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Lightning Talks at the Summit are grouped under common themes and will take place during breakout sessions with 3-4 Lightning Talk short presentations and a facilitated Q and A or group discussion. The Lightning Talks below are grouped according to date, time, and theme.

Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit is available for participation in the live Lightning Talk sessions, and will be claimed by completing the Evaluation and CE Attestation Forms that will be emailed to all registrants at the close of each Summit day.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice 1

Development of an Interprofessional Educational Module for Medical Emergencies Management for Undergraduate Healthcare Students
Background:Interprofessional education (IPE) has is an emerging field of healthcare education. Teamwork and collaboration foster a healthy working environment, and IPE aims at learning about, from, and with each other. For this to occur, educational institutions and healthcare services have recognized the need for all members of the team to be educated together to deliver this holistic care to a patient. As health professionals, dental students, medical students, and nurses should be prepared…
Swet Nisha — Lorie Sigmon — Shannon Ford
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Educate, Empower, ECHO: A Student-centered Model for Interprofessional Practice
This lightening talk will present how Interprofessional champion faculty, providers, and students from across multiple Arizona State University colleges and programs collaborated to address gaps in knowledge, skills, strategies, and performance related to real-world, team-based care delivery. Recognizing persistent barriers caused by siloed training, the work group explored innovative learning delivery methods to transform traditional approaches to interprofessional education. The result was…
Liz Harrell — Ileana Ratiu — Kristen Will — Karen Saewert — Alison Sutton-Ryan — Elisabeth Williams — Autumn Young
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Engaging Students in Interprofessional Scholarly Work: Lessons Learned from Five Years of the UW IPE Path of Distinction Program
As evidence mounts for the positive patient and workforce outcomes of interprofessional education (IPE), educators must not only offer comprehensive instruction of IPEC competencies but also nurture the next generation in IPE leadership and scholarship. To achieve this latter goal, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE), in collaboration with its ten program/school partners, developed the longitudinal UW Interprofessional Practice and…
Zachary Zahos — Ethan Elazegui — Sue Wenker — Laura Birkeland — Roberta Rusch — Jennifer Timm
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Interprofessional Values and Ethics Mock Debate: Engaging Health Profession Students in Evaluating a Complex Transplant Case
This Lightning Talk will describe how our institution uses a mock debate between various interprofessional health profession learners to explore the ethical considerations of whether an individual should be listed on a transplant registry. This unique format simulates discussions that often take place during ethics consults and challenges students to apply their individual professions’ codes of conduct to a realistic case while working as part of an interprofessional team. Students gain…
Zachary Zahos — Roberta Rusch — Jennifer Timm — Kevin Wyne — Lacey Alexander
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Interprofessional Collaboration and Advocacy to Advance the Health of Individuals, Families, and Communities

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Advancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Clinical Expertise Through OSF APP Quarterly Skills Days
In the fast-paced world of urgent and primary care, maintaining procedural competency is essential for delivering high-quality and efficient patient care. The OSF APP Education Department developed a program, APP Skills Day, in response to feedback from outpatient providers and learners regarding skills in which they feel underprepared to perform or frequently refer patients elsewhere for evaluation and management. APP Skills Day is held quarterly and provides a hands-on opportunity to refresh…
Katelyn Reinhart — Meghan Weber
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Fueling Our Future Health: An Interprofessional Student Experience
This Lightning Talk offers a behind-the-scenes exploration of USF Health’s nutrition-focused Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day, an experiential learning event that engages students in collaborative problem-solving around a patient case grounded in social determinants of health (SDOH). The session outlines key components of event planning, curriculum design, and facilitation strategies, showcasing how IPE Day integrates community-informed care into professional education. Participants will…
Shaterra Blocker — Dawn Schocken — Lauri Wright — Haru Okuda — Mitzy Flores
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Health Coaches as Behavior Change Catalysts on Interprofessional Teams
Sustainable health behavior change in patients with chronic disease demands innovative, team-based solutions. Health coaches, with expertise in behavior change, are uniquely poised to strengthen interprofessional teams by empowering patients in sustainable lifestyle changes. Yet, many are unaware of the role health coaches can play and how they are trained. This presentation will demonstrate how integrating a health coach into collaborative care improves chronic disease management for many…
Cherie ONeill — Dola Greene
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Just for Today: A Simple Reiki-based Mindfulness Practice to Cultivate Joy & Well-being in Healthcare
Mental health and wellbeing are essential for thriving in higher education and healthcare, yet students, faculty, and staff continue to face rising levels of stress, burnout, and emotional fatigue. This interactive 10-minute Lightning Talk introduces a practical, evidence-informed mindfulness strategy grounded in the five principles of Reiki—addressing anger, worry, gratitude, presence, and kindness—as a tool to support emotional regulation, resilience, and collective wellbeing across campus…
Michelle Colarelli
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Building the Evidence Base for Interprofessional Practice and Education

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"Ready, Set, Collaborate! Evaluating What Students Learn in IPE 101"
The four core competencies of Interprofessional Education (IPE) as defined by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education are recognized as a gold standard for educational initiatives in health professions’ education. At West Virginia University, these competencies form the basis of our foundational “IPE 101” curriculum. For the past decade, our institution has worked to refine our foundational sessions to highlight one of the four core competencies of professional roles…
Gina Baugh — Kathryn Hoffman — Adam Hoffman — Jason Craig
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Assessing Affective Learning Through Reflections on Interprofessional Clinical Experiences
It is well-established that interprofessional learning must occur in clinical learning environments (IOM, WHO). In 2023, leaders from the Doctor of Medicine (MD) curriculum and the Office of Interprofessional Practice and Education (OIPE) at The Ohio State University developed a new module for medical students to learn interprofessional (IP) collaborative competencies within a required clinical experience, Understanding Patients Within Populations (PWP). The “IPE in PWP: Identifying and…
Alexa Valentino — Allison Macerollo — Stella Ogake — Elizabeth Barnhardt — Cynthia Dougherty — Elizabeth Trolli — Haben Kidanemariam, BSPH — Andrea Pfeifle
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Faculty Assessment of Clinical Students’ Peer-to-peer Feedback
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from the doctor of allopathy (MD), accelerated bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), and doctor of physical therapy (DPT) programs to provide interprofessional (IP) and collaborative care to patients presenting to the Duke emergency department (ED). The IP experience focuses on team-based, hands…
Kathleen Waite — Erin Leiman
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Student Perceptions of Faculty Feedback in an Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from their professional programs including doctor of allopathy (MD), advanced bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), physical therapy (PT) to provide collaborative care to patients presenting to the Duke emergency department (ED). The interprofessional experience focuses on team-based, hands-on…
Kathleen Waite — Erin Leiman
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice 2

