The plenary addresses for Collaborating Across Borders IX are announced! Explore the session descriptions and our plenary speakers below.
Plenary 1: Leveraging Team-Based Care Strengths in Canada and the USA: Opportunities to Learn About, From and With Each Other
One of the underlying themes of CAB is to explore how Canadians and Americans can learn about, from and with each other to improve team-based care in our collective communities. We know that collaborative, interprofessional, data-driven, healthcare teams deliver more patient-responsive care that results in improved patient and health systems outcomes.1,2 Despite this, practitioners across both countries traverse different local and national policy landscapes that shape care and may help or hinder team-based care...
Lynne Sinclair — Alan Dow — Linda Woodhouse
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 8:00 - 9:30 CDT
Plenary 2: Interprofessional imagination: How IPE can give HOPE for better health outcomes for all
Even with different models of delivering health care, in both Canada and the United States health outcomes often depend on characteristics like race, class, and geography. These health disparities are deemed inequities when they stem from socially determined causes that negatively affect members of disfavored groups. Interprofessional educators have heeded the call to address inequities by preparing graduates attentive to the larger structures that impact the lives of their patients and clients. Yet, the most common IPE activities related to health equity focus on raising awareness of systemic issues while leaving the unjust systems in place...
Peter Cahn
Thursday, May 29, 2025 8:00 - 9:30 CDT
Plenary 3: Converging Currents of Power in Teams: A Vision for Healing and Connection
Power imbues all human relationships. Thus, power exerts influence in all interprofessional practice where it can undermine collaboration and, therefore, health outcomes. Despite real-world understanding of power and its implications being critical for enabling effective collaboration there is a dearth of interprofessional education curricula and research centered on power. Thus, learners are underprepared to navigate the complexity of power in collaborative practice. In this plenary, I will draw on my research that reveals how power flows through networks of healthcare teams and can corrupt or enable group function. Using social network analysis from the field of sociology, the definition of teams is expanded to include diverse professionals, patients, families, and community team members....
Laura Nimmon
Friday, May 30, 2025 8:00 - 9:30 CDT