Roundtable 2024 Program

11:00 am-3:00 pm PRE-ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOPS

Team Coaching and Relational Dimensions of Improvement and Change (Margie Godfrey & Robert Zanni)

Relational Coordination and the Relational Model of Change (Jody Hoffer Gittell & Wale Olaleye)

3:00-6:30 pm  Welcoming Activities Led by Host Committee

• Kayak in the East Bay (Jim Best & Jody Hoffer Gittell) LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE!
• Hike to Inspiration Point (Amanda Brewster & Julie Schmittdiel)

7:00-9:00 pm INFORMAL WELCOMING RECEPTION at the iconic Berkeley pub Jupiter

8:00-9:15 am BREAKFAST

Welcome to Day 2 of the Roundtable (Amanda Brewster & Hector Rodriguez)

 Relational Coordination and the RCC - Past, Present and Future

Introduction to the RCC Member Map (Lorinda Visnick & Jim Best)

9:30-11:00 am RESEARCH & PRACTICE (Symposium Format)

Strengthening Relational Networks

• Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System: The Application of Relational Network Theory to a Social Experiment in Caring for Older People
• Clinician Network Configurations and Quality of Chronic Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Addressing the Weak Link in CRC Screening for Community Health Center Populations: A Planned Inquiry Exploring RC Between and Within North Carolina Community Health Centers and Referral Endoscopy Practices
• Relational Climate, Relational Coordination and Social Networks: Developing an Integrative Relational Theory

Exploring Resilience - Relational Practices and Work Systems

• Understanding Resilience as a Relational Process
• Building Resilience in Pretrial Services: Enhancing Judicial Decision-Making in St. Louis 
• Building Resilience in Agriculture: Collaborative Responses to Protect Essential Workers
• Building Resilience in Healthcare: Lessons from a Hospital Health Network in Ontario

11:00-11:30 am BREAK

11:30-1:00 pm RESEARCH & PRACTICE (Symposium Format)

Getting Started - Early Stage RC Interventions 

• From Finger Pointing to Problem Solving Communication on the Medical/Surgical Unit: A Relational Coordination Intervention
• Improving the Whole-Child Multidisciplinary Clinical Model for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: A Relational Coordination Intervention
• Improving Coordination of Care for Geriatric Patients in the Emergency Department Using the Fragility Care Protocol: A Relational Coordination Intervention
• Improving Referrals for Access to the Pulmonary Clinic: A Relational Coordination Intervention

Digitally Enabled Ecosystems to Solve Grand Challenges

• Designing Digitally Enabled Ecosystems in Healthcare
• Data Moves at the Speed of Trust: Examining Emerging Healthcare Data Sharing Platforms 
• Three Success Factors for Emerging Ecosystems Facilitating Secure and Confidential Transactions through Web3
• Leveraging Relational Coordination and Advanced Analytics for Enhanced Oncology Treatment in the Pharma Industry

1:15-2:30 pm LUNCH & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

John Paul Stephens (Case Western Reserve University)

Seeing the Whole Together for Multi-Level Systems Change

2:30-3:30 pm POSTER PRESENTATIONS WITH COOKIES & COFFEE

• Fostering a Sustainable "Care Society"
• Relationality and Systems: Improving Strategic Human Resource Management Outcomes
• Strategic Relational Human Resource Management in the AI Era: A Relational Route to See the Complete Picture
• How Leadership Development Can Enable Leaders to See and Act as Part of the Whole 
• Skilled Nursing Facility Interprofessional Bedside Rounds: Perspectives from Nurses
• Engaging Patient and Healthcare Partners in Observational Research Using Electronic Health Record Data
• Relational Coordination: Key Ingredient to Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury Reduction
• Patient and Family Perceptions of Relational Coordination with their Health Care Teams during Hospitalization 
• The Effects of Staff Mix and Turnover on Productivity and Outcomes

3:30-5:00 pm RESEARCH & PRACTICE (Shift & Share Format) 

Relational Coordination to Advance Social Justice

• Advancing Health Justice through Relational Community Organizing: A Missing Link for Healthcare
• The Role of Relational Coordination in Moving People Out of Poverty
• Organizational Structures and Relational Practices that Support the Coordination of Medical and Social Care for People Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles County
• The Impact of School Organizational Structure on School Capacity to Equitably Meet Needs of Young Children of Immigrants

Intervening to Strengthen Relational Coordination

• Interprofessional Simulation-Based Team Training Using Relational Coordination Theory on the L&D Unit: A Pilot Study
• Improving Efficiency and Productivity through Relational Coordination: A Transition to a Centralized Nursing Education Model
• Shifting System Boundaries: Reshaping Academic-Practitioner Research Partnerships for Success
• Mapping the Clinical Learning Environment: Relational Coordination in Ob/Gyn Residency Training

Developing Relational Leadership

• Employee Gender Diversity and Group Performance: Relational Coordination as a Mediator and Female Representation on Top Management Teams as a Moderator
• Illuminating Institutional Power-Dynamics That Influenced the Application of the Relational Model of Organizational Change in a Public Hospital
• Essential Leadership Practices in Early Care and Education Programs as Predictors of Teacher Commitment and Professional Learning: The Mediating Role of Relational Coordination
• Can Relational Coordination as Part of Top Management Education Serve as a Game Changer?