Enhancing IPE Readiness with Ai-created Podcasts: Student Reactions and Lessons Learned
Preparing students to be informed, open-minded, and engaged for large Interprofessional Education (IPE) activities that take place in the late afternoon or other unfavorable times can be challenging. Use of innovative, technology-inclusive approaches can help educators improve readiness for interprofessional collaboration. This presentation describes the model we adopted, shares lessons learned, and offers suggestions for improvement. IPEC 502 is a semester-long required IPE course for 500+…
Megan Donohue — Kelly Lockeman — Shelley Richards — Tiffany Crawford — Gabriel Moxey
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Figment Health Mentor: Using AI to Generate a Conversation with Interprofessional Colleagues
This Lightning Talk will review a newly developed educational tool called Figment Mentor under development at MUSC. Students select and create an interprofessional colleague avatar and ask interview questions to learn more about different professions and how their own profession participates in collaborative practice. The system uses a large language AI model to respond to students’ interview questions. Figment Mentor was used in assignments in two different interprofessional courses.…
Lisa Langdale — Dusti Annan — Kimberly Kascak
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Utilizing a Multi-agent Generative AI Platform to Support Exploration of Health Professions Roles and Responsibilities
This presentation will provide attendees with an overview of a novel utilization of a multi-agent generative AI platform intended to support the self-directed learning of health sector program students regarding the roles and responsibilities of other professions as a part of their interprofessional training. Students engaged with multiple agents on this platform, each agent representing a separate health profession, which were trained using data from both the professional literature and a set…
Andrew Wiss — Dawn Joosten-Hagye — Nabila Ahmed-Sarwar — Mary Showstark — Elke Zschaebitz — Heather Hageman — Anthony Breitbach — Erin Embry — Jennifer Pattershall-Geide — Kyle Dobbeck
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Utilizing Generative AI as a Tool to Facilitate High Functioning Rapid Team Formation in IP Student Teams
This lightning talk will explore the possible utilization of Generative AI (GenAI) as functional tool that could facilitate high functioning Rapid Team Formation (RTF) in IPE teams in clinical settings. Within healthcare settings delivery of care is more often than not coordinated through teams of practitioners from different disciplines. Moreover, not all clinical teams have the advantage of previous working relationships. However, a lack of training in team formation, and functionality could…
Tamzin Batteson
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Person, Family and Community-Engaged Practice and Education

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Leveraging Geri-educators to Enhance Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Education
Person-centeredness is essential to holistic health care and requires collaboration of healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. The University of Colorado (CU) delivers a one-credit Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) course for 650 first-year students from dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, and physical therapy programs.  This course develops IPEC competencies related to communication and teaming skills, central to which is a person- and…
KImberly Indovina — Amy Nordon-Craft — Lindsey Yates — Krista Estes — Jodi Waterhouse — Jennifer Trujillo — Amy Akerman
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Preparing Interprofessional Students for a Workforce Supportive of Aging: The Development of a Healthy Aging Curriculum
As the global population ages, the number of people living with dementia (PLwD) is rising rapidly, placing increasing demands on healthcare systems. Yet, traditional health sciences curricula often lack sufficient focus on brain health, caregiver support, and interprofessional collaboration. The Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI) was developed to address these gaps and prepare interprofessional students to meet the complex needs of older adults through collaborative, person-centered care.  This…
Sue Wenker — Jennifer Timm — Susan Switzer
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Using an Innovative Interprofessional Education Core Curriculum to Increase Awareness of Primary Headache Disorders' Underdiagnosis, Undertreatment, and Suboptimal Management for Improved Learning and Health Outcomes
More individuals complain about headaches than any other condition. Headaches are disorders without a biological marker; the diagnosis is based on history and symptoms. Migraine is the third most prevalent disorder affecting 15% of Americans. As the most stigmatized neurological disease, society and media view it as just a bad headache, instead of a debilitating and disabling disease. Therefore, migraine is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Similarly, cluster headache, aka suicide headache…
Vera Gibb — Ashlesha Parikh — Kelly Grace — Safa’a Al-Arabi — Cheryl Juneau — Shelly Brody — Angelia Nedd — Deanna Duggan — Mariana Ciobanu — Caroline Brooks — Susan Doughty — Susan Stone — Kylie Gagan — Anna Williams — Joe Stone
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Building the Evidence Base for Interprofessional Practice and Education

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Beyond the Syllabus: Empowering Faculty to Support Student Well-being
Introduction: Faculty burnout and student distress are reaching a crisis point in healthcare education. The causes are multiple and global. Recent data show that 64% of faculty experience work-related burnout, with 19% reporting a high degree and 15% a very high degree of burnout. Students are navigating persistent post-pandemic fatigue, mental health concerns, financial pressures, and academic challenges. Many faculty feel underprepared to address students in difficulty, especially when issues…
Karen Dickinson — Kathryn Neill — Wendy Ward — Linda Larson-Prior — Matthew Boone
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Digital Professionalism Among Interprofessional Healthcare Students: A Concept Analysis
This lighting talk will present a concept analysis about digital professionalism among interprofessional healthcare students. Digital technologies within healthcare and social media have become intertwined with the personal, academic, and professional lives of interprofessional healthcare students. This talk aims to explore how interprofessional education (IPE) can integrate the concept of digital professionalism to prepare future interprofessional healthcare professionals to maintain ethical…
Kateryna Metersky — Tommy Lin
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
From Panel to Practice: Using Interprofessional Storytelling to Enhance Understanding of Social Determinants of Health
Within interprofessional education (IPE) curricula, students consistently express a need for real-world examples that illustrate how interprofessional teamwork operates in practice. As learners advance beyond foundational competencies toward culturally responsive and community-driven care, integrating practitioner perspectives becomes essential, particularly when in-person experiences are logistically challenging. This lightening talk shares findings from a social determinants of health (SDoH)…
Jillian Rivard — Phillip Mitchell
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Visualizing Interprofessional Communication: Gantt Plot Analysis of Student-patient Interactions in Early Experiential Education
This Lightning Talk will introduce an innovative, data-driven visualization tool developed to assess interprofessional communication in the University of Michigan Longitudinal Interprofessional Family-based Experience (LIFE) course. By analyzing Zoom interview transcripts, the tool generates interactive Gantt plots that map second-by-second speaker activity. Code was created and tested using recorded zoom interviews of student-patient interactions during an early experiential course where…
Adam Boxwalla — Kason Glover — Hannah Edwards — Karren Farris
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Interprofessional Collaboration and Advocacy to Advance the Health of Individuals, Families, and Communities

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Caring for the Caregiver: A Virtual Interprofessional Stroke Caregiver Support Group
This lightning talk will describe an initiative that promotes stroke caregiver health. Stroke survivors have a high rate of disability and significant chronic needs. Informal caregivers play a critical role in aiding the recovery process, preventing further strokes, and maintaining the stroke survivors’ involvement in their communities. Caregiving is an all-encompassing role, and stroke caregivers experience negative changes to their health and wellness. Physiological and psychological impacts…
Kathryn Sabo — Alexandra Podell — Kimberly Erler
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
From Aisles to Action: Training Health Professionals to Tackle Food Insecurity Collaboratively
Background: Food insecurity (FI) is a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle. In 2023, 13.5% of U.S. households met criteria for FI. Arkansas ranks worst at 18.9%. Assistance benefits provide $2.06/person/meal, but the average meal costs $3.55/person. Aside from economics, many individuals in rural areas experience FI due to living in food deserts with limited access to affordable, nutritious food. Healthcare providers are often unaware of patients’/families…
Kathryn (Kat) Neill — Gina Drobena — Brigette Serfaty — Courtney Fose — Lesley Jones — Wendy McCloud
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Street Medicine as Career Catalyst: Shaping Future Healthcare Professionals Through Interprofessional Practice
This lightning talk will discuss what impact that an interprofessional street medicine learning opportunity had on the future careers of health professionals. By exposing students to vulnerable populations, like the unhoused population, students gained insight into their unique needs and how an interprofessional team can perform in a nontraditional setting. Street medicine models, such as Project MUSHROOM, are designed to meet unhoused individuals where they are and provide care directly in…
Jacob Greenfield — Amber Ziese — Kimberly Adams
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Strengthening Fall Prevention Awareness Through Interprofessional Learning: Empowering Healthcare Learners and Supporting Underserved Older Adults
Strengthening Fall Prevention Awareness through Interprofessional Learning: Empowering Healthcare Learners and Supporting Underserved Older Adults highlights an innovative interprofessional education (IPE) activity designed to promote falls awareness among underserved older adults while fostering interprofessional teamwork among healthcare learners. Hosted by the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), this onsite activity engaged learners from Optometry, Pharmacy, and…
Alia Khalaf Houde — Jessica Rydingsward — Kaelen Dunican — Cheryl Babin
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT

Interprofessional Collaboration and Advocacy to Advance the Health of Individuals, Families, and Communities 3

From the Mouth Out: Dental Students Sparked the Movement for Oral Systemic Total Health Through Interprofessional Education
This Lightning Talk will cover the formation of a student chapter of the American Academy for Oral Systemic Health (AAOSH) by dental students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), which is referred to as the Interprofessional Association for Oral and Systemic Health (IAOSH). The UTHSC chapter is proud to be the first national interprofessional group created by dental students on a campus. This organization unites students from various fields, including dentistry,…
Nikki Dyer — Teresa O'Daniel — Reese Hamilton — Mark Massey — Tracee Ridley-Pryor — Waletha Wasson — Mark Cannon
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Greater Texas Gulf Coast Engage Me Series: Sparking Conversations, Igniting Action, Building a Healthier Future Together
The Greater Texas Gulf Coast Engage Me Series (GTX-GEMS), led by the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice (OIPEP), exemplifies how sustained community forums can bridge academia, healthcare, government, and advocacy sectors to advance public health and interprofessional collaboration.Hosted monthly from September to May, each GTX-GEMS session features panelists representing diverse professions and perspectives—including UTMB clinicians and…
Ashlesha Parikh — Kelly Grace — Kathrine Branch — Katelynn Evans — Izabella Galindo
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Preparing for Complex Care: Planetary Health in Ethics and Communication Training
This Lightning Talk highlights an innovative Interprofessional Education (IPE) workshop—IPEssentials—hosted by the Medical College of Wisconsin, which brought together over 500 health professions students from 10 diverse programs across the Milwaukee area. Designed to foster interprofessional collaboration and build psychological safety, the IPE session used planetary health as a unifying theme to explore values, ethics, and communication in complex patient care. Through a combination of pre-…
Christa Wagner — Courtney Barry — Dana Scheunemann — Karen MacKinnon — Kelly Horton
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Value of Interprofessional Education and Practice Embedded in a Community-based Curriculum for Adaptive Sports and Nutrition – the Partnership of Christina Sullivan Foundation and UTMB Health Education Center’s Office of IPEP
This session will discuss the value and outcomes of embedding interprofessional education and practice core competencies in the Christina Sullivan Foundation’s curriculum for adaptive sports for people with disabilities. Specifically, the speakers will share observations from UTMB student IPE team collaborations supporting people with disabilities and their families and caretakers, detail the rationale for IPEP integration and advocacy within the community, and present insights from the long-…
Ashlesha Parikh — Kelly Grace — Josephine Sullivan — Craig Sullivan
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Interprofessional Practice and Education

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Focus on HIV Prevention: Perspectives from an Innovative Interprofessional Fellowship
This talk addresses the critical role of HIV prevention in underserved communities, focusing on increasing awareness and access to PrEP. Through an HIV Prevention Fellowship, as a pharmacist who lacked specialized HIV training, I am able with interprofessional healthcare providers in metro and rural communities combat stigma, educate patients, and increase awareness, initiation and use among underserved populations. The fellowship aims to transform interprofessional practitioners into HIV…
Frank North
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Lean, Mean, Interprofessional Machine: Using 'Lean-six Sigma' Principles to Coordinate Large-scale IPE
What is the cause of low evaluation scores for IPE, despite optimal instructional design and relevancy of content? Do extraneous factors, like campus parking, garner more attention from students than in-depth interprofessional training toward effective teamwork and communication? The presenters will introduce the connection of programmatic improvement in IPE with the principles and models of Lean Six Sigma. Participants will be encouraged to consider Lean Six Sigma to achieve programmatic goals…
Cailyn Alexander — Cynthia Carroll
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Recognizing Faculty and Student Involvement in Interprofessional Learning
Educators and learners volunteering to facilitate and/or participate in interprofessional education (IPE) may receive no formal recognition for their additional involvement, challenging sustainability and efficacy of activities. However, increasing evidence indicates that interprofessional collaboration is imperative to providing safe, timely, and equitable healthcare, with accreditation requirements supporting integration of IPE across health professions curricula. Faculty facilitators must be…
Maria Brucato — Shoshana Sicks — Julie Liskov — Amber King — Brooke Salzman
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

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From Siloed to Social: Measuring the Impact of Shared Interprofessional Space on Student Connections
Recognizing that in 2020 we would have a new Health Science Education Center (HSEC), we knew this was an opportunity to study the effects of the building on the informal interactions that students have with each other. The 7-story building has state-of-the-art classrooms, a simulation center, an interprofessional lounge, and an interprofessional study area for all schools to use rather than learning and gathering in highly distributed and siloed sites.Our primary questions were whether the HSEC…
Amy Greminger — Brian Sick — Laura Dammer Hess — Natalie Platt — Abbigayle Avery
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Implementing a Curricular Framework for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
The Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education (JCIPE) launched its first program, Health Mentors, in 2007 with nearly 450 students from 4 health professions. Over the last 18 years, JCIPE has expanded its offerings, now delivering 16 programs and reaching over 2,300 students from 20 health professions each year. Growth has allowed for greater flexibility and options for professions to integrate IPE into their curricula and students to voluntarily participate in co-…
Maria Brucato — Shoshana Sicks — Julie Liskov — Amber King — Brooke Salzman
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Leading Collaborative Interprofessional Pro Bono Care to Elevate Student Learning and Community Impact
This Lightning Talk presents an innovative interprofessional model at the Birmingham Free Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where students and faculty across diverse health professions collaborate to deliver holistic, patient-centered care. Once a month, teams including Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) students and faculty, medical students, attending and resident physicians, nurses, pharmacists, AmeriCorps volunteers, interpreters, and community…
Bonnie Virag — Sarah McKendry
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Observing the Future: How Pre-health Interprofessional Education and Shadowing Shape Tomorrow’s Healthcare Teams
The University of Minnesota is a leader in developing interprofessional education for students in health professional programs. However, fewer opportunities exist for undergraduate pre-health students to learn about the collaborative nature of healthcare and prepare for the increasing interprofessional practice education in health programs. This talk will share how a course and observership program created by the Pre-Health Student Resource Center (PHSRC) in collaboration with academic and…
Brian Sick — Siri Schroeder — Karin Hamilton
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Building the Evidence Base for Interprofessional Practice and Education

