Kamy Walck Respiratory Care (RC) Program, School of Health Professions
Member, LINC Student Council
Co-Chair, LINC IPE Symposium Executive Planning Committee
Welcome Address
Kamy Walck, BSHS, is a current second year master’s student in the respiratory care program. She has been a member of the LINC Student Council for 2 years and the Respiratory Care Student Organization (RCSO) for 2 years where she has served as the Fundraising Chair and Graduation/Matriculation Chair. She also works as a work study student in the fundamental of respiratory care lab, pulmonary function testing lab, and mechanical ventilation lab.
She graduated from Seminole State College with an associate’s in psychology and graduated with a bachelor’s in health science with a psychology minor from the Southwestern College (KS). Ms. Walck is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and Lambda Beta Honor Societies.
Jacqueline Mok, PhD Vice President for Academic, Faculty and Student Affairs
The Importance of IPE to UT Health San Antonio
Jacqueline Lee Mok, Ph.D., has served since September 2014 as Vice President for Academic, Faculty and Student Affairs. In this role, she is the Chief Academic Affairs Officer for UT Health San Antonio, working in close collaboration and partnership with the university’s senior leadership to promote academic, faculty and student success. Prior to her arrival at UT Health San Antonio, Dr. Mok was Vice President/Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Johns Hopkins University, where she also was a presidential research fellow in 2013. She has also held administrative positions with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the U.S. Foreign Service, and The University of Washington. At The University of Arizona, where Dr. Mok served for fifteen years, she worked not only as an assistant and associate dean, she became Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff. Dr. Mok earned her baccalaureate degree at Middlebury College; master’s degree at The University of North Texas; and Ph.D. degree from New York University. She has as well participated in the Bryn Mawr/HERS Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration and the Harvard University Management Development Program. In 2012, Dr. Mok received the national Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific Fund, in recognition of her outstanding contributions in higher education leadership.
Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP
LINC Director
Office of the Vice President for Academic, Faculty & Student Affairs
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
LINC, UT Health San Antonio’s Quality Enhancement Plan
Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP, serves as Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), at UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Zorek also holds an appointment in the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing as associate professor with tenure, where he teaches advanced pharmacotherapeutics to graduate students and strives to elevate health professions education through creative and impactful scholarship. Dr. Zorek completed his undergraduate studies in psychology and secondary social studies education at the University of Iowa prior to teaching in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. He earned his doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and completed a two-year pharmacotherapy residency with specialty training in geriatrics and a research emphasis on interprofessional practice and education at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo. Dr. Zorek began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy, where he was promoted to Director of Interprofessional Education and Associate Professor based on the strength of his research, teaching, and service record.
In 2020, Dr. Zorek was elected to the National Academies of Practice as a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow. He is the recipient of several additional accolades, including the Rufus A. Lyman Award and a Baldwin Award, both of which annually recognize the best articles published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and the Journal of Interprofessional Care, respectively. His work exploring the regulatory environment in health professions education has been widely cited. Dr. Zorek represented the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education on a collaborative project with the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative, which resulted in the co-authored Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions, a national consensus guideline. Dr. Zorek’s latest project, a textbook intended for early learners in pharmacy called Interprofessional Practice in Pharmacy: Featuring Illustrated Case Studies, was published by McGraw-Hill Education in March 2021.
Lucinda L. Maine, PhD, RPh
Chair, Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
EVP & CEO, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)
2022 LINC IPE Symposium Keynote Speaker
Why IPE?
Lucinda L. Maine, Ph.D., R.Ph. serves as executive vice president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Prior to assuming her current role in July 2002, Dr. Maine served as senior vice president for policy, planning and communications with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). Analyzing trends in healthcare, assessing the implications for pharmacy practice and advocating appropriate recognition for all pharmacists were her top priorities at APhA.
Dr. Maine is a pharmacy graduate of Auburn University and received her doctorate at the University of Minnesota. She served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota where she practiced in the field of geriatrics and was an associate dean at the Samford University School of Pharmacy. In March 2019, Dr. Maine received the Remington Honor Medal from APhA.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Tommye Panuska
Bachelor of Science in Nursing – Accelerated (ABSN) Program, School of Nursing
Member, LINC Student Council
Member, LINC IPE Symposium Executive Planning Committee
Virtual IPE Activity for Students
Tommye Panuska, MBA, is a student in the accelerated nursing program at UT Health San Antonio. She graduated from Liberty University with an MBA – Healthcare Management and received her bachelor’s in science degree in Business Administration – Human Resource Management from the University of South Carolina- Beaufort in. Tommye is currently on the LINC Student Council. Her experience with interprofessional collaboration includes program IPE, competing in an International Interprofessional Case Competition (Fall 2021), and participation in the UT Health SA LINC Interprofessional Case Competition (Spring 2022).
