Collaborative Learning in Action: Advancing Interprofessional Education Across Institutions
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Event Details
This interprofessional education (IPE) webinar will explore how collaborative learning across healthcare disciplines and academic institutions strengthens clinical reasoning, communication, and patient-centered care. We will showcase innovative models that blend virtual and in-person simulations with shared curricula to dismantle traditional professional silos. By examining practical strategies and cross-institutional success stories, educators will learn how to integrate diverse professional perspectives, even those not present at their own institution, into a cohesive, modern training environment.
Objectives
- Examine how three academic institutions partnered to design and implement a series of interprofessional learning activities that blend virtual and in‑person simulation experiences.
- Describe the development process, structure, and purpose of the three distinct interprofessional activities, including remote and hands‑on simulations.
- Analyze the strengths, challenges, and lessons learned from sustaining multi‑institution IPE collaborations, including student, facilitator, and standardized patient feedback.
- Identify pathways for programs interested in adopting similar shared‑curriculum IPE models.
Speakers
Dr. Kelli Star Fox earned a DSW from Millersville University, MSW from the UNE and a BA from Rutgers. Kelli is the Director of Stony Brook's Center for Interprofessional Innovation and holds an appointment as Assoc Clinical Professor in the School of Social Welfare. Her research interests include best practices for preparing learners to engage in IPECP, as well as exploring the role faculty facilitation and modeling play in students' acquisition of IPEC Competencies and development of dual professional and IP identities. In addition, Kelli is an adjunct professor of social work for Yeshiva University and has a small business providing professional consultation and workforce development training.
Patti Nelson, M.S. CCC-SLP, she/her/hers, speech language pathologist, teaches and mentors graduate and undergraduate students pursuing the field of speech language pathology. She has been part of the faculty at Emerson College in Boston for 7 years. She has taught at the University level prior to coming to Emerson, and throughout her over 30 years in the field, has held a variety of senior management, administrative, and clinical positions supporting individuals with cognitive communicative and behavioral challenges in rehabilitation and school settings. Her areas of special interest include working with children and adults with Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury, dysphagia, cognitive impairments, along with areas of program development, supervision, teaching, and mentoring. She is the current (CSD) Communication Sciences and Disorders Curriculum Coordinator for the Undergraduate program at Emerson College, advisor to the 1st and 2nd year residential graduate students, and the coordinator of the IPE program within the CSD Department.
Dr. Julie Booth serves as the Director of the Center for Interprofessional Healthcare Education and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at Quinnipiac University. She earned both her Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) and Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degrees from the University of Michigan and is a board-certified pediatric clinical specialist emeritus.
With over 30 years of experience as a physical therapist, Dr. Booth has provided care across the continuum and throughout the lifespan, with a primary focus on pediatrics. Her professional passions include pediatric physical therapy, adaptive sports and recreation, community engagement, and advancing interprofessional education. At Quinnipiac, she collaborates extensively with departments and schools to design and implement interprofessional programs, ranging from foundational learning experiences to community-based interprofessional clinics. She also teaches undergraduate courses in community engagement and adaptive sports and recreation.
Dr. Janna Roitman has served as an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Director of Interprofessional Education (IPE) at Long Island University (LIU) College of Pharmacy in Brooklyn, NY since 2017. Her interest areas include teaching patients to learn and appreciate the power of medications and their effects on patients’ well-being as well as teaching healthcare profession students to work together to provide best possible patient care. Dr. Roitman completed her residency at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital in NY, where she was later promoted to clinical pharmacy manager. As the clinical manager in this 400-bed urban hospital, Dr. Roitman supervised pharmacists, technicians, pharmacy interns, and residents, and established a neonatal service and discharge counseling, and coordinated the pharmacy department research and investigational studies. Later, Dr. Roitman joined NYU Brooklyn Hospital, where she served as Assistant Director of Clinical Services and supervised a team of clinical pharmacists that focused on providing education programs and fail-safe technological systems for the prescribers, nurses, and patients to help ensure safe, effective, and appropriate medication dosage and usage.
MC Almodovar (she/her, MS) is a Program Assistant at the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education (JCIPE) in Philadelphia, supporting the Team Care Planning Simulation Program and the Jefferson Student Interprofessional Complex Care Collaborative (J-SICCC). She holds a Master’s in Health Communication and Design from Thomas Jefferson University and a B.S. in Health Sciences from Drexel University.
With a background in marketing, engagement, and admissions across healthcare and rehabilitation settings, MC brings a people-centered, communication-driven approach to advancing interprofessional education and equitable care. She is currently completing a 450-hour Pilates certification at Drexel University, focusing on movement-based wellness and building supportive community spaces for Black and Brown women, particularly following pregnancy or infant loss.