-: 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.