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Creation of an Interprofessional Fellowship: Partnership Between a College of Health Sciences and a Center for Interprofessional Collaboration
This lightning talk describes the creation of an interprofessional faculty fellowship through the collaboration of a College of Health Sciences and a Center for Interprofessional Collaboration at a state university. We cover the rationale, logistics (finances & faculty time allotment/distribution), proposed structure and intended measurable outcomes for success of the program.Recent publications have called for the systematic approach to advancing IPE research, suggesting findings should…
Alicia Williams — Brian Cross — Courtney Andrews — Jeff Snodgrass
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Design and Outcomes of a Hyflex Interprofessional Evidence-based Practice Course
Hyflex learning experiences have become a popular modality to address the learning needs of students as it provides students with the option of attending experiences through face-to-face/in-person, online synchronous, and online asynchronous modalities (Bockorney et al., 2024; Heilporn & Lakhal, 2021). This modality creates greater possibilities for bringing students together from different disciplines, as common barriers to interprofessional learning include modality differences and…
Stephanie de Sam Lazaro — Kristen Maisano
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Translating IPEC Competencies into Practice: The LEGO Interprofessional Seminar Series for the Current Healthcare Workforce
Introduction:Despite the widespread endorsement of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies and broad implementation of trainee-focused events, structured opportunities for the current healthcare workforce to deepen interprofessional skills are limited. To address this gap, our academic health center developed the Learning and Education in Group Opportunities (LEGO)—a monthly interprofessional seminar series designed to reinforce and apply IPEC competencies in real-…
Wendy Ward — Wendy McCloud — Kesha James — Megan McCarthy
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
What Do I Do with All This Data?!
Interprofessional education (IPE) assessment is inherently complex and prickly. Challenges arise from the need to analyze data across diverse health professions, various levels of learners, numerous learning environments (e.g. classroom, simulation, clinical practice) and in contexts where competence in teams and teamwork, rather than individual performance, are the focus of evaluation. This complexity is compounded by the wide range of learning activities used to meet interprofessional…
Jennifer Jessen — Katherine Martens-Stricklett — Kimberly Somers
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Advancing Interprofessional Care through Practice-Education Partnerships

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“The Minnesota Way”: Problem Solving Curriculum Develops Students While Improving Clinical Quality
This Lightning Talk describes a new collaboration between the Medical School and School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. “The Minnesota Way” refers to a problem solving curriculum taught to Master’s of Healthcare Administration students. A fieldwork project introduced four students to a quality improvement project in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences regarding complex clinical documentation. The MN MHA Minnesota Way of problem solving consists of three main…
Alexandra Zagoloff — Justine Mishek — Maggie Horan
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Advancing IPECP Through Community-clinical-educational Partnerships: The Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program
This lightning talk will describe the design, implementation and evaluation of an interprofessional (IP) practice-education partnership in public libraries known as the Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program (HeLP). HeLP is an experiential IPE program in which teams of nursing, public health, social work, and physician assistant students and faculty collaborate to provide evidence-based health information, blood pressure screening and link library patrons to care. The team promotes…
Leah Topek-Walker — Gabriella Pandolfelli — Mary Ellen LaSala — Lynn Timko-Swaim — Lisa Benz Scott — Gerald Simons
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Enhancing Interprofessional Education Through Strategic Partnerships: A Collaborative Approach to Curriculum Expansion
Introduction to Interprofessional Education (IPE) at the University of Michigan (U-M) began as a 1.5-hour asynchronous module, serving as an assignment for first-year students in various health profession programs, introducing them to two IPEC competencies. In 2023, it was revised as a 3-hour asynchronous offering to describe all IPEC competencies, intercultural humility (a U-M-specific IPE competency), define IPE and IP collaboration (IPC) in relation to the quintuple aims and social…
Hannah Edwards — Olivia Anderson — Ben Anderson — Evan Ogg Straub — Megan Patrick — Laura Smith
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Leap Interprofessional Champions: Advances in Practice-education Partnerships
This lightning talk presents an innovative advancement in practice-education partnerships, termed the LEAP Champion model, which serves as a call to our IPE academic and health system players to partner in the nexus to authentically prepare a collaborative practice-ready workforce. Significant gaps exist in understanding the opportunities and challenges in implementing interprofessional education (IPE) in the clinical learning environment (CLE). Academic institutions face barriers in…
Sara North — Cheri Friedrich — Jennifer Pratt
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

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Designing IPE Academic Graduation Honors Criteria for Associate Through Post-professional Doctorate Students
This lightening talk will discuss the development of interprofessional education (IPE) honor cords for students from the associate to doctoral level at St. Catherine University. St. Catherine University interprofessional education functions as part of the Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Learning (I-SAIL). While IPE has a department, because it is not a formal major or minor, it has historically been difficult to raise awareness around student accomplishments and to retain and…
Mira Blume — Stephanie de Sam Lazaro
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Developing Allied Health Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Capability
A description of the Lightning talk: Interprofessional collaborative practice models of healthcare are required to best meet the complex needs of contemporary patients and clients. Allied health professionals are integral to these models, and are a unique group deserving of explicit focus because of the way they come from varied origins, comprise many professions, work in many groupings and have relatively flat hierarchical structures, as distinct to other heath professions. The importance of…
Isabel Paton
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Implementation of a Scaffolded Menu of IPE Offerings for a Campus Community
The vast majority of health professions accreditation councils require interprofessional education as part of their standards or guidance (HPAC, 2020). Yet the demands of program accreditation and the varying formats of programs often make achieving interprofessional education at the highest level of Miller's model (1990) (knows how, shows how, does) challenging to implement. A higher education institution with over 25 health programs, including programs at the certificate, associate,…
Stephanie de Sam Lazaro
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Integration of IPE into Allied Health Higher Education Programs: Faculty Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions
Interprofessional education (IPE) fosters collaboration among allied health disciplines to improve patient care. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for cross-disciplinary skills in healthcare (Goldman & Xyrichis, 2020). Effective IPE requires structured integration in health programs to enhance teamwork and patient outcomes (Sultan et al., 2022). This study examined faculty perceptions of IPE at a public university through an IPE-specific survey (IPKAS) and faculty interviews,…
Tracy Bonoffski
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
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Enhancing Community Engagement Through an APP Fellowship Partnership with a Local Community Action Agency
A large, system-based, accredited transition-to-practice program for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and Physician Assistants (PAs), known as the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) fellowship, currently operates eight specialty tracks, integrating community engagement into each of its tracks. The APP General Pediatrics Fellowship partnered with Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity (PCCEO), a community action agency dedicated to supporting low-income individuals and…
Ashley Workman — Stephanie Beckstrom — Amanda Lahood
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Innovative Interprofessional Internship: Connecting Students and Community Partners to Address Real-world Solutions
The Interprofessional Internship Program (IIP) at the University of Minnesota is an innovative internship model targeting students’ interprofessional competencies through hands-on, partnered engagement with community organizations to solve real-world challenges. Over its first five years, the program supported 36 projects with 19 community organizations and involved 69 students from 24 academic programs. Intern teams co-developed solutions addressing health workforce shortages, systems…
Sara North — Cheri Friedrich — Nabiha Chaudhry — Carolyn Porta
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Learning Together, Communicating Better: Medical Student Perspectives on Interprofessional Health Literacy Training
The Center for Disease Control (CDC, 2024) defines personal health literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.” Improving health literacy is an ideal, shared value, and ethical responsibility of all team members in collaborative, patient-centered care in addition to improving patients’ trust and health equity (CDC, 2024). Thus, it is an ideal topic to…
Stephanie Felgoise — Marissa Ferrito — Natalie Zychlinski — Lizzy Felgoise — Ashley Poole — Kruti Patel
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
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An Innovative Legislative-practice-education Partnership to Address Team-based Workforce Development in Rural Communities
Background and Purpose: The North Carolina General Assembly recently enacted Session Law 2023-134. This legislation provided funding to the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (NC-AHEC) to develop and implement five Rural Interprofessional Clinical Teaching Hubs (Teaching Hubs) incorporating two of more professions across the state. The purpose of this Lightening Talk is to describe a four-way collaboration between the North Carolina legislature, NC-AHEC, community-based…
Nicole Pinelli — Elyssa Tucker — Adam Zolotor — Jill Forcina
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Building Faculty Capacity Across Systems: A Centralized, Interprofessional Development Model for Academic Health Sciences
Introduction: In a complex, interprofessional, and geographically dispersed academic health center—comprising 72 degree programs across six colleges, eleven campuses, and a broad network of adjunct faculty and volunteer preceptors—the need for cohesive, high-quality faculty development is critical.Methods: To address this, the Faculty Excellence Seminar Series was launched as a centralized, cross-college initiative aimed at fostering faculty growth, connection, and impact across the academic…
Wendy Ward — Kesha James — Megan McCarthy — Emily Freeman
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Integrated Clinical Care Experience in Rural Texas (ICCERT)
The Integrative Clinical Care Experience in Rural Texas (ICCERT) is a HRSA-funded, interprofessional initiative designed to increase the capacity of physician assistant (PA) students to identify, treat, and manage substance use disorders (SUD) in rural communities. Developed by UT Health San Antonio’s Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program, ICCERT strategically embeds PA students in underserved rural health systems where they learn from, and work alongside, interprofessional teams that…
Tiffani Burgin — Leticia Bland — Kendall Frazier — Adrienne Lindsey — Stacy Ogbeide — Owen Hill — Bernice Esteghamatdarshad
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Lights, Camera, Collaboration: Using Film to Spark Interprofessional Dialogue in Academic Health Centers
Introduction:Faculty development in academic health centers often relies on structured workshops and didactic formats, which can limit engagement and cross-disciplinary dialogue. To create a more dynamic, reflective, and community-building experience, our institution launched Faculty Movie Night in 2018—a quarterly series using public health-themed films as a springboard for continuing education, networking, and interprofessional discussion.Method:Held quarterly on Monday evenings at a local…
Wendy Ward — Wendy McCloud
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

