Aline Saad, PharmD
Director of Faculty Development, Coordinator of Interprofessional Education, Associate Professor of
Wayne State University
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Aline Saad is a clinical associate professor of pharmacy and currently serves as the Director of Faculty Development and Coordinator of Interprofessional Education for Pharmacy Practice at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (EACPHS). She has been leading on several projects related to interprofessional (IP) education including the Interprofessional Team Visit program (IPTV), IP Medication Safety offerings, IP pain management event, an IP Dental clinical experience, and IP student-run free clinic: Community Homeless Interprofessional Program. Through Michigan Area Health Education Center, she serves as an IPE faculty champion delivering on multiple IPE initiatives including the scholars’ program.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Lightning Talk Description: The lightning talk will discuss the design, implementation, and qualitative evaluation of an innovative interprofessional workshop that engages musicians with medical and pharmacy students. Musicians actively demonstrated nonverbal communication skills to participating students and provided them with tools to hone these skills in their patient care delivery and team interactions in preparation for collaborative practice. Objective The importance of non-verbal communication on patient care has been well established in the literature. However, few health…
Lightning Talk Description: Working together for impact and developing and sustaining IPE, whether interprofessional education, collaborative practice, interprofessional clinical learning environments, or interprofessional academic-community partnerships, requires leadership to attend to the well-being of individuals and teams, as well as their own well-being. While the Quadruple Aim brought attention to practitioner burnout and its deleterious impact on the experience of care of people, the health of populations, and the value and cost of care, it stands to reason that the well-being of…