Teri
Kennedy,
PhD, MSW, ACSW, FGSA, FNAP
Associate Dean & Professor, Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research (iPEPR)
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Dr. Kennedy is Associate Dean, Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research and Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of IPE, KU School of Nursing; Professor, Department of Population Health, KU School of Medicine; and co-facilitator, Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative. She serves on the Advisory Committee for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages, Health Resources and Services Administration; Public Policy Committee, National Academies of Practice; and Health and Aging Policy Fellows Alumni Network. Her work focuses on sustainability, interprofessional leadership, team science, and health and aging policy. She developed the Kennedy Model of Sustainability and a model of Strengths-Based Interprofessional Practice and Education (SB-IPE).
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
IntroductionThe use of interprofessional education (IPE) to drive collaborative practice (CP) is an area of evolving focus, with recent work turning to leadership skills as an imperative force to meet the Quadruple Aim goals. While leadership practices have been called out as one small part of interprofessional competence to optimize teams and teamwork, there is currently no nationally accepted set of leadership behaviors that can be taught across all health care programs. For this to happen, these behaviors must first be defined so they can guide the future development and delivery of IPE.…
Basic scientists conducting biomedical research are generally not provided the skills or experiences needed to engage in meaningful patient engagement and effective community collaboration. The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s (KUCC) Community Outreach and Engagement program developed an innovative strengths-based training model, Patient and Investigator Voices Organizing Together (PIVOT) Across the Translational Research Continuum, pairing basic scientists with research-trained cancer survivors/co-survivors to bring the voices and experiences of patients and families into the research…
Achieving health equity demands a fundamental reexamination of the human experience. The humanities and arts offer a useful lens that reveals and informs blind spots in our understanding of health and health equity across diverse populations. The Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative (HHARC) at The University of Kansas (KU) is an innovative model connecting educational institutions with practice settings in co-created academic-community partnerships. Launched in the midst of the pandemic, HHARC creates connections and leverages affinities within health, wellness, and health equity…