ProfessorHeiko Spallek

Adjunct Professor Spallek is strongly vested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) exemplified by activities ranging from the creation of instructional videos, peer-reviewed MedEdPORTAL contributions, learning outcomes assessments to mentoring other faculty in the SoTL.

While at the University of Pittsburgh, he collaborated with Dr. Weiner, successfully proposing a federal contract to use virtual cases for Interprofessional Education. As Co-Director of the resulting NIH Pain Consortium sponsored Center of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE), he facilitated the collaboration of 21 interdisciplinary faculty members from six health sciences schools at two US universities and development of six interprofessional, web-based educational modules. The module Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults has been shown to improve the performance of medical students in OSCEs. NIH featured these outcomes in a press release.