Gerard
Carrino,
PhD, MPH
Department Head & Instructional Professor
Texas A&M School of Public Health
Gerard E. Carrino, PhD, MPH (Jerry) is Department Head and Instructional Professor of Health Policy & Management at Texas A&M University School of Public Health. Prior to joining A&M’s faculty in 2016, Dr. Carrino held executive leadership positions in world-class nonprofit organizations including March of Dimes, the New York Academy of Medicine, and Columbia University. He brings expertise in strategy, governance, the nonprofit sector, development, and cause marketing. Jerry has served on numerous national, local, and institutional committees concerned with healthy births and the healthcare workforce. At Texas A&M, Dr. Carrino focuses on experiential and interprofessional learning.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice is addressed less frequently in the published literature than the other IPEC Core Competencies of Roles and Responsibilities, Interprofessional Communication, and Teams and Teamwork. This may reflect a dearth of efforts to fully integrate this competency into interprofessional curricula. Such a deficiency is problematic in that managing complex ethical situations while maintaining mutual respect and common values is a substantial challenge, particularly across professions. To address this, an interprofessional team from medicine, nursing, pharmacy…