Kimberly Kascak, M.S.
Assistant Professor, Office of Interprofessional Initiatives
Medical University of South Carolina
Kimberly Kascak is an Assistant Professor in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She has a background in special education, medical education, academic innovation and online instructional design. She has worked collaboratively with interprofessional teams throughout her career. She has developed and coordinated innovative online academic programs with continual ongoing educational support to programs. She is a certified TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, currently focusing on collaborative, interprofessional and online instruction. Kimberly directs and co-directs interprofessional courses required of first year students at MUSC to teach introductory concepts related to interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Lightning Talk Description: The rate of digital implementation in health care is far exceeding the rate of digital health literacy among our faculty and students, yet our students need to be prepared for collaborative practice in a health care landscape that will see significant disruption due to technological advances. (Aungst & Patel, 2020; Khurana, et al., 2022; Poncette, et al., 2020). Successful development and deployment of digital health solutions requires interprofessional expertise and a well-informed workforce and public to face future needs and challenges. (CBInsights, 2022).…
Lightning Talk Description: Working together for impact and developing and sustaining IPE, whether interprofessional education, collaborative practice, interprofessional clinical learning environments, or interprofessional academic-community partnerships, requires leadership to attend to the well-being of individuals and teams, as well as their own well-being. While the Quadruple Aim brought attention to practitioner burnout and its deleterious impact on the experience of care of people, the health of populations, and the value and cost of care, it stands to reason that the well-being of…