Interprofessional graduate student team co-presents with creator of Visual Voices arts-based research methodology
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 an interprofessional team of graduate students from the 51品茶 co-presented with Michael Yonas, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., senior program officer for Social Innovation, Research, and Special Initiatives at .
Public health students, Collyn Baeder, M.P.H. 鈥16, and Zoe Hull, M.P.H. 鈥16, and occupational therapy students, Michaela Hoffman, M.S.O.T. 鈥16, Adrian Jung, M.S.O.T. 鈥16, Rebecca Masterjohn, M.S.O.T. 鈥16, and Virginia Sedarski, M.S.O.T. 鈥16, partnered with Yonas to present 鈥淰isual Voices: A Participatory Method for Engaging Communities in Research and Knowledge Transfer,鈥 to students, faculty, and staff on both the Biddeford and Portland campuses.
Visual Voices is an arts-based intervention and participatory research methodology for use with diverse populations across the lifespan. Yonas created the Visual Voices methodology and uses it primarily with adolescent populations. He mentored the students on with a local group of older adults. After the Portland campus presentation, a reception was held where the older adult participants of the students鈥 Visual Voices project and Yonas had the chance to meet for the first time and discuss their experiences with the program.
The presentations, reception, and student project were made possible by the (IPEC), Interprofessional Education Collaborative director Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., F.N.A.P., and IPEC鈥檚 Student-led Interprofessional Mini-Grant Program, with generous support from the , Brian K. Dallaire, Pharm.D., and Deborah Dallaire. IPEC provides interprofessional programming and experiences that bring together students from across the University鈥檚 13 health professions to learn with, from, and about each other in team-based settings designed to improve quality, safety, and patient-centered care.
