IPE Day 2023

Corinne Catarozoli (PhD) Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Pediatrics; Assistant Attending Psychologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Philip Chang (MD, FACS) Attending Burn Surgeon, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College.

Sylvia Dao (MS, MPA, RN, NE-BC) Patient Care Director - 8 West Burn Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Patty Kalnberg (LCSW, CCM) Senior Social Worker, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Megan McCarthy (MS OTR/L CLT) Senior Occupational Therapist, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Malvina Sher (PT, DPT, CLT) Senior Physical Therapist, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Robin Silver (OTR/L) Occupational therapy Supervisor, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Emily Turutzin (MS, RD, CDN, CNSC) Clinical Dietitian, Burn ICU, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Ekta Vohra (MSN, RN, CWON)  Burn Outreach Coordinator, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

In-Person

The complex and intricate care provided on a Burn Unit warrants the specialized skills of an interprofessional team. Through a case presentation best care practices and complex considerations for a pediatric patient will be explored. The roles and responsibilities of Burn team members and the need for an interprofessional team approach will be discussed through this challenging case. Discussion will highlight the difficult clinical, physical, emotional, and ethical decisions faced by the Burn Team.

Juliana Bol (PhD, MPH) Assistant Professor, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Alex de Sherbinin (PhD, MA) Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School.

Cecilia Sorensen (MD) Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Monette Zard (MA) Associate Professor, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

In-Person

Anthropogenic climate change is already beginning to shape human migration patterns. The latest 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, notes that since 2008, an average of more than 20 million people per year have been displaced by extreme weather events, many of which were exacerbated by climate change. Migration can be in response to both sudden onset weather related events, like floods and wildfires or slow onset events – such as drought and desertification.  Refugees and displaced populations are particularly vulnerable to climate-related impacts and disproportionately living in regions that are likely to face the brunt of climate change. National and international health and mobility systems must adapt and respond to these challenges in order to meet the changing needs of the people they serve. This plenary IPE session will bring together experts across the fields of medicine and epidemiology, health systems strengthening, geology and earth sciences, and law to discuss how current and future health professionals can better prepare for and respond to the global impacts of climate change through the lens of health and displacement.

Julian Cabezas (he/him) (LCSW) Psychotherapist and Supervisor at Wise Therapy; Founder of Cabezas Therapy; Field Instructor at Columbia University School of Social Work and Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.

Cecilia Gentili (she/her) Community Organizer; Trans Equity Consulting founder; Sex Worker Health Advocate. B. A. Goodrum (b.a./they/them) (FNP, CNM) New York-Presbyterian.

Chance Krempasky (he/him) (FNP-BC, WHNP-BC, AAHIVS) Clinical Instructor, Columbia University School of Nursing; Associate Director of Medicine—Education, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center.

Elle Lett (she/her) (PhD, AM, MDc) Statistician-Epidemiologist and Physician-in-Training, Boston Children’s Hospital.

In-Person

In this session, we will both explore the history of the institution of transgender medicine and offer up new frameworks for conceptualizing and delivering this care today. Transgender and gender diverse people face high levels of stigma and resultant psychosocial impacts, with those identifying as black, indigenous, and people of color experiencing these at higher levels. We dream of and demand care that is just, kind, person-centered, and affirming. Each speaker will offer a short presentation, and then the panel will introduce case studies for interdisciplinary team planning and discussion.

Milena Castillo (NP), Frances Eichholz-Heller (LMSW ACHP-SW), Soren Glassing (BFA, Chaplain) and Melissa Patterson (MD)

In-Person

This workshop will bring together faculty with expertise in palliative care to raise awareness of the importance of planning with families and loved ones in difficult decision at the end of life.

Ross Frommer (JD) and Heather Krasna (PhD, EdM, MS)

In-Person

Good ideas are wonderful, good ideas supported by evidenced-based practice are even better. But how do health care or public health experts, professionals, students, and patients convert these good ideas into policy? In this session we will have students learn some basic advocacy skills and apply those skills in a mock lobbying visit with an elected official or other policy maker. Students will leave the session will a better understanding of policy-making and lobbying, thus making them a more effective advocate for their professions, their schools, the things they personally believe in, and their patients or communities.

Alexandra Garcia (MPH Candidate), Brianna Margulis (DDS Candidate), and Richelle Matarazzo (MSW Candidate)

In-Person

Our aging population is faced with comorbidities, barriers to healthcare, sensory decline, cognitive changes, among others which all require multidisciplinary communication amongst their provider. Proper communication is vital in ensuring they are valued and understood during the healthcare process. Participants will engage in interprofessional collaboration to role pay through literature review inspired scenarios. Our scenarios and discussion will cover care delivery for patient of diverse needs, policy issues, language barriers, communication techniques with their patients and providers, and best practices involved.

Elizabeth Helmreich (MPH Candidate), Michele Paolella (LMSW), and Tiffany Wang (DDS Candidate)

In-Person

The word consent has broadly been understood within two primary contexts: socially in the course of sexual interactions and medically when providing informed consent in healthcare settings. Join us to explore and broaden our shared understanding of the word “consent.” Participants will work in small groups to explore the social impacts of applying consent-seeking behaviors. We will then focus more deeply on the concept of consent in medical settings. Using the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam best practices for consent seeking, we will explore a number of situations in which patients might or might not provide consent.

Alicia Calcagni (MDE Candidate), Marthina Correa (MPH Candidate), William Rork (MD Candidate), and Claire Theriault (MSW Candidate)

In-Person

As clinicians across professions, we are all bound to interact with individuals experiencing age-related cognitive decline, delirium, or dementia. Using a narrative-medicine-informed role-play workshop model and larger group discussions, we will be training participants in evidence-based methods to effectively communicate with this cross section of the aging population. This workshop aims to prepare clinical students from across health professions to interact with patients experiencing these difficulties, and broaden the scope of the application to beyond the clinical environment. 

Tania Chowdhury (PhD)

In-Person

Health professionals are at risk for secondary or vicarious traumatization (VT), compassion fatigue (CF), and burnout, which has profound implications for individual providers, organizations, and care provision. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to recognize and prevent burnout, VT, and CF, identify strategies to enhance resiliency, improve care provision, and through interprofessional collaboration, help each other thrive.

Kellie Bryant (DNP, WHNP, CHSE, FAAN), Allison Lee (MD, MS), and Stephanie Rozen (LCSW, CASAC)

In-Person

This workshop will consist of three components: icebreaker activity, escape room competition, and a debriefing session. The goal of this workshop is for students from different health professions to learn about, with, and from one another. Students will be divided into 5 interdisciplinary groups. During the icebreaker, each group will discuss the commonalities among the different disciplines and the biggest misconceptions about their profession. The teams will then compete in an escape room competition where they will need to work as a team to complete challenges. Each challenge is focused on a particular health discipline to allow students to learn from each other. The group must work collaboratively to solve the challenge before receiving their next clue. The first team to complete all the challenges will be deemed the winner and receive a prize. The workshop will end with a debriefing session where students will share their thoughts regarding interprofessional collaborative practice and lessons learned from participating in the activity.

Rita Charon (MD, PhD) and Mary Sormanti (PhD, MSW, MS)

In-Person

Each and every day, people turn to healthcare professionals for help with concerns and challenges related to all aspects of the human condition. Whether we work in a hospital, a community agency or a prison, we work with people who are facing significant losses; loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of loved ones. Even when we can intervene to mitigate those losses or support people’s adaptation to them, we are always bearing witness. In this workshop we will consider the nature of the losses and grief experienced by those we care for as well as the impact of our witnessing. We will also explore the restoration and growth that can occur after loss.

David Alvarez (MDE Candidate), Irene Liu (MPH Candidate), Sung Ji Park (MSW Candidate), and Rea Madan (DDS Candidate)

In-Person

This workshop will explore intergenerational family dynamics in the era of globalization and urbanization, with a particular focus on grandparents and grandchildren. Grandparents are increasingly providing caregiving support (or are fully raising grandchildren themselves) as a result of the middle generation’s (un)employment, incarceration, or untimely death. We will explore health outcomes of grand parenting, household living situations, mutual benefits in alleviating social isolation and loneliness, and other opportunities for building intergenerational solidarity and well-being. The racial and gender dynamics of caregiving will be explored, as well as cross cultural comparisons e.g. cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Carina Schmid (MPH, Certified Resonant Healing Coach, German Head Nurse)

In-Person

This workshop is designed for interdisciplinary health professionals who encounter challenging situations in their daily work and sometimes struggle to find the right words. Participants will practice alternatives to automatic responses, such as advice or reassurance. Through hands-on-exercises, workshop attendees will learn connecting with resonance, allowing to provide comfort and reduce feelings of isolation and alarmed aloneness by joining others where they are at.

Jeff Thompson (PhD)

In-Person

Think about the job you are preparing for (or already have) – one that entails daily stress, it will be frequently tense and unpredictable, high emotions will be involved, and other adverse elements. When these are not addressed properly, they can have a negative impact on your mental and physical health. Each of the above exists now too while you’re in school. If those overall stressors are built in now and with your future work, it is vital to also build in positive coping strategies to not just manage it, but to strive professionally and personally. This workshop will share evidence-based, practical resilience practices that you can use proactively, during tough moments, and as part of your recovery. We all have resilience in us, so come to this interactive workshop to engage in these practices. And let’s be clear – you deserve to have positive mental health. That it is not selfish, it is smart. Don’t wait for the perfect day to start, make today the right day and attend this workshop!

