Dr. Bhattacharya is an interprofessional physician champion at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is the lead faculty in the Geriatric Interprofessional Assessment Clinic uniting six professions in a synchronous patient care setting. She also wrote COVID guidelines for interprofessional practice sites and received a 5-year HRSA Geriatric Academic Career Award. She created an interprofessional Geriatrics Champions Program, enrolling 200 students annually from seven professions to explore interprofessional geriatric competencies in a team-based-learning setting. Her publications include creating a team rubric, logistics of building an interprofessional course, health policy implementation and employer expectations of graduates from an interprofessional institution.