Now booking keynotes, workshops, and grand rounds for 2026 and 2027. Submit a speaker inquiry today.
BRINGING INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION TO YOUR STAGE
Tina Patel Gunaldo, PhD, DPT, MHS delivers evidence-informed keynotes, workshops, and grand rounds presentations that help healthcare teams and leaders design collaboration that produces measurable outcomes. She presents for conferences, academic medical centers, health systems, and professional associations worldwide.
Trusted by health organizations and conferences worldwide.
What your audience will take away
Every session is grounded in 15 years of interprofessional education and collaborative practice, 40+ peer-reviewed publications, and the evidence base Tina has spent her career building and teaching. Audiences leave with specific, actionable frameworks they can apply immediately, not general inspiration about the importance of teamwork.
Keynote and Presentation Topics
The Words We Use
Are the Teams We Build
Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional are not interchangeable. Each describes a fundamentally different level of integration, shared decision-making, and patient engagement. In this session, healthcare leaders and educators learn to use precise language that shapes how teams are designed and what outcomes become possible.
Designed for conferences, grand rounds, and any setting where multiple health professions share the same room.
Collaboration is a Design Problem, Not a People Problem
Healthcare organizations apply evidence-based design to patient care. Most apply no design at all to how professionals collaborate. This session gives leaders and teams an evidence-informed framework for preparing, designing, and sustaining cross-department collaboration that produces measurable outcomes.
Designed for health system leaders, department directors, and organizational leadership programs.
Building Visible System-Level Leadership in Healthcare
Department-level healthcare leaders often do their strongest work inside their department without it ever becoming visible at the system level. This session shows supervisors, managers, and directors how to design cross-department collaboration that creates measurable outcomes across the system. Available as a keynote or workshop for health system leadership conferences, academic medical centers, and professional association meetings.
See a recent keynote
Tina delivering a keynote at NYC Health and Hospitals, one of the largest public health systems in the United States.
The Expertise Behind Every Session
Tina's work is not generic leadership development applied to healthcare. It is grounded in 15 years of lived and researched interprofessional education and collaborative practice across academic health sciences, clinical practice, and community-based settings.
150+ presentations at national and international conferences and health systems
Keynote speaker at interprofessional education conferences across North America and internationally
Grand rounds presenter for academic medical centers and health system leadership programs
40+ peer-reviewed publications in interprofessional education and collaborative practice
Textbook author and editor with second edition forthcoming Spring 2027
Co-led a national organization focused on interprofessional education and practice
Associate editor for an interprofessional journal
Founded Collaborate for Health to shape how interprofessional collaboration is practiced and integrated across healthcare systems
What Event Organizers and Attendees Say
I am grateful you introduced yourself last fall after that community event! The hospital leaders were really impressed by your presentation at our Leadership Development Institute. They remarked on several learnings. Thank you.
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. Attendees universally reported that the session enhanced their understanding of interprofessional concepts in a way that was both clear and meaningful. I highly recommend her to any organization seeking to advance interprofessional collaborative practice.
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.
Amazing, all you offered in your keynote at the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) institute today. Great call to action for all of us in public health and across the health and partnering professions. Thank you!
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, whether that is synchronous in person, synchronous online, or in spaces where students are learning asynchronously!
Bring Interprofessional Collaboration Expertise to Your Event
Whether you are planning a conference, grand rounds, leadership retreat, or professional development day, the inquiry form below starts the conversation. Sessions are available virtually and onsite and can be customized to your audience and goals.
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