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OFFICE OF CLINICAL LEADERSHIPTennessee Interdisciplinary Health Policy Program (TIHPP)Overview The DMHDDs Office of Public Information and the Office of Clinical Leadership participate with the University of Tennessee in an educational program for law, medical and pharmacy students. The program was developed and implemented in the year 2000. The University of Tennessee’s Deans of Law School, Medical School and Pharmacy School allow their students to rotate through various state agencies and receive educational credits. The students rotate as a team. The goal is to encourage the various disciplines to learn to work together as a team to improve health care in Tennessee and to learn how health care policy is established in the state. Agencies sponsoring students include the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (lead agency), Children's Services, and Correction; the Health Related Boards; and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Students focus on issues such as licensure, legislative health policy-making, youth violence, malpractice, narcotics abuse, anti-trust activities, civil rights, TennCare fraud investigations and child custody and abuse. For information on this program, contact David M. Mirvis, MD, Director
of the University of Tennessee Center of Health Research Services at (901)
448-5826; Jason Carter, PharmD, Chief of Pharmacy, TDMHDD; or Howard L.
Burley, Jr., MD, Medical Director, TDMHDD at (615) 532-6564.
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