Christine
Arenson,
MD
Director
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Dr. Areson is the Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. As a family physician and geriatrician, she served as the Alumni Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2020. Dr. Arenson was the founding Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, serving in that role from 2007-2016. She has provided leadership in numerous roles to the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
After decades of struggle as a field, it is undeniable that in the past 10 - 15 years interprofessional practice and education has grown exponentially, achieving remarkable recognition and success. Now, the question we need to ask ourselves is “So What?”. Are health professionals working better together in clinical and community practice? Are we seeing better health outcomes in patients, families or communities? Have health systems achieved the Triple, Quadruple or Quintuple Aim? Are students really “collaboration-ready” and for what?
If the answer to these questions…
In 2018, two educators and a sociologist reflected on the inaugural symposium of the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) in an invited commentary in Academic Medicine. During the symposium, leadership noted that optimizing health care and clinical learning environments required improving interprofessional practice. But historically, physicians have not been at the interprofessional table to advance healthcare teams in practice.
The authors drew upon the classical Greek analogy of the Gordian Knot to describe the complex, “wicked”…
Throughout The Nexus Summit, we are striving to impact health and learning outcomes that matter within your local communities and across our states, regions and countries by testing new ideas, sharing outcomes of new models and advancing interprofessional practice and education.
During this closing session, Nexus Summit attendees and Moving to Action Launch Party participants will explore key take-aways from the Summit and convert those ideas to action.
Working Together for Impact: Converting New Knowledge to Action
During the closing plenary, National Center leaders…