Shelley Cohen Konrad and Karen Pardue to deliver keynote at interprofessional education summit in Minnesota

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Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor in the Department of Social Work, and Karen Pardue, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, associate dean for undergraduate education and associate professor of nursing, will co-present the keynote address, “Not Left to Chance:  Building and Sustaining an Interprofessional Culture for Campus and Clinical Education” at the Interprofessional Education Summit at St. Catherine University’s Henrietta Schmoll School of Health in St. Paul, Minnesota , on May 1, 2013.

The event, titled “Harnessing the Forces for Change:  Developing Interprofessional Teams,” is the second annual healthcare summit at St. Catherine University.

In addition to the keynote address by Cohen Konrad and Pardue, the summit will provide updates from HealthForce Minnesota and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota, a panel on implementing change, and an opportunity for participants to share best practices.

About the University of New England

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.