Dora Mills and Karen Pardue present at Maine 2014 Quality Counts conference

Dora A Mills, MD, MPH, FAAP, vice president for Clinical Affairs and Karen T Pardue, PhD, RN, ANEF, associate dean in the Westbrook College of Health Professions, presented an invited breakout session on April 2 at the Maine 2014 Quality Counts conference in Augusta, Maine.

Their presentation: “Learning to Practice Together: The Benefits of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice,” explores the paradigm of interprofessional education (IPE) and practice and how this pedagogy informs a more relationship-centered approach to health care delivery.

Mills and Pardue highlighted examples of interprofessional education and practice that are occurring at UNE and promoted the University’s upcoming May summit on inter professional practice.

Quality Counts is Maine’s largest health care conference, with over 750 health leaders from across the state in attendance and presentations from an impressive group of national leaders.

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.