Empowering Change: Using Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Patient Outcomes in Physical Therapy - Part 2
Part 2 of this Webinar Series will demonstrate clinical application of motivational interviewing to enhance patient interaction. Learners will gain valuable techniques to promote health and wellness within the neurologic population.
Speakers
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Linda Ehrlich-Jones, PhD, RN, FACRM, FAAN
Chicago, IL
Disclosures: Provides MI training to Community Health Workers in marginalized communities with Movement is Life, a non-profit organization. Provides MI training skills, MI interventions, and MI fidelity assessment to a variety of audiences funded by NIH, NIDILRR, and Craig H. Neilsen Foundation.
Dr. Linda Ehrlich-Jones, PhD, RN, FACRM, FAAN is the Associate Director, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and a Clinical Research Scientist. She is a Research Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. Linda has expertise in behavioral interventions, targeting persons with chronic illness to promote healthy lifestyles and health self-management. She has been involved in creating behavioral interventions, using motivational interviewing, targeting persons with chronic illness to increase physical activity and improve diet. She is a Co-PI on a clinical trial (R01AR071091) to decrease fatigue in people with lupus by increasing physical activity and increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables using motivational interviewing, as well as the PI on a Craig H Neilsen Foundation Demonstration Project focusing on Enhancing Rehabilitation Participation in Patients with SCI/D Using Motivational Interviewing. She serves as the motivational interviewing expert on the U01AR080346 Losina (PI) KArAT designed to evaluate an innovative application of behavioral science principles that invoke both internal motivation (using motivational interviewing) and external motivation (using financial incentives) to improve physical activity among persons with knee osteoarthritis undergoing total knee replacement. Linda has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2006.
Jamie Nesbit, PT, DPT, NCS, GCS
Phoenix, AZ
Disclosures: none
Dr. Jamie Nesbit (she/her) is a physical therapist and assistant professor at Creighton University – Phoenix. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Washington University in St Louis in 2011. Dr. Nesbit has worked as a full-time clinician for 10 years, primarily in the outpatient neurologic setting. She became a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy in 2014 and a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Geriatric Physical Therapy in 2015. She is trained in vestibular rehabilitation, a certified LSVT BIG and PWR! Therapist, and consults as a LiteGait trainer for Mobility Research. She has a special interest for wellness models and incorporating these models into care for people with neurodegenerative disorders. Research and scholarly activities have centered around physical therapy treatment and wellness with individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, as well as examining use of practice models in the clinic and interprofessional collaboration. She serves as the chair of the Health Promotion and Wellness Committee for the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy.
Guest Speaker
Kathryn Riley
