Margaret
Robinson,
MEd
Senior Associate Director
Office of Interdisciplinary Programs
Margaret Robinson, M.Ed., is Senior Associate Director for OU Health Sciences Interdisciplinary Programs, where she provides leadership in curriculum development, program operations, and assessment for over 2,000 students across 19 health professions. She also serves as an adjunct lecturer in the OU College of Allied Health, teaching the campus-wide course on Interdisciplinary Leadership in Healthcare. Margaret supports faculty development, research, and student-led community partnerships that expand access to care for underserved populations. Her background in education administration, team collaboration, and program management informs her leadership in advancing innovative, team-based learning experiences.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Behavioral Health is an underexplored opportunity for interprofessional student clinics and experiences. This is due to a number of reasons including the private nature of behavioral health sessions and lack of access to students who are in behavioral health programs. Incorporating social work students as leaders and providers of clinical interventions is often difficult in health systems that focus on prescribing as the main form of intervention for improving health outcomes. To address this gap, our team focused on identifying best practices for behavioral health interventions in an…
Fostering collaborative competence among future health professionals is essential for high-functioning, patient-centered care. Virtual synchronous simulation has emerged as a reliable and accessible method for developing interprofessional team skills. At the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, the Interprofessional Education (IPE) program has implemented a structured virtual simulation framework designed to promote rapid team formation and collaborative practice across diverse health disciplines. During the 2024–2025 academic year, over 1,800 students from the Colleges of Allied Health,…
Background• Unity Clinic is the student-run, faculty facilitated interprofessional clinical experience at the University of Oklahoma.• Unity’s mission is to promote clinical interprofessional collaboration between current and future healthcare providers while delivering patient-centered, high-quality health care to under-served populations of Oklahoma.• Unity at Crossings provides team-based primary care services to under-served and underinsured populations in the Oklahoma City area. Patients receive services from medicine, nursing, nutrition, dentistry, and social work. The collaborative…