Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP

Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP, is Executive Director of UT Health San Antonio’s Quality Enhancement Plan—Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC)—which was nationally recognized in 2022 with the Award for Institutional Excellence and Innovation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Health Care by the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions. Joe is also a tenured Professor in the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing, where he teaches advanced pharmacotherapeutics to graduate students and strives to elevate health professions education through creative and impactful scholarship. Joe co-authored the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative national consensus guidance on developing quality interprofessional education (IPE) and is currently representing the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy on the national workgroup assembled to update the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice. In partnership with IPEC and with support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Joe also co-led development and validation of the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument, a tool designed to measure institutional characteristics associated with high-quality programmatic IPE. Joe was inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow in 2021, the same year he published “Interprofessional Practice in Pharmacy: Featuring Illustrated Case Studies” with McGraw-Hill Education, a textbook intended to highlight—for high school and undergraduate students considering careers in healthcare, early learners in pharmacy, and educators and students throughout the health professions—the myriad ways pharmacists leverage their expertise to advance the safe and effective use of medications as contributing members of interprofessional teams.