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Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Professor & Senior Associate Provost for Academic Excellence

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460

Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, serves as the Senior Associate Provost for Academic Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also serves as the Vice President for the Robert A. Ingram Institute for Equitable Healthcare Access through UNC Health.

Dr. Zomorodi received her BSN and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, and in 2014 was selected as a Josiah Macy Faculty Scholar. She currently serves as the Director of the Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI), funded by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, in which interprofessional teams of students work together with rural and underserved communities to give back using a quality improvement methodology.

Meg was recently awarded funding by the Duke Endowment for Rural PrOMISE, a program that develops a rural track for undergraduate nursing students and engages preceptors in rural communities to increase exposure and support for nursing in acute care settings. She works closely with NC AHEC to develop interprofessional learning activities, such as the NC IPE Leaders Collaborative and rural hub models.

She develops a variety of interprofessional activities through her role within IPEP and co-develops and teaches Bio 117, Bio 118, and Bio 119 for pre-health students. Meg is a Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Scholar (STTI), Relational Leadership at Carolina trainer, Team STEPPS master trainer, and returns annually to teach at the Harvard-Macy Institute: A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions.

Dr. Zomorodi teaches across the graduate and undergraduate nursing programs and has a passion for developing collaborations and innovations in teaching.

 

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