Sibusiso Mdletshe, University of Auckland (Chair)
A member of the U21 Health Sciences Group (HSG) Interprofessional Education (IPE) Special Interest Group (SIG) since its inception in 2028 during the U21 HSG Annual meeting, Sibusiso currently chairs the IPE SIG (2022 – current). He has background training in radiography (medical imaging) and radiation therapy and has various qualifications and certificates that cut across the disciplines of Human Resources Management, Project Management, Health Sciences Education, and Leadership Development. With more than 25 years of experience in higher education, he is currently the Senior Lecturer and Post-Graduate Director (Medical Imaging) at the University of Auckland where is a member of the Sustainability Working Group at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is also a committee member of the Australia and New Zealand Medical Radiation Research Network (ANZMRRN). Further, he is a Teaching at University (TAU) Fellow.
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Arturo E. Grau, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Dr. Arturo E. Grau is an Associate Professor in Ophthalmology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC). His beginnings in Medicine were influenced by well-known doctors of his family: his father Dr. Arturo P. Grau, Child Psychiatry professor, and his uncle, Dr. Luis Monasterio, a Pediatric Plastic Surgeon. His choice of Ophthalmology was influenced by his mentors and friends: Dr. George Shafranov and Dr. Mark Milner, whom he met during his observerships at Yale University in his final years of Medical School. After studying Ophthalmology at Universidad Católica in Chile, Dr. Grau decided to undertake subspecialty training in Cornea and ocular surface disease in Bilbao, Spain, with Professor Juan Durán de la Colina.
After Spain, Dr. Grau was also accepted for the prestigious anterior segment fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. There he had the opportunity to learn from great professors such as Dr. Valerie Saw, Dr. Steven Tuft, and Prof. John Dart.
Currently, Dr. Grau works full time at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, as a cornea and ocular surface disease specialist. He regularly presents at national and international meetings and is also a member of the Chilean Society of Ophthalmology and Global Ambassador for Tear film and ocular surface society /TFOS)
Dr Grau also lead the simulation program in ophthalmology at UC and is a member of the UC Bioethics Center.
His concern and social vocation have led him to be a founding member of OcuLab UC, a social innovation laboratory for visual disability, where along with other professors of the UC, develops projects focused on entrepreneurship, culture and education in the social aspects of visual disability. And also working together with ASHOKA and 2811 create a course in social innovation in health for undergraduate students.
Dr. Arturo Grau lives in Santiago with his wife Daniela and their children Arturo, Carmen and Candelaria. He enjoys music, art, food and travel.
Charne Miller, University of Melbourne
Dr Charne Miller is the Director of Learning and Teaching in the Department of Nursing at The University of Melbourne. Dr Miller leads curriculum development, accreditation, and the conduct of outstanding educational delivery in the entry-to-practice, speciality and advanced practice nursing courses as well as establishing opportunities for interdisciplinary education and research.
Dr Miller has 20 years of research experience undertaking clinical trials, evaluation studies, and qualitative investigations in the areas of wound management, skin integrity, informal carers, and acute and community nursing. Dr Miller has a well-established service, publication and grant track record. A background in psychology has fostered expertise in research methods and statistics which were further strengthened by post graduate studies in statistics. Dr Miller’s qualifications and experience are utilised in the academic setting in research subject coordination and the supervision of graduate research students.
Fraide Ganotice, University of Hong Kong
Dr Fraide Ganotice has a strong background in educational psychology, measurement and evaluation, and group processes. He is an Assistant Professor and the Program Coordinator of the Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) at the Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.
The IPECP program at HKU is one of the largest interprofessional education and collaboration programs in Asia, with multi-institutional partnerships both locally and internationally. As its head of development and implementation, Dr. Ganotice is proud that the IPECP program won the Gold Award at the 2021 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Reimagine Education Awards (Hybrid Learning), and the 2021 Teaching Innovation Award (Team Award).
Dr. Ganotice’s research focuses on examining individual- and group- level variables that explain IPE outcomes among students, and the use of technology to facilitate student engagement, collaboration, and achievement. His research aims to tear down educational silos to achieve optimal patient-centered care. He is committed to contributing to science and scholarship of medical education by untangling the basic instructional, motivational, and psychological principles that underpin the success of IPE.
Find out more about the IPE programme: https://www.ipe.hku.hk/
Lynne Hazell, University of Johannesburg
Dr Lynne Hazell is a diagnostic radiographer and graduated with a Doctoral study in simulation- based learning for radiography education. At present she is the Head of Department in the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences at the University of Johannesburg. She has an interest in interdisciplinary and interprofessional education and believes the two can go hand in hand. She also facilitates the mammography qualification for the department.
She also has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in psychology, which assists with growing the professional identity. Lynne coordinates the diagnostic radiography programme and is introducing simulation and interprofessional learning into the curriculum. The MIRS department is conducting research at present in students use of AI in education and the support required for ethical use of AI in education. She has conducted quantitative and qualitative research in the field of radiography.
