Friday, November 2, 2012

Press Release: Discussion on Interprofessional Health Care Education at Virtual Ability

Presenters will discuss their learning and experience from the recent All Together Better Health (ATBH) conference in Kobe, Japan. They will link the information from ATBH to key concepts of health literacy that they have used in Second Life in the Garden of Healthy Aging. They will also discuss new developments in health literacy for clinical environments in real life.

Presentation and discussion in text only. Powerpoint slides will be shown illustrating the ideas discussed.

PRESENTER BIOS:
Zsuzsa Tomsen (RL: Susan Toth-Cohen) is the Director of the Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program and Professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She has extensive experience instructing in Second Life, where her most recent project is “The Garden of Healthy Aging,” a gerontology resource project. Her numerous publications focus on occupational therapy, consumer health, and gerontology as applied in virtual worlds for professional and program development and evaluation.

ALiesel is an occupational therapy student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She works with Zsuzsa Tomsen as a graduate assistant in the Garden of Healthy Aging, with a focus on applying health literacy principles to this project. Earlier this month she co-presented her work in health literacy at the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association conference.

SUN Nov 4, 2012, 1:00pm SLT/Pacific
The Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/53/172/23

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