What does Tina Patel Gunaldo speak about?

Tina Patel Gunaldo, PhD, DPT, MHS speaks on interprofessional education and collaborative practice, including three signature topics: the distinction between multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional teams; why collaboration is a design problem rather than a people problem; and how department-level healthcare leaders can build visible system-level leadership through cross-department collaboration.

What types of events does Tina Patel Gunaldo present at?

Tina presents at healthcare conferences, grand rounds, academic medical centers, health system leadership programs, and professional associations. Sessions are available as keynotes, workshops, or grand rounds presentations, virtually and onsite, and can be customized to the organization's priorities and audience.

How do I book Tina Patel Gunaldo as a keynote speaker?

Submit a speaker inquiry through the form at collaborateforhealth.com/speaking. Include your event type, anticipated audience size, topic interest, preferred format, and ideal event date. Tina presents virtually and onsite for events worldwide.

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Interprofessional Collaboration Speaker

Tina Patel Gunaldo, PhD, DPT, MHS

Interprofessional collaboration does not happen simply because people from different professions work together. It has to be intentionally learned, designed, and supported.

Tina brings the science and structure of interprofessional collaboration to keynotes, workshops, and grand rounds, helping healthcare and health professions audiences understand how collaboration works and what they can do to strengthen it in education and practice.

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Designed for audiences who need more than another conversation about teamwork. Keynotes · Workshops · Grand Rounds Virtual and In Person

Is this the right fit for your audience?

Conferences and professional organizations

For audiences that bring together different professions, disciplines, roles, and practice settings.

Universities and academic health centers

For faculty, educators, academic leaders, preceptors, and health professions learners working to strengthen interprofessional learning.

Healthcare organizations

For leaders and teams working across departments, services, and professions to strengthen collaboration in practice.

Upcoming Speaking Engagement

May 12, 2027

Assessing What Matters in IPE: Strategies for Outcomes, Improvement, and Impact

Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)

Signature Topics

Speaking topics shaped around your audience

Each session is adapted to the audience, setting, and learning goals while remaining grounded in the evidence and structure of interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

01

Interprofessional Collaboration, Anytime, Anywhere

Collaboration does not only happen when everyone is in the same room.

Explore how interprofessional collaboration occurs across meetings, referrals, handoffs, documentation, virtual communication, and other parts of everyday work.

02

Better Together: Your Role in a High-Performing Team

Strong teams are not created by one profession, one leader, or one high performer.

Examine the characteristics, behaviors, and interprofessional competencies that strengthen team performance.

03

The Leader’s Role: Prepare, Design, Sustain

Leaders cannot mandate collaboration and expect it to develop on its own.

Consider how leaders prepare teams, design supportive structures and processes, and help collaborative practices become part of everyday work.

Speaking Engagements

Organizations that have invited Tina to speak

Speaker Spotlight

Invited keynote speaker

A short event video introducing Tina as an invited keynote speaker and highlighting her expertise in interprofessional work.

Credibility

The expertise behind the session

Tina’s presentations draw from sustained work in interprofessional education and collaborative practice across academic health sciences, healthcare delivery, research, and professional education.

About Tina → Curriculum Vitae → Textbook →

150+National + international presentations

40+Peer-reviewed publications

15+ yearsInterprofessional education + collaborative practice

Textbook Author Journal Editor National Leader

Speaking Experience

What organizers and participants say

“Working with Tina was an exceptional experience. She delivered an engaging and insightful one-hour Interprofessional Education Grand Rounds session at our organization, sharing practical strategies to improve patient care through intentional interprofessional collaboration that resonated across all disciplines.”

Allison Tate Moomaw, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

“Thank you for the tremendously thought-provoking experience. My staff and the attendees were raving about the workshop you gave. The work you do is so important, and I am so grateful that we had the chance to work with you.”

Michael Meguerdichian, MD, MPH-Ed

“Thank you for an inspiring keynote at the Midwest Interprofessional Conference at St. Catherine University challenging us to consider how we can create interprofessional learning experiences anywhere learning happens.”

Stephanie de Sam Lazaro, OTD, MA, OTR/L, CHSE, FAOTA

Planning an event or program?

Tell Tina about your audience, what you are planning, and what you would like participants to learn or be able to do differently. Tina personally reviews speaking inquiries and will follow up by email.

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