Seats for this free, public event are limited and will fill fast. RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your spot.

The Wayne State University College of Nursing will welcome President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Deborah Trautman, PhD, RN, FAAN, and President and CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Kathleen Reeves, MD, to campus on Thursday, Oct. 24, as part of the Dr. Virginia Hill Rice Endowed Distinguished Lectureship.

The two nationally recognized experts in health policy, ethics and education will deliver their presentation, "Interprofessional Education and Practice: Why it Still Matters," starting at 4:30 p.m. in the Wayne State Law School’s Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. The event includes a Q&A session and reception.

The in-depth discussion will examine trends in health care and higher education along with societal issues influencing interprofessional education and practice; critique the status of practice and interprofessional education; and reflect on the future of interprofessional education and practice and health care.

Established in 2018 by College of Nursing Professor Emerita Virginia Rice, PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN, the annual lectureship brings renowned speakers to campus to share a futurist perspective on nursing and health care through insightful presentations and engaging discussion with faculty, students, residents and community partners.

“We are thrilled to welcome Drs. Trautman and Reeves to campus to share their distinct knowledge and expertise,” said College of Nursing Dean Ramona Benkert, PhD, ANP-­BC, FAANP. “Their combined leadership and experience in health care, particularly in interprofessional education, is unmatched. This lecture is a fitting recognition of Dr. Rice and a uniquely special opportunity for members of the health sciences community at Wayne State and throughout our region.”

How to register

Seats for this free, public event are limited and will fill fast. RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your spot.

About the lecturers

Dr. Deborah Trautman is president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). As the national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education, AACN serves the public interest by setting standards, providing resources and developing the leadership capacity of member schools to advance nursing education, research and practice.

Prior to joining AACN, Dr. Trautman served as the executive director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Transformation at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has also served in other leadership positions at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Dr. Trautman is a member of several professional societies and serves on a number of high-profile boards and advisory groups, including the Research!America Board of Directors and the Joint Commission’s Chief Nurse Executive Council (CNEC). She has contributed as a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Well-being and Resilience, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Special Medical Advisory Group — which advises the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on matters related to health care delivery, research, education and related areas — and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as program director of the New Careers in Nursing project.

Dr. Trautman is a 2007/2008 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow who worked for the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is also a Distinguished Nursing Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

Dr. Trautman received a BSN from West Virginia Wesleyan College, an MSN from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in health policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Dr. Kathleen Reeves is the President and CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the leading national nonprofit organization that champions humanism in health care. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Urban Health and Population Science, the Center for Urban Bioethics, and the Department of Pediatrics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Her specialties include the human connection in healthcare, ethics, trauma-informed care, substance misuse, urban health, healthcare professions education, and health equity.

She spent 20 years at the Katz School of Medicine before taking the helm of the Gold Foundation. Her leadership positions there included Founding Director, Center for Urban Bioethics; Chair, Department of Urban Health and Population Science; Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs; and inaugural Senior Associate Dean for the Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. She is a Gold Humanism Honor Society member and was previously recognized as an Honorable Mention for the Gold Foundation’s Pearl Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award.

Dr. Reeves earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Juniata College, graduated from the Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, and completed her Pediatric Residency at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is board certified in both general pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine and continues to practice as a pediatric hospitalist. She has served in the leadership team as part of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs within the American Association of Medical Colleges.

About Dr. Virginia Rice

Dr. Virginia Hill Rice is an emerita professor of nursing at Wayne State University and a member of the College of Nursing Board of Visitors. She holds a doctorate in social psychology and received her master’s as a clinical nurse specialist in medical-surgical nursing from Wayne State in 1965.

She began her time on the Wayne State faculty when she was hired as a part-time assistant professor in the College of Nursing in 1982. Dr. Rice received a full-time associate professor appointment in 1986, was tenured in 1990 and was promoted to full professor in 1997.

During her time at Wayne State, Dr. Rice developed an extensive track record of funded research from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan Department of Community Health, American Heart Association, and Shoman Foundation in Jordan. She has numerous publications and national and international presentations in stress and coping, patient teaching and tobacco control. In addition, Dr. Rice produced two editions of the Handbook of Stress, Coping, and Health: Implications for Nursing Research, Theory, and Practice.

Since her retirement from the university in 2015, Dr. Rice has continued her community service with Crossroads of Michigan and the Holley Institute for the deaf and hearing impaired, which was co-founded by her husband, Dr. William Rice, an alumnus of Wayne State’s School of Medicine.

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Continuing education

This continuing education activity has been approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, an Ohio Board of Nursing approver. (OBN-001-91)