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Zachary Alan (Zach) Weber
Director of Interprofessional Education
Phone: 317-880-5405
Fax: 317-880-0568
E-mail: zaweber@purdue.edu
Education
2009 PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency, Duke University Hospital
2008 PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
2007 PharmD, Purdue University
Research

Interprofessional education and practice

Contemporary and innovative teaching pedagogy

Expanding progressive ambulatory care clinical pharmacist roles

Teaching

PHRM 826: Introduction to Patient Centered Care

PHRM 838: Interprofessional Education Experience I

PHRM 839: Interprofessional Education Experience II 

PHRM 840: Professional Skills Laboratories III

PHRM 841: Professional Skills Laboratories IV

PHRM 844: Integrated Therapeutics

PHRM 854: Interprofessional Education Experience III

PHRM 855: Interprofessional Education Experience IV

PHRM 861: Professional Skills Laboratories VI

PHRM 874: Interprofessional Education Experience V

Honors and Credentials

Fellow: National Academies of Practice (NAP)

Fellow: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)

Fellow: Purdue University Teaching Academy

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Pharmacy Practice Section (PPS) Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Award

Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) Award for Institutional Excellence and Innovation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Health Care

Purdue University Class of 1922 Outstanding Innovation in Helping Students Learn Award

Purdue University College of Pharmacy Innovation in Teaching and Learning Award

Purdue University College of Pharmacy Dr. Aziz Outstanding Teacher of the Year

Purdue University College of Pharmacy Faculty Preceptor of the Year

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist

Certified Health Coach

Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist

Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist

Grants

CareQuest Foundation, Inc: Cultural Competency Training for Dental Students to Attend to LGBTQIA+ patients

Indiana University: Indiana University Interprofessional Practice and Education Center: Assistant Dean for Education

Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Trailblazer Planning Grant: Development of a Student-Centric LGBTQIA+ Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Presentation Series

American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation Incentive Grant: A Curriculum Review of Diabetes Device Technology Education at Colleges of Pharmacy in the United States

Gloria Niemeyer Francke Pharmacy Practice Advancement Grant Program: Comparison of In-person and Remote Faculty Evaluation of Pharmacy Student High-Stakes, Performance-Based Assessments

 

Presentations

Weber ZA and Martinez M. Strategically Aligning Health Equity Education Across Uniprofessional and Interprofessional Experiences within Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Aurora, Colorado, July 22 – 25, 2023.

Weber ZA and Daulton BJ. Incorporating Scientific Literature and Evidenced-Based Recommendations into Simulated Patient Interactions. NEXUS IPE Summit. Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 20-23, 2022.

Weber ZA. Deliberate Incorporation and Assessment of Interprofessional Education During Experiential Rotations. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, July 23 – 27, 2022.

Abramenka-Lachheb V, Johnston JD, and Weber ZA. Designing Scalable Instruction for Future Public Health Professionals in Times of COVID-19: A Design Showcase of Interprofessional Online Learning Experience.Association for Educational and Communications Technology (AECT) International Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 2 – 6, 2021.

Daulton BJ, Romito L, Newton AD, Friesth BM, and Weber ZA. Raising the Bar: Evolution of a Statewide Interprofessional Education Program Following a 5-Year Outcomes Evaluation. NEXUS IPE Summit (online). September – October 2021.

Fuentes DG, Leiva M, Leon R, Weber ZA, and Xiong L. Developing a New Practice Site – Integrating into the Care Teams in Acute and Ambulatory Care. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting (Virtual Pharmacy Education), July 2020.

Pfeifle A, Weber ZA, Romito L, and Daulton B. Taking it Statewide: Online IPE and Assessment in a Pandemic (webinar). National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. April 2020.

Ahmed R, Weber ZA, Daulton B, Romito L, Huynh C, and Pfeifle A. Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice in Interprofessional Education Workshop. Collaborating Across Borders Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2019.

Smith L, Farris K, Congdon HB, Daulton B, Fitzgerald M, Keehn MT, Najjar G, Sick B, Weber ZA, and Gross M. Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Interprofessional Practice (IPP) Big 10 Collaboration: The Time is Right. Collaborating Across Borders Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2019.

Weber ZA and Isaacs A. Students Tracking Their Way to Success: The Use of Productive Study Time Logs. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 2019.

Representative Publications

Daulton BJ, Weber ZA, Newton AD, Romito L, and Manz Friesth B. Raising the Bar: Evolution of a Statewide Interprofessional Education Program Following a 5-Year Outcomes Review. Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Evaluation (JCIPE). 2022;12(3):7-9.

Pfeifle AL, Karpa K, Weber ZA, Sick B, and Ascione FJ. Big Ten Case Study: Strategies for Faculty Advancement Related to Interprofessional Education in Academia. Health and Interprofessional Practice 2022;4(3):eP2183.

Daulton BJ, Romito L, Weber ZA, Burba J, and Ahmed RA. Application of a Simulation-Based Interprofessional Teamwork Assessment Tool (SITAT) to Individual Student Performance in a Team-Based Simulation. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development 2021;24(8):23821205211042436. doi: 10.1177/23821205211042436

Adeoye-Olatunde OA, Vlashyn OO, Illingworth Plake KS, Woodyard JL, Weber ZA, Litzelman DK, and Russ-Jara AL. A Mixed-Methods Study of Pharmacy Instructors’ Early Experiences with a Teaching Electronic Medical Record. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning 2021;13(9):1180-1193.

Romito L, Pfeifle AL, Weber ZA, and Daulton BJ. Successful Conversion of Simulation-Based Interprofessional Education in a Pandemic. Journal of Dental Education 2021;85(Suppl. 1):1107-1110.

Vlashyn O, Adeoye-Olatunde OA, Illingworth Plake KS, Woodyard JL, Weber ZA, and Russ-Jara AL. Pharmacy Students’ Perspectives on the Initial Implementation of a Teaching Electronic Medical Record: Results from a Mixed-Methods Assessment. BMC Medical Education 2020;20:1-14.

Beal JL, Weber ZA, Isaacs AN, Illingworth Plake KS, Zillich A, and Woodyard JL. Pharmacy Student Preferences and Perceptions of In-Person versus Video Evaluations in Pharmacy Skills-Based Laboratory Courses. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2020;84:DOI: 10.5688/ajpe7976.

Weber ZA, Skelley JW, Riche DM, Bryant-Shilliday B, Cavanaugh J, and Foster K. Frontline Perspective on Credentialing and Privileging of Ambulatory Care Pharmacists. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2020 doi: 10.1111/ijpp.12619. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32202353

Salvati L, Weber ZA, Trinh M, Rustem D, and Etelemaki C. An Assessment of Interprofessional Education in Schools/Colleges of Pharmacy in the United States. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning 2020;12:626-632.

Isaacs AN, Miller ML, Hu T, and Weber ZA. Inter-rater Reliability of Web-based Calibrated Peer Review within a Pharmacy Curriculum. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2020;84(4):7583.