Led by LINC’s Assistant Director for Educational Programming, the LINC Education Council is responsible for the annual development, implementation, evaluation, and quality improvement of the LINC Longitudinal IPE Program. This program consists of three university-wide IPE activities deliberately designed and sequenced to help students achieve progressively developmental interprofessional learning outcomes: the LINC Common IPE Experience, the LINC Simulation IPE Experience, and the LINC Clinical IPE Experience. Each member of the LINC Education Council leads an interprofessional faculty team dedicated to one of these three IPE activities and they work together to ensure continuity and cohesiveness across the program.
Sadie Trammell Velasquez, M.D., FACP
LINC Assistant Director for Educational Programming
Chair, LINC Education Council
Associate Professor/Clinical & Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum
Long School of Medicine
trammellvela@uthscsa.edu
Sadie Trammell Velásquez, M.D., FACP received her medical degree from the University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA) and subsequently completed residency training in internal medicine and was selected as chief resident. After her training, she joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, in 2012 and is currently an associate professor. Engaged in undergraduate medical and graduate medical education since joining faculty at UTHSA, she has held multiple teaching and leadership roles in UME and is currently the Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum. With support of Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) Seed Grants, her collaborations with the School of Nursing and the School of Dentistry have successfully resulted in implementation of interprofessional education (IPE) into the LSOM and SOD curriculum. She is actively involved with LINC in increasing didactic IPE across the university and disseminating the work done, which includes three publications and over 10 posters/oral presentations from the local to international level. In 2021, she completed the Harvard Macy Program for Educators. With LINC, she lead the development of the university-wide LINC Simulation IPE Experience.
Dr. Velásquez is board-certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine. After working in hospital medicine for 10 years, she developed and opened a weight management clinic with a collaborative team at the South Texas Veterans Healthcare System in 2021, where she currently practices clinically.
Cynthia L. Wall, Ph.D., M.S.N., APRN, PCNS-BC, CNE Leader, LINC Common IPE Initiative
Program Director for Undergraduate Studies
School of Nursing
wallc@uthscsa.edu
Cynthia L. Wall, Ph.D., M.S.N., APRN, PCNS-BC, CNE, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing with a Teaching Appointment, and her research program is focused on professional nurse identity formation and interprofessional learning. She was involved in the Quality Enhancement Program for UT Health SA which, led to the Interprofessional focus for UT Health SA. Dr. Wall brings clinical practice experience and formal training in education. She has been involved in interprofessional education and practice for many years. She served last year as a member of the UT Health SA School of Nursing IPE task group and guided the Common IPE Course for the nursing students in their 5th semester. She serves on the UT Health SA Didactic IPE Committee and is actively engaged in the revision and study of the Common IPE Course.
Dr. Wall has a broad background in nursing and as an Advanced Practice Nurse (Clinical Nurse Specialist) developed several interdisciplinary (early career) and interprofessional teams for collaborative team patient-centered care. She was a pioneer in development of the first two hospital-based Interprofessional Pediatric Transport Teams in San Antonio in 1993 and 1996, as well as the first interprofessional Inpatient Pediatric Palliative Care Service in Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio in 2003. She currently serves as a leader on the inaugural UT Health SA, School of Nursing Committee on Interprofessional Education, the UT Health SA LINC Didactic IPE committee and collaborates on the Common IPE Experience.
Amir Begovic, M.D.
Leader, LINC Simulation IPE Initiative
Professor/ Clinical
Long School of Medicine
begovic@uthscsa.edu
Dr. Amir Begovic, M.D., earned his medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine in 2021. He matched at UT Health San Antonio for internal medicine residency. After residency, Dr. Begovic was selected as the Chief Resident of Quality, Safety, and Procedures. In this role, he focused on improving procedural competency and advancing ultrasound-assisted procedures within the residency program. His interests include simulation-based medical education and point of care ultrasound use in bedside procedures. Following his chief year, Dr. Begovic will join the South Texas VA as a hospitalist.
Angela Kennedy, S.L.P.D., CCC-SLP Leader, LINC Clinical IPE Initiative
Assistant Professor & Clinical Coordinator
Speech Language Pathology Program
School of Health Professions
kennedyaj@uthscsa.edu
Angela Kennedy, SLPD, CCC-SLP, serves as the faculty leader for the LINC Clinical IPE Experiences as part of the LINC Education Council. Prior to this role, she represented the School of Health Professions on the LINC Clinical IPE workgroup. Currently, Dr. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Clinical Education in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) program in which coordinates and leads the department’s IPE activities across the campus and within the community. In addition, she serves as the chair of the Interprofessional Practice and Education committee for the School of Health Professions. Dr. Kennedy has received internal and external funding to support the development and execution of IPE activities involving speech-language pathology resulting in 4 publications and 14 posters/oral presentations. Currently, she coordinates and directs four community-based clinical education programs for the SLP program, teaches coursework on speech sound disorders, clinical methods, and professional issues and ethics, and directs the clinical education program within the department.
Sadie Trammell Velasquez, M.D., FACP
Cynthia L. Wall, Ph.D., M.S.N., APRN, PCNS-BC, CNE
Amir Begovic, M.D.
Angela Kennedy, S.L.P.D., CCC-SLP