Stephen Fischer (PT, DPT, NCS), Eugene Gersh (MOT, OTR/L, CHT), Jamie Nguyen (MS, OTR/L, CHT), and Amanda Palmeri (PT, DPT, WCS)

In-Person

This workshop will be a small group, active discussion with advanced clinicians from NYU Langone Health specializing in the rehabilitation of those recovering from gender affirming surgeries. The successful rehab outcomes seen in these patients are due to the excellent interdisciplinary care pathway created between surgeons, nursing staff, and therapists. This collaborative approach as well as the psychosocial component of working with those in the transgender community will be discussed. The panel will include both physical therapists and occupational therapists sharing their knowledge via lecture, case studies, and open discussions with participants.

Erin Ferenchick (MD)

In-Person

This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of “messy painting” and walk them through a guided exercise to turn-off self-censoring and shape, rebuild and transform through art. Participants will have the opportunity to explore individually and collectively what is messy and what is magnificent in their lives right now and how this may influence not only caring for patients, families and communities but, importantly, themselves.

Victoria Jackson (MPH Candidate), Alexandria Jungkeit (MSW/MPH Candidate), Danielle Kassow (PhD), Kendall McElroy (MPH Candidate), and Megan Piccirillo (MPH Candidate)

In-Person

We are all born with a genetic blueprint for our brain. But what shapes, supports or harms our brains over the life course? During this workshop, students will dive into the powerful role of relationships on the developing brain through an interactive game played in small groups. This fun and simple game will introduce students to core concepts of developmental science. All materials will be provided.

Carly Hutchinson (MA, PhD)

In-Person

This workshop will focus on the findings from a community-based participatory research project that an interprofessional team from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) in partnership with Proyecto Enlace del Caño Martín Peña (ENLACE) began in 2018 and continued with a follow-up qualitative study in 2022. In 2019, our research team led by Grupo de las Ocho Comunidades Aledañas al Caño Martín Peña, Inc. community leaders (G-8) conducted a multi-pronged assessment of the impacts of two 2017 hurricanes on the incidence and presentation of pediatric asthma. This assessment was conducted in four of the eight communities surrounding el Caño Martín Peña (CMP), a Special Planning District located in the San Juan Metropolitan Area, Puerto Rico, home to approximately 11,000 residents,  28.6% of whom are immigrants, mostly from the Dominican Republic. With the data collected in 2019 as a baseline, the focus of the March 2022 study made use of a qualitative research follow-up study which elicited a rich dataset providing important insights into the long-term impacts of the 2017 natural disasters on communities already experiencing economic challenges and social vulnerability especially in regard to respiratory and other chronic illnesses. It is hoped that the study findings will serve to guide the design and implementation of the CMP’s public health plan for the next several years. This workshop will focus on the collaborative community engagement efforts of an interprofessional team made up of students from several schools and programs across Columbia as well as staff and faculty from the Mailman School of Public Health who participated in the Puerto Rico Interprofessional, Service Learning, CBPR Fellowship.

Laura Kelly (PhD, APN), Patricia Precin (PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA), and Phyllis Simon (OTD, OTR/L, FNAP)

In-Person

This workshop will illustrate the challenges faced by members of the interprofessional team when working with victims of trauma. An overview of trauma-informed care principles will be presented through an interprofessional lens. Case presentation and small group discussion will explore factors and considerations needed to address the cultural and clinical sensitivity surrounding trauma. Trauma-informed care strategies, techniques and mechanisms for integration into clinical practice will be reviewed.

Holly Gottsegen (MDE Candidate) and Tammy Pham (MDE Candidate) 

In-Person

“Now is a time for simplicity...for, dare I say it, kindness.” Join our workshop centered around the play and movie, Wit! This movie showcases the story of Vivian who is battling metastatic ovarian cancer. The story follows Vivian’s experience in the hospital as she reflects on her terminal illness and how the behaviors of the interdisciplinary team impact her care. The need for empathetic palliative care is juxtaposed with fragmented and callous healthcare. We will read scenes of the play and watch clips followed by conversations about the work, perspectives on interdisciplinary care, and empowering the patient experience!