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OT, SLP, and DO- Three Voices, One Vision: Crafting Collaborative Care Through Interprofessional Education
This session will address the conference theme of preparing students for interprofessional collaborative practice. Healthcare professionals working with pediatric populations must understand and appreciate the contributions of various disciplines to treatment and child outcomes. Students and trainees in all fields should recognize that they do not have all the answers and will need to rely on the expertise available within multidisciplinary teams. As part of this initiative, occupational…
Divya Sood — Catherine Macyko — Audrey Bowlds
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Preparation for Interprofessional Practice: Developing a Competency-based Framework for Interprofessional Core Education
A primary objective of the University of Michigan (U-M) Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) is to equip graduates with the skills and competencies necessary to engage effectively with interprofessional teams, with the goal of improving quality of health and healthcare to patients, families, and communities. To advance this goal, the IPE Curriculum Committee launched a multi-phased initiative to define and implement a comprehensive IPE framework. This initiative focused on identifying…
Gundy Sweet — Hannah Edwards — Dana Tschannen — Vani Patterson
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Preparing Future Faculty for Interprofessional Education Through Advanced Learner Training
This lightning talk describes training for interprofessional cohorts of advanced learners. We cover the rationale, pilot and full implementation of the program, training topics, and assessment. Finally, we share lessons learned and modifications from initial implementation. The WHO (2010) called for preparing faculty to facilitate IPE. However, faculty feel ill-prepared to facilitate IPE (Ratka et al., 2017). Clinicians are not trained as educators or IPE facilitators. IPE Programs are…
Alicia Williams — Brian Cross
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT

