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Jan Jaap Reinders is a work and organizational psychologist and specialized in task shifting, interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional education.

He developed a Meta-Model of Interprofessional Development (Reinders, 2018). This meta-model consists of five consecutive overlapping phases (1 to 5) that are connected by two guiding principles: increasing complexity and increasing interprofessional self-regulation. The meta-model connects psychosocial, professional, procedural and systemic aspects of interprofessional collaboration as part of an integrated care. Several Dutch educational programmes have adopted this new meta-model for the development of interprofessional education: dentistry, dental hygiene, physiotherapy, speech therapy and nutrition and dietetics. Currently, a paper is prepared in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, Bangor University (Wales, UK), University of Groningen and Hanze University of Groningen, to describe its scientific foundation and practical implications.

The Extended Professional Identity Theory (EPIT) was also developed by Jan Jaap Reinders (Reinders, 2018; Reinders et al., 2018). This new psychological theory describes how the formation of an interprofessional identity can be facilitated in order to enhance interprofessional collaboration. Experiments show positive results with regard to increased reciprocity between members of different professions and a change in perceived interprofessional task distribution.