Aline
Saad,
PharmD
Clinical Associate Professor, Coordinator of IPE, Director of Faculty Development
Wayne State University
Aline Saad is an Associate Professor, Director of Faculty Development, and Coordinator of Interprofessional Education (IPE) at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Saad is an IPE champion at the Michigan AHEC. Dr. Saad most recent IPE contribution centers around an innovative collaboration with Medicine, Nursing, and Social Work to implement a pilot IPE telehealth course. She is currently implementing a comprehensive IPE plan for the PharmD program that prepares all pharmacy students to provide patient-centered care in a variety of practice settings as a contributing member of an interprofessional team.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
BackgroundDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, health professional programs revolved quickly to virtually deliver sound pedagogy for students’ learning and clinical practice. Simultaneously, many healthcare institutions shifted from in person care to the practice of telehealth without prior training of providers. To address the need for clinical education in the delivery of interprofessional telehealth patient centered care, the Michigan Area Health Education Center leadership developed an online course for health educators and health professional students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and…