Nicole
Pinelli,
PharmD, MS, FCCP
Executive Director for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nicole Pinelli Reitter, PharmD, MS, FCCP is the Executive Director for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice within the Provost’s Office of Interprofessional Health Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In this role, she is responsible for expanding interprofessional practice in North Carolina and working with practice sites across the state to build more intentional interprofessional experiential education infrastructure to enhance and support learning experiences across UNC.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background and Purpose: The North Carolina General Assembly recently enacted Session Law 2023-134. This legislation provided funding to the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (NC-AHEC) to develop and implement five Rural Interprofessional Clinical Teaching Hubs (Teaching Hubs) incorporating two of more professions across the state. The purpose of this Lightening Talk is to describe a four-way collaboration between the North Carolina legislature, NC-AHEC, community-based practices, and institutions of higher education to address workforce development in rural communities.…