David Kessler (MD, MSc), Alice Ruscica (MD), and Arianne Semar (RN), 

In-Person

The goal of this interactive workshop is to demonstrate the use of applied improvisation as an educational tool to teach and improve teamwork dynamics. Through participation in improv exercises and debriefs, attendees will learn how to apply these techniques within their workplaces to augment team training and dynamics.

Ayana Mortley (MEd) and Dina Patel (MD, MBA)

Virtual

Elder abuse is a hidden epidemic, common enough to be encountered in daily practice, with one in ten older adults believed to have experienced some form of abuse. Medical conditions, mental health conditions, and social isolation are just some factors that make older adults more vulnerable to abuse, neglect and financial exploitation. To effectively safeguard older adult patients from elder abuse, medical professionals must collaborate across disciplines, with social services, mental health professionals, attorneys and more. In this workshop, professionals from Weill Cornell Medicine’s New York City Elder Abuse Center will share research indicating the symptoms of elder abuse that can be identified by medical and health sciences professionals, and will engage attendees in a simulation of an elder abuse Enhanced Multidisciplinary Team (EMDT), a collaborative model for coordinating interventions for vulnerable older adults across New York City, and New York State. This simulation will illustrate the many partners who comprise multidisciplinary teams, the specialists who lend expertise to the identification and assessment of elder abuse, and the types of interventions facilitated by collaboration on elder abuse cases.

Frances Eichholz-Heller (LMSW ACHP-SW), Milena Castillo (NP), Soren Glassing (BFA, Chaplain), and Melissa Patterson (MD)  

In-Person

This workshop will bring together faculty with expertise in palliative care to raise awareness of the importance of planning with families and loved ones in difficult decision at the end of life.

Ross Frommer (JD) and Heather Krasna (PhD, EdM, MS) 

In-Person

Good ideas are wonderful, good ideas supported by evidenced-based practice are even better. But how do health care or public health experts, professionals, students, and patients convert these good ideas into policy? In this session we will have students learn some basic advocacy skills and apply those skills in a mock lobbying visit with an elected official or other policy maker. Students will leave the session will a better understanding of policy-making and lobbying, thus making them a more effective advocate for their professions, their schools, the things they personally believe in, and their patients or communities.

Alexandra Garcia (MPH Candidate), Brianna Margulis (DDS Candidate), and Richelle Matarazzo (MSW Candidate)

In-Person

Our aging population is faced with comorbidities, barriers to healthcare, sensory decline, cognitive changes, among others which all require multidisciplinary communication amongst their provider. Proper communication is vital in ensuring they are valued and understood during the healthcare process. Participants will engage in interprofessional collaboration to role pay through literature review inspired scenarios. Our scenarios and discussion will cover care delivery for patient of diverse needs, policy issues, language barriers, communication techniques with their patients and providers, and best practices involved.

Elizabeth Helmreich (MPH Candidate), Michele Paolella (LMSW),  and Tiffany Wang (DDS Candidate)

In-Person

The word consent has broadly been understood within two primary contexts: socially in the course of sexual interactions and medically when providing informed consent in healthcare settings. Join us to explore and broaden our shared understanding of the word “consent.” Participants will work in small groups to explore the social impacts of applying consent-seeking behaviors. We will then focus more deeply on the concept of consent in medical settings. Using the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam best practices for consent seeking, we will explore a number of situations in which patients might or might not provide consent.

Benjamin Schwartz (MD)

In-Person

In this workshop, we’ll use cartoons to practice skills of attention, observation, imagination and collaboration as participants work in pairs to recreate humorous drawings that have been described to them but not shown. No drawing experience necessary!

Linda P. Fried (MD, MPH), Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

In-Person

In recognition of National Public Health Week, the Mailman School of Public Health will host a panel discussion with local community leaders. The conversation will examine how cultures influence health.

Kayleigh Barrett (MPH), Alwyn Cohall (MD), Renee Cohall (LCSW), and Jessica Steinke (MPH)

In-Person

There are more people incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation and many will have significant exposure to trauma, prior to, during, and following incarceration. Interdisciplinary and trauma-informed approaches are critical in facilitating re-entry, especially from a sexual health and mental health perspective. This workshop will introduce learners to the complex and interrelated health and psychosocial issues affecting justice-impacted individuals and communities, and how an interdisciplinary, client-centered, trauma-informed approach can improve health and wellness outcomes.

Carli Wargo (LCSW, CASAC) and Lee Westover (MS, OTR/L) 

Virtual

Overdose deaths are at an all-time high. Providers must be prepared to address substance use in their individual contexts - regardless of setting. In this workshop, participants will develop a deeper understanding of Harm Reduction as a treatment framework and facilitate an exploration of how to apply principles across settings.