Marike de Ruiter, University of Amsterdam
Marike is an experienced educator in the field of the health professional education. She holds many teaching qualifications and served health students from all kinds of professions and at different levels including health professionals themselves. Over the years she developed many new courses, in 2016 her pharmacy book for health professionals was published.
Nowadays she is appointed at both the Medical School of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Nursing School of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). She is program coordinator of the new premaster in Medicine at the Medical School and responsible for the pre-medical track at the AUAS. At both universities she facilitates the undergraduate interprofessional program. Her main interest is on curriculum design and innovation as urged by the WHO. Therewith, her focus is on the implementation of new programs and modules as well as the professionalization of educators in their roles as facilitators. Marike is member of the U21 SIG on IPE since Mai 2021.
Polly Chan, University of Hong Kong
Dr Polly Siu Ling Chan is the Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing at The University of Hong Kong. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience in higher education. She is interested in different educational research focusing on internationalization, innovation and interdisciplinarity. She has received numerous related educational grants as the Principal Investigators.
Dr Chan has been awarded the Faculty Teaching Medal by The LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong in 2023. In the same year, she has also been awarded the Teaching Innovation Award (Team Award) under the Teaching Excellence Award Scheme of The University of Hong Kong.
Dr Chan has served as the Director of the Bachelor of Nursing (Part-time) Programme for Registered Nurses in the School since 2013-14. She is experienced in curriculum review, design and development.
Sarah Wojkowski, McMaster University
Sarah Wojkowski, is a registered physiotherapist and holds the positions of Assistant Dean (Physiotherapy), School of Rehabilitation Sciences and Director, Program for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (PIPER), Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University.
Sarah completed her PhD in 2019, which focused on understand access to community based physiotherapy services. Currently, Sarah is collaborating on projects that are working to understand how health professional curriculums integrate health justice concepts to prepare students to address and dismantle historical and systemic barriers that result in racism, bias and oppression. An experienced educator, Sarah has an interest in teaching and learning initiatives which include interprofessional education, simulation, and student co-design and holds a Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellowship, MacPherson Institute, McMaster University.
Yasna Palmeiro Silva, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Yasna is a nurse from the Universidad Católica de Chile, with a diploma in Biostatistics and Public Policy. She also holds a Master in Public Health from the Universidad de Chile and a PhD in Global Health from University College London. Yasna is currently a associate researcher at UC Chile and research fellow at Lancet Countdown, both in the global team and in the Latin American group. Her research focuses on the relationship between climate change and population health, as well as planetary health.
Ying Zhang, University of Sydney
Dr Ying Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia. She is a senior epidemiologist focusing on climate change and global public health for about 20 years. Ying is the Co-Director of the Lancet Countdown Oceania on Health and Climate Change, the Founding Chair of the Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration based at the University of Sydney, and an elected Fellow of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology.
Thank you to the contribution of past Members
Dr. Christine Hirsch, University of Birmingham
Christine is a registered pharmacist with a background in hospital clinical pharmacy where she worked in various multidisciplinary teams including oncology, neurology and end of life care. Since completing her PhD in end of life care in 2007, she moved into higher education and is currently deputy programme director for the MPharm programme at the University of Birmingham. She is the pharmacy lead for IPE and member of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences IPE steering group working to embed IPE across the health professions curricula.
Christine has been involved in the development of a number of IPE bi-professional workshops as well as IPE simulations and Healthcare Team Challenge involving the wider healthcare pre-registration students at the University. Christine is also a member of the working group to development patient and partner involvement in IPE and healthcare education across the College.
Professor Marie Gerdtz, University of Melbourne
Marie is Professor and Head, Department of Nursing, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne. Her approach to education and scholarship emanate from 15 years of clinical practice as a Registered Nurse and educator working in the specialty of emergency nursing. Since the completion of her PhD in 2003 Marie has led the development and implementation of award programs in both specialty and advanced nursing practice at The University of Melbourne. Her work includes partnerships with health services and government where she has worked on several multi-disciplinary educational programs designed to enhance safety and quality of emergency care. Her most recent work is supported by the Australian and New Zealand Council of Dean of Nursing and Midwifery. Titled “Clinical placements: contributions to student learning, patient care and healthcare systems” this project aims to capture the multi-directional benefits of clinical placements in nursing and ultimately inform the development of a work integrated curriculum framework.
Dr. Sharon Buckley, University of Birmingham
A microbiologist by background, Sharon is an experienced educator with a strong record in expanding IPE opportunities. She worked with Birmingham students to establish the Knowledge and Skills Exchange IPE Society, led the Health Care Team Challenge (West Midlands) 2015, the first such to be held in England and, in 2012, established the College of Medical and Dental Sciences IPE steering group, which works to embed IPE into health professions programme curricula. Since 2005, Sharon has led four major regional IPE projects, focussing particularly on the development of authentic IP simulations for pre-registration students.
Sharon is a board member for the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE), a member of the Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) collaboration editorial committee and an Associate Editor for the journal The Clinical Teacher.
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