Diane H. Quinn, PharmD, BCACP is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (PCP). Additionally she is an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veteran Affairs Medical Center. In this role she has practiced in several different pharmacist- run clinics such as pharmacoterapy, anticoagulation, and presently in endocrine.
Her academic and scholarly interests include- Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional practice (IPP) activities as well as activities to foster student learning in innovative pedogoical approaches. Her clinical interests include disease management of diabetes, hypertension, anticoagulation, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, COPD/asthma, tobacco cessation, and patient education to improve medication adherence.
Over the course of her academic career, she has grown to be a leader on IPE and IPP within PCP and her university. She has extensive experience creating, implementing, and assessing IPE activities. Additionally, she has experience on the PCP IPE team to incorporate IPE experiences within the competency-driven PharmD curriculum. These experiences are a mixture of face to face IPE experiences and virtual learning IPE experiences. She is the Team Lead of IPE for PCP and is the leader of the working group noted above and helping to build and maintain partnerships for IPE and IPP experiences.
She is heavily engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) and has presented a variety of initiatives in multiple platforms such as posters, presentations, and workshops. These speaking engagements have occurred at local, national, and international conferences. Additionally, she has been a co-investigator on three funded grants regarding IPE initiatives and has published numerous articles. She was awarded the national American Associations of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Emerging Teaching Scholar Award in July 2021 which is a testament to her teaching and scholarly efforts.
