Amy
Nordon-Craft,
PT, DSc
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Dr. Amy Nordon-Craft, DSc, PT is an Associate Professor for the CU DPT Program and serves as the course director for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, which provides IPE to over 650 1st year health professions learners. Additionally, Dr. Nordon-Craft is the Assistant Director of the Center for Professional Excellence. She has experience conducting clinical trials with patients in the ICU and home health settings, and she coordinates the APTA’s Clinical Practice Guideline task force for “Physical Therapy in the ICU.” Currently, her teaching focuses on clinical reasoning, high-fidelity simulation, and interprofessional education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Person-centeredness is essential to holistic health care and requires collaboration of healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. The University of Colorado (CU) delivers a one-credit Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) course for 650 first-year students from dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, and physical therapy programs. This course develops IPEC competencies related to communication and teaming skills, central to which is a person- and community-centered approach, with an emphasis on advocacy. To integrate and highlight patient perspectives…