Valerie Tarn, MS, RD, LD
Assistant Professor/Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Valerie received her Bachelor of Science in dietetics from the University of Montevallo and her dietetic internship at Emory University. She completed two Maternal and Child Health traineeship programs while obtaining her Masters in Clinical Nutrition at UAB. She's been employed at Children’s Hospital/UAB for 25+ years. Valerie serves as Nutrition Faculty and Training Director for the Pediatric Pulmonary Center. _x000D_ Valerie is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine and an Instructor, Division of Clinical Nutrition for UAB. She serves as a pediatric nutrition preceptor to UAB dietetic interns and mentors students through various programs.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

BackgroundInterprofessional team-based training (IPTT) promotes positive attitudes towards working in IP teams and helps to create a “collaborative practice-ready” healthcare workforce. The challenge is to integrate IPTT learning experiences into university-wide clinical courses to cross all four IP collaborative competency sub-domains (IP values/ethics, recognition of roles and responsibilities, effective IP communication and teamwork) while also introducing participants to the concepts of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). DesignBuilding on earlier versions of our IPTT activity we…