Teri
Kennedy,
PhD, MSW, ACSW, FGSA, FNAP
Associate Dean, Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research and Ida Johnson Feaster
University of Kansas Medical Center
Teri Kennedy is Associate Dean, Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research (iPEPR) and Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of Interprofessional Practice and Education, University of Kansas (KU) School of Nursing; Professor, Department of Population Health, KU School of Medicine; Professor Affiliate, KU School of Social Welfare; and co-facilitator, Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative (HHARC) with the University of Kansas Medical Center. She previously served as BSW Program Director and Director, Office of Gerontological & Interprofessional Initiatives, Arizona State University (ASU) School of Social Work, and as Faculty Lead: Clinical Partnerships, Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (CAIPER), ASU Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She has 17 years’ experience serving older adults across home-and-community-based, home health, in-patient medical and geropsychiatric, and skilled nursing faculty settings. She previously chaired and served on the Advisory Committee for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages (ACICBL) with HRSA and participated as a Health and Aging Policy (HAPF) Fellow/American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow with Senator Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) DC Office. She is currently a Fellow, National Academies of Practice (NAP) and Social Work Academy; Fellow, Gerontological Society of America; member, NAP Public Policy Steering Committee and co-chair, NAP Research Subcommittee; member, Arizona Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging; and participates in the HAPF Alumni Network, advancing health and aging policy with a focus on Age-Friendly Health Systems. Her work concentrates on sustainability, interprofessional leadership, team science, and health and aging policy. She developed the Kennedy Model of Sustainability adopted by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and a model of Strengths-Based Interprofessional Practice and Education. Teri is an indie singer/songwriter, writer, and podcaster.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Are you a new or experienced leaders in IPE involved in interprofessional academic initiatives and/or academic-practice partnerships? Would you like to receive mentoring or serve as a mentor for a colleagues from another institution? Join us to learn about the AIHC Mentoring Program and opportunities for health and social care faculty across rank and experience levels to participate as a mentor or mentee in this year-long, virtual program. Former program mentees are encouraged to apply as mentors.
Applications for the 2023-2024 cohort are due Saturday, September 30, 2023. Access application…
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…
Lightning Talk Description: Telepractice is a generic term that includes telehealth, teletherapy, teledentistry, telemedicine, telenursing, and telecare. Telehealth, the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support person-centered and client-facing virtual clinical care for people and animals, has been linked to improved access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes, and reduced cost of care. Traditionally viewed as a tool to improve access to care for individuals and families living in rural and frontier communities, temporary pandemic-era telehealth…
Lightning Talk Description: Traditional approaches to interprofessional education focus on health professions students, who then graduate to find themselves employed in practice settings where the workplace culture does not support collaborative practice. The continuing education team is the missing link to overcoming this hidden curriculum and preparing the current and future workforce for interprofessional collaborative practice. It takes planning and leading by and for the continuing education team and learning with, from, and about each other to transition from siloed uniprofessional to…