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Richard A. Ade, RN, MPH, earned his Bachelor degree in occupational and environmental nursing from St. Joseph's College in 1980 and his Master's degree in Public Health from the City University of Los Angeles in 1993. He has more than 30 years experience in military nursing, focusing on radiology, military science, and public health issues.
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Lori L. Alexander, MTPW, ELS, is President of Editorial Rx, Inc., which provides medical writing and editing services on a wide variety of clinical topics and in a range of media. A medical writer and editor for nearly 25 years, Ms. Alexander has written for both professional and lay audiences, with a focus on continuing education materials, medical meeting coverage, peer-review articles and guidelines for healthcare professionals, and educational materials for patients. She is the Editor of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Journal, providing oversight for all aspects of this quarterly peer-review journal that represents the largest association of medical communicators in the United States. Ms. Alexander earned a Master's degree in professional and technical writing, with a concentration in medical writing, at Northeastern University, Boston, has completed the AMWA core and advanced curriculum programs, and is certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences.
Marjorie Conner Allen, BSN, JD, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1984. She began her nursing career at Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics at the University of Florida, Gainesville. While practicing nursing at Shands, she gave continuing education seminars regarding the nursing implications for dealing with adolescents with terminal illness. In 1988, Ms. Allen moved to Atlanta, Georgia where she worked at Egleston Children’s Hospital at Emory University in the bone marrow transplant unit. In the fall of 1989, she began law school at Florida State University. After graduating from law school in 1992, Ms. Allen took a two-year job as law clerk to the Honorable William Terrell Hodges, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida. After completing her clerkship, Ms. Allen began her employment with the law firm of Smith, Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville, Florida where she has worked in the litigation department defending hospitals and nurses in medical malpractice actions. Ms. Allen resides in Jacksonville and is currently in-house counsel to the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville.
Kelley M. Anderson, PhD, RN, FNP, received her undergraduate education at the University of Virginia. She completed her master's degree at the University of Texas, Austin, her post-master's family nurse practitioner education at the University of Florida, and her doctorial degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. While at the University of Florida, she worked with epileptic patients in the outpatient and acute care settings. She provided care with conventional modalities and assisted in the management of patients under investigative research medications and protocols.
Sally Anthony, MS, RN, Paralegal, received her paralegal certification in 1992. She received her master\'s degree in health education in 1982 and has been a registered nurse for 27 years. As a medical-legal consultant for the past 11 years she has worked with attorneys on medical malpractice cases and personal injury cases. In addition, she donates her time to work with legal interns at the Gonzaga University Legal Assistance program. Her nursing practice has taken place in a variety of clinical settings that are as diverse as post-open heart advanced care and child legislative testimony. She had also worked as a health educator, consulting nurse, psychiatric/chemical dependency assistant nurse manager, regional poison center director and medical-surgical nurse. She currently works as a medical-legal consultant and is an award winning medical writer.
Leslie Bakker, RN, MSN, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at West Virginia State University Technical and Community College in Institute, West Virginia. She earned her BSN from Florida State University and her Master's from West Virginia University with an emphasis on primary healthcare. Professor Bakker's 43 years of nursing experiences have included hospital nursing in the United States and northern Europe, community health nursing, home health nursing, nursing education and community health activism. With a focus on transcultural nursing, she served as international student advisor for many years. She has designed and delivered diversity education programming for law enforcement personnel. Currently her practice includes health promotion activities for the gay community with an emphasis on gay youth. She has presented at several local and regional health professional conferences, and has published in professional nursing journals.
Paul Ballas, DO, is a child psychiatrist and chief medical officer at the Green Tree School, an approved private school for children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delays, or emotional disturbances. Dr. Ballas is also a staff psychiatrist at the Center for Autism in Philadelphia, PA. He has authored peer reviewed articles on ADHD, sleep disorders, and psychopharmacology and has recently co-authored a book chapter on sleep disorders.
