Denise
Kropp,
BS Ed.
Assistant Director
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Denise Kropp is Assistant Director of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). She has provided research support and data management for NEOMED and consortium partners for 24 years. She serves as the Data Manager and Geriatric Resource Ohio Workgroup (GROW) ECHO Coordinator for NEOMED’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, which is funded by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Ms. Kropp is also the Project Manager for the HRSA Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program at NEOMED.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
We will describe a 40-hour Geriatric Resource Course (GRC) for interprofessional learners from healthcare and community provider settings implemented as part of a HRSA-funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP). This program is designed to promote interprofessional collaborative practice in geriatrics. It originally combined online didactics, in-person lectures and experiential trainings at sites spanning healthy aging through end of life. With COVID, in-person site visits were changed to weekly virtual meetings spanning the same topics. Learners also attend virtual…