Professor and Program Director

Northeast Ohio Medical University

Rootstown, OH

Background Information

• Engaged in AHD-type activities for 18 years
• ​Organization participates in AHD partnerships
  

Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise

Getting Started with AHD Partnerships

• Overcoming barriers to the development of an AHD
• Identifying factors that support or inhibit AHD development
• Building relationships between practice and academia
• Identifying AHD champions
• Identifying potential partners
• Developing an AHD partnership

Components of AHD Partnerships

• Sustaining classroom teaching
• Sustaining continuing education
• Sustaining practicum sites
• Sustaining research
• Developing service delivery

Operationalizing AHD Partnerships

• Ensuring continued AHD operations
• Determining the role of an AHD partnership in gaining and maintaining academic institution accreditation
• Institutionalizing an AHD

Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships

• Determining the value of AHD partnerships