Achieving Better Outcomes Through Interprofessional Education Combined with Collaborative Team Care

This session will present examples of collaborative team care in inpatient and outpatient settings that can be combined with interprofessional education. These examples have demonstrably led to improved care.

Moderator: George Thibault, MD, became the seventh president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in January 2008. Immediately prior to that, he served as Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Partners Healthcare System in Boston and Director of the Academy at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He was the first Daniel D. Federman Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at HMS and is now the Federman Professor, Emeritus. For nearly four decades at HMS, Dr. Thibault played leadership roles in many aspects of undergraduate and graduate medical education. He played a central role in the New Pathway Curriculum reform and was a leader in the new Integrated Curriculum reform at HMS. He was the Founding Director of the Academy at HMS, which was created to recognize outstanding teachers and to promote innovations in medical education. Throughout his career he has been recognized for his roles in teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty. In addition to his teaching, his research has focused on the evaluation of practices and outcomes of medical intensive care and variations in the use of cardiac technologies. He currently is the Chairman of the Board for The New York Academy of Medicine.

Panelists:
Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, is the Ursula Springer Leadership Professor in Nursing at New York University. She is the Executive Director of a national nursing oral health initiative, the Oral Health Nursing Education Practice (OHNEP) Program, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health. Her work has played a major role in integrating oral health with primary care education and practice.

Sarah Shrader, Pharm D, is Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas (KU). She, and Jana Zaudke, MD, MA, assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine have collaborated in running an interprofessional family medicine clinic at KU, creating nationally available faculty development materials for use in interprofessional practice settings, and in successfully using them in rural Kansas practice sites. (Sarah will join us by teleconference)

Stephen Schoenbaum, MD, is at the Macy Foundation and will present the work of Paul Uhlig, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon in Wichita, KS, who, together with Ellen Raboin, PhD, has developed and spread a collaborative care model for use in hospital settings. Dr. Uhlig, when he was at Concord (NH) Hospital, won a John Eisenberg Award in patient safety for using the model to improve post-surgical mortality, patient experience, length-of-stay, and staff satisfaction. The model is now being spread into academic settings.