Madeline Schmitt is a nurse-sociologist, who, until retirement in 2005, was Professor and Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing and Interprofessional Education [IPE] at the University of Rochester (NY) School of Nursing. Dr. Schmitt has been prominent as a teacher, administrator, researcher, and mentor to students and faculty, especially in IPE Beginning in the 1970’s, she focused her scholarship on interprofessional collaborative practice models and IPE.
Subsequent to collaborative scholarship on teamwork and linking more effective teamwork to better care outcomes, Dr. Schmitt was one of two U.S. members of the WHO Task Force who co-authored the 2010 report, Framework for Action in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. In 2010, she chaired the expert panel that produced the report Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice on behalf of the leadership of six national professional
education associations (IPEC’s founding members). Dr. Schmitt is an Editor Emerita of the Journal of Interprofessional Care and a founding Board member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. She represented the American Academy of Nursing at the IOM Forum on Innovations in Health Professions Education for the first three years of the Forum. She served as an Ambassador and Community Moderator for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education and was named an interprofessional education “Pioneer” by the National Center in 2017.
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