Nexus Summit Sessions
The Nexus Summit 2025 has a rich variety of sessions available to support your learning. Sessions include plenaries, seminars, lightning talks, professional and learner posters. Use the navigation on the left to filter your results by type of session, theme, speaker, or date and time.
Professional and Learner Posters will be available asynchronously throughout the Nexus Summit, beginning September 16. Please explore the posters on the Professional Poster and Learner Poster pages.
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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, Chair of Social Work at Rush University, and Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, Programme Director of the Global Nursing Leadership Institute at the International Council of Nurses will reflect on policy implications…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 10:00 am - 11:30 am CDT
The role of the medical examiner’s office (MEO) is to determine the cause, mechanism, and manner of death for violent, sudden, or unexpected deaths. At Wayne County’s MEO in Detroit, Michigan, the office handles approximately 17,300 death investigations per year, with over 3,500 cases accepted for examination. An organization that sees deaths due to homicide, suicide, and accidental overdoses, the MEO makes for opportune social work intervention due to stigmatized grief. These deaths carry…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Background, including statement of problem, and aimsSocial belonging is essential for health and well-being, yet it is often poorly defined in research related to migrant older adults. This lack of clarity hinders the development of responsive policies and programs. The aim of this paper was to develop a comprehensive conceptual definition of social belonging specific to migrant older adults to inform future research, policy, and community interventions. Design or methodology…
Kateryna
Metersky,
RN PhD
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Melissa
Kirkwood,
MHSc, RD
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Monica
Chahine,
MHSc RD
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Sepali
Guruge,
RN, PhD
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Background, including statement of problem, and aims: The WHO (2010) called for preparing faculty to facilitate IPE. However, faculty feel ill-prepared to facilitate IPE (Ratka et al., 2017). Most health professions students are not trained as IPE facilitators. IPE Programs are challenged to hire faculty ready to facilitate IPE. Hoffman, Harris and Rosenfield (2009) have outlined the importance of mentorship in IPE. DrPH students participated as part of a larger cohort of advanced…
Nikita
Cudjoe,
MPH
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Rhonda
Williams,
MD, MPH, MSc
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Richard
Kilonzo,
DrPH - Student
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Kailee
Havrda,
MPH, CNP
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Alicia
Williams,
EdD, MA, CSAC
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Brian
Cross,
PharmD, FNAP
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Background: Like most states, Kansas has struggled to have enough well-trained nurses and nurse aides to staff our long-term care communities and due to a shortage of nursing faculty, Kansas lacks the capacity to educate enough new nurses to meet the demand for care. While we have effective, evidence-based geriatric models of care, we have a know-do gap in which less than 10 percent of older adults are reached who benefit from these models. A new statewide practice-education partnership…
Teri
Kennedy,
PhD, MSW, ACSW, FGSA, FNAP
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Barbara
MacArthur,
MN, RN, FAAN
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Teresa
Stenner,
MA
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Katie
Krueger,
DrPH(c), MPH, CPH
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Frances
Yang,
PhD
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Kelly
Sabol,
Program Director
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Tracy
Davies,
DNP, APRN, ANP, GNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Alzheimer’s and dementia related diseases (ADRD) are a fast-growing cause of death and disability in older adults worldwide (WHO, 2025) projected to increase to 13.85 million in the US by 2060 (Rajan, et al., 2021). It is imperative to prepare future healthcare professionals in interprofessional team-based care models to meet the complex needs of this growing population (Ibsen & Eriksen, 2022). Simulation through the metaverse provides the benefits of immersive VR with novel resolutions…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Background: Physician-assistant (PA) and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students create patient care plans but often overlook social determinants/drivers of health (SDOH) that impact the ability to implement them. Limited mobility, financial and housing insecurity, and low health literacy are particularly relevant in heart-failure management, as these can increase readmission rates and decrease quality of care. This study’s aim is to determine whether a structured PA–PharmD interprofessional…
Carolyn
Hall,
PharmD, BCPS
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Jennifer
Prisco,
PharmD
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Yulia
Murray,
PharmD, BCPS
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Evelyn
Graeff,
MEd, DHSc
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Anne
Chiavegato,
DSPAs, MS, PA-C
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Background: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in healthcare education is vital for preparing future professionals to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, ultimately improving patient outcomes. In many healthcare teams, frequent changes and overlaps in the roles played by different health care professionals can create challenges related to recognizing and assigning roles effectively. Research has shown that interprofessional experiences have exposed students to values/ethics,…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Background: Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), such as insurance status may affect patients’ access to care and health outcomes, however health professions students often receive limited training in how these factors influence team-based care. This study aims are to evaluate the impact of incorporating (SDOH) into interprofessional Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounters (TOSCEs) by comparing facilitator evaluations of team performance and evaluate how patient insurance…
Rita
Morelli,
PharmD, BCACP, RPh
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Amy
Ricupero,
PharmD, MEd
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Christopher
Cooper,
EdD, MPAS, PA-C
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Yulia
Murray,
PharmD, BCPS
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Nancy
Stern,
BA, BS, RPh
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Jennifer
Prisco,
PharmD
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Carolyn
Hall,
PharmD, BCPS
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
Indigenous people within the United States are drastically underrepresented in the field of medicine. Out of the 23,156 matriculants to U.S. MD-granting medical schools in the 2024-2025 cycle, only 35 identified as American Indian or Alaska Native alone, and only 166 identified in combination with another race or ethnicity. To address this disparity, students from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Seneca Nation Education Department collaborated to form an annual…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT