The IPE Day Cup is presented to the winners of the IPE Day student competition.

The best in technology can be leveraged to change all aspects of health care including education, training, and practice to improve patient outcomes.

That was the takeaway at the 5th Annual Interprofessional Education Day 2022 Nov. 16 at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation.  This year’s theme “The Future of Healthcare: The Transformative Role of Emerging Technology in Interprofessional Practice” brought together expert health care providers and entrepreneurs to discuss the latest in technology advances and what on the horizon to help enhance training and education, and patient outcomes.

Participants tuned in virtually to hear health care experts highlight their experiences and opinions of how technology can be used across the health care industry.

Featured speakers and topics:

Daniel Kraft, founder of Digital Health and NextMed Health and chair of XPRIZE Pandemic and Health Alliance, presented “The Future of Healthcare” to the virtual audience.  His presentation highlighted how modern technology is being used to help create better patient outcomes and emphasized the importance of leveraging technology to improve health care globally.  Additionally, he introduced listeners to some up-and-coming technologies and applications that are being created that can offer accurate and faster results at a fraction of the cost to patients.

Roger Daglius Dias, MD, PhD, MBA, Harvard Medical School associate professor of emergency medicine and STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation director of Research and Innovation.  His presentation “The Use of Technology to Enhance Interprofessional Communication in Healthcare” provided examples of how technology, including artificial and augmented reality, is leveraged to allow interprofessional teams to more effectively and efficiently communicate to enhance training, education and patient outcomes.

Matthew Mullarkey, PhD, USF Muma College of Business director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program and executive director of the TGH-USF People Development Institute, presented “Reimagining the Innovation Adoption Curve in Healthcare: A Case for the Binary Adoption Curve.”  His presentation challenged the idea that digital transformation must happen to allow for more and better patient outcomes.

The morning session ended with an interprofessional panel discussion about “Integrating Emerging Technology to Enable True Patient Centered Healthcare.”  Expert panelists offered opinions and personal examples of how technology has helped enhance the efficiency of their practice, their teams, and how they educate and treat patients. Kevin Sneed, PharmD, USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy dean, USF Health senior associate vice president, and IPE Day 2022 co-chair, served as moderator to an expert group of panelists.

• Peter Chang, MD, Tampa General Hospital vice president of Healthcare Design
• Richard Munassi, MD, MBA, Tampa Bay WAVE managing director
• Christopher Fowler, PhD, James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital and Clinics health science specialist.

The afternoon session began with a presentation from Laura Marsden, digital health lead and strategic planner for Jabil.  Her presentation “Breaking Barriers to Healthcare Transformation: The Power of Interprofessional Practice” focused on her personal experiences of physicians struggling to identify a chronic illness in her child and how digital health platforms helped identify and monitor his progress.  She highlighted the importance of interventional opportunities as they pertain to positive long-term patient health and outcomes.

USF Health student competition:

Shelby Rountree, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Physician Assistant Program, led her team in developing their concept during the student competition.

In keeping with tradition of IPE Day, teams of USF Health students were given a scenario in which they had to find a technological solution for a simulated patient who suffered from multiple illnesses including hypertension, diabetes and glaucoma.  The solution had to be user friendly to the patient, provide short-term and long-term interdisciplinary care solutions.

The top four teams to survive the first round of judging presented their solution to the entire IPE Day cohort in the finals. They had an additional 10 minutes to prepare their final pitch before giving their final presentations.  The winner was determined in an American Idol text-to-vote style judging, and it was team 4, as they were labeled for the finals, that took home the IPE Day Cup.

Team 4 Participants: 

– Lauren Adams (faculty preceptor) – Physician Assistant Program

– Kayla Foran – School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitative Sciences

– Paula Hernandez – College of Public Health

– Victoria Huffman – College of Public Health

– Pauline Nagac –  School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitative Sciences

– Shelby Rountree – Physician Assistant Program

– Emily Small – Physician Assistant Program

– Tristan Stitt – Athletic Training Program

– Alex Thompson – Taneja College of Pharmacy 

USF Health leaders on IPE Day 2022:

“New technologies, from gene sequencing to A.I. and V.R., are helping health care advance so quickly that it’s hard to keep pace. But, we must keep pace to realize their potential to transform health care.  We are part of a health care revolution that offers tremendous promise.”

Charles Lockwood, MD, MHCM, USF Health executive vice president and Morsani College of Medicine dean

“Especially after COVID-19, we’ve seen such an acceleration in the use of technology in education, patient care and training. Yet, we don’t really have an opportunity to teach this and let our students really understand the principles around it, where it’s going, and some of the challenges.  This is why this was the topic for the day.”

Haru Okuda, MD, FACEP, FSSH, executive director of the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, and associate vice president for USF Health Interprofessional Education and Practice

“The real winners today are going to be the patients in our communities.  I think we are at the forefront of being able to bring that technology experience to our students.”

Kevin Sneed, PharmD, USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy dean and professor, USF Health senior associate vice president, IPE Day 2022 co-chair

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The 5th Annual Interprofessional Education Day 2022 was held at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Nov. 16.

The 5th Annual Interprofessional Education Day 2022 was held at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Nov. 16.

The 5th Annual Interprofessional Education Day 2022 was held at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Nov. 16.

The 5th Annual Interprofessional Education Day 2022 was held at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Nov. 16.

The 5th Annual Interprofessional Education Day 2022 was held at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Nov. 16.

Story and photos by Freddie Coleman, USF Health Communications and Marketing