Jessica
Kruger,
PhD, MCHES
Clinical Assistant Professor
University at Buffalo
Jessica S. Kruger, PhD, MCHES is a health educator whose research focuses on consumption and addictive behaviors, health behavior decision-making, interprofessional collaboration, and pedagogy in public health. She collaborates with a wide variety of community-based organizations and advises students at the Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic and the Seneca-Babcock Community Center, both in the Buffalo area. Dr. Kruger a member of the leadership team of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice at UB.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Addressing social factors that impact healthcare outcomes is complicated. Recent emphasis on social determinants of health (SDoH) recognizes that our social structures and the conditions in which people live, work, play, and pray serve an important role in enhancing individual and community health outcomes. With the growing emphasis on SDoH within the context of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), health professions students ought to gain an understanding of the SDoH and learn how to incorporate SDOH screening and screening outcomes into their care plan. Despite a multitude of…
To optimize care for individuals with chronic non-oncological blood disorders and their families, it is essential to cultivate a healthcare workforce with the knowledge and skills to provide evidence-based collaborative care. The University at Buffalo Office of Interprofessional Education (UB-IPE) has partnered with a local healthcare agency, Western New York (WNY) BloodCare to develop, implement, and assess an interprofessional clinical training program to enhance students’ knowledge and skills when treating patients with chronic blood disorders using an interprofessional approach. To our…
Eco-maps are graphical representations showing how systems are interconnected in an individual's life. Commonly used in individual and family counseling settings, we have extended the use of eco-maps to facilitate health professions students’ recognition of the social determinants of health (SDoH) and the impact of SDoH on individual and community health. This lightning talk will discuss this novel use of eco-maps in interprofessional education (IPE) to advance students’ understanding of the impact of and barriers associated with SDoH. The University at Buffalo IPE program delivers a robust…