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Diana Mercedes Cejas | |
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Born | 1981 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Appalachian State University, BS, Biology, 2003
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, BA, Physics, 2005 Howard University, MD, 2010 Pediatric Residency Program, Tulane University School of Medicine, 2013 Masters of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health, George Washington University, 2014 Child Neurology Residency Training Program, University of Chicago, 2017 |
Awards | Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology, 2020
Finalist, PEN Center USA Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2023 Elected Board Member of the Child Neurology Society 2022-2024 |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Diana M. Cejas is an American pediatric neurologist, author and disability advocate, currently working at the University of North Carolina and the Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities.
Cejas was born in Virginia but grew up in Rougemont, North Carolina. [1]
While Cejas was a medical student at Howard University, she found a lump on her neck. Dismissed by her medical providers, she was not diagnosed with cancer until her second year of residency. After the second surgery for her cancer, she had a stroke, which left her with residual dysarthria and hemiparesis. [1] [2] [3] She struggled during her residency due to lack of accommodations for disabled physicians. [4]
Cejas works at the University of North Carolina as a pediatric neurologist and assistant professor. She has a dual appointment at the Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities where she sees children with developmental disabilities. [5]
She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and was selected for the Diversity Leadership Program in 2022. She co-created the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force of the Child Neurology Society in 2021 [6] and was elected to the board as the Councilor from the South for 2022-2024. [7]
Cejas is on the advisory committee for the Docs with Disabilities Initiative. [8] She also sits on the advisory panel of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) on Healthcare Delivery and Disparities Research. [9]
Her work has been published in literary magazines including The Iowa Review, Ecotone, [10] and Passages North; [11] and anthologies including Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century [12] and A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South. [13] She is currently working on a collection of essays describing her life as a physician and a patient. [10]
Cejas is Black, Latina, and disabled.
Peer-reviewed Articles
Creative Nonfiction
Selected Work on Disability and Advocacy
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