Join us for the opening plenary of the Nexus Summit 2025! Christine Arenson, National Center Director, will convene a roundtable conversation about current policy updates and changes in health care, health professions education, and social services. Plenary speakers Robyn Golden, LCSW, Associate Vice President of Social Work and Community Health…

During this plenary session, Dr. Alan Dow, MD, MSHA, Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, will lead a deep dive discussion of key drivers of the US health systems as they impact our work to deliver interprofessional practice and education to improve health and learning outcomes. In this session, Dr. Dow will describe the structure of the U.S. healthcare system and how this structure creates unusual challenges…

2025 has been a year of dramatic change in technology, policy, and financial models that impact day to day operations of higher education, the healthcare system, and social programs and priorities that contribute to health. We are only beginning to understand the impact that these changes will have on our daily work to advance interprofessional practice and education. Change is rarely easy, and often scary, but it also brings opportunities to reconsider…

This year’s closing plenary builds upon a recent special collection on lived experience and expertise from the British Medical Journal. Our two featured speakers were contributors to the special collection and will share the key principles, enablers, and recommendations that have been identified by a global community of lived experience advocates in advancing meaningful engagement of people living with NCDs, mental health, and neurological conditions. This…