Meet Our Speakers
Virtual Forum Plenary
Elizabeth "Liz" Winter, Liz Winter & Associates LLC
Liz Winter is a Certified TBL Trainer Consultant and has used TBL in teaching graduate students and practitioners on topics including traumatic stress and resilience, child maltreatment, and addiction. She has practiced law and social work and is a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh. She works with the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center in implementing TBL in statewide public child welfare workforce training, using both co-located and online TBL. A major focus of her work is the professional development and well-being of resilient and effective health and human services workforces. She has recently extended this work to develop TBL-based instruction for sports coaches to support trauma-informed coaching and programming. She earned her law degree at the University of Oxford and her masters and doctoral social work degrees at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves as Member-at-Large for Higher Education on the Steering Committee of the Team-Based Learning Collaborative and provides TBL training and consultation in academic and workforce settings.
Workshop Speakers
Larry K. Michaelsen (PhD in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan) is a David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, Professor of Management at Central Missouri State University, a Carnegie Scholar, a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and former Editor of the Journal of Management Education. He is active in faculty and staff development activities and has conducted workshops on teaching effectively with small groups in a wide variety of university, and corporate settings. Dr. Michaelsen has also received numerous college, university, and national awards for his outstanding teaching and for his pioneering work in two areas. One is the development of Team-Based Learning, a comprehensive small-group based instructional process that is now being used in over 100 academic disciplines and on over 200 campuses in the US and in eight foreign countries.
Dr Jonathan (Jonny) Branney is Principal Academic in Nursing and Clinical Sciences and Programme Leader for the PGDip/MSc Advanced Clinical Practice and MSc Advanced Clinical Practice apprenticeship. He has a substantial clinical background as both a registered nurse (critical care; accident & emergency) and formerly a registered chiropractor. He is passionate about the role of biosciences in nurse and healthcare education, using innovative teaching techniques such as Team-based Learning to engage students, and in research on neck and back pain-associated disorders, particularly that aimed at improving outcomes for patients. His award-winning doctoral research investigated the mechanism of spinal manipulative therapy and its relationship with patient-reported outcomes in the treatment of patients with neck pain. He built on this research with a Royal College of Chiropractors Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship which explored the relationship between intervertebral disc degeneration and intervertebral motion in neck pain. This body of work included the use of quantitative fluoroscopy (motion x-rays) to measure the movement of the bones in the cervical spine of the participating patients before and after treatment. The results are published in international peer-reviewed journals and have been cited in systematic reviews/meta-analyses.
At BU, research has included collaborating with the Orthopaedic Research Institute on a project aimed at improving outcomes for patients scheduled for hip and knee replacement surgery. His latest project, funded by the Team-based Learning Collaborative, is a stakeholder consultation on the use of Team-based Learning as part of the supported self-management of patients with chronic back pain. In line with the Fusion ethos at BU, Jonny is proud to bring his duel professional practice backgrounds and a passion for clinical research and teaching together to mutual benefit as a full-time academic.
Physiotherapist specialising in pain management, with additional interests in patient education.
Recently completed a Master’s degree with a research focus on innovative teaching strategies for pain self-management education, including Team-Based Learning. My work integrates clinical practice with research to support patient-centred approaches to persistent pain.
I work with Cora Health’s Lincolnshire Pain Service as part of a multidisciplinary team and with Somerset Community Pain Management Service, co-facilitating their pain management programs. I also maintain hands-on clinical experience two days per week in an MSK outpatient clinic.
My approach is supported by further training in Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other therapies that are individualised to suit the needs of the people I support.
