Brian Sick, MD, FACP, FNAP
Co-Director, Center for Interprofessional Health
University of Minnesota
Brian Sick MD, FACP, FNAP is a Co-Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Interprofessional Health and also serves as the Associate Vice President for the Academic Health Sciences. He practices as a primary care internal medicine and pediatrics physician at an interprofessional teaching clinic at the University of Minnesota and is the Medical Director of the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic which is an interprofessional student-run free clinic.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

This seminar is designed to explore one large academic institution’s recent centralization of interprofessional efforts through the creation of a university-wide Center for Interprofessional Health. Participants will consider a variety of factors including institutional leadership buy-in, Center leadership models, faculty and staff roles in the Center, creation of an Executive Committee, strategic planning, curricular development, operational decision-making structures, branding, web and social media presence, and more. The journey and lessons learned in the implementation of the Center for…
This lightning talk presents one large academic institution’s efforts to collect, categorize, and evaluate interprofessional education (IPE) experiences occurring across the University. Often, IPE activities within programs or schools may not be known to those implementing the centrally offered IPE program. After four prior unsuccessful attempts to collate such experiences, the author University’s Center for Interprofessional Health created a new approach to discover existing IPE activities, evaluate them against standard criteria, make them available to other schools, and track participation…
Introduction Interprofessional collaboration amongst healthcare providers is crucial for successful health outcomes and patient satisfaction. It is essential that students in health professional programs learn the skills necessary to work in a team-based, patient-centered, interprofessional setting. Healthcare students at the University of Minnesota are provided with an opportunity to demonstrate and receive recognition for their efforts to learn and develop interprofessional collaboration expertise in the Interprofessional Education Scholars Program. Interprofessional Education Scholars (…