USER

Doneka Scott has been tapped to lead the recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award, “Integrating interprofessional framework into RWJF program curricula," to the National Center. She will be working with program leaders of the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program and the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program to incorporate knowledge and skill set focused on team-based care and interprofessional collaborative practice. Along with her experience mentoring, advising and teaching medical and pharmacy students, she has trained health care professionals teams to become specialists in poison information and developed an educational program to prepare them for certification. She is Special Assistant to the Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota and College of Pharmacy faculty member. In her position as special assistant, she is responsible for implementing a plan to utilize University of Minnesota student predictive learning analytics to improve graduation and retention rates for undergraduate students. Offering valuable insight through her experiences in educational assessment and research, Doneka will lead the National Center efforts in creating communities of practice, increasing diversity in teams and exploring predictive analytics in IPE.