Terri Lipman, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Professor of Nursing of Children, University of Pennsylvania

My name is Terri Lipman. I am the Assistant Dean for Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and I'm also a Professor in Nursing of Children and I'm a nurse practitioner in diabetes and endocrinology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. We have a variety of studies that we do in the community and with the community. It's community-based participatory research and then we also have a number of programs. We have the Community Champions Program which is a program in the School of Nursing for those students who are particularly interested in community engagement and passionate about community engagement and they work with communities in a variety of ways. Mostly focused on health education. They work with children, they work with older children, they work with adolescents, adults and with the elderly. Some communities are very interested in learning about how to maintain health, how to be active, how to eat healthy. Some communities are concerned about hypertension and what can be done about hypertension and some communities are talking about elder care and what needs to be done to take care of elders. So it's very, very based on the needs of the community. I teach. So I'm an educator, I'm a Professor of Nursing of Children. I teach undergraduate and graduate students. I'm mainly focused on the Pediatric acute Care Nurse Practitioner program and I also have pre-doctoral and post-doctoral mentees. And I teach a variety of topics but most of the topics are focused on pediatrics on community engagement and also diabetes and endocrine issues. So we do physical examinations. We take histories, we address social determinants of health which is really a focus on the research that I'm doing now. And we do health education. We talk about preoperative, postoperative education, education related to health behaviors and also education related to chronic illness management.