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HealthMentors Inaugural EditionFall/Winter 2011

Inside This IssueWelcome 1

Introduction to Interprofessional Education and Health Mentors 2

Recent Events 4

Getting to Know You Betty Autrey 5 Chris Chappell 5 Birthdays 5 Upcoming Events 7

Contact Us 8

University of Colorado | DenverAnschutz Medical CampusInterprofessional Education

The remaining two sessions for the 2011-2012

Academic Year are:

February 15th at 3:00pm Safety

February 29th at 3:00pm Medication Reconciliation

Save the dates!

Welcome to the inaugural edit ion of the Health Mentors newsletter. We hope you will get to know other mentors, learn about upcoming events, enjoy interesting reading and consider submitting content for future editions.

Introductory Session August 30, 2011 and Session One September 21, 2011

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Team Based Learning/Health Mentors

September 21, 2011What isInterprofessional Education?

University of Colorado | DenverAnschutz Medical CampusInterprofessional Education

The Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) of the University of Colorado was intentionally designed to facilitate collaborative, interprofessional education. The Office of Interprofessional Education is the next step in realizing this long term vision of transforming the delivery of health care to meet the needs of the new century.

Our longitudinal curriculum is being integrated into pre-clinical and clinical training for ALL University of Colorado health profession students and will teach and evaluate campus-wide student competencies in teamwork, collaborative interprofessional practice and quality and safety, with a particular focus on vulnerable and under served populations.

Our goal is to create a curricular thread that is shared across all schools and programs that begins the day that our students walk on campus, and continues throughout their educational experience. Interprofessional Education will weave Interprofessional content deeply into the experience of each student and into the sites where they will do their clinical training. Our three core curriculums are: The Health Mentors Program, The Clinical Transformations Program, and The Clinical Rotations Program.

The Health Mentors Program All incoming health professions students are grouped into interprofessional, seven-person teams, which are paired with a health mentor from the community. Health mentors are individuals with a chronic disease and/or disability. Teams meet with their mentors on four Wednesday afternoons, over a period of 6 months. Discussion topics include: life and

health history, access to care, wellness, safety and medication reconciliation. Embedded within the curriculum is an exploration of roles of the different health professions, as well as teamwork and communication skills. Our Health Mentors Program is modeled after the program developed at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.

What is theHealth Mentors Program?

Lucille Barr & Team

Our full roll-out of the Health Mentors program took place on September 21st and was a significant accomplishment and success. Over 600 students were divided into eighty-five interprofessional teams of seven, who got to know their mentors and learn from their health stories.

Following their student team meetings, mentors mingled during a mixer in the Education North Building Student Academic Community. This SAC space is now under renovation, and will reopen as a student café later this year. We will host our Mentor Mixers in this new setting starting in February 2012.

Joy Post and Team

Mary Helen Gautreax and Team

Mentor Kenneth Keller

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Betty Autrey: A volunteer’s volunteer.During Health Mentor orientation on August 30th, several mentors arrived about an hour early as the program was setting up. One early-bird mentor, Betty Autrey, was using a walker following her recent hip surgery, which wasn’t slowing her down.

Betty offered to help organize and distribute registration materials, greeted mentors as they arrived and became one of our crew.

On September 21st, Betty again arrived early, and asked if another mentor who she met at orientation, had arrived. Betty brought her new friend a packet of resources on where to obtain no cost and low cost medications for Parkinson’s Disease, which she and another mentor had discussed.

We’re very fortunate to have Betty as a health mentor, both for the insights she shares with her student team, and for her helpful nature and kindness, towards the well-being of those around her.

Betty Autrey

to them to cover the costs associated with their recovery. Some of the ways the fund will contribute are by helping with wheelchairs and needed equipment, as well as enabling patients’ homes (kitchens and bathrooms) and vehicles to become accessible. The license plate will be available in January 2012.

Chris is on Team 44 with the following students: Adam Borgia–Dentistry; Hien Doan- Medicine; Lauren Milleville-Physician Assistant; Lisa Nicodemus- Nursing; Branden Petrun-Medicine and Shannon Wathen-Pharmacy.

GettinG to know You...

Mentor Chris Chappell is a former Vice President for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. He was in a mountain biking accident in 2000, which resulted in a traumatic spinal cord injury that left him a quadriplegic. He successfully returned to his work as an investment banker at MSSB, but decided to make a major career change last year, joining the staff at Craig Hospital as the Graduate Relations Coordinator. Chris was a patient at Craig and later volunteered as a peer mentor for 10 years.Once on the Craig Hospital staff, Chris came up with an idea to create a Craig Hospital license plate to benefit Spinal Cord and Brain Injury patients. He formed a petition and went to work on gathering signatures to present to state senators for sponsorship. His compassion towards the cause and devotion to the task at hand paid off. Colorado Senate Bill 11-003 was created and sponsored by Senator Nancy Spence. On Thursday, June 1, Governor Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1298 into law.

Through the sales of each of these specialty license plates, $20 will be contributed to the Patient Assistance Fund at Craig Hospital. These funds will assist patients who have depleted the monetary resources available

Chris watches the first Craig license plates come off the line at Colorado’s

oldest (1873) prison; Colorado Territory Correctional Facility in Canon City.

