Christine
Arenson,
MD, FNAP
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
MA,
United States
Christine Arenson, Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, focuses on partnerships to advance the center’s commitment to generating new knowledge to advance the field. Dr. Arenson graduated from the University of Delaware, Jefferson Medical College, and family medicine residency and geriatric fellowship training. She served as Alumni Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine and founding Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at Thomas Jefferson University. She leads the center’s strategic vision: simultaneous transformation of interprofessional practice and education to achieve health and learning outcomes and health equity.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This hands-on workshop will introduce the US National Center for Interprofessional Practice Education Highest Possible Future tool. This tool supports academic/practice/community partnerships to explore and articulate their shared values, vision, and aspirational goals to achieve interprofessional health and learning outcomes for the individuals and communities they serve.
Over nine years, the National Center has co-created programming with patient advisors and has refined strategies to lower boundaries to partnership and improve learning outcomes for interprofessional participant teams. Join the National Center and our patient advisor to gain practical skills in engaging patients to co-create education.
We will explore three potential contributions to interprofessional education: management reasoning, collective competence, and critically reflective practice. These concepts can help prepare future graduates for the complexity of working in increasingly pressured contexts. Through facilitated discussion, participants will consider how these ideas can be incorporated into their educational practices.