Microaggressions

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Microaggressions

Presented by: Janel Charlton, MD, Marion Mahone, MD & Gregory Pouliot, PhD – Faculty, Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program

Learning Objectives:

• Define microaggressions and their subtypes.
• Explore the impact of microaggressions on the target audience.
• Understand your role as an ally.
• Practice specific disruption techniques to address/mitigate microaggressions.

Dr. Charlton joined the Family Medicine Residency Program in 2012 and took the position of Senior Associate Director in 2017. Drawing on her experiences as a former Chief Resident in the program, she understands the importance of strong communication between the faculty and residents. She prioritizes developing personal and professional relationships with each resident and aiding in their learning and development. Dr. Charlton and her husband, David, live in South Bend with their sons. The boys keep their family busy with sporting events and playing outside.

Dr. Mahone graduated from the Memorial Family Medicine Residency in 2013, then stayed an extra year to complete a Masters in Public Affairs through the Health Service Management curriculum.  She then took a position as a residency hospitalist in 2014, and then became a full-fledged faculty hospitalist in July 2017.  Within the residency, she is one of two faculty members who exclusively staff the inpatient medicine service.  Her interests include hospital medicine, recreational sports, trivia, traveling, and learning musical instruments.

Dr. Pouliot joined the faculty in 2016 after completion of a two-year fellowship in clinical health psychology in Flint, Michigan. Within the residency, he oversees the behavioral medicine curriculum and teaches interpersonal communication skills as well as differential psychiatric diagnoses and their associated treatments. His primary clinical interests include inpatient consultation-liaison services, including capacity evaluations and psychodiagnostic assessments. Additionally, Dr. Pouliot’s psychotherapeutic areas of expertise include characterological issues as well as complex comorbid psychological dysfunction. He recently completed a postdoctoral masters degree in clinical psychopharmacology at Fairleigh Dickinson University.