Five UNE faculty attend Interprofessional Education Institute in Virginia

A team from UNE was invited to attend the 2012 Interprofessional Education Institute in Herndon, Virginia.

The Institute was the first to be sponsored by the National Interprofessional Education Collaborative, comprised of representatives from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Dental Education Association, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), the Association of Medical Colleges and the Association of Schools of Public Health.

The institute was designed to assist health care educational institutions with strategies to develop, implement and improve interprofessional education in their home institutions.

UNE’s team representatives included (l-r in photo) Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., associate professor of social work and director of the newly appointed Interprofessional Center for Excellence in Education (ICEE), Karen Pardue, associate dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions, Lisa Pagnucco, Pharm.D., assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, Dora Anne Mills, M.D., MPH, vice president for clinical affairs, and David Mokler, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Robert A. (Buzz) Kerr, Pharm.D., chair of the Institute’s Planning Committee and vice president of academic affairs, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, welcomed the teams and guided the 3-day Institute. Brenda Zierler, Ph.D., from the University of Washington’s Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies, and Stephen Shannon, D.O., MPH, president and CEO of AACOM, and former dean of UNE’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, were some of the speakers who shared their vision of IPE’s future with Institute attendees.

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.