Easing the Transition: Core Principles and Values for Building Effective Care Teams

An essential element of the primary care medical home is ensuring that providers take a ‘whole-person’ approach to care that meets each patient’s physical and mental health care needs, including prevention, wellness, acute and chronic care. This requires building a team of care providers around a patient that may include physicians, mental health, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, care coordinators, and social workers. Teams can be large or small, centralized or dispersed, virtual or face-to-face, causing a series of challenges in building effective care teams that deliver truly patient-centered care.

In this webinar, the authors of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) paper "Core Principles & Values of Effective Team-Based Health Care," present basic principles and personal values that characterize interprofessional team-based care. These basic principles will provide a framework and guiding principles to help clinicians, patients, administrators, and other stakeholders achieve the Triple Aim goals of better care, better health, and lower costs.

Edwin Webb, PharmD, MPH

Associate Executive Director, American College of Clinical Pharmacy
C. Edwin Webb, Pharm.D., M.P.H. is the Associate Executive Director and Director of Government and Professional Affairs for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the national professional and scientific society of pharmacists providing leadership in clinical pharmacy practice and research. In that capacity he is responsible for directing and managing the College’s Washington, DC office, with emphasis in federal legislative and regulatory advocacy and communication, professional and inter-organizational alliance management, policy analysis and development, and member support services in these areas.Dr. Webb received his Bachelor of Science (1972) and Doctor of Pharmacy (1973) degrees from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. read more

Pamela Mitchell

Professor of Nursing and Health Systems and Interim Dean of Nursing, University of Washington
Dr. Pamela H. Mitchell is Professor of Nursing and Health Systems and Interim Dean of Nursing at the University of Washington. She is also an adjunct Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health & Community Medicine. Her research and teaching focus on the interaction of clinical care systems and outcomes for acutely ill people, biobehavioral interventions for patients with acute and chronic cardio- cerebrovascular disease, and outcomes of interprofessional education. She is currently leading interdisciplinary research teams engaged in interventions to improve recovery from brain injury. read more

Matthew Wynia

Director, Physician Engagement for Improving Health Outcomes, American Medical Association
Dr. Wynia’s medical training is in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and health services research. He cares for patients at the University of Chicago. His work at the American Medical Association has included developing a research institute focusing on bioethics, professionalism and policy issues, he founded the AMA’s Center for Patient Safety, and he has led a variety of projects on understanding and measuring the ethical climate of health care organizations and systems, communication and team-based care, defining physician professionalism, ethics and epidemics, medicine and the Holocaust, and inequities in health and health care. He is the author of more than 130 published articles and a book on fairness in health care benefit design. read more
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