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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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,…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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…
Shaterra
Blocker,
MS, CHWC
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Dawn
Schocken,
MPH, PhD
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Lauri
Wright,
PhD, RDN
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Haru
Okuda,
MD
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Mitzy
Flores,
RN, AHN-BC, CHSOS, COI
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Children and families affected by serious medical conditions face considerable challenges in navigating the medical and psychosocial aspects of complex chronic illness management. They experience anticipatory grief, isolation, a loss of agency and control, a fear of being misunderstood by their child’s medical team, the burden of decision-making and a fear of decisional regret, all while seeking to be a ‘good parent’ to their child. Palliative medicine principles including an emphasis on…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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…
Roberta
Rusch,
MPH
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Kevin
Wyne,
PA-C, MPAS, MSc
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Lacey
Alexander,
PhD, RN
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Zachary
Zahos,
PhD
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Jennifer
Timm,
DNP, RN, PHN
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
While some literature and organizational documentation exists describing interprofessional education (IPE) team resources and institutional structures, little is shared regarding the teamwork, communication, and roles and responsibilities within IPE teams. In line with the Nexus Summit theme “Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Interprofessional Practice and Education,” this seminar session presents the perspectives of the University of Minnesota Center for Interprofessional Health (CIH…
Sara
North,
PT, DPT, PhD, M.Ed., FNAP
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Cheri
Friedrich,
DNP, CPNP-PC
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Alexandra
Zagoloff,
PhD, LP, FNAP
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Amy
Greminger,
MD
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Suzanne
Stein
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Jennifer
Kertz,
MPP
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Brian
Sick,
MD, MHA, FACP, FNAP
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Chrystian
Pereira,
Pharm.D.
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Peter
Scal,
MD MPH
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Justine
Mishek,
MHA
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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-…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
This 60-minute seminar will immerse participants in the transformative potential of the metaverse as a tool for advancing interprofessional education (IPE). Building on an institutional case study from West Coast University, the presenters will demonstrate how immersive virtual environments were used to reimagine a traditional IPE Day—creating an inclusive, engaging, and accessible space where learners from multiple health professions could collaborate in real time.Attendees will…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Abstract
This interactive skill-building seminar introduces a virtual reality (VR)-based learning experience designed to strengthen leadership and communication skills among interprofessional rapid response teams. Developed through a collaboration between education, internal medicine, critical care, nursing, enterprise rapid response teams, and simulation, our model offers a practical and replicable framework for improving interprofessional collaboration in time-pressured clinical…
Cecile
Foshee,
PhD, MEd, BCC
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Nichole
Brown,
PhD(c), MSN, RN, CHSE-A
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Divyajot
Sadana,
MD
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Megan
McGervey,
MD
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT