welcome to PIPE
Partners in Pediatric Education

PIPE’s Mission: To be a professional resource that contributes to excellence in pediatric healthcare education.

PIPE’s Vision: To be the preeminent source for pediatric healthcare educators, providing best practices with patient and family education through:

• Networking and collaborating
• Learning
• Sharing ideas and resources
• Advocating for health literacy, cultural and family centered care

PIPE's Values:

• Professionals who care about excellence in pediatric healthcare education
• Interested in communicating, networking and contributing for the common good of all of our members
• Passionate about sharing our resources, knowledge and skills with one another
• Excited about empowering our patients and families as they learn and grow their way towards improved health care management and outcomes.

PIPE’s future goals include:

• Increase awareness of PIPE for future growth
• Share pediatric health education resources, including illustrations and translations
• Create tool for evaluation and measurement of programs and materials
• Publish our cooperative efforts
• Provide networking and educational opportunities for problem solving, information sharing, and mutual support
• Diversify to include and support specialty focus areas such as neonatal, adolescent and family resource centers
• Define best-practice and standards for outcome-based pediatric patient and family education.
   

PIPE’s Workgroups

• Future Meetings and Membership
• Outcomes
• Publishing/Communication
   

PIPE’s Officers

• Chair: Joan Totka,  maxiSHARE/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI
• Chair-elect: Ronnalea Hamman, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver BC
• Past-chair: Ashley Ave , Children's Hospital Central California, Madera CA
• Secretary/Treasurer: LeAnne Gibbs, East Tennessee Children's Hospital, Knoxville, TN
• Web Liaison: Kathy Ordelt, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta GA