Karen
MacKinnon,
B.S. Pharm
Director of Outreach
Medical College of Wisconsin
Professor MacKinnon is Director of Outreach at the Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, focusing on corporate partnerships and new pharmacy practice models. She earned her BPharm from UW Madison and completed a clinical internship at Meriter Hospital. With over 35 years of teaching experience, she has helped establish three academic pharmacy programs and served as Director of Experiential Education and Professional Laboratories. She has practiced in both institutional and community settings. Currently, she works on local and state immunization grants aimed at enhancing pharmacists’ roles in expanding immunization access across Wisconsin.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This Lightning Talk highlights an innovative Interprofessional Education (IPE) workshop—IPEssentials—hosted by the Medical College of Wisconsin, which brought together over 500 health professions students from 10 diverse programs across the Milwaukee area. Designed to foster interprofessional collaboration and build psychological safety, the IPE session used planetary health as a unifying theme to explore values, ethics, and communication in complex patient care. Through a combination of pre-event learning, interactive breakout discussions, and case-based collaboration, students were…