KImberly
Indovina,
MD, FACP, FHM, FNAP
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Kimberly A. Indovina, MD, FACP, FHM, FNAP is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado. She practices both hospital medicine and palliative medicine at Denver Health, an urban academic safety-net hospital. She also serves as an Assistant Director of the CU Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education, collaborating with an interprofessional team to direct interprofessional education on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Her academic interests include interprofessional education, palliative medicine, patient experience, and care of vulnerable populations.
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…