Kelly
Horton,
MAT
Interprofessional Education Coordinator
Medical College of Wisconsin
Kelly Horton is the Interprofessional Education Coordinator for the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University. She began her IPE Coordinator role after 9 years as an elementary educator. She has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Political Science from Carthage College and a Master's degree in Teaching from Cardinal Stritch University. For the past four years, she's brought her education expertise and curriculum design experience to health sciences education in the Milwaukee area. She had co-authored an article for the Academy of Medicine Journal of Ethics, has presented at multiple conferences, and had her work shown at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's TMD Forum.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) is a complex disease that requires interprofessional practice and collaboration. Many medical schools do not provide interdisciplinary education on TMD or provide education specifically to medical students only. In collaboration with Marquette University, medical and dental students came together to learn about TMD and how to work in an interprofessional collaborative setting to treat TMD. This talk will provide an overview of the session, including the various learning stations students participated in (physical therapy, dentistry, anatomy and…