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Matt Haugen and Meredith Fisher joined our National Center team around April. This was about the time that we had completed the initial thinking about the center, including a brand strategy to communicate our vision. The fun was over; it was time to turn to the practical aspects of our work.

Scott Reeves, editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC), is a close colleague of mine.

As we continue to build an interprofessional culture, we look to role models and advocates to lead the way. It’s our job to find those who are doing it, and link with those who want to do it, expanding the network of IPCP which in turn expands the network for IPE opportunities.

We all know the importance of interprofessional education and practice. What we need to learn is how to transform an academic curriculum so that it strengthens health students’ collaborative practice skills, demonstrates how to employ those skills in a professional environment, and fosters practice settings that not only welcome, but thrive on interprofessional and collaborative care. To this end, our task at hand is to marry interprofessional education with practice for current and future practitioners.

On April 5th, UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions (SPHHP) hosted a day of events with Glen E. Gresham Visiting Professor Ivy Oandasan. Ivy engaged in a talk about “Being on the Cutting Edge – Advancing Interprofessional Education for Quality Care.” Without a doubt, she captivated the audience of 160 faculty, students and guests with her knowledge and enthusiasm about the future of interprofessional education and care.

Leadership in IPE calls for creating a culture of collaboration among faculty, students, universities and communities. We must model what we teach. To advance this spirit of leadership and culture in IPE at UB, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from one of the best. UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions (SPHHP) is proud to host a day of events April 5th with Dr. Ivy Oandasan, an international leader in IPE, and SPHHP’s 3rd Annual Glen E. Gresham Visiting Professor.

A frequently described barrier to the implementation of interprofessional education leading to interprofessional collaboration is the silo phenomenon.  Historically, students in the health and health care professions are trained in isolation from other professions, and are thus limited in the opportunities to learn about each other prior to engaging in the care or management environment where they are destined to work together.  Open questions regarding silos are whether silos serve a purpose and, if so, can the function of silos be achieved while promoting greater integration of training a

The Foundations of Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration (FIPCC) course was launched in 2010 by the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center.  As an introductory course, FIPCC brings together early-stage learners from across the health, health care, and health-care associated professions to engage each other in an interprofessional learning environment.  In the Fall of 2013, over 1000 enrolled students from 13 professions will meet in 85 mixed professional groups to engage in exercises designed to promote development of inter

As we have ramped up the national center, I’ve had the good fortune to hear from many of you who have shared your work, asked questions and requested support for developing and implementing interprofessional education and collaborative practice.  I’m seeing themes in your work and opportunities to connect across efforts. Importantly, they are the same themes we have included in our vision for the national center as a coordinating and collaborating organization:

The University at Buffalo Academic Health Center (AHC) recently appointed Paul T. Wietig, Ed.D., Assistant Vice President of its newly created Office of Interprofessional Education. A longtime educator, Dr. Wietig is responsible for developing infrastructure and facilitating staff development to identify and deliver best curricular instruction and activities for interprofessional education across all Schools of the AHC.