Kate Hickert, MSOT
Allied Health Interprofessional Student Committee Chair; Occupational Therapy Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Kate Hickert is a recent graduate from the MSOT program at UNC Chapel Hill. Kate served as the Allied Health representative for UNC’s Office of Inter-Professional Education and Practice Student Executive Committee for the academic year 2020-21. Kate’s passion for IPE began with an interprofessional project during her first semester of her OT program when she had the opportunity to educate other professional students on OT’s unique perspective and advocate for OT’s role on a primary care team. Kate's clinical interests include burn rehabilitation and interprofessional practice.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic drastically expanded reliance on virtual care in clinical practice, as it offers increased flexibility and expanded access to care, particularly for patients with complex medical needs who are disproportionately impacted by non-medical drivers of health. Hotspotting programs partner health professions students with patients identified as “high utilizers” of health care resources in order to address social barriers to health, improve access to primary care, and reduce patient emergency department overutilization. Telehealth offers a solution to common social…
Background, including statement of problem, and aimsThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS) Allied Health Interprofessional Students (AHIPS) Committee embodies a vision for holistic and collaborative interprofessional education and practice (IPE/IPP). In response to the 2016 IPEC Core Competencies and growing student desire for collaboration inside and outside the classroom, students self-organized AHIPS, which was formalized as a student group in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. AHIPS plans and executes IPE and IPP activities and…
The COVID-19 pandemic led health systems to increasingly rely on telehealth for patient care. Despite rapidly changing clinical and regulatory environments, most healthcare providers and students were not equipped with formal training in telehealth-specific skills. With support from the American Medical Association, we convened an interprofessional team of clinicians and student leaders from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to develop a virtual interprofessional telehealth curriculum. The curriculum consisted of five, 90-minute, online interactive course sessions, including an introduction to…