Michael
Akwari,
PharmD
The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy
Michael Akwari is a 2020 graduate from the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. His professional experiences includes medication therapy management, IPE initiatives, and community pharmacy. His areas of interest include pharmacy informatics, infectious diseases, and ambulatory care.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Telehealth increases health care value and access to care. Its adoption has been accelerated due to COVID-19, impacting practicing clinicians and health professions learners. The abrupt transition to online learning spurred the rapid development of a telehealth simulation with standardized patients for 273 student learners from medicine, nursing, pharmacy and social work enrolled in a longitudinal, 2-semester interprofessional education (IPE) foundations curriculum. The telehealth simulation involving an interprofessional palliative care team meeting with a family caregiver, played by…