John Gilbert
Degree & Credential:
C.M., Ph.D., FCAHS
Title:
Principal and Professor Emeritus
Sector:
Education
Organization:
University of British Columbia College of Health Disciplines
Badges:
Dr. John Gilbert is Principal & Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia College of Health Disciplines. He is the Co-Chair of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative, an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University and the University of Pittsburgh, and a consultant in health education policy.
Signature Programs and Activities:
Committees and Boards:
- Past-President, International Association for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
- Former Faculty Advisor, National Health Sciences Student’s Association
- Member of Health Canada’s Health Education Task Force
- Board of Directors, Michener Institute, Toronto
- Board of Directors, BC Health Education Foundation
- Board of Directors, Women’s Health Research Institute of BC
- School of Health Sciences Advisory Committee of the Justice Institute of BC
- British Columbia’s Patient Care Quality Review Board
- Senior Scholar, WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research, Dalhousie University
- Co-Chair of the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice
- Editorial Board, Journal of Interprofessional Care
- Co-Editor, Journal of Research in Interprofessional Education
Honors and Awards:
- Fulbright Scholarship
- David Ross Research Fellowship
- Medical Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Scholarship
- Outstanding Alumnus Award of the School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University
- Killam Outstanding Teaching Award
- The Distinguished Service Award of the British Columbia Institute of Technology
- Virtual Visiting Scholar, Humber College, Toronto (2008-2009)
- National Health Sciences Students' Association Mentorship Award
- 50th Anniversary Medal for outstanding service to the UBC Faculty of Medicine
- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Additional IPECP interests:
My Contributions
A listing of all contributions made to the National Center community.Contents
Interprofessional education for collaborative practice is an important innovation globally and in US health professions education. The recent spotlight on interprofessional education in the United States was launched by a series of reports in the US Institute of Medicine's Quality Chasm series....
An interprofessional and interdisciplinary group of friends and colleagues with a common passion for interprofessional education for collaborative patient-centered practice (IECPCP) and the GRIN working group met in Toronto, Canada, in May 2012. Participants were identified for this orientation...
Interprofessional education for collaborative practice, also referred to as education for “team-based healthcare,” is a recent innovation in US health professions education.1 Several specialties in medicine support this approach to care, for example, geriatrics, but educational preparation to...
Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) have been identified in health education and health care as playing an important role in improving health care services and patient outcomes. Despite a growth in the amount of research in these areas, poor...
In response to community demand, The Office of the Coordinator of Health Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Canada developed a two-day Interprofessional Team Building workshop and piloted it twice. The workshops included faculty and students with clinical experience from nine...