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Bridging the Gap Between Education and Practice: An Innovative Approach to Implementing Team-based Exercises in a Family Medicine Clerkship
This Lightning Talk describes an exercise for 3rd-year medical students- adaptable to other health professions clinical placements – that fosters intentional interprofessional engagement for learners and prepares them for collaborative practice. Objective:  Great concern around the gap between IPE and IPCP experiences has been shared in the interprofessional community. Further, the LCME requires medical students to complete IPE/IPCP experiences with learning objectives and assessments prior to…
Alicia Williams — Kelly Karpa
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Bridging the Gap: Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Pediatric Developmental Care
This Lightning Talk will describe the Interprofessional Pediatric Screening Initiative (IPSI) developed through a seed grant from the Office of Interprofessional Education at the University of Oklahoma Health. This innovative learning experience brings together OT, PT, SLP, and medical students to learn how to administer developmental screening assessments as a collaborative team. Through partnership with community sites, the student teams practice these skills in real-world settings with…
Beth Lane — Ashley Hobson — Ami Bax — Megan Roberts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Creating an Interprofessional Education Program to Enhance Competence and Confidence in End-of-life Care
Effective end-of-life (EoL) care requires a nuanced understanding of patient needs, compassionate communication, and evidence-based best practices. This Lightning Talk will showcase the development and implementation of an asynchronous, interactive, and interprofessional educational program designed to improve the competence and confidence of healthcare students. By leveraging innovative instructional design and engaging, self-paced modules, this program equips participants with critical…
Meghan Gamache — Julie Booth — Anna Carlson
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Enhancing Community Fall Prevention Through Interprofessional Student Collaboration
Background: Fall prevention is a multi-factorial challenge requiring a unified, interprofessional approach to develop and implement effective, individualized strategies. Pre-service students need training in collaborative assessment and intervention to work together in addressing the complexity of mitigating falls for community-dwelling older adults. This project aimed to guide students to create a fall prevention plan that reflected interprofessional collaboration for community-dwelling…
Mary Grace Yousef — Jennifer Martin — Alisa Woods — Merri Leigh Johnson — Noralyn Pickens — Trenna Hart
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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After Prozac: How Psychiatry Became the Last Interprofessional Frontier to Conquer
Psychiatry finds itself in a curious clinical environment post-Prozac. The medical model has generated a split model of care whereby psychiatry remains one of the few solo-practitioner fields where very little collaboration occurs with other health and social care providers. There are exceptions: the VA, public health clinics, FQHCS, and hospitals. However, the majority of psychiatrists practice in a community setting, engaged in medication management in person and through telehealth - the "…
Michael Oldani
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Educators as Change Agents: Faculty Development for Leadership in IPE
This Lightning Talk expands upon a presentation at the 2024 Nexus Summit by describing an institution-level program’s final stage of scaffolded adaptation and growth. IPE faculty development (i.e., training prospective academic and clinical educators) is critical in sustaining the future of collaborative workforce preparation. IPE faculty development can create a symbiotic relationship that benefits all facets of healthcare by increasing collegiality, community, and potential interdisciplinary…
Sara North — Alexandra Zagoloff — Bonnie Horgos — Catherine McCarty — Tami Alpaugh
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Empowering Interprofessional Excellence: A Competency-based Leadership Blueprint
The development of interprofessional goals has become commonplace in healthcare practice and education. However, simply establishing goals does not ensure assimilation to practice, sustainability, or leadership development. Integration of interprofessional education and practice are paramount for effective teams that provide improved patient outcomes and can be accomplished through a competency-based approach. This lightning talk will provide a framework for developing interprofessional goals…
Rachel Johnson Krug — Joscelyn Varland
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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C-ICE 2.0 Instrument: Driving Interprofessional Excellence
The Creighton Interprofessional Collaborative Evaluation (C-ICE) tool plays a key role in assessing students' ability to demonstrate the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies within both clinical and simulated settings. The C-ICE is recognized as the only instrument to assess behavioral change in a team's performance, evaluating collaboration, leadership, and communication skills. IPEC’s revised competencies in 2023 necessitate a review and update of the C-ICE…
Katie Zander — Lindsay Iverson — Lisa Benson-DeVries — Cassie Eno — Kimberley Begley — Ann Ryan-Haddad — Julia Shin — Julie Peterson
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Co-created Interprofessional Communication Education to Drive Real-world Learning
Effective interprofessional communication is essential for high-quality, safe, and coordinated care across all healthcare settings. This communication spans verbal and written exchanges, digital and analogue tools, and includes both synchronous and asynchronous interactions. Despite this complexity, current interprofessional education frequently centers on hospital-based, face-to-face scenarios, which do not reflect the distributed, episodic, and often layered communication that occurs in…
Julia Paxino — Vivienne Mak
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Developing the Building Blocks of an Interprofessional Curriculum Framework for Health and Social Care
Description: The Collaborative Practice Centre (CPC), within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (FMDHS) at the University of Melbourne in Australia, was charged to design, implement, and evaluate an interprofessional collaborative practice curriculum across 14 health and social care programs. This presentation shares insights from the design and early implementation of the curriculum. It will detail (1) the collaborative, evidence-based development of the curriculum…
Vivienne Mak — Kim Allison — Tina Brock — Joanne Bolton
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
How a Modified Texture Inter-professional Education Event Supports Students’ Readiness to Address Clients’ Nutritional Needs
This session will describe a Modified Texture IPE Workshop designed to prepare Dietetics, OT, and SLP students to work collaboratively to address the complex nutritional needs of clients with dysphasia. IPE experiences, especially those aligned with real-world clinical scenarios, are particularly effective in improving students’ role clarity, collaboration skills, and preparedness for team-based care. Such learning events for dietetics, OT, and SLP students are believed to better prepare them…
Amy Yun — Danielle Torisky — Prophett Harris
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT

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Collaboration During Crisis: New Graduates’ Experiences of Interprofessional Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic challenged healthcare practice worldwide. Ensuring effective collaboration between professionals is essential to meet population health needs during crisis. However knowledge on how to best prepare health professionals for interprofessional collaboration in crises is limited. Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) during students’ pre-licensure education is an important primer for collaborative practice and supports interprofessional…
Hossein Khalili — Lindsay Van Dam — Sheri Price — John Gilbert
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
High-value Care Starts Here: Teaching Diagnostic Precision Through Collaboration
This Lightning Talk will describe how clinical reasoning was applied collaboratively in an interprofessional education (IPE) workshop involving Physician Assistant (PA) and Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students. The session was designed to help students actively contribute to diagnostic decision-making by applying their discipline-specific skills to a shared clinical case. The talk will highlight how structured team-based reasoning, peer teaching, and discipline-specific knowledge…
Lindsay Taylor — Jessica Stamatis — Teresa Mortier — Lynne Shetron-Rama — Maria Keelon — Kayla Street
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Intercultural Humility as a Core Competency in Interprofessional Education
BackgroundSince its inception, the University of Michigan (UM) Center for Interprofessional Education (C-IPE) has recognized a 5th IPE competency unique to UM focused on intercultural humility. Originally adopted from a white paper by the UM Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, its definition and application have undergone revisions. Most recently was in response to: the 2023 updates to the national Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies and the definition of the…
Hannah Edwards — Olivia Anderson — Erin Khang
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Interprofessional Community Engagement - Blood Pressure Screening
During a weekly community riverwalk, interprofessional students from medicine and pharmacy provide free blood pressure screenings and health counseling. The RiverWalkers that agree to be screened receive health resources, information on free clinics, primary care providers, and nutrition guidance. Through this initiative, interprofessional students assess blood pressures manually while supervised by faculty, pharmacists and physicians. Holistic patient assessments, referrals, and counseling on…
Anna Azuz — Maria Sobhie — Brittany Stewart — Taqwa Naas — Don'aa Williams — Jennifer Mendez — Rima Charara
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Building the Evidence Base for Interprofessional Practice and Education

