Stephanie Gilkey, MS, PA-C
Physician Assistant Department and Program Director
University of Michigan- Flint
Stephanie J Gilkey serves as the University of Michigan-Flint Physician Assistant Department and Program Director. She earned degrees in physician assistant, nursing, health care education, and is a current doctoral candidate at Wayne State University College of Education Educational Evaluation and Research program. Her teaching and research efforts focus on IPE and professionalism in health professions students. She is responsible for the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts for the PA program that includes student, faculty administrative staff, and community efforts with aims of increasing a diverse PA workforce, and is actively involved with the College of Health Sciences DEI committee.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

In the summer of 2020, the University of Michigan’s Health Science Council of Deans (HSC) and Center for Interprofessional Education (C-IPE) were united by a desire to collectively address health inequities in society. The HSC charged the C-IPE to bring together dean-appointed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) leads from 9 of our 10 health science schools, as well as students, patients, and DEI experts to lead the first stage of this effort. The goal was to gain an understanding of the current state of anti-racism and IPE intersections, individual school/college efforts on DEI and anti-…