Project DIME: Training the Troops

APRIL 21, 2026 • 8pm eastern

Rick Rader, MD, FAAIDD, FAADM, DHL (hon)
President, American Association on Health and Disability
Co-Founder, American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry
Director, Habilitation Center, Orange Grove Center
Board, Alliance for Disability Health Care in Education
Consultant, National Council on Disability
Editor in Chief, HELEN, The Journal of Human Exceptionality

Project DIME (Disability Inspired Medical Education) is an initiative that has the goal of promoting the mandating of a disability clinical competency curriculum in every medical schools, nurse practitioner and physician assistant training programs. Every year over 50,000 students graduate from these programs without the skills, confidence and experience to provide competent clinical care to patients with disabilities.

Every THIRD Tuesday* of the month the AADMD Student & Resident Committee hosts interdisciplinary webinars for clinicians to learn from colleagues in a patient-centered manner with the purpose of encouraging comprehensive care provision to patients with IDD.

*Day of the week is subject to change.