Event Title
It's Time We Become a Learning Team
Start Date
10-10-2014 4:30 PM
End Date
10-10-2014 5:30 PM
Description
Barbara F. Brandt, PhD
Director, National Center for Interprofessional
Practice and Education
Associate Vice President for Education
University of Minnesota Academic Health Center
Professor, Pharmaceutical Care and Health System
Barbara Brandt is one of the nation’s foremost experts in interprofessional practice and education and a leading force in the creation of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education housed at the University of Minnesota. As center director, Dr. Brandt is responsible for engaging leaders and experts across the country in this ground-breaking effort to improve health by realigning health professions education and care delivery. Dr. Brandt and her colleague, Dr. Frank Cerra, originated the idea of bringing practice and education together in a new Nexus for better care, added value and healthier communities.
The $12 million center was launched in October 2012 through a cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. Four private foundations have signed on to invest in this innovative center: The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
In addition to her responsibilities as center director, Dr. Brandt serves as associate vice president for education and professor, pharmaceutical care and health systems at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. Dr. Brandt is also responsible for University of Minnesota 1Health initiative to build interprofessional practice skills of students in a broad range of health professions.
Dr. Brandt has helped drive curricular and educational change in the health professions in other roles as well. In 2000 she was a U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow. From 2000 to 2006 she served on the board of directors of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, pharmacy’s accrediting agency. As the founding board chair of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative, she also has been host and co-chair for the Collaborating Across Borders (CAB) conferences held in Minneapolis, MN, in 2007 and Tucson, AZ, in 2011.
Dr. Brandt holds a bachelor of arts in the teaching of history from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master of education and doctor of philosophy degrees in continuing education (specializing in continuing professional education) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a James Scholar and Letitia Walsh Fellow. In 2013 she was recognized as a University of Illinois Distinguished Alumna. She completed Kellogg Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship for faculty in adult and continuing education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Included in
It's Time We Become a Learning Team
Barbara F. Brandt, PhD
Director, National Center for Interprofessional
Practice and Education
Associate Vice President for Education
University of Minnesota Academic Health Center
Professor, Pharmaceutical Care and Health System
Barbara Brandt is one of the nation’s foremost experts in interprofessional practice and education and a leading force in the creation of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education housed at the University of Minnesota. As center director, Dr. Brandt is responsible for engaging leaders and experts across the country in this ground-breaking effort to improve health by realigning health professions education and care delivery. Dr. Brandt and her colleague, Dr. Frank Cerra, originated the idea of bringing practice and education together in a new Nexus for better care, added value and healthier communities.
The $12 million center was launched in October 2012 through a cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. Four private foundations have signed on to invest in this innovative center: The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
In addition to her responsibilities as center director, Dr. Brandt serves as associate vice president for education and professor, pharmaceutical care and health systems at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. Dr. Brandt is also responsible for University of Minnesota 1Health initiative to build interprofessional practice skills of students in a broad range of health professions.
Dr. Brandt has helped drive curricular and educational change in the health professions in other roles as well. In 2000 she was a U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow. From 2000 to 2006 she served on the board of directors of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, pharmacy’s accrediting agency. As the founding board chair of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative, she also has been host and co-chair for the Collaborating Across Borders (CAB) conferences held in Minneapolis, MN, in 2007 and Tucson, AZ, in 2011.
Dr. Brandt holds a bachelor of arts in the teaching of history from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master of education and doctor of philosophy degrees in continuing education (specializing in continuing professional education) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a James Scholar and Letitia Walsh Fellow. In 2013 she was recognized as a University of Illinois Distinguished Alumna. She completed Kellogg Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship for faculty in adult and continuing education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.