Dr. Gloria Reeves, MD, received a $25,000 seed grant for Family-Centered Mental Health Outreach. Contributing faculty include Ms. Kristan Kanyuch (Family Advocate), Jill RachBeisel, MD, Susan dosReis, BSPharm, PhD, Pamela Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, MD, , Sarah Edwards DO, Kristin Bussell PhD, CRNP-PMH, Austin Cooper (Research Assistant and Coordinator), and Kay Connors MSW, LCSW-C. Healthcare has traditionally been conceptualized through the lens of the provider-patient dyad, yet wellness of individual patients is strongly influenced by the functioning of their family and the effectiveness of their healthcare team. In this course, trainees from different Íøºì±¬ÁÏ health professional and neuroscience training programs will have the opportunity to collaborate with family mental health advocates to develop an outreach program for consumers who have a child with special mental health needs. Trainees will cultivate skills in interprofessional teamwork through their development, implementation, and dissemination of a team mental health outreach project, and they will gain understanding of family-centered principles through their partnership with family advocates and community stakeholders on this work. Outcome data from their project will be disseminated through academic and consumer networks. To learn more, please contact Dr. Reeves at greeves@som.umaryland.edu.
Dr. Amy Kruger Howard, MS, PharmD, FFI, received a $25,000 seed grant for Clinic to Community: An Interprofessional Pilot for Pediatric GI Health Literacy Navigation. Contributing faculty include Catherine Maybury, PhD, MPH, and Elsie Stines, DNP, CRNP. This pilot project embeds pharmacy and public health students in a clinic-to-community pediatric GI health literacy navigation model. Students will be integrated at multiple touchpoints to enhance patient and family health literacy through a patient safety net. Student pharmacists will be in a nurse-practitioner-led clinic and support a community health worker with family triage and medication-related follow-up. On Fridays, public health students will join the all-team meetings and work with the Rise Family Support social worker on programmatic development for families, including health communication supports and family-facing resources. Supervised by faculty from UMSOP and UMD, students will engage in medication counseling, health communication, patient navigation, and interprofessional teamwork aligned with 2023 IPEC competencies. To learn more, please contact Dr. Howard at akhoward@rx.umaryland.edu.
Dr. Jaclyn Clark, MD, MHPE, FACS, received a $25,000 seed grant for Interprofessional Trauma Symposium: Collaborative Systems in Trauma Care. Contributing faculty include Shailvi Gupta, MD MPH FACS, Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, PA-C, and Paul Thurman, PhD, RN, ACNPC, CCNS, CCRN, CNE. This project proposes the development of an Interprofessional Trauma Symposium that extends the systems-based, team-oriented educational model of the Master of Science in Trauma Sciences program at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, housed within the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Baltimore School of Graduate Studies. The symposium will intentionally engage students from across UMB—including the Schools of Graduate Studies, Medicine, and Nursing—addressing gaps in trauma-focused education, particularly within the School of Nursing where formal electives are limited. Participants will be placed in interprofessional teams and engage in facilitated case-based discussions, simulation, and collaborative problem-solving alongside lecturers and facilitators from diverse professional backgrounds, ensuring students learn with, from, and about one another’s roles in trauma systems while developing skills in communication, role clarity, and team-based decision-making. By creating a scalable platform for experiential interprofessional education, this initiative will strengthen collaboration across disciplines and prepare learners to function effectively within trauma systems locally, nationally, and globally. To learn more, please contact Dr. Clark at Jaclyn.clark@som.umaryland.edu.
Shani Kamberi, 4th year Medical Student, Rising Pediatric PGY1 at the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Golisano Children’s Hospital, received a seed grant of $25,000 for Maryland Child Advocacy & Policy (M-CAP) Lab: An Interprofessional Pediatric Policy and Advocacy Lab at the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ Golisano Children’s Hospital. Contributing faculty include Regina Macatangay, MD, Vandana Racherla, MD, Rebecca Carter, MD, Nisha Divakaruni, MD, Trudy Henson, JD, and Haksoon Ahn, PhD. This project will establish the Maryland Child Advocacy & Policy (M-CAP) Lab at the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Baltimore, alongside its core Interprofessional Pediatric Policy Training (IPPT) initiative. The program will engage faculty, trainees, and students across medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, dental, and law in collaborative, real-world pediatric policy development aligned with the legislative process. Participants will build competencies aligned with IPEC domains while producing tangible advocacy outputs, including policy briefs and legislative testimony. This initiative will create a scalable, interprofessional infrastructure for pediatric policy engagement and advance efforts to address upstream determinants of child health. To learn more, please contact Dr. Kamberi at skamberi@som.umaryland.edu.