Assistant Professor of Practice and Liaison for the Academic Health Department
Mercer University
Macon, GA
Background Information
- Engaged in AHD-type activities for 2 years
- Organization participates in AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Developing written partnership agreements
- Identifying factors that support or inhibit AHD development
- Building relationships between practice and academia
- Setting parameters for partnerships
- Selling the AHD concept
Components of AHD Partnerships
- Sustaining classroom teaching
- Developing continuing education
- Expanding practicum sites
- Expanding research
- Expanding service delivery
Operationalizing AHD Partnerships
- Ensuring continued AHD operations
- Funding an AHD
- Institutionalizing an AHD
- Sharing personnel across organizations involved in an AHD
- Sharing resources across organizations involved in an AHD
Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships