Gerry Ibay, JD, MHA
Assistant Professor and Vice Chair, MHA Program Director
University of Oklahoma Hudson College of Public Health
Gerry has almost 20 years of healthcare experience in multiple roles, organization types, and geographies, including management at New York-Presbyterian and as a Vice President with Bon Secours Health System. His experience spans strategy, operations, development, and information systems. In his current role as he teaches executive skills related to relationships and communication, organizational theory and behavior, and strategic management. He is passionate about teaching healthcare colleagues how to manage stress, identify their stories, and develop and nurture effective interprofessional relationships. He is also a certified yoga teacher and incorporates mind-body embodiment practices into the field of healthcare.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

This presentation addresses the selected theme and subtheme in that it is a description of developing a certificate program targeting faculty, staff, and other educators in the colleges and schools within OU across all three campuses. This includes medicine, social work, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health administration, public health, audiology, dentistry, nutritional sciences, speech language pathology, nursing, physicians assistants, and imaging technology (radiation sciences, nuclear medicine, sonography). The certificate program is targeting faculty and staff at any…
This project addresses the conference theme of “Innovations in Interprofessional Learning: in Practice and/or Education.” Students who desire leadership positions or in various health administration programs often do not work together until they have graduated and are working in healthcare settings. This is a disadvantage for them when they work in resolving urgent matters within healthcare. Our hope was that students would develop confidence in learning about and from each other, and practicing with each other. They would apply what they learned in their programs in a simulated practice…