RC with Virtual Tools - From Micro to Macro

• Emotional Small Talk in Virtual Encounters: Different Pathways for Swift Trust Building 
• Health Care Worker Perceptions of the Impacts of an Electronic Health Record Transition on Team Communication
• Secure Messaging and Informal Caregiving for Chronic Disease Management in Primary Care Settings: Impacts on Relational Coordination and Clinical Outcomes
• Building a Collaborative Systems Change Movement with Open-Source Solutions

5:00-5:15 pm BREAK

5:15-6:15 pm RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP PANEL

6:30-8:30 pm ROUNDTABLE RECEPTION at Triple Rock Brewery and Alehouse!

8:00-9:00 am BREAKFAST - Welcome back!

 Welcome to Day 3 of the Roundtable (Em Chuang & Stephen Shortell)

9:15-10:45 am RESEARCH & PRACTICE (Symposium Format)

Designing Artificial Intelligence Through a Relational Lens

• To Team Up or Not to Team Up? Exploring Relational Coordination Expectations When Teaming Up With Someone Using AI
• Using RC to Mitigate Issues with the Implementation of AI
• Relational Coordination in AI Interdisciplinary Research From An AI Scholar Perspective: Challenges, Principles, and Future Directions
• Stitching an AI Innovation Ecosystems Through a Multi-Stakeholder Approach

Relational Approaches to Diversity

• Relational Coordination for More Effective Migrant Integration
• Vicarious Identification as an Antecedent of Positive Work Meaning and Relational Behaviors Amid Global Disruptions
• Using Relational Coordination to Apply Trauma-Informed Care Principles to Healthcare Workplace Operations
• Relational Approaches to Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI): What We are Learning From the Relating Across Difference (RAD) Project

10:45-11:15 am BREAK

11:15-12:45 pm RESEARCH & PRACTICE (Shift & Share Format)

Relational Drivers of Employee Well-Being and Burnout

• Collaboration and Safety: Grocery Stores and Their Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Relational Coordination as an Antidote to Burnout in Healthcare
• An Improvement Collaborative Model for Improved Communication, Relationships, Innovation, Better Outcomes for Those Being Served and a More Joyful Workplace
• Increasing Wellbeing Through Relational Intervention Programming: The Relational Leadership Institute

Intervening to Strengthen Relational Coordination

• CO-LED: A Collaborative Approach to Population Health
• Relational Coordination in the Provision of Maternal Healthcare in Two Rural Communities
• Improving Relational Health in the HIV/STI Clinic in the Local Health Unit of Gaia/Espinho
• Needfinding and Ideating: What Pharmacists and Primary Care Providers Want from Relational Coordination Interventions to Improve Pain Care Delivery

Relational Coordination as a Facilitator of Innovation

• Investigating Streams of Support for Innovation Teams
• Replication of Process Innovation within Multinational Organizations: How Relational Coordination Facilitates Local Adaptation 
• Relationality in the Entrepreneurial Support Ecosystem 
• Strengthening Value Based Veteran Health Administration Pressure Injury Prevention and Management

Pain, Serious Illness and Palliative Care through an RC Lens

• Pharmacist-led Collaborative Care for Patients with Severe Persistent Mental Illness: Intervention Variation by Neighborhood Resources and Race/Ethnicity Groups
• Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology for Patients with Serious Urologic Illness: A Qualitative Need Finding Inquiry
• The Team-based Serious Illness Care Program: A Qualitative Evaluation of Implementation and Teaming

1:00-2:15 pm LUNCH & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Brian Park (Oregon Health Science University & RELATE Lab)

Creating a Relational and Inclusive Health System for Patients and Communities

2:30-3:30 pm HANDS ON WORKSHOPS (Choose one)

• Fostering Divergent Ideation in Co-Design to Advance Relational Coordination: A Hands-on Workshop
• Reflections and Lessons Learned During Ten Years of Using Relational Coordination in an Academic Practice Partnership
• When Workers Lead: Creating the Conditions for Labor and Management Collaboration

3:30-3:45 pm BREAK

3:45-4:45 pm HANDS ON WORKSHOPS (Choose one)

• Navigating Complex Healthcare Challenges through Relational Coordination and Social Networks
• Enhancing Relational Coordination: Relational One-to-Ones as a Skill for Impactful Conversations
• Visualizing the Whole: Social System Mapping, Relational Coordination, and the Relational Model of Change

5:00-6:00 pm CLOSING CELEBRATION

Reflections on the Roundtable

Visualize the Expanded RCC Member Map (Lorinda Visnick & Jim Best)

Thanks and Farewell!