2021–2022 OACA/CIH Interprofessional Interns
Co-hosted by the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs and Center for Interprofessional Health
Eighteen students from across the health sciences were in our 2021–2022 cohort.
Center for Interprofessional Health
The Center for Interprofessional Health (CIH) Co-Lead Intern position serves 3 purposes: 1) Promotes advanced personal leadership development in an interprofessional context; 2) Provides mentorship to and leadership of incoming intern cohorts; 3) Contributes to the advancement of novel interprofessional initiatives in line with UMN Strategic Plan priorities through cross-sector collaboration approaches.
Bethany O'Bryan, BS
College of Veterinary Medicine
Sara Dasler, BS
College of Liberal Arts
Community University Health Care Center
Propose a mentor model with current interns supporting and orienting a new intern and getting them going. Existing interns will teach some of the skills they learned already as the organization works on new projects. Interns will develop templates for trending quantitative and qualitative patient satisfaction data at varying levels, map annual workflow for surveys, and develop structure for reports in the peer review process.
Mila Centrella, BA
School of Public Health
Vanessa Santamaria, BS
School of Public Health
Ally Taubenhein, RN, PHN, BSN
School of Nursing
GuidePoint Pharmacy
By improving interprofessional communications at high risk times, such as transitions of care, we want to help minimize mental health disparities and improve patient outcomes. By utilizing a Primary Care Team based approach, we can implement tools like care plans to expand our outreach to vulnerable patient populations. The project will introduce and implement a communication platform that is easily utilized by the entire Primary Care Team - especially during crisis situations.
Taylor Sinn, BS
School of Public Health
Elena Tran, BA
School of Public Health
HealthPartners
Interns will compile and develop resources on Interprofessional education and teaming, create a resource webpage, and develop a teaming toolkit that builds off of the HealthPartners Teaming Framework. Toolkit items will be tested with longitudinal NP/PA students in spring of 2022.
Brandon Gilmer, BS
College of Pharmacy
Julie Ntegeye, BA
School of Public Health
Breana Stang, BS
Center for Allied Health
Morris Challenge Project
The UMN Morris Challenge promotes sustainability, practical solutions, and community cooperation to engage communities to improve health and quality of life. Interns will support the Challenge Director in garnering data, community interest, expertise, and delivery approaches to engage populations in active change. Interns will support the conceptualization and launch of interprofessional community health intiatives in west central Minnesota based on the needs of the populations involved.
Janette Romero Saenz, BA
School of Public Health
Aisha Waseem, BS
College of Pharmacy
National Center
To support the advancement of two of the strategic imperatives that are closely aligned: racism within health care teams and the engagement of individuals, families and communities in the Nexus. These themes will be a focus of the Nexus Summit, held in September and October, and specific project goals will come out of action planning associated with that meeting. Interns will develop and refine the patient, family and community curated resource collection, curate a special collection focused on aspects of racism and caste within health care teams, and develop practical tools and resources to promote awareness and engagement of key topics, issues and opportunities.
Lizz Johnson, BA, AA
College of Pharmacy
Poornima Vasireddy, MS, BDS, NTR
School of Dentistry
Veterans Administration
A tiered huddle system was recently implemented, designed to manage the safety and risk concerns from employees. The hope is to expand these huddles across the organization. An intern team would help to develop and implement tools to scale up this work, including development of an objective method to monitor the lifecycle of the tiered huddle system and monitor team alignment.
Colton Cannon, BS
School of Dentistry
Claire Knutson, BS
School of Public Health
Welia Health
Welia Health recently shifted to a private not-for-profit 501c3 organization. Interns in this project will conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment consistent with the expectations of Section 501(r)(3), facilitate discussions surrounding implementation strategies to meet identified community health needs, and present their report to senior leadership and governing board.
Nathan Evans, BS
School of Public Health
Hannah Saalsaa, BS
Medical School