The National Academies of Practice (NAP) announced the election of Susan M. Meyer, PhD, as a Distinguished Scholar & Fellow of NAP. Dr. Meyer serves as associate dean for education at PittPharmacy, directs Pitt's Interprofessional Center for Health Careers, and serves as co-director of Pitt's Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. The Class of 2020 Fellows were welcomed into NAP on March 15, 2020. Dr. Meyer and others in the NAP class of 2020 will receive their medals at a special ceremony in 2021.
Fellowship in NAP is an honor extended to those who have excelled in their profession and are dedicated to furthering interprofessional practice, scholarship, and policy in support of interprofessional care. The central purpose of NAP is to advise public policy makers on health care issues using NAP's unique perspective -- that of expert practitioners and scholars joined in interprofessional dialogue and advocacy.
Founded in 1981, NAP is an interprofessional, nonprofit organization, with membership representing 13 health care professions willing to serve as distinguished advisors to health care policy makers in Congress and elsewhere. The 13 academies of practice within the NAP include: Audiology, Dentistry, Allopathic and Osteopathic Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Podiatric Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, Speech-Language Pathology and Veterinary Medicine.
