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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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…
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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,
PhD
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Courtney
Barry,
PsyD, MS
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Dana
Scheunemann,
PhD, MS, RD, CD
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Karen
MacKinnon,
B.S. Pharm
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Kelly
Horton,
MAT
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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…
Shoshana
Sicks,
EdD
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Julie
Liskov,
M.Ed.
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Amber
King,
PharmD, BCPS, FNAP
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Brooke
Salzman,
MD, FNAP
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Maria
Brucato,
PhD
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 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,
OD
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Jessica
Rydingsward,
PT, DPT, CCS, GCS
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Kaelen
Dunican,
PharmD
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Cheryl
Babin,
PT, DHS, MHA, CAGS, FNAP
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
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,
EdD, MSHS, PTA
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Kelly
Grace,
PhD
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Josephine
Sullivan,
Bachelors
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Craig
Sullivan,
COO
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Join the National Center's Nexus Distinguished Scholars, Gerri Lamb, David Pole, and Darla Spence Coffey, along with special guests such as Patient Responders and plenary speakers, for an informal debriefing to close out the day of learning. We invite you to bring your questions as we discuss, reflect and share ideas generated throughout the day.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm CDT
Led by the Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice's Co-Editors-in-Chief, this session will provide important updates for authors and reviewers that will impact engagement with the journal. Ample time will be reserved for Q&A.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 9:00 am - 9:45 am CDT
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…
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 10:00 am - 11:30 am CDT
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…
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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…
Lisa
Benz Scott,
PhD, FNAP
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Gabriella
Pandolfelli,
PhD
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Leah
Topek-Walker,
DSW, LCSW-R
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Lynn
Timko-Swaim,
MS, DFAAPA, PA-C
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Mary Ellen
LaSala,
PhD, RN
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Gerald
Simons,
DFAAPA, PA-C
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT