Lauren
El-Assad,
LCSW
Assistant Director of the Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education (CHIPE)
University of Texas at Austin
Lauren El-Assad is Assistant Director of the Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education (CHIPE) at The University of Texas at Austin. She works with the Director and the Executive Steering Committee to develop and implement CHIPE's strategic plan in service of its mission. She oversees CHIPE's daily operations; manages and implements the communication strategy; promotes and develops interprofessional programs and activities; sources external revenue for financial support; and connects health professionals to grow health IPE at UT. She has been a member of the UT community since she moved from Chicago to Austin in 2004.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Train-the-Trainer Interprofessional Team Development Program (T3-ITDP) is a national professional development program for interprofessional teams of health professions educators, clinicians, and administrators. Institutional teams each consisting of three or more members representing at least two professions participate in an interactive 3.5-day training designed to immerse trainees in the design, implementation, and assessment of evidence-based IPE activities and programming. Core to the program is the integration of project-based learning as part of the learning pedagogy. Teams apply…