Sonia Gasparini, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology and Anatomy
LSUHSC at New Orleans
Dr. Sonia Gasparini is a Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology and Anatomy at the LSU Health-New Orleans (LSUHNO). She received her PhD in Physiology from the University of Milan and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy and the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSUHNO. In addition to research on the mechanisms of information processing and memory formation and teaching activities in the School of Medicine and Graduate Studies, Dr. Gasparini has served as the Faculty Liaison for Graduate Studies for the LSUHNO Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (CIPECP) from 2015 to 2021.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

A commonly used method to measure IPE learning outcomes is through the use of validated IPE perception or attitudinal questionnaires. Perception change can be measured using a retrospective pre-/post-test design (RPP). A RPP survey is administered at a single point after the intervention, and asks participants to reflect on a timepoint before the experience, thus keeping the frame of reference constant, eliminating response shift bias (Howard, 1980). Faculty at a U.S. based academic health sciences center used the RPP design to measure student perceptions using the Student Perceptions of…