Connie Delaney has been named the knowledge generation lead for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. In this role, Dean Delaney will provide strategic oversight for the National Center’s approach to adding to the knowledge base in the field of interprofessional practice and education through the shared expertise of our growing national network.
Delaney served as Associate Director of the Clinical Translational Science Institute –Biomedical Informatics, and Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) in the Academic Health Center from 2010-2015. She was the first Fellow in the College of Medical Informatics to serve as a Dean of Nursing and was an inaugural appointee to the USA Health Information Technology Policy Committee, Office of the National Coordinator, Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Dean Delaney’s leadership builds on a legacy of demonstrated successful engagement of networks toward co-discovery of solutions that add to the knowledge base in a field. She has extensive experience with virtual workgroups and the development of sharable and comparable data for analytics and big data science.
Many people today are challenged with information systems and how to extract data to tell their story – it is happening in every sector of the United States. For individuals and teams implementing interprofessional practice and education, a key question is how does data help me demonstrate value. Other common questions we hear are:
During the past year, the National Center team and our collaborators have conducted over 25 U.S. site visits, presented at numerous meetings, fielded hundreds of questions, and worked with national organizations to implement and set standards for IPE. Based upon our lived experiences, we are learning everyday with you. While optimistic in our mandated role as an unbiased, neutral convener, we have lots of questions about what we are observing and the future of IPE. And, we know we are not alone.