Leslie
Rippon,
PhD, ATC
Assistant Professor
Seton Hall University
Leslie Rippon is an assistant professor in the athletic training department at Seton Hall University and has over 16 years of experience as an athletic trainer working in various healthcare settings. She has a Ph.D. in Higher Education, Leadership, and Management, and her current research focuses on the use of virtual reality and virtual worlds to teach interprofessional healthcare students.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Healthcare educators must view themselves as knowledge brokers who create learning opportunities to transmit scientific knowledge, information, and innovations to students to advance person-centered care (Sverrisson, 2001). Knowledge brokers serve as a link between what we know and how we know it, why it is important to know, and ensure that all who need to know have the information. Traditionally, knowledge brokers work in the public domain with patients and the private domain in laboratories (Blondel, 2006). We argue that knowledge brokering must expand into the academic domain. The World…