Gerry Ibay, JD, MHA
Vice Chair and Assistant Professor, MHA Program Director
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Gerry has almost 20 years of healthcare experience in multiple roles, organization types, and geographies, including NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Bon Secours Health System. His experience spans strategy, operations, development, and information systems. In his current role he teaches executive skills related to relationships and communication and organizational theory and behavior. He is passionate about teaching healthcare colleagues how to manage stress, identify their stories, and develop and nurture effective interprofessional relationships. Gerry is pursuing a PhD in Organizational and Community Leadership and is working on developing a mindfulness-based framework for cultivating and nurturing effective interpersonal dynamics.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background: Designed in 2021-2022 following attendance at the T3 Train-the-Trainer Interprofessional Team Development Program, the Program launched in Fall 2022 with an initial cohort of 15 participants. This included 12 faculty, 2 professional staff members, and one post-grad student. Participants came from three campus locations and represented 10 different professions ranging from nursing, to anthropology, library information sciences, allied health, pharmacy, public health, and medicine. The certificate was designed in a two-step process. The first step, the foundational certificate,…