General CAIPER Blog Posts
March 11, 2025
At the ASU Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research (CAIPER), we’re redefining interprofessional education (IPE) with innovative, impactful, and accessible training solutions. Nationally recognized for excellence, CAIPER offers a range of online IPE courses designed for undergraduate and graduate programs, interprofessional faculty development, and professional teams.
April 30, 2024
Is it just us, or did 2024 sneak in and before we knew it, Spring arrived? CAIPER is wrapping up one of the busiest seasons ever, not only for specific projects, but for the center in general.
As we continue to re-imagine team-ness through collaborations, we’re blazing new pathways interprofessional research and education and truly excited to share these initiatives with you soon.
Here's a quick snapshot of what we’ve been up to so far in 2024 and what’s coming next.
August 2, 2019
CAIPER, the Arizona Nexus, and Edson College partners to be front and center at the Nation’s foremost interprofessional meeting – The 2019 Nexus Summit
Edson College and Arizona Nexus IPE initiatives will be shared in workshops, conversation café’s and lightning round talks at the upcoming Nexus Summit, sponsored by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.
April 20, 2020
On April 9th, 2020 CAIPER presented From Our Team to Yours: Strategies for Successful Remote Teaming, as part of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s series, Connecting at the Nexus: COVID-19 Edition.
July 1, 2020
The CAIPER team is thrilled to share the announcement of our new Director, Barret Michalec, PhD.
Dr. Michalec joins CAIPER and Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation from the University of Delaware, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Initiatives & Interprofessional Education within the College of Health Sciences.
Dr. Michalec will build on CAIPER's nationally recognized work and expand impact and reach through new initiatives and research.
September 15, 2020
Arizona State University and Dignity Health are collaborating on a new 18-month interprofessional primary care education project funded by a $525,000 grant from the ASU – Dignity Health Collaborative Strategic Initiatives Program.
The project will bring together clinicians, students, faculty, patients and caregivers to design and launch the interprofessional primary care clinical learning environment of the future.
September 30, 2020
Released in September 2020 from the Annals of Internal Medicine (Impact Factor: 21.32) CAIPER Center Director and Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar, Barret Michalec, PhD, along with Ian Sampson, MFA, and Frederic W. Hafferty, PhD, are the authors of one of the only research articles presented entirely in the form of comics.
February 9, 2021
On February 9, 2021, CAIPER'S Director, Dr. Barret Michalec, joined Edson College's Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience for their Midday Mindfulness series hosted by Dr. Teri Pipe, ASU Chief Well-being Officer, and Dr. Nika Gueci, Executive Director for University Engagement.
October 15, 2021
Through his Fellowship, Dr. Barret Michalec will develop an experiential-learning program for undergraduate health profession students. The program will be primarily pre-med and nursing students, but open to other health pre-professionals as well. It will connect clinical experiences to explore and to have engagement with specific elements of the arts and humanities.
January 4, 2022
In his latest publication in the Journal of Interprofessional Care, "Extending the table: engaging social science in the interprofessional realm," CAIPER Director & Macy Foundation Scholar, Dr. Barret Michalec, seeks to expose what we may take for granted when it comes to social science with, "An overarching goal of Social Science is to make the familiar strange."