that led her to study biomedical sciences with a minor in exercise science.

Chehally is a Deaf Puerto Rican woman focused on research, writing, and advocacy, especially when it comes to increasing Deaf representation in the medical field. As a master’s student in communication with a health focus at RIT, she is working to bridge the gap between the Deaf community and healthcare.

Amadou is no stranger to fighting against systemic barriers. As a BIPOC deaf individual, he experienced the challenges of language deprivation firsthand, which shaped his views on medical accessibility.

Biverly applies her experiences and classroom knowledge to pursue her goal of becoming a veterinary behaviorist.