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From Hours to Outcomes: Rethinking IPE Dose, Duration, and Competency Development Across the IPE Curriculum and Between Professions
This lightning talk highlights the findings of three recent publications in a series of analyses designed to build the evidence base for interprofessional education (IPE). Best practices have not yet been established in the IPE literature to guide the ideal dose and duration of IPE experiences across the curriculum, nor is it known how best to measure interprofessional competency development across experiences and over time. Further, differences in interprofessional competency attainment…
Sara North — Amy Greminger — Brian Sick — Christine Arenson — Peter Scal
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Opening the Silo; Building an Interprofessional Resource Focused on End of Life
This lightning talk will describe the process of building an interprofessional resource focused on grief and the end of life. Work began in early 2022 to pull together a taskforce on Death, Dying, and Disposition, and this work was subsequently split into 3 subgroups. This group represents the resources/research subgroup.This group identified a gap in a lack of a national database with an interprofessional focus focused on end of life materials. Members from the taskforce as a whole were…
Amy Greminger — Susan O'Conner-Von — Paige Palomaki — Alejandra Crevier
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Patient Safety Starts with Us - Training Interprofessional Teams to Respond to Patient Prejudice
Lightning Talk Description:This Lightning Talk presents a novel simulation-based educational framework developed to prepare interprofessional healthcare teams to effectively respond to patient prejudice toward providers (PPtP). Grounded in the lived experiences of minoritized clinicians, the project translates qualitative data into practical, team-based learning tools that foster resilience, inclusivity, and safer care environments.Introduction:Patient prejudice toward healthcare providers (…
Karen Dickinson — Michael Andreae — Anita Fernander — Reza Ehsanian — Faiza Khan — Rania Elkhateb — Deion Ellis — Michelle Wang Whitlock — Laura Militello
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Stress, Simulation, and Safety: Triangulating the Human Stress Response During Interprofessional Simulation Education
Description:This Lightning Talk presents findings from a pilot study exploring the feasibility of conducting a multi-modal evaluation of stress responses in interprofessional (IP) learners during a simulated trauma education event (Sim-IPE). The talk will share practical insights on measuring learner stress through physiological, biochemical, and psychological markers in real-time, and will highlight variations in stress responses across professions. The session will offer learners an evidence-…
Karen Dickinson — Joseph Margolick — Elena Milstead — Shayla McKissock — Cody Hughes — Kelly Urban — Jeff Thostenson — Paul Hamilton — Aaron Vage
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
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Interprofessional Telehealth Simulation for Whole Person Care
The use of telehealth has significantly increased from pre-pandemic times. With the increasing use of virtual platforms in healthcare, it is essential for healthcare professionals to develop strong telehealth and interprofessional collaboration skills. Whole person care requires a comprehensive approach to patient care, which must address the physical, mental, and spiritual needs in a coordinated effort across various disciplines. Therefore, there is a need to train health professional students…
Mariette Sourial — Alexandra Hubley — Diane Esposito — Emma Feyas
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Space and Place: Designing and Assessing the Impact of Accessible, Welcoming, and Relevant Co-curricular Interprofessional Programming
Co-curricular interprofessional engagement provides a unique informal space for future health professionals to find and make authentic connections with one another, build leadership skills through experimentation and innovation, and shape their educational experiences. Well designed and supported initiatives and spaces can both enhance student wellbeing and meet interprofessional education goals. For 50 years, the Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP) at the University of…
Laura Dammer Hess — Natalie Platt — Abbigayle Avery
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Virtual Vs. Face-to-face Interprofessional Education: Exploring Student Outcomes and Equity Through Digital Casework and Escape Room Simulation
This Lightning Talk presents a comparative analysis of two innovative interprofessional education (IPE) events delivered at Winston-Salem State University’s School of Health Sciences in 2023 and 2024. These events brought together over 650 students from diverse health disciplines—including nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, recreation therapy, medical laboratory science, social work, and healthcare management—to collaboratively explore real-world health disparities using a shared…
Jo Ann Coco-Ripp
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Virtual Vs. In-person IPE: Using the Coi Framework to Illuminate Learner Experience and Educational Design
Background: As interprofessional education (IPE) evolves to meet the needs of diverse learners and learning environments, understanding how delivery modality influences learner experience is critical. Few studies have applied a conceptual framework to compare virtual and in-person IPE formats. This study uses the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework to explore the perceived learning experience and satisfaction of health professional students participating in foundational IPE across two delivery…
Sara North — Catherine McCarty — Fang Lei
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Person, Family and Community-Engaged Practice and Education

