Tiffany
Champagne-Langabeer,
PhD MBA RDN
Associate Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer is an Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Champagne-Langabeer serves as the Co-Director of Interprofessional Education at UTHealth Houston. Dr. Champagne-Langabeer’s past work and educational training has focused in the transformation of healthcare through collaboration and joint venture by managing processes, modifying behaviors, and collecting data for outcomes research. She has taught courses in management and leadership over the past 20 years, and holds both masters and doctoral degrees focused in theories of management and leadership behaviors within healthcare.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Despite the proven effectiveness of medications for opioid use disorder, the US continues to see record numbers of overdose deaths. Health professionals' attitudes towards opioid disorders impact their ability to manage this public challenge. Misconceptions and beliefs among health professionals create barriers in management of opioid use disorders (MOUD). Pharmacists play a vital role in battling this epidemic. It is therefore prudent to target pharmacy students in any educational projects and training programs to reduce stigma towards substance abuse disorders.
Methods: We used…
Our Lightning Talk will address how health disparities and bias, especially in underserved and marginalized populations, can be addressed in an Interprofessional Simulation through telehealth. The coronavirus pandemic shifted our interprofessional (IP) simulations from in-person to virtual environments. We analyzed the qualitative differences and impacts of two complex simulations involving students and Standardized Patients (SP) before and during the pandemic. The two simulations included an angry inpatient with a medical error and a low-income, geriatric woman seeking pain medication in a…