Happy Bir thday....We would like to wish the following Health

Mentors a very Happy Birthday:

Eleanor Breslaw, 94

JanuarySusan Herrera Gregory Ritscher

DecemberMarilyne Coulombe-Mansfield

OctoberMaria Franciosi Eleanor Breslaw

If you have a story about yourself or an accomplishment you would like to share in our newsletter, we would love to hear from you!

Share your s tory!

Health Mentors....Remember to join us

for “the Mentor Mixer” following your team session

February 15th, 2012February 29th, 2012

in the SAC / Commons Cafe, Room 1205Anschutz Medical Campus,

Education II North, First Floor

Light snacks will be served

Mentors, off-campus activities with your team are a great way for the student teams to see how you live day-to-day. If you have had (or are planning) an outing with your team in an off campus setting, please let us know! Thank you to the teams who have kept us up-to-date!

Off-Campu s Activities...

Ms. Autrey is an example of how we are seeing our community of volunteers growing and enriching the entire health mentor experience, for fellow mentors and students alike.

Betty is on Team 53 with the following students: Kathleen Dundas – Physical Therapy, Liane Horiuchi – Pharmacy, Megan Lipp – Pharmacy, Sarah Papaj – Nursing, Amy Rosinshy – Dentistry and Chelsea Wong – Medicine.

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Date Time Location Event10/24 12-1pm ED2N-2303 From the Cradle to the Grave

Tom Noel, MLS, PhD Pictorial survey of Denver from 1858 gold rush to today. Arts in Medicine Lecture

10/31 12-4:15pm RC1-W Aud. The Copernican Shift: The World Looks Different With The Patient At The Center Dave deBronkartCU Department of Family Medicine *Registration required Linda 303-724-9767

11/2 12-1pm Ed2N-1303 Profile of Your Community’s HealthEmily King, RACHI/COAHEC/Central AHEC Conversation Series*Registration required Susan 303-724-5191

11/5 9-1pm ED2N Colorado Cancer DayUniversity of Colorado Cancer Center A day of information and conversation about the latest treatments for common cancer types, cancer survivorship information and more. *Registration required 720-848-0849

11/14 12-1pm ED2N-2303 Prison Poetry and the Search for Grace: Making Art in the Face of Crisis Arts in Medicine Lecture

11/16 7:15pm ED2S-1102 Fall ConcertArrhythmia Choral Group University Orchestra

12/12 12-1pm ED2N-2303 Holiday Music Performance Arrhythmia Choral Group

1/4 12-1pm ED2N-1303 Preview of the 2012 Legislative SessionAllison Summerton, RA Michele Lueck, President/CEOCHI/COAHEC/Central AHEC Conversation Series*Registration required Susan 303-724-5191

1/12 –2/4 Aurora Fox Arts Theater

The Elephant Man Phamaly Phamaly is a theatre company that provides people living with disabilities the opportunity to perform.*Tickets required Phone: 303-739-1970 www.phamaly.org

1/25 12-1pm Ed2S-1102 Health Care and the ConstitutionJohn Suthers, Colorado Attorney General CHI/COAHEC/Central AHEC Conversation Series*Reservation required Susan 303-724-5191

Upcoming Events

We welcome all mentors to participate in Anschutz Medical Campus and Community Events!

WE WANT YOUR SUBMISSIONS for publication!

Submit online at: www.ucdenver.edu/reachmentor

or call us!

Health Mentors Program Coordinator Reesie Witten

jo.witten@ucdenver.edu 303-724-6389

Health Mentors Coordinator

David Weildavid.weil@ucdenver.edu

303-724-8074

ContactOur Staff

For more information about events and other features of this issue or to submit content, please visit our website: www.ucdenver.edu/reachmentor

Editor: Brenna DeutchmanPhotography: Glenn Asakawa, Brenna Deutchman

University of Colorado | DenverAnschutz Medical CampusInterprofessional Education

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Health mentors volunteer their time to:• Help students appreciate the impact of living with a chronic health condition or disability

• Share their health history and experiences related to medication management, health access, wellness strategies and psycho-social aspects of care

• Help students practice communication skills and integrate classroom learning with serving people

2012-2013: Additional volunteers needed Wednesdays at 3pm

October 24, 2012 / November 7, 2012February 6, 2013 / March 6, 2013

www.ucdenver.edu/reachmentor

Additional volunteers needed! You will impact future health professionals

as a health mentor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Health Mentors are adult community members of any age who have one or more chronic health

conditions, diseases or disabilities (Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Asthma,

Arthritis, Parkinson’s, Stroke, Depression, Cancer, Spinal Cord Injury, Hearing/

Vision Impairment, Musculoskeletal Conditions, Brain Injury or others)

Program Commitments: Attend a Health Mentor Orientation Session. Meet with your assigned group

of seven health professions students, four times over a period of six months.

Sessions are two hours and meet at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

Thanks to our funders!

The Josian Macy JR Foundationhttp://www.josiahmacyfoundation.org

The Colorado Health Foundation http://www.coloradohealth.org/