Ben Johnson
Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program, Long School of Medicine, Class of 2024
Round Table Discussion with Students & Faculty
Benjamin Johnson is a second year UTHSA medical student with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering concentrated in musculoskeletal biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biomedical device design. His recent interprofessional activities include founding the intercollegiate SSW Medical Device Make-a-thon in 2019, placing first in the 2020 UTSA CITE Biomedical Device Design competition, and competing as a finalist in the inaugural UTHSA LINC Case competition 2021. Constantly pursuing innovation, Mr Johnson is first inventor on a patent pending for a smart bio-sensing endotracheal tube design for the detection of ventilator-associated pneumonia (US 17/234,544) and his team was bestowed a NIH NBME DEBUTE award for the project. Since enrolling at UTHSA, Mr Johnson has greatly enjoyed volunteering in multiple interprofessional activities including the School of Nursing COVID-19 vaccine campaign and Student-run community clinics.
Aiola Stoja
PhD in Integrated Biomedical Sciences – Cancer Biology Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Class of 2025
Round Table Discussion with Students & Faculty
Mrs. Stoja Payne is currently a second year IBMS PhD student at UTHSA on the Cancer Biology track. Her interest in translational research began during her third year in undergraduate school at James Madison University while she was volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician in Bridgewater, Virginia. She began to appreciate how molecular medicine made a direct impact to the patients that she saw on the field and started learning about the molecular details of the products that she was being trained to use as an EMT during her classes in college. She continued to delve deeper into the opportunities that collaborative science could provide throughout college. Mrs. Stoja Payne worked in the Information Technology as well as the Physics department at James Madison University, where she learned basic coding and programming as she was finishing her Biotechnology degree. She took these skills onward to her first job as a lab technician working in Dr. Mitchell Smith’s lab at the University of Virginia. While in the Smith lab, she used computational biology together with her wet lab experience to help with genetic engineering of the LANA protein to better understand the protein’s role in Kaposi’s Sarcoma. She moved onward to further her benchwork skills as a Senior Research Assistant in Dr. Mark Shapiro’s lab at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio where she advanced the scientific field by researching the molecular mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI’s), with the goal of improving current TBI clinical protocols and developing novel therapeutics. Additionally, while in the Shapiro lab, she spearheaded a Mays Cancer Center project focusing on identifying novel drugs to disrupt the progression of B cell lymphoma. This is where she decided that she wanted to gear her professional career towards understanding the molecular biology of disease states. She started working as a Graduate Research Assistant under the mentorship of Dr. Alexander Bishop where her work these past two years have predominantly focused on Ewing’s sarcoma, the second leading pediatric bone cancer diagnosis in North America. She looks forward to completing her Qualifying Exam and continuing to her thesis project, which will be tailored using a translational research approach.
Bobby Belarmino, PT, D.P.T., Ph.D., CCS, is a member of the LINC Didactic Interprofessional Education Initiative representing the School of Health Professions. Dr. Belarmino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy. He has been a physical therapist for over 28 years now. He received his bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy at Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation in the Philippines and his master’s degree in Applied Physiology at Columbia University in New York. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Mass., and then completed Ph.D. in Physical Therapy at Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas. Dr. Belarmino is a Board Certified Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Clinical Specialist (CCS) from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialty. His research interests are in ICU rehabilitation, reducing hospital readmission in cardiovascular and pulmonary populations and improving frailty in elderly population through rehabilitation interventions.
Temple Ratcliffe, M.D., MS-HPEd, leads the LINC Faculty Council’s Clinical IPE Initiative, which spearheads the Clinical IPE Track within the LINC Faculty & Staff Development Program. Dr. Ratcliffe is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, and he serves as Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship at the Long School of Medicine. His teaching has been recognized by numerous awards, including the UT Presidential Teaching Excellence Award. He is also a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar and inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society. His current scholarly areas of interest include IPE, clinical reasoning, and learner assessment. Dr. Ratcliffe has represented the Long School of Medicine on the LINC Faculty Council since June 2018.
