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Aloha Balza, MPA
Florida Atlantic University
FL, United States
Aloha Balza is the Assistant Director for the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice at Florida Atlantic University. She works collaboratively to create and implement interprofessional programming for medical, nursing, and social work students. She manages external partnerships to ensure addition of healthcare professions students as well as local providers to our programming. Her responsibilities include collecting and reporting IPE&P assessment data and use it to develop strategies focus on improving programming quality and reach. Aloha received her Bachelor of Science degree from New York University and her Master of Public Administration degree from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University.

Presenting at CAB 2025:

Participants will gain insights on how older adult mentors can be facilitators of interprofessional learning, and the vital roles health professions students play when collaborating for healthy aging using the geriatric 5Ms framework. Participants will go through activities and polling to develop strategies that can be used at their institution.