Leslie
Rippon,
PhD, ATC
Associate Professor
Seton Hall University
Dr. Leslie Rippon is an associate professor at Seton Hall University in the School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS), where she has taught since 2016. She obtained her master’s degree in athletic training and a PhD in Higher Education Leadership, Management, and Policy from Seton Hall University. Her excellence in teaching is evident by receiving the SHMS Interprofessional Educator of the Year Award in 2022, the SHMS Excellence in Innovation and Teaching Award in 2024, and the SHMS Researcher of the Year in 2024. Dr. Rippon’s research interests include programmatic outcomes, interprofessional education, and virtual world learning environments.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
It's All About Gaming: Interprofessional Education and Research in the Health Sciences Reaching GenZ
Gaming is an innovative, immersive, technological strategy that can advance interprofessional experiential health science education globally. The Cross-Disciplinary Academy for Interprofessional Education and Research in the Health Sciences (AIER), established in 2021, enabled faculty at Seton Hall University (SHU) to develop three IPE research projects in the area of "interprofessional virtual reality gaming". The AIER gaming projects were designed as evidence-based, experiential, active learning simulations using virtual reality (VR) avatar-based characters possessing a blend of artificial…