Conferences & Events

The Lebanese American University (LAU) Interprofessional Education (IPE) Program, Conference under the theme of Interprofessional Collaboration in Acute and Chronic Care will take place on April 20-21, 2018. Day 1 will be at the Metropolitan Hotel in Beirut and Day 2 at LAU’s Byblos campus.

This is the second regional conference at LAU that addresses interprofessional education and practice. On day 1, renowned academic and professional leaders from various disciplines will provide evidence- and practice-based information on the value and implementation of interprofessional learning, collaborative practice and global health perspective of IPE, followed by workshops on soft skills. On Day 2, a plenary session will address interprofessional work to improve quality and safety in the acute and chronic care settings, followed by a series of parallel interactive workshops of simulation activities. These will address bridging interprofessional education and practice, IPE assessment, and team-based approaches to manage various patient care scenarios and clinical conditions such as sepsis, diabetes, obesity and post-bariatric surgery care.

Target audience are practitioners/clinicians, academic and clinical administrators, quality managers, and faculty from the health sciences and academic medical centers throughout the MENA region. To simulate real-world interprofessional teamwork, institutions are preferably represented by groups of health practitioners representing different fields (e.g., medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, nutrition and dietetics, safety, quality, other) who routinely work together or plan to implement interprofessional learning and/or patient care service models in the acute and/or chronic care settings. The program will provide individuals and teams with the knowledge and practical guidance on the benefits of IPE and its application with the aim of improving the quality of care guided by a core set of values, consensus-building and shared vision.

http://ipe.lau.edu.lb/resources/conferences/ipe-2018/