Jennifer
Swails,
MD, FACP
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
McGovern Medical School
Jennifer Swails, MD is an internist, Residency Program Director and Co-director of Interprofessional Education at UT Health in Houston. She served as a member of the AAMC Core EPA pilot and the Coalition for Physician Accountability UME-GME Review Committee. Dr. Swails has received grants from the University of Texas system, SHINE foundation, and Josiah Macy foundation. She has won multiple teaching awards, including the McGovern Outstanding Teaching award, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award, and the Dupont Clinical Teaching award. Her work focuses on promoting teamwork and diversity across the UME-GME spectrum to improve wellness and patient care.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: Our Lightning talk will describe how health disparities and social determinants of health in underserved and marginalized populations in Texas can be addressed through telehealth by a group of interprofessional students. Improving Care Access and Realizing Equity (ICARE) is an 8-week interprofessional program where nurse practitioner, medical, dental, public health and biomedical informatics students work collaboratively via telehealth to provide health promotion and education to community members. This project is a partnership between the Center for…