Silvia Amesty (MD, MPH, MSEd) and Kayhan Irani (Author)

In-Person

Disparities in health care access is a reality that disproportionately affects communities of color. Black and Latino young men and women hold multiple identities or factors of disadvantage- race, ethnicity, place of birth, legal status, class, sexual preference, gender identity- that enhance vulnerabilities, as these intersecting and overlapping social identities exacerbate socio economic burdens, perpetuate health disparities, and affect mental well-being. The workshop we are proposing aims to address the mission of the IPE day. Our team worked together to co-design a session that models and reflects interprofessional collaboration. Our focus is to help students explore intersectional identities and how they may produce and maintain health disparities. Rather than the typical examination of health issues as outside observers looking in, we would like our workshop to “place” students at a different "location" from the usual and offer an exploration on how our own perspective is particular to our personal experiences: this is important because our perspective has an effect on how we view others and on our understanding of mental and physical well-being. Our team, composed of theater, social work, and medicine practitioners, is focused on building this IPE session and designing the session’s agenda. We will utilize tools from Image Theatre, a performance technique part of the Theater of the Oppressed, to co-create our workshop’s interactive activities, exercises, and games aimed to guide participants towards self-reflection and discovery. Developed by Augusto Boal, Theater of the Oppressed is a theatrical form where the “audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyze and transform the reality in which they are living”. This workshop is fully participatory. This is not a presentation/lecture format workshop.

Sophie Basarrate (BA Candidate), Chima Ezeh (BA Candidate), David Hong (BA Candidate), and Zion Walker (BA Candidate)

Virtual

Friendly Calls to Seniors is an interprofessional student volunteer program that involves supportive calls to older adults with underlying mental health conditions. In this workshop, we will simulate an introductory call with a client and have students reflect on the successes, challenges, and future steps to take after the call. In doing so, students will learn how to screen for social determinants of health, familiarize themselves with resources for older adults in New York City, practice collaborative problem-solving skills, and combat ageism.

Kellie Bryant (DNP, WHNP, CHSE, FAAN), Allison Lee (MD, MS), and Stephanie Rozen (LCSW, CASAC)

In-Person

This workshop will consist of three components: icebreaker activity, escape room competition, and a debriefing session. The goal of this workshop is for students from different health professions to learn about, with, and from one another. Students will be divided into 5 interdisciplinary groups. During the icebreaker, each group will discuss the commonalities among the different disciplines and the biggest misconceptions about their profession. The teams will then compete in an escape room competition where they will need to work as a team to complete challenges. Each challenge is focused on a particular health discipline to allow students to learn from each other. The group must work collaboratively to solve the challenge before receiving their next clue. The first team to complete all the challenges will be deemed the winner and receive a prize. The workshop will end with a debriefing session where students will share their thoughts regarding interprofessional collaborative practice and lessons learned from participating in the activity.

Rita Charon (MD, PhD) and Mary Sormanti (PhD, MSW, MS)

In-Person

Each and every day, people turn to healthcare professionals for help with concerns and challenges related to all aspects of the human condition. Whether we work in a hospital, a community agency or a prison, we work with people who are facing significant losses; loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of loved ones. Even when we can intervene to mitigate those losses or support people’s adaptation to them, we are always bearing witness. In this workshop we will consider the nature of the losses and grief experienced by those we care for as well as the impact of our witnessing. We will also explore the restoration and growth that can occur after loss.

Nicolas Makharashvili (MPA)

In-Person

An analysis of nationally representative survey data on the prevalence of violence against children in 96 countries estimates that 1 billion children globally have experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence in the past year. Despite its high prevalence, violence against children is often hidden, unseen or under-reported. Come join us for an interactive workshop on evidence-based strategies and approaches to preventing and responding to violence against children. Participants will strengthen their knowledge about forms of violence against children, how societal, community, and family-level factors affect violence, and how the evidence-based framework and strategies can help to end violence against children.

Carina Schmid (MPH, Certified Resonant Healing Coach, German Head Nurse)

In-Person

This workshop is designed for interdisciplinary health professionals who encounter challenging situations in their daily work and sometimes struggle to find the right words. Participants will practice alternatives to automatic responses, such as advice or reassurance. Through hands-on-exercises, workshop attendees will learn connecting with resonance, allowing to provide comfort and reduce feelings of isolation and alarmed aloneness by joining others where they are at.

Arielsela Holdbrook-Smith (MPH, CHES)

In-Person

This creative storytelling workshop explores the dynamics of personal narrative and how storytelling can inspire healthcare professionals to connect with more ethical interdisciplinary collaboration and community care. Students will engage in a guided poetry exercise to reclaim their personhood and respond to the multiplicity of who we are as a community.

