Podcast
Description
Dr Dinushika Mohottige and Karina Albistegui Adler join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Allison Charney and Dr Lilia Cervantes: “What Should Clinicians in Organizations Without Established MLP Programs Do When Their Patients Need Lawyers to Meet Their Health Needs?”
Access the transcript and read the article.
Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH is an assistant professor in the Institute of Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine and the Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology at Mount Sinai in New York City. She received a BA in public policy and a health policy certificate from Duke University, where she was a Robertson Scholar, and then earned an MPH in health behavior and health education from the Gillings School of Global Public Health and a medical degree from the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her residency in internal medicine and was chief resident at Duke University, where she also received nephrology training. She engages in patient and community-centered, inequity-focused research on the impact of socio-structural factors and racialized medicine on kidney health and kidney transplantation.
Karina Albistegui Adler, JD is a co-director of health justice at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, where she has developed campaigns aimed at increasing access to health care and organ transplantation for undocumented and low-income individuals in New York. Her approach is rooted in community-centered perspectives and enriched by a lifetime of lived immigrant experiences. Karina obtained her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her JD from the City University of New York School of Law.
Recorded April 25, 2024.
Background image by Annie Broutman.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Dr Mohottige reported being a member of the ESRD National Coordinating Center Health Equity Taskforce, National Kidney Foundation Health Equity Advisory Committee, National Kidney Foundation Transplant Advisory Committee, NKF-GNY Medical Advisory Board, and Healio Nephrology News & Issues Editorial Advisory Board. Karina Albistegui Adler disclosed no conflicts of interest.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