Pamela Recto, Ph.D., RN, is an assistant professor at UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing and is the assistant director for the South Texas Area Health Education Center. Dr. Recto has 18 years of experience in family-centered care with newborns and families as a registered nurse. Her work as an early-stage investigator focuses on community-partnered exploratory research with underserved populations who are living with various health and social inequities. Additionally, she has knowledge in health disparities and mental health research. Her research has focused on the following areas: 1) assessing the mental health literacy of Mexican-American adolescent mothers concerning perinatal depression, 2) understanding the factors surrounding opioid-related maternal mortality, 3) examining the perspectives of Hispanic young fathers on parenthood and 4) exploring the mental health needs of young fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Recto collaborates with various professions and community organizations and conducts community-engaged research with the goal of helping marginalized populations in South Texas gain access to vital health care resources and services that will improve health outcomes and well-being.
Juliana Hutchinson
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program, School of Health Professions
Member, LINC Student Council
Member, LINC IPE Symposium Executive Planning Committee
Moderator: Round Table Discussion with Students & Faculty
Juliana Hutchinson, SPT, is a first-year student in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program here at UT Health. She is a 2019 graduate of Gardner-Webb University with a bachelor’s of science in exercise science degree, where she was a part of the Division I swim program for four years. After graduating, she moved down to Texas to work as a physical therapy tech in preparation for her pursuit of physical therapy school at UT Health. This is her first year as a member of the LINC Student Council, and her honor to take part in this symposium.
Moderator: Round Table Discussion with Students & Faculty
Moshtagh Farokhi, D.D.S., M.P.H., leads the LINC Faculty Council’s Co-Curricular IPE Initiative, which spearheads the Co-Curricular IPE Track within the LINC Faculty & Staff Development Program and the LINC Interprofessional Case Competition. Dr. Farokhi brings private practice and teaching experience to her research at the UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. Her interests lie at the intersection of disease prevention, health promotion, and community engagement, with a focus on IPE, social determinants of health, refugee health, acculturation, and service learning. Her teaching is founded on principles of active learning and critical thinking, with an emphasis on cultural humility and empathy. Dr. Farokhi collaborates with various professions and partners within local community organizations, such as the Center for Refugee Services and Edgewood Independent School District, to address health disparities. She was recently appointed as a member of the UT System Shine Academy of Health Science Education. Dr. Farokhi was part of the QEP development team that pre-dated LINC, and she has represented the School of Dentistry on the LINC Faculty Council since June 2018. In 2021, Dr. Farokhi received the Academy of General Dentistry’s highest honor of Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition or LLSR, for her commitment to lifelong learning and service to the community and organized dentistry.
Gretchel Gealogo Brown, Ph.D., RN, is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing. She leads the LINC Faculty and Staff Development Initiative, which provides IPE-related onboarding, continuing education and mentorship for UT Health San Antonio faculty and staff. Gretchel (GG) teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students in her specialty areas of adult medical-surgical nursing, organizational culture and leadership, and program evaluation. Her research focuses on the analysis of unstructured data in EHRs for improved patient-centered clinical decision-making and care outcomes. Her work with LINC gives her an opportunity to expand her program of science to include establishing a holistic framework for IPE faculty and staff programming development, evaluation, and quality improvement.
Moshtagh Farokhi, D.D.S., M.P.H., leads the LINC Faculty Council’s Co-Curricular IPE Initiative, which spearheads the Co-Curricular IPE Track within the LINC Faculty & Staff Development Program and the LINC Interprofessional Case Competition. Dr. Farokhi brings private practice and teaching experience to her research at the UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. Her interests lie at the intersection of disease prevention, health promotion, and community engagement, with a focus on IPE, social determinants of health, refugee health, acculturation, and service learning. Her teaching is founded on principles of active learning and critical thinking, with an emphasis on cultural humility and empathy. Dr. Farokhi collaborates with various professions and partners within local community organizations, such as the Center for Refugee Services and Edgewood Independent School District, to address health disparities. She was recently appointed as a member of the UT System Shine Academy of Health Science Education. Dr. Farokhi was part of the QEP development team that pre-dated LINC, and she has represented the School of Dentistry on the LINC Faculty Council since June 2018. In 2021, Dr. Farokhi received the Academy of General Dentistry’s highest honor of Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition or LLSR, for her commitment to lifelong learning and service to the community and organized dentistry.
Keith Krolick, Ph.D., leads the LINC Faculty Council’s IPE Research & Scholarship Initiative, which spearheads the LINC Seed Grant Program and the LINC Writers’ Workshop. Dr. Krolick trained in immunology, receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA and performing post-doctoral work at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. As tenured faculty at the UT Health San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, he performed immunology research for over 30 years, training numerous doctoral students. He recently shifted his emphasis from laboratory research to educational missions. Dr. Krolick teaches both basic and pre-clinical science for MS and PhD students, and for medical, dental, and nursing students. He is a past recipient of the UT Presidential Teaching Excellence Award as well as the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA), and he was appointed as a UT System Distinguished Teaching Professor and a member of the UT System Shine Academy of Health Science Education. Dr. Krolick has represented the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences on the LINC Faculty Council since August 2018.
