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LINC Introduces New Organizational Model
July 3, 2025
To consolidate gains accrued over the first five years of LINC and ensure our continued success well into the future, feedback and reflections from an array of LINC contributors and stakeholders have helped shape a new organizational model that launched in June 2025. The primary aims of the restructuring were to (1) ensure the sustained [...]
LINC Impacts National Academies of Practice Annual Meeting Through Scholarship and Sponsorship
April 1, 2025
The LINC Clinical Research Initiatives was proud to present their research scholarship at the National Academies of Practice (NAP) 2025 Annual Meeting & Forum in Washington DC. Dr. Catherine Torrington Eaton (pictured right), Assistant Professor in the School of Health Professions and Leader of the Initiative, and Dr. Joseph Zorek (pictured left), LINC’s Executive Director, [...]
Announcing New Leadership Opportunities For Faculty
February 28, 2025
Having emerged as a nationally recognized model to advance interprofessional education (IPE) and successfully completed the first phase of our Quality Enhancement Plan, we are in the process of preparing an organizational change to sustain high-impact educational programming while growing our research and scholarship footprints. To support this vision, we are recruiting an interprofessional mix [...]
LINC Executive Director Appointed Co-Editor of JIEP
January 29, 2025
Dr. Joseph Zorek, LINC Executive Director, was recently appointed Co-Editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice (JIEP). The official journal of the National Academies of Practice, JIEP seeks to publish impactful scholarship focused on contemporary issues, challenges, opportunities, and advancements in interprofessional healthcare education, policy, practice, and research. Starting January 2025, Dr. Zorek [...]
UT Health San Antonio Recognized for Interprofessional Education Excellence in National Webinar for Work through LINC
November 15, 2024
UT Health San Antonio was featured in a recent national webinar highlighting institutional excellence in interprofessional collaboration within health professions education. UT Health, which received the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (ASAHP) Award for Institutional Excellence and Innovation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Health Care in 2022, was among seven distinguished programs showcased. [...]
LINC Project Coordinator Position Now Open
November 6, 2024
Since launching in 2018, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) has implemented numerous programs to increase interprofessional education (IPE) for future health professionals and scientists. We are seeking an experienced project coordinator to join our team and help drive our continued growth and success. The Project Coordinator will be responsible for implementing and managing projects [...]
LINC Members Awarded 2024 Board of Pharmacy Specialties Research Seed Grant
November 5, 2024
The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has awarded its annual Research Seed Grants, providing two $5,000 grants to pharmacist researchers seeking to examine the impact and value of board certification in pharmacy. These grants support innovative projects that explore critical aspects of pharmacist professional development and collaborative healthcare practices. Dr. Rebecca Moote, LINC Scholarship Dissemination [...]
LINC Student Council Hosts First Social Event of Year
September 25, 2024
On September 18th, the LINC Student Council hosted its first event in the LINC Interprofessional Student Social Series for the academic year 2024-2025. This event created a lighthearted atmosphere allowing students from various healthcare programs to socially engage, expand their interprofessional network, and compete with one another in a video game tournament. To learn more [...]
Influential Pharmacy Journal Publishes Interprofessional Education Study
July 22, 2024
The Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (JACCP) recently published an invited manuscript examining clinical interprofessional education in pharmacy training. First-authored by Dr. Nicholas Fusco from the University at Buffalo with contributing authors including Dr. Rebecca Moote, LINC Scholarship Dissemination Coordinator, and Dr. Joseph Zorek, LINC Executive Director, this manuscript offers a critical [...]
LINC Clinical IPE Experience Successfully Launched
May 22, 2024
In spring 2024, 757 students from five schools at UT Health San Antonio participated in the inaugural university-wide launch of the LINC Clinical IPE Experience, which serves as the third and final interprofessional learning activity within the LINC Longitudinal IPE Program. The LINC Clinical IPE Experience aims to (1) facilitate interprofessional socialization, (2) empower students [...]