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Oral Health and Recovery from Substance Use: Destigmatization Through Patient Presence in Education
The Knowledge Exchange (KE) series seeks to fill gaps in topics not typically found in traditional health curriculum, underscoring social determinants of health and the voices of people with lived experience. In our lightening talk we will provide background on how KEs originated, the faculty buy-in they now receive, and the ways in which they successfully expose students from across professions to each other’s knowledge and expertise. To illustrate the KE model, we will describe an event that…
Shelley Konrad — Kris Hall — Elizabeth Crampsey — Randy Beard — Kira Rodriguez
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Serving to Learn, Learning to Serve: Integrating Volunteerism into Interprofessional Healthcare Education
Research on volunteerism has been shown to increase happiness in medical students; improve self-esteem, self-efficacy, and social connectedness; lead to better well-being; improve physical well-being, decrease stress, and improve overall quality of life in general adult populations. Volunteerism also creates fellowship and fosters community connections. Thus, volunteerism helps to address the wellness of the healthcare team (quadruple aim of healthcare), and bring future healthcare…
Stephanie Felgoise — Marissa Ferrito — Anastasia Skliros — Natalie Zychlinski — Lizzy Felgoise — Ashley Poole — Leanne Purcell — Florastine Byarms — Larry Finkelstein
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
The Power of Patient Voice: Fostering Compassionate Team-based Care Through Narrative
This presentation explores an interprofessional education (IPE) module featuring a powerful narrative from a 53-year-old psychologist, ovarian cancer survivor, mother, and alumna of the host institution. She shared her 23-year journey, beginning with a diagnosis of a rare form of ovarian cancer at age 30 while pregnant and completing her doctoral training in psychology.Her story illuminated the complexity of navigating medical decisions in the absence of clear evidence-based guidance, while…
Stephanie Felgoise — Marissa Ferrito — Anastasia Skliros — Natalie Zychlinski — Lizzy Felgoise — Meredith Mitstifer — Nicole Weinhold — Michael Becker
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
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Burnout is a Team Issue - a National Pilot of Stress Education for Interprofessional Mentors and Mentees
IntroductionHealthcare professionals are currently experiencing unprecedented stress due to factors such as persistent global instability, political, health and financial stressors. Mentors and mentees in clinical and educational settings face compounding pressures - mentors are tasked with supporting others while managing their own well-being, and mentees navigate a rapidly evolving healthcare environment often without formal education or support regarding stress management. During American…
Karen Dickinson — Kaisa Syvaoja
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Cultivating Interprofessional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Mentoring Program
Mentoring serves as an essential tool to facilitate the growth and development of healthcare educators engaged in interprofessional practice and education (IPE). The American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC), in collaboration with the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, developed the AIHC mentoring program. This study describes the characteristics of mentors and mentees choosing to participate in the AIHC mentoring program, reports on their perceived…
Aline Saad — Caitlin Rukat — Kaisa Syvaoja — Melissa Zarn Urankar
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Mentorship in Action: Driving Meaningful Transformation in IPE
This presentation will showcase how the AIHC Mentor Program created a safe and supportive environment to connect like-minded peers with shared common values. The program offered resources for both personal and professional development, while providing motivational support to advance interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives and academic-community partnerships. Mentorship and coaching afford participants the opportunity to reflect on activities through a new lens, thoughtfully question and…
Jennifer Evans — Tatum Mead
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
More Than Goals: Building Confidence, Connection, and Community Through the AIHC Mentoring Program
This Lightning Talk will explore the transformative impact of the AIHC Mentoring Program—not solely in terms of goal completion, but in fostering professional confidence, community, and collaborative growth within interprofessional education and practice (IPEP). While my mentor and I began our journey with clearly outlined objectives, the most meaningful outcomes have emerged from the relational aspects of our connection. Being paired with a mentor from another institution and a different…
Shaterra Blocker — Lindsay Iverson
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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IPE Scholars - a Program for Recognizing Student Excellence in IPE
This lightning talk will describe the IPE Scholars Program, a program designed to foster and recognize IPE excellence in motivated student learners. This program allows students to receive a formal distinction on their diploma in interprofessional practice. Students from any profession are able to elect to apply to this program. While this program is still evolving, it currently focuses on helping students grow in IPE knowledge, skills, and practice. We will describe how we recruit, engage,…
Amy Greminger — Brian Sick
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Preparing Interprofessional Students for a Workforce Supportive of Aging: The Development of Interprofessional Facilitators in a Healthy Aging Curriculum
Description of the Lightning Talk: This Lightning Talk will describe how facilitators are trained for roles in the UW Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE) Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI) to enhance collaborative practice among healthcare learners. The HAI prepares learners for real-world interprofessional collaboration by delivering three virtual programs focused on developing interprofessional competencies in learners, specifically in the context of healthy aging. This…
Sue Wenker — Jennifer Timm — Susan Switzer
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Preparing Students to Address the Needs of Neurodivergent Adults Through Community-based, Interprofessional Experiential Learning Opportunities: Outcomes & Insights from the WISE PANDA Program
The Partnership with Autistic and Neurodiverse Adults (PANDA) Project is an umbrella term for a multitude of community-engaged, interprofessional programs that share the overarching goal of providing high-quality services that help neurodiverse individuals to lead productive, skilled lives in ways that are meaningful to them. Since its inception, the PANDA Project has prioritized inclusion, with all programming being cultivated both for and with the help of the neurodiverse community. The…
Jacqueline McGinley — Kara Nunn — Kelly Buchanan — Malina Barnett — Kayla Cabanas — Emilie Ng — Shannon Strehle — Jennifer Gillis Mattson
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Promoting Collaborative Student Leadership: A Parallel Convergent Mixed Methods Formation and Process Evaluation of a Student Interprofessional Education Leadership Organization
Interprofessional education (IPE) increases students’ self-efficacy to work in interprofessional, person-centered health teams. IPE student leadership organizations have demonstrated an ability to improve students’ feeling about IPE. Therefore, the IPE faculty, staff, and students at Binghamton University recently formed an IPE student leadership group, the Binghamton Inter-Professional Education Consortium (BIPEC), to promote collaborative leadership and student-centered education among the…
Thomas Foley — James Giallella — Luke Orgo — Cynthia Gallo
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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Healing Together: Collaborating with Community Partners for Palliative and End-of-life Care
Palliative and end-of-life care requires an interprofessional approach as multiple healthcare professionals are needed to collaborate for the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care of the patient. This presentation highlights how an academic institution leveraged a community partnership to develop a meaningful palliative and end-of-life care interprofessional simulation session, with expert-led discussion and treatment planning. This session aimed to improve self-efficacy in…
Mariette Sourial — Alexandra Hubley — Emma Feyas
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Kansas 4M: Advancing Evidence-based Care – Building an Age-friendly Workforce
This lightning talk will explain the evidence-based Age-Friendly Health Systems (4Ms) framework (what matters, medication, mentation, and mobility), describe the Kansas 4M Geriatrics Workforce Education Program, and discuss the development of statewide reciprocal practice-education partnership to advance and sustain evidence-based care for older adults and their care partners and educate the current and future health, social, and direct care workforce to provide age-friendly and dementia-…
Teri Kennedy
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Strengthening Interprofessional Collaboration in Primary Care
The Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education (CIPE) analyzed enterprise data, including staff and faculty engagement and patient experience data, to explore teamwork horizontally across these datasets. Based on this approach, we ranked clinical sites in order of high and low performers. In our analysis, one clinic, referred to here as Family Medicine Clinic 1, was ranked among the top primary care clinics at Michigan Medicine and 40th overall among all 251 ambulatory care clinics. While…
Vani Patterson — Marwa Hussein — Sidney Dobbins — Rajesh Mangrulkar
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Understanding the Impact of Geriatric Collaborative Practice Among Older Adult Participants
The American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) estimates that over 77% of older adults aged 50 and older in the United States “want to remain in their homes for the long term” (2021). However, many older adults face persistent barriers rooted in inadequate supports related to their social determinants of health (SDOH), including food insecurity, limited language proficiency, and inadequate access to culturally competent care. These, in turn, result in decreased quality-of-life as well as…
Dawn Joosten-Hagye — Lois Angelo
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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A Longitudinal Study of Perceived Changes in Importance of IPEC Competencies from First Year Student Learners Through to Alumni
Healthcare curricula and education becomes more focused and challenging as students’ progress through their programs to become fully trained clinicians. Similarly, the inclusion of interprofessional knowledge and skills in healthcare curricula should match the development and complexity of students as they progress through their programs. This lightning talk will expand on data collected as healthcare students progress through their programs and focus on IPEC competencies students considered…
Tamzin Batteson — Sarah Garber
Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Applying Learning Theories to Interprofessional Education: Fostering Dual Professional and Interprofessional Identity Development
Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) are essential for preparing future healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality, team-based care. To maximize the impact of IPECP initiatives, it is crucial to integrate foundational learning theories that explain how individuals acquire knowledge, develop skills, and form professional identities within collaborative environments. This presentation examines the application of behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and…
Hossein Khalili
Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Longitudinal Establishment of Team Norms in Interprofessional Teams
Establishing team norms is critical in ensuring positive student collaboration and performance, yet there is a lack of literature describing how early learners in IPE learn about and practice establishing team norms. To develop skills to establish team norms, health professional students at the University of Michigan enrolled in the core interprofessional education (IPE) courses: Introduction to IPE (Fall 2024) and Longitudinal Interprofessional Family Experience (LIFE) (Winter 2025). These…
Hannah Edwards — Olivia Anderson — Lavender Wang
Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Student’s Interprofessional Identity: What Happens in the Clinical Setting? a Scoping Review
The learning of interprofessional collaboration is crucial during health studies but there are still obstacles. The development of students' interprofessional identity (IPI) could be a lever to enhance this learning. This identity allows to develop a feeling of belonging to a broader community than an own profession. Students develop interprofessional behaviours, thoughts, and attitudes. Its activation is contextual, especially during clinical training. That place would be considered as a…
Fabien Garnier — Mathieu Nendaz — Priscille Sauvegrain
Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Advancing Interprofessional Care through Practice-Education Partnerships

Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice 12

Connecting the Classroom and Clinic Through Teamstepps
Integrating Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) training into universities healthcare curriculum and University Health clinics' onboarding processes presented an exciting opportunity to elevate communication, teamwork, and patient care quality. This initiative creates a seamless connection between academic programs and their clinical environments, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence. Academic partners included faculty, curriculum…
Elizabeth Swann
Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Project ECHO: An Interprofessional Workplace Learning Model
This talk will address the theme of “Advancing Interprofessional Care through Practice-Education Partnership” by describing a model of workplace learning and continuing professional development. Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is an interprofessional, workplace learning model developed to build the capacity of healthcare teams to deliver evidence-based care focusing on complex condition/s and/or underserved populations. The ECHO program supports team-based workforce…
Maria Brucato — Shoshana Sicks — Brooke Salzman — Mollie Cherson
Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
SMART Solutions for a Shared Planet: A One Health Interprofessional Learning Workshop
One Health is a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach to achieving optimal health outcomes that recognizes the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. One Health initiatives expand considerations for interprofessional teams beyond traditional health system professions to include practice sites such as veterinarians, climatologists, and environmental biologists. The One Health approach is important to understanding how global health is affected by issues like…
Kathryn (Kat) Neill — Wendy McCloud — Laura Rothfeldt
Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
Team-based Learning Without Borders: A Cross-institutional Immersive Clinical Interprofessional Experience Across Three Clinical Experiences
This lightning talk will present a cross-institutional interprofessional education (IPE) pilot program with medical and pharmacy students working in various clinical settings to enhance collaboration, role clarity, and patient-centered care. We will discuss the program’s design, integrating the I-LEAP model and Ohio State’s IPE curriculum, across three clinical settings: a closed ICU, Neurology ICU, and Med/Surg floor. Attendees will learn how mixed-discipline teams reviewed patient cases,…
Andrea Pfeifle — Ryan Menapace — Jim Brown — Andrew Gerten — Alyse Cory — Tyler Ruda — Branden Kadlubowski — David Eapen — Joseph Sreenan — Joshua Shroyer
Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT
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