Jennifer
Boyle,
PhD
Co-Chair Patient Family Caregiver Advisory Committee
University of Toronto
Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education
Jennifer Boyle volunteers for numerous arthritis-related research and educational programs. She is the Co-Chair of the Patient Advisory Committee at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education, University of Toronto. She is a Patient Research Partner for the Psoriatic Arthritis Clinic & Research Program and the Ontario Best Practice Research Initiative at the University Health Network. She received the Arthritis Society’s 2013 Ontario Volunteer Impact Award for her research, education, and knowledge translation work. Jennifer received the 2016 Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship and the 2018 Arthritis Health Professions Association Extraordinary Service Award for her arthritis volunteer work.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: Engagement with patients, family and caregivers as educators is invaluable to prospective and current health professions learners. Providing an opportunity for patients to share their lived experiences with prospective and current healthcare providers can offer an opportunity for these participants to hone their patient-centric skills. However, sharing stories publicly makes patient-partners susceptible to vulnerability. In this context, it is the state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed emotionally.
We use ‘patient-partner’ as an…