2023-2024 OACA Interprofessional Interns

Office of Academic Clinical Affairs Interprofessional Internship

Students from across the health sciences:

Projects and Partners

Theme: Collaborate to support the work of community organizations delivering, enhancing, or expanding access to rural and mobile health services, programs, and education.

Workforce Mental Health and Burnout
Allina Health
Promoting employee mental health by developing, conducting, and evaluating trainings for and assessments of burnout in the nursing workforce

Data-informed Community Health Advocacy
EA Therapeutic Health
Analyzing and leveraging longitudinal functional outcomes data to promote payer and other third party awareness of the benefits of a novel rehabilitation plus wellness community health model

Pediatric Preventive Care Community Assessment
Hennepin Pediatric Mobile Health
Designing, implementing and evaluating a community assessment to identify key community health concerns.

Anxiety Self Management and Mindfulness Practices Resource Guides
Mobile Health Initiative
Creating evidenced-based resource guides to be shared with providers and patients attending mobile health events.

Social Determinants of Health…Connecting Patients and Families to Community Resources through FindHelp
Mower County/ Mayo Health
Developing process to build awareness and understanding of FindHelp, its use in the clinical setting, and how connection with community social service networks is imperative.

Interprofessional Initiatives and Experiences
The Center for Interprofessional Health
Collaborating with faculty, staff, students, and community partners

Health Service Programs Data Story
EA Therapeutics Health
Demonstrating the effectiveness of the services and programs, implementing and evaluating the reproducibility of their data collection process in standard clinic practices

Raise Awareness of Fentanyl Use in Black Communities
Hope Network
Increasing understanding of fentanyl use and overdose, particularly as it pertains to Black communities, who are disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic

Report on Physical Therapy Profession and Practice in Bolivia
Mano a Mano
Exploring and analyzing, developing education materials to be used by professionals in the setting and disseminate to stakeholders to support needs

Global Challenges Community Engagement
The UMN Morris Challenge
Actively engaging with community stakeholders to promote community-based planning and development

Mobile Clinic Model
Neighborhood Health Source
Identifying infrastructure support and creating a model for a financially sustainable mobile clinic

OACA Interprofessional Interns

Kandeija Bagurusi
Physical Therapy DPT
Clinical Partner: Wilderness Health

Tess Burley
Nursing MN
Clinical Partner: Allina Health

Sara Busche
Medicine MD
Clinical Partner: Mobile Health Initiative

Saliha Chaudhry
Medicine MD
Clinical Partners: UMN Morris Challenge

Grace De Boom
Public Health MPH
Clinical Partner: Wayside Recovery Addiction Center

Adebayo Ibikunle
Dentistry DDS
Clinical Partner: Mobile Health Initiative

Guldamla Kalender
Medicine MD, PhD
Clinical Partner: Allina Health

Kaylee Lammers
Public Health MPH, Policy
Clinical Partner: Mower County / Mayo Clinic

Nhi Lang
Medicine MD
Clinical partner: EA Therapeutic Health

Claire Nash
Physical Therapy DPT
Clinical Partner: EA Therapeutic Health

Kevan O'Hanlon
Public Health MPH, Environmental Health
Clinical Partners: UMN Morris Challenge

Minda Liu
Medicine MD
Clinical Partner: Wayside Recovery Addiction Center

Connor Oetzmann, BS
School of Public Health
Project: Wilderness Health project

Margaret Perry
Nursing MN
Clinical Partner: EA Therapeutic Health

Rachel Schoneman
Physical Therapy DPT
Clinical Partner: Hennepin Pediatric Mobile Health

Nick Tomhave
Medicine MD
Clinical Partner: Mower County / Mayo Clinic

Chenwei Yan
Pharmacy PharmD/ Public Health MPH
Clinical Partner: Hennepin Pediatric Mobile Health