Lisa Zerden, MSW, PhD
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Lisa de Saxe Zerden is an associate professor and the Senior Associate Dean for MSW Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She serves as the School’s Interprofessional Education (IPE) Director and was a founding member of the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her work explores inequitable access to treatment and prevention, the role of social workers in integrated health care settings, and IPE. Zerden is currently involved in several IPE efforts including an innovative project to integrate substance use content into the UNC Adams School of Dentistry.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background: As there is exponential growth in the publication of interprofessional education (IPE) research studies, it has become more difficult to quickly find relevant papers and stay abreast of all the latest research. To address this, this poster presents the methods and results of a formal search hedge validation study that provides recommended search terms for IPE studies. Specifically, this poster addresses the development, evaluation, and validation of search hedges for IPE studies in PubMed, to improve future access to and synthesis of IPE research. The comprehensive, validated sets…