Miriam
Cortez-Cooper,
PT, PhD
Associate Professor/Assistant Program Director
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
Miriam is an associate professor in the DPT program at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She has co-chaired the University's inaugural Interprofessional Education Committee since 2017. She and the committee established an IPE curriculum for on-campus and remote health professional students. She is currently in the AIHC/National Center Mentoring Program as a mentor to give back to the program which mentored her.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The AIHC Mentoring Program is a unique interprofessional mentoring program designed to foster and build collaborative connections. The program is designed for interprofessional growing champions and seasoned members of the interprofessional community. Learn more at this informational session about the AIHC Mentoring Program and how it may support you or a member of your team to advance interprofessional efforts at your institution or organization.
Background: Becoming an interprofessional healthcare provider depends on the cohesive and collaborative nature of the academic and clinical learning environments as well as the educational institutional and healthcare policies that students encounter. The interactive and reiterative nature of these entities has been described by the systems theory approach to interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP). Family systems theory may equally be applicable to IPECP because it focuses on the relational aspects of an individual within a family and between the family and the…
Please join us for this inaugural poster session featuring presentations by the 2023-2024 cohort of the AIHC Mentoring Program. Presentations address curricular innovation and integration, the role of coaching, leadership of multi-campus initiatives, development of IPE in single-profession institutions, academic-community partnerships, institutional and faculty culture, sustainability, mobility, and institutional support.
The AIHC Mentoring Program is a free, year-long, virtual interprofessional faculty peer mentoring program that fosters learning together to advance and sustain IPE. Health…