Hotspotting 101: How to Build an Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Team in Your Community
Webinar Description
directly addresses the complex care needs of the most vulnerable patients in our community. In addition, Student Hotspotting helps build the future healthcare workforce by offering trainees from multiple professions longitudinal first-hand experience in working with medically and socially complex patients, addressing issues often related to social determinants of health.
Objectives
- Recognize how Student Hotspotting can impact both educational and patient outcomes
- Assimilate skills needed to launch Student Hotspotting teams at their home institutions
- Identify strategies to respond to challenges in implementing Student Hotspotting within their local environments.
This webinar is cohosted by:
This webinar is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health.
Speakers

Associate Professor and Director of Population Health Integration and Community Outreach
Southern Illinois University
Tracey Smith, DNP, MS is the Director of Population Health Integration at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. As a nurse by training she has been involved in healthcare in numerous roles allowing her to build skills to engage multiple types of health care providers and patients. For the past 20 years she has been employed at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine always functioning in a capacity to provide education to all levels of medical students especially in the areas of population health and prevention, health disparities, community and patient engagement, and conduct research with a focus on engagement, health literacy, and social disparities. She is the director for multiple grants, local and national, to address population health outcomes and is also the director of a grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation to direct SIU SOM as one of four national HUB sites for the training of interdisciplinary healthcare learners in patient “hotspotting”.

Assistant Professor (Clinical)
University of Utah College of Pharmacy
Dr. Turner is an Assistant Professor (Clinical) at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacist in primary care at University of Utah Health. His scholarly interests center on fostering leadership, team-based practice development and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has co-led the effort to create a Student Hotspotting Hub within the University of Utah’s Interprofessional Education Program over the past three years as a means to positively impact patient outcomes and experience, decrease health care costs and prepare the next generation of health practitioners for value-based, patient-centered care. He also provides consultative service for Primary Care Progress, a grass-roots non-profit organization dedicated to improvement in health care delivery through the leadership development of trainees and health care practitioners and is a partner in Student Hotspotting.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free and open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff, and students.
Continuing Education Credits:

Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.