John Lupinacci, PhD
Associate Professor
Washington State University
Lupinacci (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at Washington State University. His work as an ecocritical scholar-activist in teacher education, environmental education, the health sciences, and curriculum studies contribute to his research on teaching to address speciesism and the conditions of the Anthropocene in K-12 schools and higher education.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

There are 22 fields represented in the Interprofessional Educators Collaborative; of these, 21 are human medical fields, and only one represents veterinary medicine. Owing to this disparity, interprofessional education (IPE) is often used to describe learning that occurs between fields of human medicine, but rarely crosses the species divide. Responding to the importance of the Summit theme, Navigating Complexity to Advance Outcomes, One Health Day challenges the status quo and dives into addressing the complexity of the species divide in not just IPE but in the health sciences as a whole, by…