Meredith Quinene, D.H.Sc., M.P.A.S., PA-C, DFAAPA, leads the LINC Faculty Council’s Didactic IPE Initiative, which spearheads the LINC Common IPE Experience. Dr. Quinene is a 2003 graduate of the UT Health San Antonio Physician Assistant (PA) program. Following graduation, she worked clinically in several medical specialties, including Traumatic Brain Injury and Otorhinolaryngology. In 2015, Dr. Quinene joined the faculty of the UT Health San Antonio School of Health Professions in the PA department, where she is an Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator. In this role, Dr. Quinene is an active member of multiple department, school, university, and national professional organization committees. Her interests focus on best practices in healthcare education, including IPE. Dr. Quinene has represented the School of Health Professions on the LINC Faculty Council since November 2019.
Temple Ratcliffe, M.D., MS-HPEd, leads the LINC Faculty Council’s Clinical IPE Initiative, which spearheads the Clinical IPE Track within the LINC Faculty & Staff Development Program. Dr. Ratcliffe is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, and he serves as Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship at the Long School of Medicine. His teaching has been recognized by numerous awards, including the UT Presidential Teaching Excellence Award. He is also a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar and inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society. His current scholarly areas of interest include IPE, clinical reasoning, and learner assessment. Dr. Ratcliffe has represented the Long School of Medicine on the LINC Faculty Council since June 2018.
Bridget Farrell
Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) Program, School of Health Professions
Member, LINC Student Council
Member, LINC IPE Symposium Executive Planning Committee
LINC Interprofessional Case Competition
Bridget Farrell, BS, OTS had seven years of experience working in interdisciplinary teams as a registered nurse before taking the path toward becoming an occupational therapist. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Clemson University and is currently a second-year student in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program at UT Health San Antonio. During her OT education, she has continued her passion for interprofessional collaboration as a member of the LINC Student Council and through participation in numerous intra- and extra-curricular IPE activities. Most notably she was leader of the first-place team in the inaugural LINC Case Competition in 2021 and recently participated with her team in the CLARION National Case Competition.
Jessica De La Fuente
Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) Program, School of Dentistry
Member, LINC Student Council
Member, LINC IPE Symposium Executive Planning Committee
Jessica De La Fuente is a fourth-year dental student in the D.D.S. program at UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. She graduated from Baylor University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and she will graduate from UT Health with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in May 2022. Jessica is currently involved in various organizations and projects at UT Health San Antonio. She is the dental school representative for the Interprofessional LINC Student Council. Through these IPE efforts, she participated in an interprofessional project aimed at constructing an effective IPE course for future UT Health students. The goal is to increase interprofessional education and team-building skills in order to provide interdisciplinary care to patients. She also completed a research study on the availability of dental products within different zip codes in San Antonio. This comparative study sought to reveal if poverty, income levels, and educational levels within each zip code have a significant impact in the types of dental products sold and the amount of shelf space given to these products in certain grocery stores. The research study was selected to present at the International Association for Dental Research Convention (IADR), the UT Health Dental Science Symposium, and the 2020 OPEN National Meeting, among other conferences. In addition to research, Jessica holds various leadership positions including in the American Student Dental Association (ASDA), Pediatric Dental Society (PDS), and the Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA), while serving as a student liaison for the Class of 2022. She also has a background in education as she is involved in the Teaching Honors Program and offers tutoring to students in Gross Anatomy, Dental Anatomy, Operative, and Fixed. On her free time, Jessica likes to spend time with her family and fiance and play with her four birds. After graduation, her goal is to provide quality dental care to underserved communities in her hometown Brownsville, Texas, while organizing outreach programs throughout the Rio Grande Valley.
Katherine Loftus
Bachelor of Science in Nursing – Traditional (TBSN) Program, School of Nursing
Member, LINC Student Council
Member, LINC IPE Symposium Executive Planning Committee
LINC IPE Symposium Prize Winners
Katherine Loftus is a first-year student in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Traditional Track program. She is the LINC Student Council representative for the School of Nursing TBSN program, as well as the LINC-IPE Symposium Promotions Committee chair. Katherine advocates for the homeless population in San Antonio by participating in the Street Nursing organization at UTHSA. She is also passionate about caring for those with Alzheimer’s and dementia, as she works as a caregiver and medication technician in a long-term memory care facility. This is her first year on the LINC Student Council, and she is eager to continue her work in this organization through her closing year at the UT Health School of Nursing.
