April 2025 SimIPE Challenge

Cost: $25.00 (member rate) | $50.00 (non-member rate) 

Location: 

Are you ready for a SimIPE team battle? Flex your SimIPE muscles in the Skills Challenge. Receive mentored support in developing an IPE simulation scenario from experts in the field. Put your simulation to the test in the SimIPE Case Challenge. Join a team or bring your own! The top team wins the 2026 annual conference registrations.

April 2025 Annual Conference

Theme: Decade of Innovation: Nurturing Sustainable Pathways in IPE

The annual conference is an excellent opportunity to collaborate with IPE professionals and peers. With keynotes, workshops, lightning talks, interactive demos, and more, we will continue to nurture our journey in IPE. Share the Annual Conference event flyer with interested peers and colleagues.

Join us in Lubbock as we work together and look to new horizons in healthcare education!

Keynote Speaker:
John Luk, M.D.

Assistant Dean of Interprofessional Integration, Department of Medical Education

Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. John Luk serves as the assistant dean for interprofessional integration at Dell Medical School. He works with colleagues and stakeholders on and off campus to create experiences that will prepare graduates to be effective team players, communicators, and leaders. On campus, he serves on the Health Interprofessional Practice and Education Steering Committee, helping to create UT Austin’s Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education. He has presented nationally and internationally on medical education and interprofessional education. He served as the inaugural director of the Dell Medical School Academy of Distinguished Educators and was selected as a 2018 member of The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., Academy of Health Science Education.

Luk also cares for hospitalized children and their families at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. His passion to better prepare physicians for 21st-century health care practice has also led him to work on professional identity formation and human flourishing.

Prior to joining Dell Med, Luk served as the assistant dean for regional medical education in Austin for The University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed his pediatric training at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in California and went to medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Keynote Presentation Title: Becoming Interprofessional to be more than Interprofessional

Keynote Learning Objectives: 

• Describe how past Interprofessional education successes enabled our collective potential. 
• Connect current Interprofessional education strategies with prospective new thinking. 
• Catalyze greater innovation to keep Interprofessional education at the leading edge of health professions education.

Reception: 10 Years Together

Time & Date: 04.08.2025 | 5:30 pm CT

Cost: Reserve your complimentary ticket when registering for the 2025 Texas IPE Consortium Annual Conference.

Join us for a special celebration of the Texas IPE Consortium's 10th anniversary! Enjoy games, a slideshow, a photo booth, prizes, food, drinks, and much more as we honor a decade of advancing IPE in Texas. Reserve your complementary ticket when registering for the Annual Conference.

Space is limited, so reserve your spot early when you register for the Annual Conference. 

Area Hotels:

The Overton Hotel and Conference Center

2322 Mac Davis Ln, Lubbock, TX 79401

806-776-7000 

2.2 miles
State rate available

Cotton Court

1610 Broadway St. Lubbock, TX 79401

210-220-3054

3.4 miles
State rate available

Hyatt Place Lubbock

2309 Mac Davis Ln, Lubbock, TX 79401

806-741-0200

2.2 miles

State rate available

Hampton Inn and Suites Lubbock University

2828 Marsha Sharp Fwy W, Lubbock, TX 79415

806-758-5959

1.4 miles
State rate available

Continuing Education Credit: CE credit is not provided for this event by the Texas IPE Consortium. We are happy to provide you with documentation to submit this event for independent study CE credit with your professional organization or association as requested. Documentation requests must be made in writing and sent by email to the Texas IPE Consortium at txipeconsortium@ttuhsc.edu. Please allow at least two weeks to process documentation requests. 

Cancellation and Refund Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing and sent by email to the Texas IPE Consortium at txipeconsortium@ttuhsc.edu. A refund of the registration fee, less a $25 processing fee, will be given if cancellation is made at least two weeks prior to the event. No refund will be issued after this date.

April 2025 Networking Dinner

Cost: $50.00 | The registration fee includes the cost of dinner from a set menu, a non-alcoholic beverage, and gratuity. Alcoholic beverages are not included in the registration price. A cash bar will be available.

Location: 
West Club North, The Texas Tech Club,
Jones AT&T Stadium,
550 University Ave, Lubbock, TX 79407

Set Menu: The registration fee includes the cost of dinner from a set menu, a non-alcoholic beverage, and gratuity. Alcoholic beverages are not included in the registration price. A cash bar will be available. The menu includes an Italian buffet featuring chicken marsala with cremini mushrooms, rigatoni with bolognese, Eggplant Parmesan (Gluten Free and Vegetarian),  a salad, and dessert. 

Join us at the Texas IPE Consortium Networking Dinner. The networking dinner provides attendees with the opportunity to focus on strengthening their IPE professional connections. It’s more than meeting people and socializing, it’s also engaging with faculty from health-related professions in the area of IPE to share knowledge and best practices, as well as make inter-institutional and professional connections. Take advantage of this fun and engaging opportunity to broaden the circle of thought leaders and peers in IPE that you can reach out to for advice and resources year-round. 

April 2025 Texas IPE Consortium In-Person IPE Facilitator Certificate Course

Learning Objectives: 

• Effectively engage interprofessional teams of learners
• Introduce IPE concepts and skills
• Support learners in the development of knowledge, perceptions, and skills for collaborative care
• Relate the purpose and history of interprofessional practice education. 
• Reflect on the relevance of psychological safety in enhancing learning environments. 
• Analyze potential IPE facilitation barriers and devise effective problem-solving strategies. 
• Effectively apply evidence-based strategies to facilitate productive interprofessional debriefing sessions.
• Examine strategies for IPE activity assessment.
• Practice using strategies for effective in-person and online IPE facilitation. 

Continuing Education Credit: CE credit is not provided for this event by the Texas IPE Consortium. We are happy to provide you with documentation to submit this event for independent study CE credit with your professional organization or association as requested. Documentation requests must be made in writing and sent by email to the Texas IPE Consortium at txipeconsortium@ttuhsc.edu. Please allow at least two weeks to process documentation requests. 

Cancellation and Refund Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing and sent by email to the Texas IPE Consortium at txipeconsortium@ttuhsc.edu. A refund of the registration fee, less $25 processing fee, will be given if cancellation is made at least two weeks prior to the event. No refund will be issued after this date.