Washington, D.C. - The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) announced today that its fifth annual Regional Summit will take place across the country on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Summit, Collaboration in Action - Engaging to Build Readiness for Interprofessional Clinical Practice seeks to identify new strategies for collaboration between the healthcare industry and academic partners. ASAHP’s Regional Summit brings together academic leaders, faculty and health care providers from a variety of professional roles, disciplines, and organizations to share knowledge and best practices with the goal of improving the patient care experience and health outcomes as well as addressing clinician well-being, and health equity.
Held in-person concurrently at five member institution-hosted regional “Hub” locations, the Summits culminate in a virtual “Harvest” session between all regional Hub participants. The Harvest session allows for an engaging national-level conversation aimed at creating a shared framework and specific strategies for improving interprofessional learning experiences, ultimately with the goal of providing better patient outcomes.
“As our member institutions work to prepare the next generation of healthcare professionals, it’s vital that educators collaborate with practitioners to adapt to industry changes and the growing industry needs,” said said ASAHP President Dr. Craig R. Jackson, MSW, JD, FASAHP, Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions at Loma Linda University. “By putting these two groups in the same room, we are able to identify real-time collaborative opportunities to help solve health care challenges. In past years, these Regional Summits have helped forge new partnerships and identify needed curriculum adjustments to help improve the future of clinical education.”
Dr. Anthony Breitbach, Director of Interprofessional Education at Saint Louis University who spearheaded the Regional Summits initiative added, “ASAHP's institutional membership model gives us the unique opportunity to create academic-industry connections at the local level. Then, combined with the innovative ‘ASAHP Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement Model’ and the virtual harvest session, we can take the important local dialogue from these Regional Summits and create national-level recommendations to improve workforce readiness for collaboration.”
The in-person Regional Summits will take place on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from 12:00 Noon - 4:30 pm (ET)/11:00 am - 3:30 pm (CT)/10:00 am - 2:30 pm (MT) at the following five Hub site locations:
Birmingham, AL, Hub: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cincinnati, OH, Hub: University of Cincinnati
Orlando, FL, Hub: University of Central Florida and Nova Southeastern University
St. Louis, MO, Hub: Saint Louis University
San Antonio, TX, Hub: UT Medical Branch (UTMB), UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Health San Antonio, and University of the Incarnate Word
Several healthcare hospital systems throughout the U.S will continue their participation at each of these Hub locations again this year.
ASAHP members and industry partners who are interested in participating may register here. The deadline for advance registration is May 16th and registration is limited.
About ASAHP
The Association of School Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) is a national professional organization of 130 universities and employers focused on critical issues affecting health professions education. ASAHP’s mission is to advance health professions education and discovery through interprofessional collaboration, leadership, excellence, and innovation. As much as 60% of the U.S. healthcare workforce may be classified as ‘health professions’ which are distinct from medicine, nursing, and dentistry, yet equally vital to the health and wellbeing of our society.