IPR.Global Scholar Spotlight - Dr. Renata Eccles, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

The bigger the dream, the more important the team

Hello, my name is Dr Renata Eccles, I am a speech-language therapist and senior lecturer from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria in South Africa. I am predominantly involved in early childhood development, early communication intervention specifically. 

I am part of the team of lecturers involved in the INtwegrated Health Leadership modules at the University of Pretoria. These are multidisciplinary modules running from 1st to 3rd year that focus on interprofessional collaboration to achieve community engagement. I am most proud to chair the IPE theme for the Dirisana+ project. 

IPR.Global is valuable because it provides a network which further opportunities to connect with the IPECP community. 

And finally, should pineapple be on pizza? Yes or No? 

No, no, no. As an Italian, pineapple on pizza is not for me. But you do you

Dr. Eccles email: renata.mosca@up.ac.za

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New Textbook Features International Approaches to IPECP at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels

Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: International Approaches at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels (Dawn Joosten-Hagye and Hossein Khalili, Editors) is a new textbook featuring contributed chapters written by practitioners, scholars, researchers, and students within the health care discipline, Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: International Approaches at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels assists readers in expanding their knowledge, ability, understanding, and perspectives regarding interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (CP). The book provides readers with international, system-based approaches, emphasizes applications at all levels, and includes examples of student-led initiatives. The book highlights international IPE and CP methods, models, programs, and initiatives that emphasize preparation for collaborative practice across the continuum of care in a variety of settings. Readers are presented with conceptual and theoretical models; enlightening case studies; macro briefs that illustrate the design, development, and implementation of global, regional, and/or local IPE and CP initiatives; and explorations of student-led IPE initiatives. The contributed chapters well define micro, meso, and macro levels and highlight the ways in which IPE and CP initiatives and programs are applied to each. Designed to increase readers’ knowledge and foster greater levels of collaboration, Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice is an ideal resource for health care students, professionals, educator, administrators, researchers, and policymakers. 

A licensed clinical social worker, Dawn Joosten-Hagye is a clinical associate professor of social work at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. She has worked for Providence Health Services since 2001 specializing in adults and older adults with chronic and life threatening illnesses as well as co-morbid health, mental health and substance use disorders. 

Hossein Khalili is an internationally recognized scholar, expert, and leader in the field of interprofessional education and collaborative practice. He serves as the director of the Centre for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the president of InterprofessionalResearch.Global, as well as an adjunct research professor at Western University. 

Textbook website link: https://titles.cognella.com/interprofessional-education-and-collaborative-practice-9781793510686#

Dr. Khalili email: hkhalili@wisc.edu

IPR.Global Members Publish Editorial Advocating for a Systems Approach to Advancing Health Care Resilience

 Guest Editorial - Journal of Interprofessional Care

Advancing health care resilience through a systems-based collaborative approach: Lessons learned from COVID-19

Hossein Khalili, Dean Lising, Giray Kolcu, Jill Thistlethwaite, John Gilbert, Sylvia Langlois, Barbara Maxwell, Mukadder İnci Başer Kolcu, Kathleen M. MacMillan, Carl Schneider, José Rodrigues Freire Filho, Ghaidaa Najjar, Zaid Al-Hamdan & Andrea Pfeifle 

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded everyone of the importance of long-term planning and preparedness. Effective pandemic preparedness requires the engagement of all stakeholders from across the spectrum of care while being aware of the strengths, susceptibilities, and capabilities of the health care system. Identifying gaps in preparedness, determining specific priorities, and developing plans for building and sustaining healthcare delivery while effectively addressing the pandemic and resilience at all levels from the individual, to team, organization, and system is crucial for success. There is an emergent need to build structures and processes that support resilience among current and future healthcare providers, teams, organizations, and systems. We believe that to prevent from and effectively address such crises in future, a systems-based collaborative approach to developing resilience is required. In response, InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) has recently published a Call to Action paper that provides key direction regarding interprofessional responses to address individual resilience, and support the resilience of healthcare teams, organizations, and systems.

Link to full text of article: 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2021.1981265

Link to IPR.Global "Call to Action": 

https://interprofessionalresearch.global/resilience-call-to-action/

IPR.Global Pearls - Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action

In 2020, InterprofessionalResearch.Global produced a report: "Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action".

This Call to Action is developed by the IPR.Global COVID-19 Taskforce – Resilience Initiative Group with number of global experts in healthcare resiliency and interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) who have been working together over 10 months to develop and share relevant and timely information.

