January 31, 2024

The freshly updated CAIPER website is here just in time for new training product launches and research initiatives. Coming off of an exciting 2023, including receiving the National Academies of Practice, Creativity in Practice and Education Award, it was time we had a website refresh. In true interprofessional fashion, through several months of collaboration with Edson College MarCom, we are thrilled for our new website launch and hope you find it resourceful, impactful, and have some fun, too! 

Here are some of our favorite website spots:

August 2, 2019

CAIPER, the Arizona Nexus, and Edson College partners to be front and center at the Nation’s foremost interprofessional meeting – The 2019 Nexus Summit

Edson College and Arizona Nexus IPE initiatives will be shared in workshops, conversation café’s and lightning round talks at the upcoming Nexus Summit, sponsored by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.

April 20, 2020

On April 9th, 2020 CAIPER presented From Our Team to Yours: Strategies for Successful Remote Teaming, as part of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s series, Connecting at the Nexus: COVID-19 Edition.

July 1, 2020

The CAIPER team is thrilled to share the announcement of our new Director, Barret Michalec, PhD.

Dr. Michalec joins CAIPER and Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation from the University of Delaware, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Initiatives & Interprofessional Education within the College of Health Sciences.

Dr. Michalec will build on CAIPER's nationally recognized work and expand impact and reach through new initiatives and research.

September 15, 2020

Arizona State University and Dignity Health are collaborating on a new 18-month interprofessional primary care education project funded by a $525,000 grant from the ASU – Dignity Health Collaborative Strategic Initiatives Program.

The project will bring together clinicians, students, faculty, patients and caregivers to design and launch the interprofessional primary care clinical learning environment of the future.

September 30, 2020

Released in September 2020 from the Annals of Internal Medicine (Impact Factor: 21.32) CAIPER Center Director and Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar, Barret Michalec, PhD, along with Ian Sampson, MFA, and Frederic W. Hafferty, PhD, are the authors of one  of the only research articles presented entirely in the form of comics.  

February 9, 2021

On February 9, 2021, CAIPER'S Director, Dr. Barret Michalec, joined Edson College's Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience for their Midday Mindfulness series hosted by Dr. Teri Pipe, ASU Chief Well-being Officer, and Dr. Nika Gueci, Executive Director for University Engagement.

October 15, 2021

Through his Fellowship, Dr. Barret Michalec will develop an experiential-learning program for undergraduate health profession students. The program will be primarily pre-med and nursing students, but open to other health pre-professionals as well. It will connect clinical experiences to explore and to have engagement with specific elements of the arts and humanities. 

January 4, 2022

In his latest publication in the Journal of Interprofessional Care, "Extending the table: engaging social science in the interprofessional realm," CAIPER Director & Macy Foundation Scholar, Dr. Barret Michalec, seeks to expose what we may take for granted when it comes to social science with, "An overarching goal of Social Science is to make the familiar strange."

September 12, 2019

Innovation abounds at the start of Fall conference season, with CAIPER and partners showcasing new interprofessional tools for team training in education and practice.