Dr. Erin Abu-Rish Blakeney, PhD, MA, RN
Research Associate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, School of Nursing, University of Washington (UW)
Team Science Core Co-Director, UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences
Core Faculty, UW Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence
Affiliate Faculty, UW Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research, & Practice
Date of Visit: Tuesday, June 9 – Thursday, June 11, 2026
Purpose of Visit
Erin is interested in engaging with faculty and students across the CHES community to learn more about the work being conducted at UBC and to identify areas of potential research synergy—particularly in the CHES research themes of Career Choice and Workforce, Clinicians Perspectives and Practices, Workplace Based Learning and Assessment, and Patients and Communities (learning from and about). She is especially interested in discussing ways to study and improve trust in health care within and between patients, family members, and care team members, including educators, students and trainees.
Biography
Erin is a nurse scientist and health professions/health services researcher whose work is motivated by the knowledge that all too often healthcare systems do not safely, efficiently, or effectively meet the needs of patients, caregivers, or care team members. Erin utilizes frameworks and methods from the fields of implementation science, interprofessional/team science, and patient-oriented clinical research. Much of her work has focused on adapting, implementing, and evaluating interprofessional patient- and family-centered rounding models in adult and pediatric hospital settings.
Current areas of inquiry include: (1) identification of best practices and promising models for improving interprofessional/interdisciplinary team dynamics and outcomes; (2) understanding mechanisms of action connecting the quality of communication, relationships, and processes/structures with team effectiveness and team and patient outcomes; (3) discovering strategies to implement and sustain team-based approaches in research and practice. Since 2016, Erin has also served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Care.