Justin Bullock, MD, MPH
Division of Nephrology
University of Washington
Dates of Visit: February 13 – 14, 2023
Biography
Justin Bullock is a fellow in Nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Justin is passionate about creating safe environments in medicine where everyone in the hospital is able to bring their true authentic selves to work in the spirit of healing. Justin is a passionate medical educator: a teacher, researcher, and lifelong learner. His primary research focus centers on how educators can minimize identity threats in the learning environment. In addition to his education scholarship, Justin is outspoken about his lived experience as a gay Black bipolar physician. His work and story have been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Vox and Forbes among others. Drawing on his dual identities as a patient and provider with serious illness, Justin believes deeply that medicine is a lifelong journey of healing as much for providers as it is for patients.
Purpose of Visit
As a Nephrology fellow and medical educator new to Seattle, Justin’s goal is to begin to build a community of medical educators in the Pacific Northwest. Also, to bounce off ideas as he begins his Medical Education PhD program to qualitatively characterize the construct of identity safety.