Aniekan
Ukanna
Program Coordinator
Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at Thomas Jefferson University
Aniekan Ukanna is a Program Coordinator for the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) at Thomas Jefferson University. In this role, Aniekan's primary concentration is overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Health Mentors Program, promoting person-centered care and collaborative learning. Beyond serving in this position, he actively engages on various committees throughout JCIPE.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The events of spring and summer 2020 called attention to the racism and social injustices that still exist in our country, along with their impact on patient and population health and on interprofessional healthcare teams and team members. In the wake of these events, at one University Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, team members were compelled to create a Racial and Social Justice Task Force (RSJT) to address issues of racism and social injustice within ourselves, our team, our programs, and Center. Task force members appreciated the interconnectedness of…
Over the last two years, staff and faculty members of a university Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Task Force (RSJT) have worked together to extend our systems thinking relative to interprofessional collaboration and our understanding of effective teamwork to examine and dismantle systemic injustice in our individual and team practices. To aid in this work, the team created a curriculum self-study tool, intended to guide critical thinking and facilitate idea generation around issues of racial and social justice within and across the Center’s…
Interprofessional education (IPE) purports to level hierarchy and create a collaboration between IPE program stakeholders, patients, and communities. Design sprints do level the hierarchy and should be used to design IPE. The Jefferson Health Mentor Program (JHMP) decided in spring 2021 (its 14th year) to invigorate the program in a partnership with the Jefferson Health Design Lab. The theoretical framework for a design sprint incorporates five steps:To understand, diverge, converge, prototype, and test a product. The challenge question was, “How might we make virtual JHMP more engaging for…