04/15/2026
UNE CAIEP is truly grateful for our interprofessional champions and collaborators across Portland Campus and Online graduate programs, especially as we wrap up a first big year together on the newly reimagined campus for the Health Sciences. (We have terrific allies on Biddeford Campus too – That's another post to come!)
CAIEP's collaborative efforts behind the scenes are only made possible with allied UNE faculty and staff mentors like these who help bring students intentionally together to learn about, from and with one another.
Clinical collaboration in action all starts here!
Each of these remarkable individuals has played a role within one – or more! – scope of interprofessional education, including: co-curricular design, simulation, faculty mentorship, service learning, anatomy courses, student activities, event panel presentation, AV event production, conference participation, team immersion, career services, advising, and so much more, weaving together a strong fabric of collaboration because they model the mindset that prepares students for clinical team-based care.
From left to right are:
Elizabeth Benz (Senior Pre-Health Advisor)
Lee Cote, B.A. (AV Event Videographer, Communications)
Kin S. Ly, Pharm.D., Ed.D. (Associate Clinical Professor, Osteopathic Medicine)
Trisha Mason, M.A. (Director, Service Learning)
Marissa Lyon, PT, Ph.D., D.P.T. (Associate Professor, Physical Therapy)
Elise Ostensson, M.S., OTR/L, CSRS (Assistant Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy)
Elizabeth Cyr, PT, D.P.T., DHSc, PCS (Assistant Clinical Professor, Physical Therapy)
Amanda Benner, PT, D.P.T., NCS (Assistant Director of Clinical Education, Physical Therapy)
Ashley Buckingham, M.S.N., RN, CHSE (Director, Interprofessional Simulation and Innovation Center)
Jessica Walton, M.S., OTR/L (Academic Fieldwork Coordinator, Occupational Therapy)
Caroline Beals, Ph.D., OTR/L, CHSE (Program Director, Occupational Therapy)
Dianne Smallidge, RDH, Ed.D (Director, Dental Hygiene)
Nancy Jo Ross, Ph.D., RN (Assistant Clinical Professor, Nursing)
Tara Paradie, PT, MSPT, DHSc (Director of Clinical Education, Physical Therapy)
Ray A. Handy, M.S., CAGS (Associate Dean of Students, Office of Graduate and Professional Student Affairs)
Marilyn R. Gugliucci, M.A., Ph.D., AGHEF, GSAF, AGSF, NAOMEF (Director, Geriatrics Education and Research, Osteopathic Medicine)
Erin McCall, O.T.D., M.S.O.T., OTR/L (Assistant Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy)
Michelle Cote, B.A. (Program Coordinator, Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice)
Elizabeth Crampsey, Ed.D, M.S., OTR/L, BCPR (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Westbrook College of Health Professions: Dean’s Office)
Chris McCarry (Associate Director of Student Life, Office of Graduate and Professional Student Affairs)
Carol Lambdin-Pattavina, OTD, MSOT, OTR/L, CTP, FAOTA (Professor, Occupational Therapy)
Robert Hawkes, M.S.P.A., PA-C (Program Director, Physician Assistant Program)
Kris Hall, M.F.A., PMP (Director, Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice)
Michael Lawrence, M.S., Ph.D., CSCS, CPSS (Director, Interprofessional Anatomy)
Joel W. Pelletier, B.A. (Senior Administrative Coordinator, Office of Graduate and Professional Student Affairs)
Sally McCormack Tutt, PT, D.P.T., M.P.H., Ed.D., FNAP (Program Director, Department of Physical Therapy)
Sarah Gilbert, MS, RD, LD (Dietetics Field Coordinator, Nutrition)
Jane V. Farr, M.S. (Assistant Director of Career Services)
Brianna Pooler, MS, RD, LD (Dietetics Field Coordinator, Nutrition)
Kristina Stewart, MPH, DrPH(c) (Assistant Director, Public Health Practice)
We are also thankful for our collaborators not pictured here.
Grateful to UNE's champions in interprofessional education!
University of New England
Westbrook College of Health Professions
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
University of New England - Physical Therapy
