LINC Faculty Council

Moshtagh Farokhi, D.D.S., M.P.H., leads the LINC Faculty Council’s Didactic IPE Initiative. 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. ×

Rekha Kar, Ph,D. is an Associate Professor/Clinical in the department of Cell Systems and Anatomy at UT Health San Antonio. Her contributions to the educational enterprise of the UT Health San Antonio have included teaching gross human anatomy to students in different programs (medical, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant and graduate school) as a lecturer and course director, as well as serving as a mentor and advisor to students in the anatomical sciences Master’s degree program of Cell System and Anatomy (CSA). She received several recognitions for teaching and scholarship including the Excellence in Health Professional Student Education Award: Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio Presidential award for Emerging excellence in Teaching, LSOM Academy of Educational Scholars (AES) 2022 STAR Educator award. She was selected as a fellow of the LSOM AES in 2021 and was inducted as a member of AES in 2022. Her educational research projects are highly collaborative, and they draw faculty from several programs of our institution. One major project, funded by the Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) initiative of our institution, is to promote interprofessional education (IPE) core competencies. A second area of focus is the development of innovative anatomical teaching tools designed around advanced technologies including 3D printing and the Anatomage virtual dissection table. She serves in several departmental, institutional committees and in committees of national organizations including the Ambassador Committee of the American Association for Anatomy and the Career Development Committee of the American Association of Clinical Anatomist (AACA). ×

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. ×