Appendix E

Workshop Planning Committee Biographies

Kim Dunleavy (Cochair), PT, Ph.D., FNAP, is a clinical professor and director of community engagement at the University of Florida in the PT Department. She serves as the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy representative to the Global Forum. She has contributed to improve entry-level and continuing professional education in Vietnam, Haiti, Rwanda, and Suriname. Her research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) have spanned interprofessional education, continuing education models, and global instructional design. Her National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health–funded grant integrates instructional design and educational methods investigating the impact and implementation of self-management to manage and limit low back pain in nursery and landscape workers. She has received multiple awards for SOTL and the Societal Impact Award from the American Physical Therapy Association. Dr. Dunleavy served on the planning committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/Global Forum Nonpharmacological Management of Pain and Implementation Science in health professional education workshops. Her physical therapy training from the University of Cape Town and University of Central Arkansas was followed by a Ph.D. in instructional technology from Wayne State University. She is the chair of the National Academies of Practice Physical Therapy Academy.

Pamela Jeffries (Cochair), Ph.D., RN, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH, is dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Valere Potter Distinguished Chair in Nursing. Dr. Jeffries is internationally known for her research and work in nursing, simulation, and health care. Throughout the academic

community, she is recognized for her scholarly contributions to executive leadership, the development of innovative teaching strategies, experiential learning techniques, new pedagogies, and the delivery of content using technology. As principal investigator (PI) on grants funded by federal and state agencies and numerous national organizations, including the National League for Nursing (NLN) and National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Dr. Jeffries has provided leadership and mentorship on groundbreaking projects impacting both nursing practice and education. With the NLN, Dr. Jeffries developed the major contribution to simulation scholarship, the framework and monograph now known as the “NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory.”

Jonathan Amiel, M.D., directs the Office of Professionalism and Inclusion in the Learning Environment across the New York-Presbyterian system. He trained as a medical student, resident, and chief resident at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he had a 13-year tenure in the dean’s office overseeing medical student education and is a professor of psychiatry. Dr. Amiel works closely with the Association of American Medical Colleges and Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine and has been invited to serve as an associate editor of Academic Medicine. His work focuses on competency-based education and its relationship to the development of health professionals’ identities to ensure that training is intentional, just, and aligned with public health needs.

Grace C. Huang, M.D., is dean for faculty affairs and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is a nationally recognized educator with expertise in faculty development and educational scholarship; serves as the editor in chief of MedEdPORTAL, an online open access journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges; and is on the editorial board of Academic Medicine. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), she was vice chair for career development and mentorship in the Department of Medicine, director of academic careers and faculty development, codirector of the BIDMC Academy, and director of the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education. She received the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Society of Hospital Medicine, the 2021 Clifford A. Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award at HMS, and the 2022 Class Day Excellence in Clinical Instruction Award at HMS. Dr. Huang was an undergraduate at Stanford University and received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, followed by internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess. She practiced medicine as a hospitalist for over 20 years.

Gail Jensen, Ph.D., M.A., is vice provost for learning and assessment, dean emerita, and professor of physical therapy. She holds a secondary

appointment in the Department of Medical Humanities at Creighton University and is an adjunct professor of medicine, Center for Health Professions Education, Uniform Services University of Health Sciences, School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She is known nationally and internationally for contributions in expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and interprofessional education. She led a National Study of Excellence and Innovation in Physical Therapist Education funded by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) where a key recommendation included developing more education researchers in the profession. Dr. Jensen has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of the Grant Writing and Mentorship in Education Research (GAMER) national initiative in physical therapy, now interprofessional and in its fifth year. Dr. Jensen is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association and a Distinguished Scholar Fellow in the Physical Therapy Academy of the National Academies of Practice. She is a recipient of the APTA’s Rothstein Golden Pen Award, Lucy Blair Service Award, and the APTA’s 2011 Mary McMillan Lecturer, and in 2022 she gave the 24th Annual Cerasoli Lecture for the Education Academy. Dr. Jensen received her Ph.D. in educational evaluation with a minor in sociology from Stanford University, holds a master’s degree in physical therapy from Stanford University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Minnesota.

Loretta M. Nunez, M.A., AuD, CCC-A/SLP, ASHA Fellow, FNAP, is senior director of academic affairs and research education for American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (ASHA). She directs activities that support academic, clinical, and research education; personnel preparation; faculty development; and higher education trends and forecasting in communication sciences disorders. Dr. Nunez leads ASHA’s Envisioned Future 2025 strategic objective to advance IPE and collaborative practice. She represents ASHA on the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC), Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Member Council, and National Academy of Medicine Global Forum on Innovation in HPE. She is a fellow of ASHA and distinguished fellow and practitioner of the National Academies of Practice in speech-language pathology. Dr. Nunez received the Award of Appreciation from the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders for contributions to the discipline and 2024 NAP Interprofessional Group Recognition Award for members of the IPC. She is a member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative and former member of its advisory board and cochair of its scholarship committee. Dr. Nunez is dually credentialed as an audiologist and speech-language pathologist and has extensive experience in clinical, academic, and association settings related to HPE.

Yasuharu (Haru) Okuda, M.D., is the executive director and chief executive officer of University of South Florida Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation. He also serves as associate vice president for the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice and professor and an associate dean at the Morsani College of Medicine. Dr. Okuda was the national medical director for the Simulation Learning Education and Research Network for the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he established the national strategy and operationalized simulation-based programs at more than 160 medical facilities. He was also the founding director of the Institute for Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning for the New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest U.S. public health system. Dr. Okuda has over 20 years of experience in using emerging technologies, such as simulation and extended reality, to help train health care professionals and teams to improve patient safety and clinical care. He was given the Distinguished Educator Award by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy for creating the simulation-based training program SimWARSTM, named one of the top 25 Healthcare Leaders Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review, selected as one of 40 Under 40 New York’s Rising Stars in Business by Crain’s NY Business Magazine, and awarded the Healthcare and Medicine Leader of the Year by i4 Business Magazine. In 2022, Dr. Okuda served as president of the SSH, the largest interprofessional health care association in the world. He received his B.S. in neuroscience from Brown University, M.D. from New York Medical College, and certificate in health care modeling and simulation from the Naval Postgraduate School in California. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he served as chief resident, and then a clinical quality fellowship from the Greater New York Hospital Association.