Vani Patterson earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan with a focus on Environmental Health Sciences and Human Nutrition. Her early career spanned politics in Washington, D.C. to community nutrition in Detroit. When she returned to the University of Michigan, she joined Michigan Medicine’s Adolescent Health Initiative to provide consultation to health care teams across the country to improve patient-centered care for adolescents. In witnessing the quick and profound impact of collaborative care in the practice setting, Ms. Patterson was drawn to the work of the Center for IPE where she now serves as the Assistant Director. Her current interests are in transforming the education of pre-health professionals to embed the culture and expectation of collaborative care within each graduate before they enter the health care field.