January 2020
Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to 2020! I am excited about the recent launch of our Interprofessional Clinical Grants Program and the promise it holds for integrating our interprofessional student and resident learners in clinical environments where they can participate in collaborative care teams.  I invite you to reach out to me with your ideas about how to promote IPE and IPC at UCSF and I look forward to working with many of you this year.

A faculty opportunity: We encourage all faculty to sign up to participate in the PIPE Interprofessional Teaching Observation Program (iTOP). Trained observers in the iTOP program can help educators gain the confidence and skills to succeed in a variety of IPE settings. Sign up here !

Thanks,
Maria Wamsley, MD
Interprofessional collaboration is an integral part of high-quality healthcare in outpatient clinics. Since fall 2017, the UCSF Center for Geriatric Care, a geriatric ambulatory primary care practice, has hosted an interprofessional learning community, under the direction Mackenzie Clark, PharmD (Pharmacy), Michele Sharma (Medical Social Work), Yvonne Troya, JD (Law), and Pei Chen, MD (Medicine, pictured left). more
In the inaugural year of the PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Grants program, we are proud to award a variety of innovative projects representing the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Physical Therapy program. Congratulations to our award recipients:
  • Nina Zhao, MD
  • Brent Lin, DMD
  • Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, MD, PhD
  • David Sears, MD
  • Rose Pavlakos, PharmD
The PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant was created to support individual clinical sites in piloting new interprofessional immersive experiences for students and residents in the health professional programs at UCSF. more
Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD, has been a leader in the Partners in D student outreach program since its pilot in 2006. Students have the opportunity to work interprofessionally while assisting seniors from underserved populations with their Medicare plan. “The elective is designed as active learning, where students have a case and have to figure out how to use the Plan Finder without expertise, like a patient, before they receive training,” says Stebbins.  more
Get Involved
Participate in PIPE Scholarship meetings, held every third Wednesday of the month. Next meeting: February 19 , CL-201 or via Zoom. Contact Louise Hendrickson for more information.
To submit story ideas or learn more about UCSF IPE, email ipe@ucsf.edu .