Dr. Phillip G. Clark is Professor and Director of both the Program in Gerontology and the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center at the University of Rhode Island. He holds a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Guelph and Toronto in Canada, a Fulbright Scholar at Buskerud University College in Norway, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield and Bournemouth University in England.

His experience includes teaching health care teamwork, developing interprofessional health care research and demonstration projects, and consulting on interprofessional educational development and evaluation in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is co-author of Healthcare Teamwork: Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2^nd Edition (Praeger, 2016); and his work has been published in The Gerontologist, The Canadian Journal on Aging, Ageing and Society, Journal of Aging Studies, Educational Gerontology, Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, and the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Dr. Clark has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on over $23 million in grants, and he is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.