Committees and Work Groups

We aim to provide world-class interprofessional practice and education that transforms health and health outcomes for all. Our Committees and Work Groups are essential toward achieving this goal, enabling our strategic direction, facilitating the development of key initiatives and programs, reviewing evaluation and assessment data, and making subsequent recommendations for improvement.

The collective leadership of these teams ensures that we’re inclusive of our campus and community stakeholders and that we deliver on our commitment to advance interprofessional practice and education at Ohio State.

The Advisory Committee (formerly the Interprofessional Practice and Education Collaborative) is a cross-section of internal and external campus and community stakeholders who advocate for and provide insights into campus and community interprofessional practice and education needs. 

Membership consists of all Ohio State IPE enthusiasts, to include educators, researchers and scholars, practitioners, and learners.

IPE Champions are charged with oversight, implementation, and integration of BuckIPE across the Ohio State University by working across four domains—IPE Exemplar, IPE Leader, IPE Advocate, and IPE Change Agent.

Specifically, IPE Champions:

1. Provide collaborative leadership.
2. Model inclusive excellence.
3. Integrate multiple perspectives into decisions and recommendations to support interprofessional programming, faculty engagement, and collaborative practice.
4. Identify the key forces enabling the advancement of IPE and lead the implementation of strategies to facilitate those changes.
5. Solicit, advocate for, and represent the university, college, and program perspective(s) to advance interprofessional collaboration, relationship-centered and collaborative practices, and interprofessional education.

The IPE Executive Sponsors are senior leaders who provide strategic guidance to create a deeply connected, integrated learning system that builds on the strengths of the Ohio State University and Wexner Medical Center to transform education and care. 

By highlighting and recommending initiatives and opportunities for interprofessional practice and education, the IPE Executive Sponsors shape collaboration across academic programming, clinical practice, community engagement, research, and scholarship.

The Steering Committee is composed of curricular deans and other campus leaders who are responsible for shepherding the advancement of the BuckIPE academic mission and supporting the successful implementation of interprofessional practice and education across the Ohio State University and Wexner Medical Center.

The Role of the Academic Steering Committee:

• Identify and align interprofessional practice and education needs.
• Provide leadership and guidance for developing academic structures to support interprofessional education.
• Ensure that students participate in meaningful interprofessional learning experiences at the Foundation, Immersion, and Mastery levels.
• Oversee interprofessional practice and education program evaluation.  
• Ensure the BuckIPE Curriculum aligns with the accreditation requirements of the university’s academic program.
• Garner resources that are necessary to implement the BuckIPE Curriculum and enable community members to collaborate in developing interprofessional learning experiences.

The overarching charge of the Student Advisory Board is to facilitate and promote active and meaningful interprofessionalism among students—with the ultimate goal of ensuring all students experience productive and engaged interprofessional collaboration during their time at Ohio State.

The Board comprises at least one student representative from each college, and each shares Ohio State’s commitment to excellence in IPE. The Board helps guide the Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education priorities, advises on strategic directions and communicates student perspectives on programming needs, relevance, and effectiveness. 

The board collaborates closely with Ohio State’s Inter-Professional Council.