Hwyda
Arafat,
MD, PhD, MSc. MEdL
Professor
University of New England
Dr. Hwyda A. Arafat graduated from Ain Shams Medical School followed by an internal medicine residency and a clinical pathology fellowship. She conducted her PhD and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and was recruited later as a faculty at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Arafat published more than 55 peer reviewed articles in the areas of pancreatic cancer and diabetes mellitus. She joined the faculty of University of New England as Professor of Biomedical Sciences. In addition to teaching, she is heavily involved in the integration of diversity equity and inclusion in the medical school curriculum.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Increasing evidence suggests that cross-disciplinary teamwork benefits patient care, reduces provider burden, improves clinical team performance, and is critical to the prevention of medical error (Mayo & Woolley, 2016). Health care teams can achieve more than any one profession can alone, yet they are often fraught with unacknowledged tensions impeding efficacy. Such tensions begin in health education where barriers to interprofessional collaborative learning (IPCL) are both implicit (e.g. unexamined assumptions, stereotypes, and hierarchies), and explicit (e.g. certain…