Dr. Brian Cross Named Fulbright Scholar

Dr. Brian Cross, associate professor and vice-chair of pharmacy practice, is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship award that has taken him to Ireland. Cross is spending several months overseas working with faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

The focus of his work will be interprofessional education and teaching others how to best provide team-based care. Cross was among six ETSU faculty and administrators to visit Ireland and Scotland last spring, serving as consultants and collaborators in interprofessional health care practice and education. The Fulbright award is allowing Cross to continue those efforts with RCSI.

“They have research right now where they have embedded pharmacists in general practitioner offices in Ireland,” Cross noted. “I’m going to be working with them on that process.” Cross will also help with the creation and assessment of new interprofessional learning experiences in RCSI’s curriculum.

“Receiving the Fulbright Scholar award is humbling,” said Cross, who serves as the director of ETSU’s Interprofessional Education and Research Committee. “It is validation of our interprofessional program here at ETSU and gives us, and what we are doing, the stamp of approval on a much larger, international level.”