Crimson Care Collaborative - An Award Winning Interprofessional Academic-Practice Partnership
Webinar Description
Hosted by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) is proud to announce it’s 2019 IPEC Webinar Series aimed at highlighting trends and activities in interprofessional education (IPE) and practice.
This webinar presentation will feature recent winners of the 2019 Excellence in IPE Award from the Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC), a student-faculty collaborative practice started by Harvard Medical School students and the Massachusetts General Hospital Stoeckle Center for Primary Care.
Drs. Patricia A. Reidy and Marya J. Cohen will share details related to CCC’s network of student-faculty collaborative practices focused on interprofessional education opportunities. As a student-administered clinic, CCC’s unique practice model was built from the ground up, wherein students were involved in all aspects of operations, financial planning and social services for the practice.
Health professions faculty, students, and clinicians will discover best practices that they can use to assist with IPE efforts at their home institutions.
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Objectives:
- Explore new models of primary care collaboration with the illustration of the Crimson Care Collaborative: An Interprofessional Academic-Practice Partnership
- Highlight innovation with student learners in the primary care setting through interprofessional partnership and novel research addressing health equity and social determinants of health
- Incorporate goals, design, assessment and evaluation into plan for quality IPE program.
- Share "lessons learned" in developing, implementing, and assessing IPE and community health needs
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Speakers
Patricia A. Reidy, DNP, FNP-BC, RNDirector of the Advanced Practice Graduate and CAS Programs and Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing
Patricia A. Reidy is Director of the Advanced Practice Graduate and CAS Programs at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and Project Director of the Interprofessional academic-clinical partnership with Crimson Care. Collaborative. Dr. Reidy is Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and oversees the advanced practice nursing curriculum. She holds an academic affiliate appointment with the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and has been nursing faculty representative with Crimson Care Collaborative since 2012.
As Project Director, Dr. Reidy has led two initiatives funded by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advanced Nursing Education Workforce to create a series of interprofessional education opportunities designed to prepare the school’s graduates to provide team-based care to patients with multiple chronic conditions. In 2017, Dr. Reidy received HRSA funding to support the academic-clinical partnership with MGH Institute and Crimson Care Collaborative. This program provides clinical experiences in an interprofessional student-faculty collaborative practice model providing primary care with underserved populations.
Dr. Reidy received her diploma in nursing, a BSN from Fitchburg State College, MS degree from University of Lowell and her doctorate in nursing practice from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Reidy was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 2013.
Patricia Reidy joined the nursing faculty at MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2004. She has received awards in recognition for her precepting, teaching and interprofessional education. Her scholarship has focused on interprofessional education, workforce development and human patient simulation in nursing education. She is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with extensive clinical, managerial, and teaching experience in community health centers. She continues her clinical practice and precepts students across disciplines at the Family Health Center of Worcester.
Marya J. Cohen, MD, MPHAssistant Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
Researcher at John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
Marya J. Cohen is the Director of the Crimson Care Collaborative. Dr. Cohen oversees all clinical, research, and educational missions for its hundreds of volunteers She has a busy primary care practice at MGH Chelsea Health Center, a vibrant and diverse academic community health center where she also precepts MGH residents. At MGH Chelsea, she also serves as the co-principal investigator for the Center’s Academic Innovations Collaborative.
As director of the Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC), Cohen oversees a network of five HMS-affiliated student-faculty collaborative practices, which gives students clinical experience during the first two years of medical school and provides longitudinal primary care exposure to all participating medical students, all while providing excellent care to diverse patients. In addition, CCC has been focused on developing interprofessional education opportunities and currently medical and nurse practitioner students work side-by-side at several sites. To date, more than 500 HMS students have participated in CCC since its founding in 2010.
In addition, Cohen is a physician-researcher at the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at MGH, where she is focused on education, research, and innovation in community health centers, as well as improving patient education/self-management programs.
Cohen received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard College in Romance Languages and Literatures and later attended Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of the MGH Internal Medicine/Primary Care program and completed her General Medicine Fellowship at MGH, where she authored several publications and received an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.
CDC Oluchi Elekwachi, PharmD, MPHDirector, Regulatory Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
At the FDA Center for Biologic Research and Evaluation (CBER), Dr. Elekwachi is the primary labeling, advertising and promotional product review of travel-related, herpes zoster, and human papilloma virus vaccines. She is the CBER Team Leader for the Proprietary Name Review Team. Dr. Elekwachi is the FDA Lead on the HHS Inter-Agency Adult Immunizations Task Force. As a researcher, she is the Principal Investigator on two federally funded grants from the FDA Offices of Minority Health and Health Equity as well as the Office of Women’s Health, where she studies the role of health communications on health disparities and gender-sensitive messaging.
Dr. Elekwachi is a pharmacist in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) where she serves as the liaison to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Dr. Elekwachi is also an Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Administration instructor with the Maryland Department of Health where she administers training and guidance to healthcare personnel on the nation-wide opioid epidemic.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free and open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff, and students.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one Certified in Public Health (CPH) continuing education credit or one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) works with the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) to provide CPH credits. Be sure to also attend the next set of informational IPEC webinars by visiting www.ipecollaborative.org .