.Kelly Karpa, RPh, PhD, FAPE, NAP, is a pharmacist, pharmacologist, and medical education researcher at East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine, where she is a Professor in the Department of Medical Education and holds a cross-appointment with Family Medicine. She is responsible for threading pharmacology across a new and innovative TBL-based curriculum. She also serves as Associate Dean for Institutional Effectiveness and Innovation, and is an adjunct professor with the Gatton College of Pharmacy. She is a member of American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and has supported pharmacology efforts nationally by serving on a subcommittee of the American Medical School Pharmacology Chairs’ (AMSPC) Knowledge Objectives for medical students and internationally through service with the Pharmacology Education Project and the Pharmacology Core Concepts project-- initiatives that are overseen by the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR). In the interprofessional realm, Dr. Karpa serves on the Membership Committee of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and was also appointed to the AIHC’s Innovation Taskforce. She was selected as an Expert Panelist to an Interprofessional Education Collaborative’s (IPEC) working group that developed a tool to assess institutional IPE effectiveness.