Moshtagh
Farokhi,
DDS, MPH, MAGD
Associate Professor/Clinical
UT Health San Antonio
Moshtagh Farokhi DDS, MPH, MAGD brings private practice and teaching experience to the UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA), School of Dentistry. Her interests are at the intersection of disease prevention and oral/health promotion. Her research concentration is centered at social determinants of health, interprofessional education, refugee health and acculturation. She collaborates with various professions and partners with local community organizations and school districts to address oral/health disparities. Since 2018 she has been the School of Dentistry’s representative to the LINC Faculty Council. She has been the dental director for the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic, a UTHSA Student-Faculty collaborative since 2011.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Organized by faculty and staff members of Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), UT Health San Antonio’s Quality Enhancement Plan to advance interprofessional education, interprofessional teams of first- and second-year professional and graduate students were invited to participate in the second annual LINC Interprofessional Case Competition during the spring 2022 semester. This competition afforded student teams an opportunity to augment their professional development, earn prize money, and garner university-wide recognition via an experiential, co-curricular IPE…
Background: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has a dedicated university-wide initiative to advance interprofessional education (IPE) called Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC). Started in 2019, the annual LINC Seed Grant Program offers a competitive funding opportunity for interprofessional teams of faculty and staff intended to support pilot testing of novel IPE activities that meet an identified educational need and demonstrate potential for long-term scalability, sustainability, scholarship, and integration into…
Background: Generating scholarly output is a perpetual challenge for health sciences faculty who often juggle heavy teaching and practice workloads. At UT Health San Antonio, where clinical faculty are the primary drivers of interprofessional education (IPE) activity across campus, this challenge resonates. In response, members of Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), an institution-wide initiative to advance IPE, developed and implemented a pilot writers’ workshop targeting faculty currently engaged in IPE projects and disseminating their results in the IPE literature…