S. Megan Berthold, PhD, LCSW, CTS, is a licensed clinical social worker, holds a PhD in social welfare, and is a Certified Trauma Specialist. She is a clinician, trainer, and researcher who specializes in the cross-cultural assessment and treatment of survivors of torture and other traumas. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut's School of Social Work and worked with the Program for Torture Victims (PTV) in Los Angeles for 13 years, where she was a psychotherapist and the Director of Research and Evaluation. PTV was founded in 1980 and is the oldest program in the United States that provides specialized medical, psychological, and case management services to survivors of state-sponsored torture from around the world. For the past 24 years, Dr. Berthold has worked clinically with refugee and asylum-seeking survivors of political persecution, torture, war traumas, human trafficking, female genital mutilation, community violence, domestic violence, child abuse, and other traumas from many countries. She has extensive experience as a mental health professional in outpatient, inpatient, and residential settings. She has worked as a clinician and educator in refugee camps in Nepal, the Philippines, and on the Thai-Cambodian border. Dr. Berthold has conducted research funded federally by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with colleagues at the RAND Corporation examining the prevalence of torture and its mental and physical health consequences among Khmer refugees in Southern California. She is also conducting federally funded clinical outcomes research with PTV clients. In addition, Dr. Berthold frequently testifies as an expert witness in U.S. Immigration Court in the areas of torture, rape, female genital mutilation, and other forms of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, mental health, and psychological evaluation. Dr. Berthold is regularly called upon to train and consult with health and mental health professionals as well as attorneys and social service providers on the topics of vicarious trauma and resilience and self care. Dr. Berthold has found that an understanding of these topics and the implementation of a self-care plan has been vital to her ability to sustain her own career serving trauma survivors over the past two decades.
Karen Brindza, LPN, is an Ohio nurse with over 30 years of experience.
Donna Coffman, MD, attended medical school at the University of Louisville and completed her residency in Family Practice at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She is board-certified in Family Medicine and currently on staff at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis.
Michael E. Considine, PsyD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey and Delaware and a New Jersey Certified School Psychologist. He received his PsyD from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2009 and his Master's degree from Georgian Court College Graduate School in Lakewood, New Jersey. He works with children of all ages, adults, couples, and families with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. As a school psychologist, Dr. Considine also conducts full psycho-educational batteries and has acted as a consultant for parents of children with special needs. Most recently, he has been facilitating trainings and workshops for hospitals and schools. Dr. Considine is currently employed as an independent contractor through Mid Atlantic Behavioral Health in Newark, Delaware.
Marie Davis, RN, IBCLC, received her lactation consultant certificate from the University of California in Los Angeles. She began her private practice in 1986. In addition, she was one of the lactation consultants for Kaiser Permanente in Riverside, California for 10 years. Mrs. Davis is also a clinical instructor for the Lactation Consultant Training Program, UCLA Extension. Mrs. Davis is the author of The Lactation Consultant's Clinical Practice Manual and a contributing author to Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice. She has mentored many student lactation consultants. Mrs. Davis is a member of the International Lactation Consultant's Association and is listed in Who's Who in American Nursing and Who's Who Among Young American Professionals. She makes her home in southern California.
Marilyn Fuller Delong, MA, BSN, RN, received her basic nursing education at St. Luke's School of Nursing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, her BSN from Coe College and her MA from California State University, Long Beach. She has worked throughout the United States both clinically and as an educator. Her continuing education classes have focused on the case management aspects of the care of orthopedic and pulmonary patients, with particular focus on the long-term care needs of the elderly and disabled.
Margaret Donohue, PhD, is a psychologist in Los Angeles, California. She received her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. Her clinical and forensic practice focuses on the areas of health and medical psychology especially complex psychological and neuropsychological assessments. She is licensed in both California and Nevada.
In addition to her private practice, Dr. Donohue currently teaches at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. She is actively involved with the California Psychological Association's Mandatory Continuing Education Association as a Third Reviewer for courses for continuing education for psychologists. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, and the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
Dr. Donohue has frequently provided ethical consultation to colleagues in the area of professional boundaries, ethics and psychological assessment, and ethics in professional practice. Her public speaking events have included being a panel presenter in the January 1987 Los Angeles conference on ethics and boundaries for lesbian therapists. She has also presented for the California Psychological Association on the personal impact of head injuries in neuropsychologists with Jonathan Greene, PhD, in 2003.
Dr. Donohue has published articles on Tarasoff notification and racism; quality evaluation in health care; benchmarking access to outpatient services in managed health organizations; treatment of anxiety in young children; and the development of assessment techniques in evaluations of young children and assessing organizational productivity and quality.
Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW, received her Master's in Social Work from Columbia University, School of Social Work. She has clinical experience in mental health in correctional settings, psychiatric hospitals, and community health centers. In 1997, she received her PhD from UCLA, School of Public Policy and Social Research. Dr. Yick Flanagan completed a year-long post-doctoral fellowship at Hunter College, School of Social Work in 1999. In that year she taught the course Research Methods and Violence Against Women to Masters degree students, as well as conducting qualitative research studies on death and dying in Chinese American families. Currently, Dr. Yick Flanagan is a faculty member at Capella University, School of Human Services and Canyon College, Department of Social Work. Her research focus is on the area of racism and mental health consequences in ethnic minority communities. She and her fellow colleagues are currently administering a survey on Asian Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans' experiences with racism and discrimination.
William E. Frey, DDS, MS, FICD, graduated from the University of California School of Dentistry, San Francisco, California, in 1966. In 1975, he completed residency training in Periodontics and received a Master\'s degree from George Washington University. He has been a member of the American Dental Association for over thirty-five years, and is a member of the American Academy of Periodontology and a Fellow in the International College of Dentists (FICD).
Dr. Frey retired from the United States Army Dental Corps in 1989 after 22 years of service. Throughout the course of his professional career, he has continuously practiced dentistry, the first 7 years as a general dentist and the past more than 30 as a periodontist. His military experience included the command of a networked Dental Activity consisting of five dental clinics. In his last assignment, he was in charge of a 38-chair facility. Colonel Frey was selected by the Army to serve on two separate occasions as the Chair of the Periodontal Department in Army General Dentistry Residency Training Programs.
Dr. Frey currently maintains a practice limited to Periodontics in Jackson, California, and is the founder and president of Perio Plus, a practice management firm specializing in creating individually-designed hygiene and periodontal care programs for general dentists. He is also the creator of the Inspector Gum patient education series.
Mark S. Gold, MD, is the Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine and member of the McKnight Brain Institute. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he is a teacher of the year, researcher, and inventor who has worked for nearly 40 years to develop models for understanding effects of drugs on the brain and behavior.
Dr. Gold has been listed as one of the Best Doctors in America and is an Editorial Board member of several journals, including the nation's top textbook of medicine, UpToDate, and reviewer for many more. But, Dr. Gold is most proud of starting the Division of Addiction Medicine at the University of Florida and its treatment program, the Florida Recovery Center. Under his leadership, the Division has grown to over 12 full-time clinical physicians treating drug abuse and dependence and an equal number of researchers with major funded projects in secondhand exposure models, self-administration, functional brain imaging, public health, impaired professionals, genomics, proteomics, and nanotechnology. A mentor of researchers and physicians in full-time academic positions across the nation, he and the Division provide basic science of addiction training for all UF medical students and have trained over 50 physicians who have become Board Certified addiction experts. These efforts have been recognized by the Annenberg Foundation, which has decided to support other medical students' clerkships at UF.
Dr. Gold has been described by the State Department in 2010 as one of the nation's leading experts on drug abuse. He has worked to explain why people drink so much decaffeinated coffee (it is not caffeine free) and why some patients who have abused drugs do not return to premorbid neurological function once they stop using. Dr. Gold has helped to focus on drug consequences among users to identify trends and problems and target prevention. His work on tobacco summarizing the evidence for dependence and the risks of first-, second- and thirdhand exposure have been quite relevant to opium, cocaine, and methamphetamine smoking.
Gold has a career-long interest in clinical hypothesis-driven research and research that starts in the lab and progresses to the bedside. Early in his career, he proposed a locus coeruleus theory of drug withdrawal, which is now a mainstay of current theory and practice. He was awarded a patent for discovery of new uses for clonidine, which remains widely used for opiate withdrawal and pain management. During the mid-1980s, when most did not consider cocaine addictive due to lack of a classic withdrawal syndrome, Gold and colleagues developed a new theory for cocaine action, dependence, and withdrawal in the dopamine-rich areas of the brain. He helped focus many researchers and clinicians on dopamine and deficiency states, including Nora Volkow, MD. He has expanded his work to include drug-related brain cell injury and death and stem cell repair.
Over the past two decades, Dr. Gold has also pioneered the hypothesis of hedonic overeating or pathological attachment to food as an addiction. Many are beginning to recognize the similarities between compulsive overeating and other process addictions such as gambling and sex. This work has led to new approaches to treat the obese and prevent overeating in recent post-addicts. Gold collaborated with Kelly Brownell, PhD, as editors of the 2010 textbook Food Addiction (Oxford Press). Since beginning his career in 1970, he has authored over 900 articles, chapters, and abstracts in journals for health professionals and 12 professional books including practice guidelines and ASAM core competencies. He is the author of 15 general audience books. According to a review in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "Mark S. Gold, M.D. is the most prolific and brilliant of the addiction experts writing today... Dr. Gold has spent his career trying to bridge the gap in medical education and practice with the belief that addictions are diseases and that all physicians have a critical role in prevention and, if that fails, in early identification and prompt treatment."
Charlene H. Grafton, RN, BS, MS, CCM, is licensed in two states as a Registered Nurse and nationally certified as a Case Manager. In Florida, she is a Qualified Rehabilitation Provider and currently an Independent Contractor, Nurse Case Manager. She was selected as Who's Who by American Colleges and Universities, American Nursing and also by the International Tennis Federation. Also, she is a Veteran of the Army Nurse Corps, First Lieutenant. Ms. Grafton has demonstrated her natural leadership style through volunteer work and participation on various Boards of Directors, such as the Jaycee Jaynes, Nevada Community Enrichment Program, Southern Nevada Continuity of Care Association, Florida's Governor's Council on Fitness and Sports, Nevada Tennis Association, National Senior Women's Tennis Association, Health Insight (Medicare and Medicaid) and the Executive Women's Golf League. In addition, she has presented papers and shown her teaching abilities by speaking at local, state, regional, national and international forums on a variety of subjects, including teaching techniques, lateral dominance, fitness and case management. As a writer, she has published two books about dominance and researched in areas of coordination, laterality, and sidedness from gifted to learning disabilities/problems and functional independence. Her work has also appeared in trade magazines.
Sharon M. Griffin, RN, PhD, specializes in Health Education and Chronic Disease Management especially as it relates to her primary areas of study and research. She has over thirty years of healthcare experience nationwide and is an accomplished author, presenter and consultant. She frequently lectures on the subjects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related disorders. Dr. Griffin is the cofounder of the University Center for Assessment and Learning (UCAL) of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. She enjoys writing and teaching and has been listed in Who's Who in American Nursing, Two Thousand Notable American Women, and the eleventh edition of the World Who's Who of Women, Cambridge, England.
Margo A. Halm, RN, PhD, ACNS-BC, received an Associate Degree of Nursing in 1981 from Iowa Central Community College, a BSN and Master of Arts in Nursing from the University of Iowa, in 1985 and 1987 respectively, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurse\'s, Sigma Theta Tau International, National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, and the American Heart Association\'s Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. Dr. Halm has presented nationally and internationally, coauthored articles, and conducted nursing research studies on topics such as epidural analgesia, complementary therapies, women and heart disease, family presence during resuscitation and other family-centered interventions. Currently, Dr. Halm practices as the Director of Nursing Research and Quality/Clinical Nurse Specialist at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon.
Sharon Holt, DVM, MBA, ADN, graduated from Ohio University with a Bachelor's degree in fine art in 1977. She returned to Greater Hartford Community College and she earned an Associate degree in nursing in 1979. She later received a Master's in business administration in marketing management in 1983 from University of Hartford. She received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1997. Dr. Holt has been working in wildlife medicine for 15 years and has lectured on the subject at the University of Massachusetts. Her nursing background includes acute care, emergency room, critical care, clinic settings, and case management for a non-profit visiting nurse association. She currently owns her own veterinary practice in Massachusetts.
Jacqueline Houtman, RNC, MA, OCN, graduated with an Associate's degree from the Eastbourne School of Nursing in England in 1971. In 2000, she graduated with a Master's degree in Applied Social Science from Binghamton University, Upstate New York. During the course of her nursing career, Ms. Houtman has held various positions in the acute care hospital setting, including medical, surgical, orthopedic, ophthalmic, and intensive care units, incorporating five years of case management. She is certified in oncology nursing (obtained initially in 1993) by the Oncology Nurse Certification Corporation and in gerontological nursing (obtained initially in 1996) by the American Nurses Association.
Ms. Houtman is currently in the employment of Mission Hospitals in Asheville, North Carolina, and works full-time as a staff nurse on the inpatient Medical Oncology Unit. Her sixteen-year experience and clinical expertise working with oncology patients and their families has evolved, either in the capacity as a bedside nurse or in the role of nurse manager. Philosophically speaking, as an oncology nurse she feels morally obligated to share whatever knowledge and expertise she have acquired during her years as a registered nurse. Empowering nurses to learn, share knowledge with their peers, patients and families, is an investment Ms. Houtman is totally committed to and will continue to remain true to this commitment for as long as she is afforded the privilege of working with oncology patients.
John V. Jurica, MD, MPH, attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and completed his residency training at the University of Illinois in Rockford. In 1993, he was awarded a Master's degree in Public Health from the Medical College of Wisconsin. As Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dr. Jurica is responsible for quality improvement, case management, and continuing medical education at Riverside Medical Center (RMC), as well as several clinical departments. He chairs the Education Committee, which oversees graduate and continuing education, and the Care Management Steering Committee, which monitors quality and integrates outcomes measures into the CME planning process at the hospital. Dr. Jurica is a board-certified Family Physician and has practiced in Kankakee, Illinois since 1986.
