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Interprofessional education (IPE) combined with service-learning enables students from various professions to develop important interprofessional collaborative practice skills. Join to hear about how the recent winners of the 2023 Excellence in Interprofessional Education Collaboration Award implemented a student learning and service program to serve the needs of rural and underserved areas.

Awardees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) will share details around their IPE project, The Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI) and Carolina Student Services Corps. Through RIPHI and Carolina CSSC, over 3,000 students have participated in an unfolding case focusing on rural population health (P4P), 170 students have been embedded in 9 rural communities, and over 1,800 students have volunteered 34,000 hours to pandemic relief.

Webinar participants will hear about UNC-Chapel Hill’s multi-faceted approach and learn how to submit their own collaborative projects for the 2024 award cycle.

Speakers include:

• Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Associate Provost for Interprofessional Health Initiatives and Director, Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill; Professor, UNC School of Nursing
• Phil Rodgers, PharmD, Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice and Associate Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
• Lorraine Alexander, DrPH, Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Associate Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
• Kodilichi Echeozo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCACP, Lieutenant commander, U.S. Public Health Service; Reviewer, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Moderator)

• Discuss details of a sustainable IPE initiative integrating exposure to population health principles with interprofessional training and exposure
• Highlight the importance of promoting IPE and collaborative practice in rural and underserved health settings
• Demonstrate the importance of partnership with rural communities to achieve improved health outcomes through interprofessional collaboration
• Share “lessons learned” from the development and implementation of interprofessional service-learning experiences

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Speakers

Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Associate Provost for Interprofessional Health Initiatives and Director, Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill; Professor, UNC School of Nursing

Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, leads the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Associate Provost for Interprofessional Health Initiatives and is a professor in the School of Nursing.

 Dr. Zomorodi received her BSN and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, and in 2014 was selected as a Josiah Macy Faculty Scholar. She currently serves as the Director of the Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI), in which interprofessional teams of students work together with rural and underserved communities to give back using a quality improvement methodology.

Dr. Zomorodi teaches across the health professional schools, and is adjunct faculty in the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine. She is co-faculty for Bio 117 and 118, two courses that help undergraduate students explore and pursue careers in health professions. 

Phil Rodgers, PharmD, Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice and Associate Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Phil Rodgers is an associate professor and director of interprofessional education and practice at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His areas of scholarship and teaching are in interprofessional education and practice, diabetes management, and innovative pharmacy education programs. He also serves as vice chair of education for the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the School. His practice focus has been in primary/ambulatory care in interprofessional practice models in multiple institutions. He has been named a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Rodgers previously served as assistant dean of pharmacy practice partnerships at the School. Prior to joining the School, he was a clinical pharmacist and faculty in ambulatory care at Duke University Hospital, where he was designated a clinical pharmacist practitioner as per the state of North Carolina in the areas of diabetes, hypertension, and anticoagulation. Rodgers also served as director for the ASHP-accredited PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency program at Duke Hospital for eleven years and as the director of pharmacy education for the Duke Area Health Education Center for nine years. He previously served as the American Pharmacists Association representative to the National Diabetes Education Program.

Lorraine Alexander, DrPH, Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Associate Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Lorraine Alexander, DrPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (UNC GSGPH). She is the Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice for UNC GSGPH and is a member of the university-wide Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice. Dr. Alexander is also the Faculty Director for the Online Certificate in Field Epidemiology Graduate Program. 

Dr. Alexander has over 20 years of experience in distance education, competency-based curriculum design, workforce development and evaluation in the field of public health. She has been involved with interprofessional education and practice at UNC since 2014, developing interprofessional courses, activities and advising the Gillings Interprofessional Student Group.

Dr. Alexander is also part of the North Carolina Partnership for Excellence in Applied Epidemiology, which is an applied public health research, educational and practice collaboration between the North Carolina Division of Public Health, Communicable Disease Branch and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (The Department of Epidemiology and the North Carolina Institute for Public Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the School of Medicine).

Kodilichi Echeozo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCACP
Lieutenant Commander (LCDR), U.S. Public Health Service
Reviewer, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Moderator)

LCDR Kodilichi (Kodi) Echeozo is a Labeling Reviewer in the Office of Generic Drugs, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. She plays a critical role in advancing FDA’s public health mission by mitigating errors on medication labeling to promote the safe and effective use of generic drugs. She facilitates bringing highly needed and cost-effective generic drug products to the American Public.

LCDR Echeozo joined the USPHS Commissioned Corps in November 2016 and currently serves as the Pharmacist Professional Advisory Committee Policy Workgroup Lead. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Trinity University with a B.S. degree in Biology and received her Pharm.D. and M.B.A degree from Roseman University of Health Sciences. She is also a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) and Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP).