Sheree Aston, OD, MA, PhD has been Vice Provost and Professor of Optometry (WesternU) since 2007. She planned, launched, and oversees WesternU’s three-phase Interprofessional Education Program (IPE), a required program delivered both at its Pomona, CA campus and at its Lebanon, OR campus through an inter-institutional program that includes Oregon State University and Linn-Benton Community College. Additionally, WesternU’s Center for Academic and Professional Enhancement and Office of Strategic Planning are her operational responsibilities.

Dr. Aston recently is currently a Trustee of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC), a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Interprofessional Healthcare. She served on the Executive Committee for Collaborating Across Borders (CAB) IV and is the current US Chair of CABV conference. She is Director of the Geriatric IPE project and is a member of the Executive Committee of the California Geriatric Education Center (CGEC), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Early in her health professions career, she helped form and served on the steering committee of the University of Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center.

Dr. Aston was the lead author of a collaborative article on IPE programs that appeared in the July 2012 issue of Academic Medicine. She has authored and co-authored more than a dozen scholarly articles in refereed health, aging and rehabilitation journals; authored an interdisciplinary-based clinical geriatric text; served as the director of several public-funded training grants; and lectured nationally and internationally on IPE, geriatrics and health education in a variety of health and rehabilitation venues.