Purpose/Charge

The CIPE Professional Development Committee members are responsible for planning the CIPE Professional Development Workshop Series and overseeing the Student-Resident Teaching Certificate Program, aiming to enhance the professional development of educators and clinicians in interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

Time commitment

The committee conducts biannual meetings to plan each semester’s workshops, and intermittent electronic correspondence to guide the Center in professional development programming.

The goals of the Professional Development Committee are:

  • Support current efforts around interprofessional education
  • Increase awareness of interprofessional education and practice
  • Establish a common understanding and approach to interprofessional education and practice, creating a community of educators who have internalized IPE principles to think, act, and teach interprofessionally
  • Influence the culture by incorporating interprofessional frameworks into daily practice models and educational environments
  • Establish strong IPE facilitation skills among interprofessional educators
  • Support an environment for interprofessional educators to model interprofessional collaborative behaviors in development of curriculum materials and in clinical practice

Current Committee Members [AY 2024-2025]

  • Heather Hageman, MBA, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
  • Erin Herrera, MSN, CRNA, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Martha Hoffman, DNP, MBA, RN, Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College
  • Haley Johnson, PharmD, St. Louis College of Pharmacy at UHSP (Chair)
  • Denise Leonard, PhD, Washington University Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Rachel Moquin, EdD, MA, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Colleen Wallace, MD, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Melanie VanDyke, PhD, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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