Christine Arenson, MD
Director
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education/University of Minnesota

Dr. Areson is the Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. As a family physician and geriatrician, she served as the Alumni Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2020. Dr. Arenson was the founding Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, serving in that role from 2007-2016. She has provided leadership in numerous roles to the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Please join National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Director Christine Arenson, Founding Director Barbara Brandt and leaders of AIHC for an informal conversation as we close the in-person portion of Nexus Summit 2022. We learn so much from our presenters, colleagues, students, and partners at each Nexus Summit.  Join colleagues to reflect on what we have learned with, about, and from each other over the past three days.  Since 2016, the Nexus Summit has provided a unique opportunity for our interprofessional practice and education community to learn together in the Nexus…
Interprofessional.Global facilitates support and exchange between the interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) networks, establishes relationships with other like-minded organizations and welcomes and supports new networks sharing the same aims and values. The American Interprofessional Health Collaborative serves as the regional network member representing the United States of America. Come to this session to: Learn about AIHC’s global engagement and how we are partnering with interprofessional organizations around the world to build a global consensus on…
The population of people aged 65 years and older is expected to grow from 43.1 million in 2012 to an estimated 83.7 million by 2050 in the United States. Older people are more likely to develop health conditions that require complex care, age-specific screening, assessment, and management strategies. However, primary care clinics within the United States are not yet prepared to meet these age-specific health care needs. The Age-Friendly Health System was introduced by the John A Hartford Foundation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), American Hospital Association (AHA), and the…
Interprofessional education has a history of waxing and waning both nationally and locally. Without local historical knowledge, IPE programs may find themselves repeating missteps from the past and ignoring earlier successes; engagement with stakeholders may falter. This seminar presents reasons and methods for capturing institutional history to support and sustain IPE programming. Two institutions will share their experience with learning local history The session builds the IPE case through information by focusing on institutional elements promoting IPE. Session objectives are: 1) Recognize…