BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:238@each.international DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260625T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260625T160000 DTSTAMP:20260528T091853Z URL:https://each.international/nl/calendar/improv-sig-webinar-medical-impr ov-for-teamwork-skills-lets-have-some-fun/ SUMMARY:Improv SIG Webinar - Medical Improv for Teamwork Skills: Let’s ha ve some fun! DESCRIPTION:25th June 2026 - 9-10am CST/CDT (USA) |  3-4pm BST (UK)\n\nTh is webinar is for anyone who is currently using improv to teach and/or who is interested in using improv to teach. \n\n \;\n\nWe will engage in improv games that help us practice teamwork skills and discuss how we migh t apply these games in our own teaching. We will leave time for attendees to lead some games too! Come have some fun while learning a new teaching t echnique.\n\nAfter this webinar you will be able to:\n\n List 3 reasons w hy you might use improv to teach teamwork and\;\n Apply one new improv-ba sed activity to your teaching.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nCOURSE FACILITATOR S\n\nAnkit Mehta MD\, FACP\, SFHM - University of Minnesota/HealthPartners \n\nAnkit Mehta is an internist/hospitalist with HealthPartners and an Ass ociate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School. Mehta has a keen interest in the intersection of arts\, humanities \, and medicine.\n\nHe co-created a communication and empathy course and a lso directs a “medical improv” course at UMN. He has chaired the resea rch committee for the Medical Improv Collaborative (MIC). He is a member o f the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Patient Experience. He has been a part of the planning committee as creative arts/narrative medicine chair for the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (IC CH) in 2021 and 2023. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal IMprint\, an internal medicine department journal at HealthPartners.\n\nHe is an ill ustrator and passionate about the use of graphic medicine in medical educa tion. His graphic works have been published in various journals\, books/co ver designs\, LA Times and magazines.\n\nShannon Hanson\, PhD\, MPH - Wake Forest University School of Medicine\n\nShannon Hanson is the Director of NICU Psychosocial Services at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Levine Ch ildren’s Brenner Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Ped iatrics at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston Salem\ , NC.\n\nShe is committed to fostering empathy\, compassion and good commu nication across the continuum of physician training as a facilitator in th e Medicine and Patients in Society course for 1st and 2nd year medical stu dents\, as the Assistant Program Director for Pediatric Resident Wellness and the Assistant Program Director for Neonatology Fellowship Wellness and Professionalism.\n\nShe has been a passionate advocate for medical improv in healthcare since taking Katie Watson’s Medical Improv Train-the-Trai ner Curriculum in 2018. She joined the Medical Improv Collaborative (MIC) in 2020 and has been on the Steering Committee since 2021.\n\nShe is a Fou nding Officer and Member of EACH Improv in Health Professions Education SI G\n\nAnne Graff LaDisa\, PharmD\, BCPS - Concordia University Wisconsin\n\ nDr. LaDisa is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Concordia University Wi sconsin School of Pharmacy and a practicing acute care clinical pharmacist at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. She is also a sketch and improvisation performer who has been using applied improvisa tion to teach communication and teamwork skills to health professions stud ents since 2016. Dr. LaDisa conducts research on applied improvisation as a pedagogy and has presented nationally on its impact in health profession s education. She has been a member of the Medical Improv Collaborative (MI C) and MIC's Research Ensemble since 2021 and is co-founder and officer of EACH's Improvisation in Health Professions Education Special Interest Gro up.\n\nSarah Shepherd PhD - University of Manchester\n\nDr. Shepherd is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.\n\nAmy Zelenski - Univers ity of Wisconsin - Madison\, USA\n\nThis webinar is open to EACH members a nd non-members.\n\nTO REGISTER CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW OR SCAN THE QR CODE  \n\n CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR