Team from UMSON presents on Special Olympics partnership at American Public Health Association's annual meeting.
Rebecca N. Weston, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, assistant professor, and Annu Singleton, (pictured) from the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine and Nursing Standardized Patients Program (SPP), presented at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Minneapolis in October.
The ALPHA Key Session presentation, "In Pursuit of IDD-Inclusive Health Systems: Special Olympics International as a Champion of Health Equity," Weston and Singleton shared their team's continuous efforts of training healthcare providers to improve care for individuals with disabilities in their presentation, "Maryland's Collaborative Approch to IMproving Disability Care."
This standardized patient simulation project (piloted spring ’24) was made possible through a University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Interprofessional Education Interprofessional Education Seed Grant. The grant team also includes Nancy Culpepper, MBA, director, SPP; Patricia Schaefer, DNP, RN, CNE-cl, CHSE, CNE, assistant professor and director, Simulation Lab at the Universities at Shady Grove; Kara Petrosky, MS, simulation training specialist, SPP; Samantha Fuld, DSW, MSW, LCSW-C, clinical assistant professor from the University of Maryland School of Social Work; and Norman Retener, MD, FACP, assistant professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The project was developed in partnership with Special Olympics International and Special Olympics Maryland.