IHSE Meeting

(9:00 - 11:00)
Lara Varpio, PhD

Perelman School of Medicine
University of Philadelphia
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Placing your Innovation on the Scholarly Arc

In this interactive workshop, participants will be guided to consider where their educational innovations sit on the scholarly arc. We will also do some practical exercises to develop skills to support describing educational innovations in ways that make findings from them transferable to broader audiences. 

Dr. Varpio is a professor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Varpio is internationally recognized for her health professions education research that harnesses her expertise in qualitative research and with theories from the social sciences and humanities. To date, across her 16year tenure in the field, she has secured nearly $6million in research funding and has published over 170 manuscripts. Her research has won innumerable national and international awards. She has given invited talks at hospitals and medical schools around the world, and she has led invited sessions and given plenaries at some of the largest academic medicine conferences in the world. You can hear her weekly on the popular health professions education-focused PAPERs Podcast published by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Or, you can join her in her journey to her next milestone of 400 Peloton rides, also known as pedaling furiously and moving nowhere.