Jeff Thompson (PhD)

In-Person

Think about the job you are preparing for (or already have) – one that entails daily stress, it will be frequently tense and unpredictable, high emotions will be involved, and other adverse elements. When these are not addressed properly, they can have a negative impact on your mental and physical health. Each of the above exists now too while you’re in school. If those overall stressors are built in now and with your future work, it is vital to also build in positive coping strategies to not just manage it, but to strive professionally and personally. This workshop will share evidence-based, practical resilience practices that you can use proactively, during tough moments, and as part of your recovery. We all have resilience in us, so come to this interactive workshop to engage in these practices. And let’s be clear – you deserve to have positive mental health. That it is not selfish, it is smart. Don’t wait for the perfect day to start, make today the right day and attend this workshop!

Alyson Fox (MD, MSCE) and Akhil Shenoy (MD)

Virtual

Some end-stage diseases can only be treated by organ replacement. Unfortunately, organs are a limited commodity and tough decisions must be made about who will and will not have this opportunity. Please observe and participate in the process of a multi-disciplinary team charged with managing these hard decisions.

Elizabeth Berger (MS, APBCC, NBCC)

Virtual

Thought leaders in healthcare recognize illness as a spiritual event, yet spiritual health is often neglected in models of patient care. Additionally, until recently, the subject of spiritual health was virtually absent from the global conversation on clinician well-being. In this workshop led by an organizational spiritual health/narrative medicine specialist, we will demystify the discipline of spiritual health, help dispel stereotypes about chaplaincy and explore the ways in which interprofessional collaboration with contemporary professional chaplains serves as a resource for clinician well-being and the formulation of comprehensive patient care plans that aid the function of the clinical team.

Erin Ferenchick (MD)

In-Person

This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of “messy painting” and walk them through a guided exercise to turn-off self-censoring and shape, rebuild and transform through art. Participants will have the opportunity to explore individually and collectively what is messy and what is magnificent in their lives right now and how this may influence not only caring for patients, families and communities but, importantly, themselves.

Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn (BCC) and Michael Nalepa (MD)

Virtual

Through a case study, we will explore interprofessional collaboration between a Palliative Care physician and chaplain in the care of a patient with a chronic psychiatric illness. We will explore palliation and whole-person care, particularly in complex cases that impact staff with potential for burnout and moral distress. Students will learn how interdisciplinary perspectives enhance patient and family care, explore the model of a Palliative Care team, and discuss obstacles and opportunities in fostering equitable care. As interdisciplinary providers we support not only patients and families, but also each other. This workshop will empower students to forge such relationships.

Frances Eichholz-Heller (LMSW ACHP-SW), Milena Castillo (NP), Soren Glassing (BFA, Chaplain), and Melissa Patterson (MD) 

In-Person

This workshop will bring together faculty with expertise in palliative care to raise awareness of the importance of planning with families and loved ones in difficult decision at the end of life.

Elizabeth Helmreich (MPH Candidate), Michele Paolella (LMSW), and Tiffany Wang (DDS Candidate)

In-Person

The word consent has broadly been understood within two primary contexts: socially in the course of sexual interactions and medically when providing informed consent in healthcare settings. Join us to explore and broaden our shared understanding of the word “consent.” Participants will work in small groups to explore the social impacts of applying consent-seeking behaviors. We will then focus more deeply on the concept of consent in medical settings. Using the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam best practices for consent seeking, we will explore a number of situations in which patients might or might not provide consent.

Laurel Abbruzzese (PT, EdD), Marie Garcon (DNP, FNP), Natasha Mehta (MD), Rochelle Mendonca (PhD, OTR/L), Letty Moss-Salentijn (DDS, PhD), and Mark Nathanson (MD)

In-Person

This workshop evolves from the case of a frail, homebound, geriatric patient with complex comorbidities, unable to access traditional community-based services, and impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic restrictions. The interprofessional faculty facilitates exploration of the psychosocial, nursing, oral health, medical, rehabilitation, nutritional, spiritual, neuropsychiatric, and public health issues raised in this case. Students participate in shared learning and problem-solving small work groups. The emphasis centers on the role of teamwork, understanding and use of community and clinical resources, treatment planning, improvement in quality of life, and the challenges in the delivery of care in the home.

Carli Wargo (LCSW, CASAC) and Lee Westover (MS, OTR/L)

Virtual

Overdose deaths are at an all-time high. Providers must be prepared to address substance use in their individual contexts - regardless of setting. In this workshop, participants will develop a deeper understanding of Harm Reduction as a treatment framework and facilitate an exploration of how to apply principles across settings.

