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Building Bridges Between Interprofessional Education and Practice

May 20 - 22, 2009

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Preliminary Agenda

 

 

Tuesday, May 19

Event (Location)

4:00pm – 8:00pm                

Registration Desk open (Hotel Lobby)

Wednesday, May 20

Event

7:00 am – 9:30 am

Poster Board set up (Atlantic Room)

7:00 am – 4:30 pm

Registration & Information Desk open (Commonwealth Foyer)

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Breakfast (Commonwealth A)

8:00 am – 8:30 am

Opening Remarks (Commonwealth A)

• Will Webster, Canadian Co-chair

• Robin Harvan, American Co-chair

• Tom Traves, President, Dalhousie University

• Cheryl Doiron, Nova Scotia Deputy Minister of Health 

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Opening Plenary Session  (Commonwealth A)

 

John Gilbert

Project Lead, Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC); President, InterEd; Co-Chair, WHO Study Group on IPE & Collaborative Practice; Principal and Professor Emeritus, College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia

9:30 am – 10:00 am

Nutrition Break  (Atlantic Foyer)

 - visit poster displays & facilitated poster sessions

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Concurrent Sessions (Various Rooms)

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Lunch and Poster Viewing (Commonwealth A)

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Poster Displays  (Atlantic Room)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Plenary Session – Practice Panel (Commonwealth A)

 

Della Freeth

Head of the Educational Development Unit, City University, London

 

And

 

Gail Tomblin Murphy

Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions and Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine Dalhousie University; Director, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre Health Workforce Planning and Research, Dalhousie University

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm          

Nutrition Break  (Atlantic Foyer)

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions (Various Rooms)

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Opening Reception (Maritime Museum of the Atlantic)

 

Welcome Remarks (6:30-6:45)

 

• Harold Foster, US Consul General

Thursday, May 21

Event

7:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration & Information Desk (Commonwealth Foyer)

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Breakfast (Commonwealth A)

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Concurrent Sessions (Various Rooms)

9:30 am – 10:00 am

Nutrition Break  (Atlantic Foyer)

-visit poster displays & facilitated poster sessions

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Plenary Session – Policy Panel (Commonwealth A)

 

Joshua Tepper

Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

 

And

 

Stephen L. Wilson

Interim Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Director, Prior Health Sciences Library & Center for Knowledge Management

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Lunch and Poster Viewing (Commonwealth A)

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions (Various Rooms)

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Nutrition Break  (Atlantic Foyer)

-visit poster displays & facilitated poster sessions

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions (Various Rooms)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Ceilidh (Commonwealth A)

Friday, May 22         

Event

7:30 am – 1:30 pm 

Registration & Information Desk (Commonwealth Foyer)

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Breakfast (Commonwealth A)

8:00 am – 9:00 am       

Keynote Speaker:  (Commonwealth A)

 

Leslie Ramsammy

Minister of Health of Guyana and  President of the Sixty-first World Health Assembly

9:00 am–10:30 am                   

Plenary Session – Education  (Commonwealth A)

 

Ivy F Oandasan 

Clinical Studies Resource Centre Member Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI)

 

And

 

Carol A. Aschenbrener

Executive Vice President Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

10:30 am - 10:45 am

Nutrition Break (Atlantic Foyer)

-grab n go

10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions (Various Rooms)

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Closing Plenary (Commonwealth A)

 

Dr. Ruth B. Purtilo

Director, Ethics Initiative, MGH Institute of Health Professions

 

1:00 pm–1:30 pm                    

Closing Remarks (Commonwealth A)

 

• Ron Weinstein, CAB III

• Judy Stone, All Together Better Health V

• Will Webster, Canadian Co-Chair

 

 

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