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in their respective areas, their vision for future<br />

development, their roles as change agents and advocates<br />

for the health and wellbeing of future generations, and<br />

the resources that we will all need to develop together.<br />

<strong>The</strong> keynote will be lead by student representatives from<br />

associations including the Australian National Rural Health<br />

Students <strong>Net</strong>work, the Canadian National Health Science<br />

Students Association, <strong>The</strong> Student Interprofessional Society<br />

Medical University of South Carolina, <strong>The</strong> International<br />

Medical Equality Student Society, and the CAIPE Student<br />

<strong>Net</strong>work. <strong>The</strong>y will represent the views of students both<br />

present at the conference and contributing from a distance<br />

from universities and practice fields throughout the world.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y look forward to engaging, challenging and sharing<br />

their aspirations for a more collaborative future.<br />

Ann JACKSON (UK)<br />

Ann Jackson is Associate Professor<br />

of interprofessional education<br />

within the Institute of Clinical<br />

Education at Warwick Medical School,<br />

University of Warwick, UK. Ann has<br />

a background in interprofessional<br />

education, nursing, midwifery and<br />

health visiting. She was awarded<br />

the Butterworth memorial teaching<br />

excellence award in 2008 for her work in interprofessional<br />

education. Her research interests include the service<br />

user participation in interprofessional education, the<br />

development of service user multi media narratives,<br />

student and facilitator perspectives of interprofessional<br />

education. Ann has recently co-edited a book with Patricia<br />

Bluteau, Interprofessional Education – Making it Happen.<br />

Lorelei LINGARD (Canada)<br />

Lorelei Lingard is a leading researcher<br />

in the study of communication and<br />

collaboration on healthcare teams.<br />

She is a Professor in the Department<br />

of Medicine at the University of<br />

Western <strong>On</strong>tario (UWO), and the<br />

inaugural Director of the Centre for<br />

Education Research & Innovation at<br />

the Schulich School of Medicine &<br />

Dentistry at UWO. Lorelei received her PhD in Rhetoric from<br />

Simon Fraser University in 1998. Her research investigates<br />

the nature of communication on interprofessional<br />

healthcare teams in a variety of clinical settings, including<br />

the operating room, the intensive care unit, the internal<br />

medicine ward, the adult rehabilitation unit, and the<br />

family health centre. She is particularly interested in how<br />

communication patterns influence patient safety, and how<br />

learning to talk in sanctioned ways shapes the professional<br />

identity of novices. Lorelei’s research program is funded by<br />

CIHR, SSHRC, Health Canada, MOHLTC, the RCPSC and other<br />

agencies. She has been the recipient of numerous awards<br />

for her research, including a Canadian Institutes of Health<br />

Research New Investigator award (2003-2008).<br />

Ratie MPOFU (South Africa)<br />

A Zimbabwean, permanent resident<br />

in the Republic of South Africa. She<br />

is Dean of the Faculty of Community<br />

and Health Sciences, University of<br />

the Western Cape, presiding over<br />

the following Schools: Public Health;<br />

Natural Medicine; and Nursing;<br />

and Departments: Psychology,<br />

Social Work; Sports Recreation and<br />

Exercise Science; Physiotherapy; Occupational <strong>The</strong>rapy;<br />

and Human Ecology and Dietetics. Ratie has administration<br />

and academic experience in Physiotherapy and health<br />

sciences in UK, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She has lead<br />

collaborative research projects in CBE, youth wellness and<br />

sports science for development. Ratie is a member of the<br />

Collaboration for Health Equity through Education and<br />

Research (CHEER) involving 9 health sciences faculties<br />

in South Africa with special focus on educating health<br />

personnel for rural practice. Her particular interest is in<br />

interprofessional learning and practice in partnership with<br />

service providers and community members.<br />

Jill THISTLETHWAITE (UK)<br />

Professor Jill Thistlethwaite is<br />

Director of the Institute of Clinical<br />

Education at Warwick Medical<br />

School and President of InterEd. She<br />

continues to practise for one day<br />

per week as a general practitioner<br />

and has a long standing interest<br />

in interprofessional education and<br />

collaborative practice. Jill is an Associate Editor of the<br />

Journal of Interprofessional Care and of the Clinical Teacher,<br />

and holds the position of Adjunct Professor in IPECP at<br />

Auckland University of Technology. Prior to her move back<br />

to the UK in 2008, she was a co-investigator with L-TIPP<br />

(Aus) – Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice<br />

(Australia) based in Sydney.<br />

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