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Research Seminar and Workshop Series - School of Nursing and Midwifery - Educating the Health Professions Workforce to Care for Older Adults: Actions for Universities

Presented by Fulbright Scholar Professor Connie Evashwick
When
18 MAR 2024
12.00 PM - 1.00 PM
Where
Ipswich - I114A or via Microsoft Teams
Professor Evashwick will speak about how geriatrics, gerontology and aged care is taught in the curricula and how best to educate health professions students. As a Fulbright Scholar, she seeks to identify best practices in teaching techniques or content that would provide the future health professions workforce with the training, skills, and desires to provide high quality, efficient care to older adults in Australia. The presentation will conclude with a Q&A with Professor Evashwick.

Professor Evashwick is an experienced healthcare executive and academician who thrives at the nexus of management and academia, health care delivery systems and public health, long-term care and acute care. With a doctoral degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, she is credentialed in public health, association management, and is a Lifetime Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Her expertise includes the continuum of care, long-term care delivery systems and health professions education.  More recently she has focused on hospital community benefit, public health systems, and international public health.
 
For more information, please contact Daniel Terry.