Welcome: UW CIPE Director, Jennifer Timm, DNP, RN, PHN

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MADISON, Wis. – Jennifer R. Timm has become the next director of the UW–Madison Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. The center serves as a hub for training and research related to how interdisciplinary teams of health care professionals can provide coordinated, optimal care to patients and communities.

The center is supported by and engages with the UW–Madison Office of the Provost and the university’s four health sciences schools: School of Medicine and Public HealthSchool of NursingSchool of Pharmacy and School of Veterinary Medicine. Its mission is to work collaboratively to integrate interprofessional practice and education and advance population health, patient care, the value of care, provider work experience and health equity.

Timm joins the school from Winona State University’s College of Nursing & Health Sciences, where she was a professor in its Department of Graduate Nursing. In 2017 she founded, and continued to direct, an innovative interprofessional clinical education program called Bridges Health. At UW–Madison, Timm will hold a faculty appointment in the School of Nursing.

“I look forward to dynamically rallying the incredible talent across UW–Madison’s health professions schools to continue to elevate the university’s impact in interprofessional practice and education,” Timm said. “My vision is to advance the center’s mission and fully prepare students to address the needs of Wisconsin and beyond.”

As director of Bridges Health, Timm led the design and implementation of a national award-winning interprofessional clinical education model. She has secured more than $1 million in grant funding for her work and successfully cultivated relationships between academic and community partners. While at Winona she continued to provide care as a registered nurse at a free clinic in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and at Bridges Health.

“Dr. Timm brings a wealth of expertise in interprofessional education as well as experience leading interprofessional care teams and conducting innovative research,” said Dr. Elizabeth Petty, the senior associate dean for academic affairs at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health who guided the search and recruitment process. “I am thrilled she will be leading this critically important campus center for our health professions learners. Under her leadership, I look forward to seeing the center advance its goals and sustain and grow high-quality interprofessional education at UW–Madison that will help learners develop skills and knowledge to optimize care for their patients.”

Timm completed her Bachelor of Science in nursing in 2004, Master of Science in nursing education in 2010, and Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2018 with a focus on practice and leadership innovations, all at Winona State. She began her career as a full-time practicing nurse and steadily expanded her expertise in program coordination and teaching, ultimately becoming an assistant professor of nursing at Winona in 2014.

Among other accolades, she has completed the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Diversity Leadership Institute and earned the Elizabeth Russell Belford Award for Excellence in Education from the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

“I am excited to welcome Dr. Timm to UW–Madison as she assumes her role as center director and joins the faculty at the School of Nursing. She is a highly respected interprofessional education leader and innovator with a proven track record of collaboration and relationship-building,” said Dr. Linda D. Scott, School of Nursing dean. “I am excited to see the center build upon its foundation of strong campus and community partnerships to improve health equity and create better health outcomes for all.”