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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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…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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,…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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-…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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.…
Susan
Switzer,
MA, CIHWC
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Sue
Wenker,
PT, PhD, MS, Distinguished Fellow NAP
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Jennifer
Timm,
DNP, RN, PHN
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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. …
Jacqueline
McGinley,
PhD, LMSW, FAAIDD
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Kara
Nunn,
MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
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Kelly
Buchanan,
M.A.
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Malina
Barnett,
BS
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Kayla
Cabanas,
BA - Psychology
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Emilie
Ng
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Shannon
Strehle
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Jennifer
Gillis Mattson,
PhD, BCBA-D
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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.…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
As healthcare systems continue to evolve, the need for sustainable leadership in interprofessional practice and education (IPE) has never been more urgent. High turnover, burnout, and an aging workforce threaten the continuity of interprofessional initiatives that are essential to improving health outcomes, especially in underserved and rural communities. This workshop offers a practical, inclusive, and outcomes-driven approach to succession planning as a strategic tool for sustaining…
Jennifer
Evans,
DNP, RN, NC-BC, FNAP
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Teri
Kennedy,
PhD, MSW, ACSW, FGSA, FNAP
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Andrea
Pfeifle,
EdD, PT, FNAP
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Dusti
Annan,
EdD
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Jasmine
Yumori,
OD, FAAO, Dipl AAO, FNAP
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Shaterra
Blocker,
MS, CHWC
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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…
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT