EdTech Startup Knowledge to Practice Growing Leadership Team

BETHESDA, Md., May 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Knowledge to Practice (K2P), a transformational Ed-Tech firm modernizing continuing medical education (CME) for physicians through competency-based, personalized, adaptive curriculums, announced the six new hires including additions to K2P's management and clinical teams.

"The goal of Knowledge to Practice is to contribute to health care quality, experience and outcomes by increasing and accelerating adoption of evidence-based practice," said Mary Ellen Beliveau, Chief Executive Officer, Knowledge to Practice. "K2P has grown exponentially since our founding. We welcome our new team members and the expertise they bring to help us realize this goal."

Leadership Additions
Euphia Hsu Smith, specializing in academic medical centers and safety net organizations, will become K2P's Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives. Her role includes leading the company's health system, integrated delivery network and physician organization initiatives. Previously as a senior director with The Advisory Board Company, Smith led strategic initiatives in the Office of the Managing Partner. Prior to that she headed business strategy at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Expanded Clinical Team Experience
Jennifer Spear Smith, MD, VP, Clinical Content comes to K2P from the Omnia-Prova Education Collaborative where she worked as the Chief Science Officer. Dr. Smith holds a unique combination of experience in the clinical sphere, including medical affairs, compliance, and medical education, and the Adult Learning field.

Stephanie Stowell Wenick, Clinical Director, is a medical content strategist with seventeen years of experience in the medical education field and a passion for improving patient outcomes. Before coming to K2P, Ms. Wenick worked for eleven years at Med-IQ, LLC, most recently as the Manager of Educational Strategy and Content.

Jennifer Love VP, Marketing, has sixteen years of experience in managing marketing teams, content strategy and creative direction. Ms. Love comes from The Advisory Board Company where she was Managing Director of Health Care Marketing Strategy.

About K2P
Knowledge to Practice (K2P) delivers personalized, efficient online continuing medical education through physician-driven learning that measurably improves a physician's clinical judgment and critical thinking. Using best practices and adult learning techniques, K2P taps America's leading hospitals and academic medical centers to provide the best in clinical content. Curriculum is then personalized to each physician, enabling them to monitor their progress and learn wherever, whenever and however they choose. K2P's personalized curriculum results in 34% average improvement of information recall and retention (compared to 6% of older CME models), and ultimately improves physician performance and patient care. To learn more about K2P please visit, k2p-ed.com.

About Continuing Medical Education
The $2.65 billion dollar continuing medical education (CME) industry traditionally consisted of educational activities that maintained, developed or increased the clinical knowledge of physicians use in providing care for their patients. Traditional activities included live events, written publications, and audio and video recordings. But studies demonstrate these methods to be ineffective, and that physicians are challenged to translate retained knowledge into practice.

However, K2P's approach addresses both knowledge and performance and swaps out monolithic podium lectures for learner-centric learning. 

Providing customized information, K2P's proprietary online system was designed to fit into physicians' demanding schedules, and to match each physician's unique practice needs. Using a self-assessment module, physicians can identify knowledge and practice gaps, stay current, and develop/maintain mastery across their core competencies.

SOURCE Knowledge to Practice (K2P)