The goal of this report was to raise awareness and urge the global health care communities to act strategic and bold, by using system approach, to address the imminent threat of a parallel burnout pandemic through collaboration. This Call to Action provides a global strategy in using collaboration to build and lead resilience in health care at all levels, from individuals and teams to organizations and systems.

Khalili, H., Lising, D., Gilbert, J. Thistlethwaite, J., Pfeifle, A., Maxwell, B., Başer Kolcu, I., Langlois, S., Najjar, G., MacMillan, K. Al-Hamdan, Z., K., Schneider, C. R., Kolcu, G., El-Awaisi, A., Ward, H., Rodrigues, F. J.,. (2021). Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action (978-1-7366963-0-9). 

LINK: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IPR-Global-Health-Care-Resilience-Call-To-Action-24-02-21.pdf

Introducing Interprofessional Research.Global "Pearls"

Building on the success of our Scholar Spotlight series, the Interprofessional Research.Global Communications and Marketing Work Group have teamed up with the Knowledge Exchange Work Group to develop IPR.Global Pearls.  

The goal of this initiative is to share impactful research on interprofessional collaboration to a wider audience through an infographic that presents the how that research can translate to the "3 P's" of Pedagogy, Practice and Policy.  

Each of these infographics with be accompanied by a blog post that will link readers to the article citation and full text link.

If you have research you would like to feature in these "Pearls" please use the IPR Global Updates submission link.

Online Nexus Summit 2021 Kicks Off With Over 6 Days of Virtual Learning

Nexus Summit 2021 kicks off next Tuesday, September 14! You are invited to over six days of virtual learning designed to push thinking and move toward action about what matters most to those we serve.

The 2021 meeting features more than 250 peer-reviewed seminars, lightning talks and posters showcasing outcomes-oriented initiatives. All registrants will have archived access to the session through December 31, 2021. 

Browse through the 200+ sessions taking place at Nexus Summit 2021, and begin to plan your Summit itinerary with the Daily Schedule. 

Explore all six plenaries and themes that will inform and contextualize the learning of each day.

Dive into Conversation Cafes designed to take important topics and move from discourse toward actionable next steps to shape the work ahead.

Explore the Reflective Guides and Learning Tracks, designed to support you in customizing your experience and focus your learning.

Join a Virtual Town Hall on the IPEC Core Competencies for Inteprofessional Collaborative Practice hosted by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) 

Make sure to register so that you don't miss this important learning experience.

IPR.Global Scholar Spotlight - Dr. John H. V. Gilbert, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC Canada)

Hello, I am John Gilbert. Throughout my long career I have been passionately interested in the education of health and social care professionals, not only in British Columbia, and Canada, but also globally. I have attempted through my research, teaching, writing and public speaking to embed the concept of interprofessional education as a central tenet of collaborative people-centred practice and care. Like Chaucer’s Clerk of Oxford, “gladly wolde I lerne and gladly teche.”

I was the founding Director of the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia and the Principal of the College of Health Disciplines, also at UBC. It is my privilege and pleasure to be a Senior Scholar at the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research, Dalhousie University, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. I have been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and at the National University of Malaysia. From 2016 2020 it was my great honour to hold the DR. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Interprofessional Education & Practice, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India a program with which I count myself most fortunate to remain connected. 

As Co-Chair of the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice I worked with colleagues around the world to develop a framework for action on those topics – now adopted worldwide, in innumerable education and practice jurisdictions. Our work on IPE, supported by Health Canada, led to my role as founding chair of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative – now one of the members of the confederation – Interprofessional.Global, and its special interest group Interprofessional Research.Global. I have the joy of being accorded many honours of which I am proud - a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada, the degree Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from Dalhousie University. Together with Dr. Bud Baldwin and Dr Mattie Schmitt I was immensely honoured to be a recipient of the Pioneer Award from the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.

My greatest joy, and a source of lasting pleasure, has been the invitations I have received to give talks (and Webinars) on IPE in 24 countries during the past 16 years. My academic background gives me a particular focus on communication between and amongst everyone engaged along the continuum of IPE. I never cease to be incredibly impressed by the ways in which our new discipline is being woven into education and practice in so many different cultures and languages. I have always been so warmly greeted in each country I have visited  on the “business of IPE” and have made amazing friends and colleagues in all those places. Every day I recognize how blessed I am to be in the company of those who, around the world, are working in many new and innovative ways to embed the discipline of IPE in their health and social care education and practice programmes. 

During each season of the year, you may find me pottering in my vegetable garden – amazed, always, that seeds often less than a few millimetres in size, can produce such wonderful food.

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