Gail Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FNAP
Professor, Dean of the Graduate School, and Vice Provost for Learning and Assessment, Creighton University

Gail M. Jensen is Professor of Physical Therapy, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Learning and Assessment at Creighton University. She has been involved in interdisciplinary education for over two decades and was instrumental in the creation of a graduate program in interdisciplinary leadership. She is known nationally and internationally for  scholarly contributions in expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and interprofessional education. 

Dr. Jensen is author or coauthor of more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has coauthored 12 books includin,3rd edition of Handbook of Teaching for Physical Therapists; Leadership in Interprofessional Health Education and Practice; Expertise in Physical Therapy Practice (2nd ed);  and Educating for Moral Action: A Sourcebook in Health and Rehabilitation Ethicsthe forthcoming 4th ed of Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions.  She is the founding Director for the Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and Education (OISSE) at Creighton.  Currently she is member of the executive committee of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Participants will leave with increased awareness of their own preferred conflict engagement style and practical strategies that can be used to facilitate healthy conflict engagement in interprofessional teamwork.