Shelley
Konrad,
PhD
Professor Emeritus
University of New England
Shelley Cohen Konrad, PhD, LCSW, FNAP is Professor Emeritus and founding director of the University of New England Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice. Shelley received her BA from Boston University and her MSW and PhD from Simmons University. Shelley authored two social work texts and has over 30 peer-reviewed publications. She was elected to the National Academy of Practice as a Distinguished Social Work Fellow in 2014. In 2024 Shelley received the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s inaugural Barbara Brandt Leadership Award. Shelley is the founder of Writ Large, an academic editing and consultation resource.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Knowledge Exchange (KE) series seeks to fill gaps in topics not typically found in traditional health curriculum, underscoring social determinants of health and the voices of people with lived experience. In our lightening talk we will provide background on how KEs originated, the faculty buy-in they now receive, and the ways in which they successfully expose students from across professions to each other’s knowledge and expertise. To illustrate the KE model, we will describe an event that explored the critical intersection of oral health and recovery from substance use disorder (SUD),…
The Fight Isn't Over Until It's Over: Addressing Racism Through an Interprofessional Healthcare Lens
Background:Racism in healthcare is a persistent problem that can manifest as overt discrimination or subtly as implicit biases. Historically, systemic racism in healthcare has caused trauma among certain racialized groups and structural barriers to health access further perpetuate racial inequities and disparities. Consequently, people of color experience increased morbidity and mortality. Because racism in healthcare is rarely addressed in traditional curricula, five students from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNE COM) developed an IPE event to raise…