Dr. Teri Kennedy, PhD, MSW, ACSW, FGSA, FNAP is Associate Dean, Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research and Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of Interprofessional Practice and Education, University of Kansas (KU) School of Nursing; Professor, Department of Population Health, KU School of Medicine; Consultant, Office of Continuing Education/Professional Development and AHEC, University of Kansas Medical Center; and co-founder, Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative. She has 17 years direct practice and administrative experience serving older adults and their families through health, behavioral health, and social services in home and community-based, home health, in-patient medical and geropsychiatric, and skilled nursing facility settings. She serves on the Advisory Committee for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages, Health Resources and Services Administration; Public Policy Advisory Committee, National Academies of Practice; American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Mentoring Program; and Council on Leadership Development, Council on Social Work Education. She received the Outstanding Social Work Program Director Award, Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (2010) and Mit Joyner Gerontology Leadership Award, BPD and Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (2011). She was named Distinguished Scholar and Fellow, National Academies of Practice and Social Work Academy; Fellow, Gerontological Society of America’s Social Research, Policy, and Practice Section; Health and Aging Policy Fellow and American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow with the Senate Special Committee on Aging through Senator Jeff Flake's (R-AZ) DC Office (2015-16); Health and Aging Policy Fellows (HAPF) Alumni Network, and co-founded The Next Chapter, the official HAPF book club. Her research focuses on sustainability, interprofessional leadership, team science, and health and aging policy. She developed the evidence-based Kennedy Model of Sustainability, adopted by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and a model of Strengths-Based Interprofessional Practice and Education (SB-IPE). She is an indie singer/songwriter with multiple CDs of original, contemporary, and traditional music.