Melody
Ryan,
Pharm.D., MPH, BCGP, BCPS
Professor and Assistant Provost for Global Health Initiatives
University of Kentucky
Melody Ryan, Pharm.D., MPH, BCGP, BCPS received her Pharm.D. and Master’s of Public Health degrees from the University of Kentucky. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at Duke University and a neurosciences fellowship at the University of Kentucky. She holds appointments as Professor in the College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and at the College of Medicine, Department of Neurology at the University of Kentucky. She is the Director of International Professional Student Education at the College of Pharmacy and the Assistant Provost for Global Health Initiatives at the University of Kentucky.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The University of Kentucky (UK) has a long-standing partnership with Ecuador, beginning in 1965 building to the first short term experience in global health (StEGH) in 2002. In 2007 the Shoulder to Shoulder Health Clinic opened and remains supported through a UK and Ecuador partnership. The first StEGHs utilized uni-professional and then multidisciplinary co-located models of care, but this evolved over the years toward a collaborative model. Recently, to provide more comprehensive care, the Ecuadorian and UK partners implemented a pilot model at the clinic to triage complex patients to a…