Welcome to Partners in Pediatric Education (PIPE)

PIPE Educator Resources Annual Meeting Leadership Minutes Member Directory (PDF format - for members only) Contacts, feedback, questions and suggestions

There is no prescription more valuable than knowledge.
C. Everett Koop MD, Former Surgeon General of the United States

Partners in Pediatric Education (PIPE) is a national forum comprised of dedicated interdisciplinary pediatric educators who work cooperatively to help improve healthcare education in the field of pediatrics.

To that end, we have partnered with the Health Care Education Association (HCEA) in order to benefit from the entire spectrum of healthcare education in both the adult and pediatric sector. HCEA's mission is to provide a learning community for professionals committed to improving healthcare through education.
 

PIPE’s Mission: To Improve Pediatric HealthCare Education.

PIPE’s Vision: To Improve Health and Lives of Children and Families throughout the World.

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 for 2008

• Chair: Ashley Ave, Children's Hospital Central California, Madera CA aave@childrenscentralcal.org
• Chair-elect: Joan Totka, maxiSHARE/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI
• Past-chair: Leslie Catron, Children's Hospital Central California, Madera CA
• Secretary/Treasurer: Ronnalea Hamman, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver BC
• Web Liaison: Linda Broz, Children's Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul MN

Want to Join PIPE?
More information on membership is available on HCEA's website at
http://www.hcea-info.org/html/membership.html or fill out the secure online Membership Application form.

Please contact Ashley Ave aave@childrenscentralcal.org or Joan Totka JPTotka@chw.org for more information.