Jeanne Churchill (DNP, CPNP), Irene Sprung (LCSW), Helen Towers (MD), Mary Tresgallo (DNP, MPH, ACHPN), and Daniel Yang (BCC)

In-Person

This workshop addresses some of the more common Ethical issues in pediatric healthcare. Utilizing a case based approach the participants will address topics such as maternal fetal conflict, consent, adolescent autonomy, truth telling and conflict resolution. The participants will be invited to serve as ethics consultants on a clinical case after which they will engage in an Ethics Committee forum to analyze, discuss and provide recommendation on the issues of each case. This workshop will highlight the importance of interprofessional collaboration and team participation to resolve pediatric ethical dilemmas.

Moneek Madra (PhD), Jenn Nguyen (MPH), and Tirissa Reid (MD)

In-Person

Though food should be one or our easiest decisions our current environment has made food choice extremely difficult. In this workshop we hope to reacquaint students with the importance of mindfulness in eating and how in doing so there can be benefits to diet, health, and overall wellbeing.

Ana Jimenez-Bautista (LMSW)

In-Person

Puerto Rico is aging very rapidly—as of 2020 its population share of adults over the age of 65 was the tenth highest in the world. So many factors contribute to this demographic including extended shifts in fertility and mortality trends as well as high levels of out-migration of working age adults that began decades ago and is now being exacerbated by natural disasters such as the 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the 2020 earthquake, and ongoing challenges created by severe weather, covid-19, and a variety of other factors. Puerto Rico’s population reached its highest point of nearly 4 million people in 2000, so it is shocking to realize that since reaching that apex the island’s population has steadily declined. This trend has left a large number of older adults living alone and separated from their families. Familial separation is a significant factor in the health and well-being of older adults. It is this population that the Puerto Rico Interprofessional Service-Learning CBPR Fellowship sought to serve during its 2022 visit to the island. Working with a local agency, Proyecto Enlace del Cańo Martin Peńa to serve the participants in one of their programs, Recreation, Integration and Empowerment (RIE), the Fellowship organized a day of fun, reflection, and well-being for a group of women who participate in RIE. This workshop will explore the design and development of this service event by an interprofessional team of CUMC students and staff. 

Linda Golding (MA, BCC) and Lucille Torres-Deas (MD) 

In-Person

Being ethical includes doing right by those in your care, but how? Being responsive, is that about returning calls in a timely fashion? And accountable, a word that can imply justifying actions or decisions, but what else can it mean? The contemporary practice of medicine acknowledges the powerful interactions of the body and the mind in the service of healing. This workshop proposes there is another dimension to consider, one that responds to non-medical interventions while supporting healing. That is the spiritual aspect of the person in front of us – the part of the person that seeks meaning and purpose, that looks to connect with others, that is hopeful in the face of challenges, that is the core of the person’s being. Furthermore, learning about how health justice can be integrated into the biopsychosocial spiritual model can create new opportunities for clinicians to promote wellbeing. This interactive workshop will demonstrate how every member of the medical team is a spiritual generalist. Attendees will learn the concepts of the biopsychosocial spiritual model, be able to employ an evidence-based methodology to assess the spiritual aspects and concerns of a person, how to discuss and collaborate with the spiritual care expert on your team, ways in which to include the spiritual aspects in interdisciplinary learning and expertise in decision-making and health care delivery.

Nicolas Makharashvili (MPA)

In-Person

An analysis of nationally representative survey data on the prevalence of violence against children in 96 countries estimates that 1 billion children globally have experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence in the past year. Despite its high prevalence, violence against children is often hidden, unseen or under-reported. Come join us for an interactive workshop on evidence-based strategies and approaches to preventing and responding to violence against children. Participants will strengthen their knowledge about forms of violence against children, how societal, community, and family-level factors affect violence, and how the evidence-based framework and strategies can help to end violence against children.

Katherine Dumoulin (DDS Candidate), Alex Furuya (MPH Candidate), Shermin Koh (MDE Candidate), and Mojisola Odeyinde (MSW Candidate)

In-Person

Music thanatology is a form of palliative care where music is used as medicine for the dying patient and their family to serve their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. In this interactive workshop, we will introduce the concept of music thanatology and learn about the practice, the evidence of its efficacy, and its implication in medicine and public health. Participants will have an opportunity to listen and reflect on music thanatology recordings. We will then have a open conversation to see how they can use elements of music thanatology when working with patients.

Arielsela Holdbrook-Smith (MPH, CHES)

In-Person

This creative storytelling workshop explores the dynamics of personal narrative and how storytelling can inspire healthcare professionals to connect with more ethical interdisciplinary collaboration and community care. Students will engage in a guided poetry exercise to reclaim their personhood and respond to the multiplicity of who we are as a community.

