- Director, Healthcare Workforce Development & Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy
- Office: 230J, Avedisian Hall
- Phone: 401.874.2615
- Email: mj@uri.edu
- Office Location: 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Biography
Ms. Kanaczet leads the College of Pharmacy’s accredited education and professional development programs serving alumni, preceptors and other regional health professionals. She has also led the university’s effort to achieve cooperation and innovation in the area of inter-professional continuing education along with faculty in three health colleges. Ms. Kanaczet is the principal investigator on multiple healthcare workforce development training grants including a Real Jobs RI Partnership, Transforming Health in Rhode Island, with the state of RI’s Department of Labor and Training and also facilitates the Home and Community-Based Services Training grant from the RI Executive Office of Health and Human Services. These projects establish public private partnerships with healthcare organizations and aim to positively impact workforce sustainability, career laddering and upskilling of the healthcare workforce. Ms. Kanaczet teaches principles of adult education in the college’s teaching certificate program to Rhode Island’s Pharmacy Residents and Fellows. She is Chair of the Certified Healthcare CPD Professional (CHCP) Commission of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. Ms. Kanaczet was appointed to the RI Board of Pharmacy by Governor Dan McKee in 2023 and is the 2024 Administrative Excellence Award Recipient presented by the URI Foundation and Alumni Engagement.
Research
workforce development, interprofessional education
Education
- BA, International Relations, American University, Washington, DC
- MA Ed, Adult Education & Higher Education Administration, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Selected Publications
Conference Presentations
“Joint Providership, Interprofessional Education and Educational Partnerships” Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education 18th Conference on CPE, Chicago, IL, November 20, 2024 invited
“Certified Healthcare CPD Professional Credential Preparation Workshop” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd, Susan Yarbrough, et al. Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Annual Conference National Harbor, MD, February 6, 2023 and New Orleans, LA February 2024.
“Learning Collaborative: “Hybrid Meetings” What does this mean and how are we doing it?” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd, Dipti Desai, PharmD, CHCP, and Brian S. Thompson, MBA, FACEHP. Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Annual Conference, Aurora, CO, January 13, 2022
“The Role of CE in Public Health: The Opioid Epidemic” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Spring CE Pearls Conference, Chicago, IL, May 15, 2019
“The Art of Collaboration: Managing Relationships with Inter-professional Colleagues” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd & Celia MacDonnell, PharmD. Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Annual Conference, National Harbor, MD, January 15, 2016
Poster Presentations
“Unlocking Potential: The Benefits of Workforce Development Grants in Advancing Continuing Professional Development in Healthcare” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd, Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Annual Conference, February 2024. New Orleans, LA.
“Transforming Health in Rhode Island” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Annual Conference, January 2022
“Development of an Inter-professional CE Program with a Global Reach: URI’s Academic Health Collaborative in Cuba” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd, Janice B. Hulme, PT, MS, DHSc, CEEAA, Diane Cocozza Martins, PhD, RN, Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Annual Conference, January 2017
“Development of an Inter-professional CE Program with a Global Reach: URI’s Academic Health Collaborative in Cuba” Mary-Jane Kanaczet, MEd, Janice B. Hulme, PT, MS, DHSc, CEEAA, Diane Cocozza Martins, PhD, RN, Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD Rhode Island Collaborative for Inter-professional Education and Practice (RI-IPE), March 28, 2018, Providence, RI
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
Kanaczet, Mary-Jane: “The pharmacist scope of practice: who is that person behind the counter?” ACEHP Almanac. 2015; 37:3-6.