Interprofessional conference committee seeks abstracts

The eighth annual Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Conference is set for the Pew Grand Rapids Campus on September 17-18.

MIPERC is an organization founded by Grand Valley, Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners and Michigan State University-College of Human Medicine to develop regional infrastructure for interprofessional education, practice and research. Conference organizers are now accepting abstracts that showcase topics relevant to the conference theme, “Strategies for the Application of Successful Models and Processes.” New to the conference this year, awards will be given for student poster presentations and faculty members are encouraged to ask students to submit abstracts.

Details on submitting an abstract are online at www.gvsu.edu/miperc. Deadline for podium abstracts is June 1, poster abstracts is July 30.

Conference keynote speakers are Michael Faas, CEO of Metro Health Corporation and president of Pennant Health Alliance; Lesley Bainbridge, director of interprofessional education for the faculty of medicine and associate principal for the College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia; Darrell G. Kirch, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges; and Amy Blue, associate vice president for interprofessional education for the Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health and Education, University of Florida.

A pre-conference workshop is set for September 17 with a presentation by Barbara Brandt, associate vice president for education and director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota Health Center.

For details, visit www.gvsu.edu/miperc.