Elizabeth Berger (MS, APBCC, NBCC)

Virtual

Thought leaders in healthcare recognize illness as a spiritual event, yet spiritual health is often neglected in models of patient care. Additionally, until recently, the subject of spiritual health was virtually absent from the global conversation on clinician well-being. In this workshop led by an organizational spiritual health/narrative medicine specialist, we will demystify the discipline of spiritual health, help dispel stereotypes about chaplaincy and explore the ways in which interprofessional collaboration with contemporary professional chaplains serves as a resource for clinician well-being and the formulation of comprehensive patient care plans that aid the function of the clinical team.

Michael Devlin (MD), Dan Morse (Founding Director, Cofounder, Social Prescribing USA), Richard Petrosyan (MS Candidate), and Mary Sormanti (PhD, MSW, MS)

Virtual

How do movements like this happen? What can we do to enable more research, pilots, and learning pollination for healthcare innovations we care about? Dan Morse will speak about his efforts to advance the movement to adopt “social prescribing” in the US (doctors prescribing community activities such as arts, nature, volunteering, and social services). Social prescribing has been scaled nationally in the UK. Dan’s team at Social Prescribing USA are coordinating a US grassroots physician movement, creating a network of 400+ experts including reps from the Cleveland Clinic, Harvard, the NIH, and more.

Erin Ferenchick (MD)

In-Person

This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of “messy painting” and walk them through a guided exercise to turn-off self-censoring and shape, rebuild and transform through art. Participants will have the opportunity to explore individually and collectively what is messy and what is magnificent in their lives right now and how this may influence not only caring for patients, families and communities but, importantly, themselves.

Carina Schmid (MPH, Certified Resonant Healing Coach, German Head Nurse)

In-Person

As a healthcare professional, you are often expected to handle high demands and manage tasks under stress and pressure. This can result in an inner voice that sets high standards and reacts harshly to any deviations – your inner critic. In this workshop, you will learn how to improve your relationship with your inner critic, discover why we have this voice and how it can sound in different situations. Participants will also explore why certain solutions don't work, like ignoring the voice, and most importantly, practice what will transform the critique into a wild, loving cheerleader.

Victoria Jackson (MPH Candidate), Alexandria Jungkeit (MSW/MPH Candidate), Danielle Kassow (PhD), Kendall McElroy (MPH Candidate), and Megan Piccirillo (MPH Candidate)

In-Person

We are all born with a genetic blueprint for our brain. But what shapes, supports or harms our brains over the life course? During this workshop, students will dive into the powerful role of relationships on the developing brain through an interactive game played in small groups. This fun and simple game will introduce students to core concepts of developmental science. All materials will be provided.

Michael Nalepa (MD) and Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn (BCC) 

Virtual

Through a case study, we will explore interprofessional collaboration between a Palliative Care physician and chaplain in the care of a patient with a chronic psychiatric illness. We will explore palliation and whole-person care, particularly in complex cases that impact staff with potential for burnout and moral distress. Students will learn how interdisciplinary perspectives enhance patient and family care, explore the model of a Palliative Care team, and discuss obstacles and opportunities in fostering equitable care. As interdisciplinary providers we support not only patients and families, but also each other. This workshop will empower students to forge such relationships.

Laura Kelly (PhD, APN), Patricia Precin (PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA), and Phyllis Simon (OTD, OTR/L, FNAP) 

In-Person

This workshop will illustrate the challenges faced by members of the interprofessional team when working with victims of trauma. An overview of trauma-informed care principles will be presented through an interprofessional lens. Case presentation and small group discussion will explore factors and considerations needed to address the cultural and clinical sensitivity surrounding trauma. Trauma-informed care strategies, techniques and mechanisms for integration into clinical practice will be reviewed.

Trudy-Ann Brown (MSW Candidate), Kensington Cochran (MD Candidate), Jacqueline Corcoran (MDE Candidate), and Rhea Khanna (MPH Candidate)

In-Person

Visual art training has been shown to improve clinical observation skills and reduce bias in providers working in the clinical setting. One source of bias that is prevalent in the healthcare system is ageism. Ageism is the stereotyping of and discriminating against individuals or groups based on their age. This problem significantly impacts the elderly population – especially in the care they receive. This has far-reaching implications across many healthcare disciplines, and we aim to explore how visual art training may be applied to help address and resolve this particular bias that exists. In this session, participants will explore Ageism from Public Health, Social Work and Clinical perspectives, and then engage in an evidence-based exercise to combat bias utilizing visual art.