Heather Mead Kim, BA
Operations Director
University of Minnesota
Heather Mead Kim is the Operations Director for the Center for Interprofessional Health. In this role, Heather provides operational leadership to support collaboration, engagement, and alignment across key stakeholder groups and partner organizations, including the schools and programs that participate in the University of Minnesota's 1Health interprofessional education curriculum, the many health professions students we serve, and faculty and community-based partners. Heather plays a key role in managing the ongoing advancement and evolution of the 1Health interprofessional education curriculum and faculty development programming, and she has led the development of a data management system to track 1Health participant enrollment and evaluation data to inform future growth and improvement. Additionally, Heather has a background working closely with colleagues involved in community-based education coordination and student services to problem-solve complex issues that affect multiple health professional schools and programs.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

In 2022, the Center for Interprofessional Health (CIH) at the University of Minnesota launched the Affiliate Faculty Program to create synergistic connections between the Center and preceptors excited about interprofessional education (IPE). Results from the inaugural year were presented at last year’s Nexus Summit; this presentation will review programmatic changes and growth in the interim. A Big 10 IPE Academic Alliance paper documented varying efforts across institutions to engage faculty and preceptors in ongoing professional development (Ascione, et al, 2019). CIH included the…