UNE Faculty participate in Growing Our Own: Transforming Health Care Education for Future Providers and Systems of Care Conference

UNE faculty were a prominent presence at "Growing Our Own: Transforming Health Care Education for Future Providers and Systems of Care," a conference sponsored by Penobscot Community Health Care, the Maine Center for Disease Control, the Eastern Maine AHEC, and the Maine Primary Care Association (September 29 & 30, Bar Harbor, ME).

Dora Anne Mills, MD, UNE Vice President for Clinical Affairs, presented a session with Seiji Hayashi, MD, of the Bureau of Primary Health, HRSA: Alignment and Integration through Partnerships.

Marc Hahn, DO, Dean of UNECOM and Ken Johnson, DO, Vice Dean of UNECOM, were on a panel presentation with Peter Bates, MD, VP Medical and Academic Affairs, MMC & CMO & Academic Dean, MMC-TUSM: Medical Education: Rural Primary Care Initiatives.

James Koelbl, DDS, MS, MJ, Dean UNE CDM was on a panel presentation with Neal Denby, DMD, MPH, Senior VP Lutheran Health Care, Eugene Anderson, PhD., Associate Executive Director, ADEA, and Michael Cangemi, PhD., Director of Health Care Studies, Husson U.: The Future of Dental Education: Addressing Maine's Dental Shortage.

Karen Pardue, MS, CNE, ANEF, UNE WCHP Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., Director InterProfessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), and Clay Graybeal, Ph.D., WCHP Associate Dean for Academic Affairs presented:
Shared Learning: Expanding the Paradigm of Health Professions Education.