Kenya Beard, EdD, GNP-BC, NP-C, ACNP-BC
Hunter College of the City University of New York
Kenya Beard is an assistant professor at Hunter College and coordinates its Adult Nurse Practitioner program. She is also the founder of Long Island Adult Health, a nurse practitioner-owned and operated company that provides primary care to homebound patients. Beard serves on the board of directors of the National Black Nurses Association, Queens Chapter, where she has focused on strengthening the organization’s mentorship program for minority nursing students.
As a Macy Faculty Scholar, Beard will develop and test a multicultural education training program for nurse educators. The training will help nurse educators create learning environments that meet the academic needs of today’s diverse student body and improve the academic success and graduation rates of minority students. Such efforts will promote diversity in nursing and help meet the health care needs of our increasingly diverse society.
Ted James, MD, FACS
The University of Vermont
Dr. James is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Director of Clinical Simulation for the University’s Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Laboratory. James has a history of successful interprofessional collaboration, partnering with educators across the University’s institutions, including physician and nursing faculty, technologists, physician assistants and residents, to develop and successfully implement innovative and effective education programs.
As part of the Macy Faculty Scholars program, James will develop and implement a longitudinal curriculum in patient safety and quality. Modules will be developed in each of the four years of the medical school curriculum and will incorporate simulation, electronic-based learning and team training. First and second-year students will participate in classroom-based instruction, third year students will be able to undertake clerkship-specific offerings, while fourth-year students will have the opportunity to complete an elective quality improvement project of their choosing. Medical students will learn alongside nursing and pharmacy students.
Wrenetha A. Julion, PhD, MPH, RN
Rush University
Dr. Julion is an associate professor at Rush University Medical Center’s College of Nursing. She is also a clinical instructor in the Women and Children’s Health Nursing course, and co-course director of Nursing Research courses for both graduate and doctoral level nursing students. Julion also serves as academic advisor for Doctor of Nursing Practice and Graduate Entry Masters students.
Over the two-year Macy Faculty Scholars Program, Julion will develop and implement an evidence-based cultural competency program at Rush University Medical Center for students in nursing, medicine, health sciences and health systems management. Students will be introduced to the tenets of culturally competent care and will learn about the impact of social factors on health and health care—the social determinants of health. On completion of the course, students will undertake a service learning project in the communities neighboring Rush University Medical Center.
Wendy Madigosky, MD, MSPH
University of Colorado
Dr. Madigosky is an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of the Foundations of Doctoring Curriculum within the School of Medicine which focuses on teaching fundamental clinical and professional skills to students within the first three years of medical school.
As a Macy Faculty Scholar, Madigosky will design a patient safety and healthcare improvement curriculum for the University of Colorado’s health professions schools and programs. Such a curriculum will mean every health professions student will be trained in healthcare improvement. Moreover, students of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and physical therapy as well as physician assistant students will be taught together, learning interprofessionally and developing teamwork skills. Madigosky will also seek to integrate elements of the safety and quality improvement curriculum longitudinally within and across Anschutz School of Medicine curricula.
Sandrijn M. van Schaik, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. van Schaik is an assistant professor of pediatrics and the associate fellowship program director for the sub-specialty training program in pediatric critical care at UCSF. She also serves as the education director of the University’s Kanbar Center for Simulation, Clinical Skills and Telemedicine Education. Her academic career focus is on medical education and she is responsible for the development of various simulation and web-based curricula for pediatrics.
Dr. van Schaik’s Macy Faculty Scholars project will examine the effectiveness of providing interprofessional feedback. While physicians reportedly are receptive to feedback from other professionals, whether they incorporate such feedback into performance changes is questionable, says van Schaik. She will study the response to interprofessional feedback among learners in IPE settings and how it impacts team performance. Her project will also explore barriers, such as power differences and professional stereotypes among team members, as well as success factors for providing effective interprofessional feedback.