The Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice (CAIEP) holds presentation sessions to share the research and scholarship of student teams who participate in Interprofessional Team Immersion, Student-Led Mini-Grants, Clinical Experience, Event-Related and community projects. The 2025 Spring session will be held Wednesday, April 30 at 12 p.m. on Zoom and UNE Livestream.
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Breath of C.A.R.E. (Collaborative Advocacy, Respect, Equity): An Interdisciplinary Approach to Managing a Pediatric Patient with Asthma
Pantelis Antoniou, Chana Shaps, Elizabeth D'Angelo, and Purnima Mathur
Asthma disproportionately affects children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, often necessitating care that goes beyond pharmacologic treatment. This project explores an interprofessional, telehealth-based simulation centered around Charlotte Sodo, a pediatric patient with poorly controlled asthma compounded by environmental and psychosocial stressors. Our team—comprised of DO, MD, DNP, and dietetics students—collaboratively assessed and managed Charlotte’s evolving case through four simulated encounters with...Read More
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Compassion and Partnerships on an Interprofessional Team
Hannah E. Autenrieth
Person-Centered Care and Motivational Interviewing can enhance communication, collaboration, and acceptance when working on an Interprofessional Team. The Spirit of MI can help foster a nonjudgemental safe space for the consumer in healthcare and social services, and the team itself. MI can help meet the person where they are, and better recognize systems of power and oppression.
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UNE IPTI Showcase: Thrive Together Collective
Jordan Behr, Jenn Naber, and Andrii Sokolov
Presentation of IPTI Case from Spring 2025.
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Bridging Care: OT and Pharmacy Collaboration in Geriatric Health
Paige Boggis, Brianna Burke, Abbigail Fournier, Jenny Frick, Gabriela Puentes, and Sydney Townsend
Our group had the opportunity to participate in the Interprofessional Geriatric Educational Practicum, where we worked in interprofessional teams of Pharmacy, Occupational Therapy, and Physicians Assistant students. Teams went into the community and worked with an "Elder Teacher" to conduct home safety assessments, collect a complete medical history, and make recommendations for medication reconciliation. Through this experience, we learned about...Read More
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Jen Chalamet and Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome (Team 8)
Kaylee R. Damboise, Nazifa Abdul Rauf, and Alex Curtis
Our slides on Jenn Chalamet and her Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome
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Cumberland County Jail Harm Reduction Kits: Supporting Individuals Reentering the Community from Incarceration
Reilly Dunning, Sarah Barney, Purnima Sachdeva, and Gage Prezioso
An interprofessional team of healthcare students collaborated with residents of Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) to create and distribute harm reduction kits to support safe reentry. Additionally, the students assembled 130 Wellness Bags to promote the wellbeing of correctional staff and medical personnel involved in distributing the harm reduction kits.
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Patient-Centered Care in Complex Oncology: Navigating Osteosarcoma in a Postpartum Single Mother
Kaylee Emery, Mano Ali, and Elizabeth Ylagan
Ms. Martinez is a 35-year-old postpartum Latina woman and middle school Spanish teacher diagnosed with osteosarcoma of the right humerus after a prolonged period of misdiagnosis. Through a patient-centered framework, we examine the multifaceted biological, psychosocial, environmental, and socioeconomic factors impacting her diagnosis, treatment, and overall well-being. Ms. Martinez faces unique challenges as a single mother of two young children,...Read More
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Let's Talk Communication
Sarah J. Gray and Hannah Cram
Let's Talk Communication is an educational project aimed at promoting awareness and inclusivity around Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in early childhood classrooms. We partnered with a local preschool classroom to teach students about AAC. We did a read-aloud of A Day With No Words by Tiffany Hammond, followed by a hands on activity where children created personalized low-tech communication...Read More
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Navigating Barriers to Care: Interprofessional Approach to Managing Endometriosis
Lauren Jakobs, Logan Lada, and Jordan Cummings
A 25-year-old female from Rangeley, Maine, presents with a 2-year history of progressive pelvic pain, likely due to endometriosis. Her pain, severe during menstruation and worsened by physical activity, disrupts her work and daily life. Jane has a family history of endometriosis and experiences additional symptoms such as fatigue, dyspareunia, and urinary frequency. Financial barriers, lack of insurance, and rural...Read More
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Restoring Independence in Rural Older Adults
Kasey C. Jones, Hannah Amylot, Kevin Reale, and Jamie Schwarz-McLain
A collaborative team of students from physical therapy, occupational therapy, osteopathic medicine, and public health developed an interdisciplinary case study centered on J.D., a 70-year-old woman recovering from hip fracture surgery in rural Maine. The project explored the complex interplay of clinical care and social determinants of health, focusing on J.D.'s transition from inpatient rehabilitation to home. Key challenges identified...Read More
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Addressing Barriers to Care in Rural Maine
Miranda P. Lawell and Mikayla Matos
As part of the Public Health Interprofessional Training (PHIT) program, our team developed a complex patient case to explore the intersection of social determinants of health (SDOH) and public health systems. We present the case of Karin Page, a 33-year-old teacher from Presque Isle, Maine, who developed functional neurological disorder (FND) following a minor ankle sprain. Karin’s evolving symptoms, including...Read More
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UNE Reproductive Health Leadership Program: A Multidiscipline Collaboration
Stephanie Merrill, Hailee Poulin, and Konrad Szenfeld
The Reproductive Health Leadership Program (RHLP) is a collaboration between multiple health graduate programs at the University of New England and the Maine Area Health Education Center to provide trainings and resources regarding reproductive health in our community.
The 2025 class was comprised of students from the College of Dental Medicine, the College of Medicine, Dental Hygiene, Nursing Program, Occupational...Read More
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The Impact of Therapy Dogs on School Climate: A Scoping Review
Brianna Michaud-Nolan, Samantha Kraus, and Jennie Dapice
The Department Of Education defines school climate as a “broad, multifaceted concept that involves many aspects of the student experience”. School climate impacts educational outcomes, and a positive school climate can translate to a safe, supportive learning environment. School therapy dogs are becoming more common due to their positive impact on student and educator mental health. This poster describes a...Read More
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PHIT : Team 5
Gwendolyn M. Miramontes and Hope Hutchinson
Reclaiming life: A case of chronic pain
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Interprofessional Collaboration in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Hope Reveche, Nicole Pepin, Meghan Efseaff, and Kameron Ali
This interprofessional project combines interventions from occupational therapy, nutrition and dietetics, public health, and osteopathic medicine to address the needs of a 35 year-old male, John Doe. The simulated patient case was centered around assessing social determinants of health and viewing the patient as a whole in order to create a comprehensive plan of care. Through weeks of collaboration and...Read More
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Interprofessional Approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Keely S. Thomas
A presentation representing an interprofessional approach to care for a native Mainer living with chronic pain due to her diagnoses of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Through the adapting public health problem solving paradigm in interprofessional team training (PHIT) program, UNE students from various disciplines used the Guyer (1998) public health problem solving paradigm model to develop an approach to providing care for...Read More