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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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
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.
Additional details to be released soon!
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…
Leah
Topek-Walker,
DSW, LCSW-R
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Gabriella
Pandolfelli,
PhD
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Mary Ellen
LaSala,
PhD, RN
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Lynn
Timko-Swaim,
MS, DFAAPA, PA-C
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Lisa
Benz Scott,
PhD, FNAP
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Gerald
Simons,
DFAAPA, PA-C
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Preparing future health professionals for effective patient communication and interprofessional collaboration remains a central challenge in health education. The authors developed an AI-powered virtual patient platform with support from an NIH R41 STTR grant, aiming to provide scalable, lifelike simulation experiences that foster clinical interviewing and teamwork skills in interprofessional educational settings.This presentation shares findings from two key components of our research…
Jeffrey
Borckardt,
PhD
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Debra
Henninger-Borckardt,
PhD
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Joe
Vuthiganon,
DMD
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Lindsey
Hamil,
Ph.D.
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Dusti
Annan,
EdD
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Lisa
Langdale,
EdD, MSN, RN
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Kimberly
Kascak,
MS
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:1. Describe the unique challenges and opportunities of implementing interprofessional education (IPE) in a specialized oncology-focused academic medical center without traditional undergraduate or graduate health professions pipelines.2. Identify key infrastructure elements—including advisory committees, simulation-based learning, and faculty development programs—that support the establishment of a sustainable, evidence-…
Mary
Sizemore,
Ph.D.
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Michael
Morris,
MD
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Mohamed
Ait Aiss,
MS
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Diane
Bodurka,
MD, MPH
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Orhue
Odaro,
MD
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
This lightning talk describes the creation of an interprofessional faculty fellowship through the collaboration of a College of Health Sciences and a Center for Interprofessional Collaboration at a state university. We cover the rationale, logistics (finances & faculty time allotment/distribution), proposed structure and intended measurable outcomes for success of the program. Recent publications have called for the systematic approach to advancing IPE research, suggesting findings…
Alicia
Williams,
EdD, MA, CSAC
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Courtney
Andrews,
EdD, CCC-SLP
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Brian
Cross,
PharmD, FNAP
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Jeff
Snodgrass,
PhD, MPH, OTR, FAOTA
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Hyflex learning experiences have become a popular modality to address the learning needs of students as it provides students with the option of attending experiences through face-to-face/in-person, online synchronous, and online asynchronous modalities (Bockorney et al., 2024; Heilporn & Lakhal, 2021). This modality creates greater possibilities for bringing students together from different disciplines, as common barriers to interprofessional learning include modality differences and…
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT