Speaker Introduction

Dr. Blue is the Assistant Provost for Education and Professor of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina. As Assistant Provost, she is responsible for the university's interprofessional education initiative, Creating Collaborative Care (C3). She holds a doctorate in Medical Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University and completed a NIMH Post-doctoral fellowship in Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky. She has been involved in medical education for over 17 years and served as the Associate Dean for Curriculum and Evaluation at the MUSC College of Medicine for nearly 7 years before moving to her current position. She is a founding member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative, a newly organized collaborative for leaders in interprofessional education and practice, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Dr. Blue served as a member of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel that wrote the Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Report in 2011.