Nicole F. Keehn, MS, MA, RN, received a Master’s of Science, with emphasis on the pediatric critical care population, from Texas Woman’s University in 1993. She completed her Master’s of Art with an emphasis on clinical psychology, and is pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology at Argosy University in Dallas, Texas. She was employed as the intensive care educator at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, and as a clinical nurse in the intensive care unit at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Keehn is currently employed as a clinical nursing instructor, with a focus on behavioral and physical assessment, at Texas Woman's University in Dallas, Texas.
A. José Lança, MD, PhD, received his Medical Degree at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal, and completed his internship at the University Hospital, Coimbra. He received his PhD in Neurosciences from a joint program between the Faculties of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He was a Gulbenkian Foundation Scholar and was awarded a Young Investigator Award by the American National Association for the Research of Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).
Dr. Lança has participated in international courses and conferences on neurosciences. He has contributed to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the ontogenetic development of the brain opiatergic system. As a research scientist at the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) in Toronto, he initiated research on the functional role played by dopaminergic cell transplants on alcohol consumption, leading to the publication of the first research reports on cell transplantation and modulation of an addictive behavior. Subsequently, he also investigated the role played by other neurotransmitter systems in the limbic system and mechanisms of reward, co-expression of classical neurotransmitters and neuropeptides and potential role in neuropsychiatric disorders.
He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto. He was the Program Director for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Toronto. He has developed clinical pharmacology courses for the Radiation Sciences and Chiropody Programs of The Michener Institute for Health Sciences at the University of Toronto, where he also lectures both pharmacology courses and holds a Faculty position.
Dr. Lança's commitment to medical education started while a medical student, teaching in the Department of Histology and Embryology, where he became cross-appointed after graduation. In Toronto, he has contributed extensively to curriculum development and teaching of pharmacology to undergraduate, graduate and medical students. He has developed an integrated approach to clinical pharmacology, and has contributed to an evidence-based teaching of Herbal Medications in clinical pharmacology. He is also the author of six chapters in medical pharmacology textbooks.
Susan Engman Lazear, RN, MN, received her undergraduate education at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing in Washington, D.C. After completing her BSN, she served as an Army Nurse at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco for four years. She then attended the University of Washington School of Nursing and received a Master's in Nursing, specializing in Burn, Trauma and Emergency Nursing. After receiving her MN, she started Airlift Northwest, the air ambulance service based in Seattle which serves the entire Northwest region, including Alaska. Mrs. Lazear left the air ambulance service to start her own nursing education and consulting business, Specialists in Medical Education. For the past 20 years she has been teaching emergency nursing courses throughout the country. She lives in the Seattle area. Mrs. Lazear continues to teach and publish. She is both an editor and contributing author of Critical Care Nursing, published by W.B. Saunders Company, in June of 1992. She served as an author and reviewer of the Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum 6th Edition, published by W.B. Saunders Company in 2007. She has been named to the Who's Who in American Healthcare list annually since 1992.
Patricia Lea, RN, MSEd, CCRN, received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing in 1973 from Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas. She returned to Graduate School to complete a Master's Degree in Education, specifically Health Education, in 1996. Pat has worked in various institutions, including St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where she specialized in cardiovascular surgery and acute renal dialysis. She has worked as a Cardiovascular Clinical Coordinator in the Cardiology Department and the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, Texas. In 2003, Ms. Lea was employed as a Senior Research Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Stem Cell Research Center at the Texas Heart Institute coordinating stem cell and cardiac stent trials. She is now a full-time faculty member at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing.
John M. Leonard, MD, Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Leonard completed his post-graduate clinical training at the Yale and Vanderbilt University Medical Centers, and then joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1974. He has served as director of educational programs for the Department of Medicine and was the Residency Program Director from 1981 to 2003. Dr. Leonard attends and consults on the in-patient general medicine and infectious disease service.
Katrina Lieben, MSN, CNM, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Humboldt State University, California in 1997 and her Master's of Science in Nursing with a nurse midwifery focus from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 2008. She has worked with mothers and infants her entire career. She traveled to the Philippines in 1996 as a part of a transcultural nursing class, where she worked in various settings with mothers and infants. Ms. Lieben has practiced in Ketchikan, Alaska for more than 10 years.
Karen Majorowicz, RN, ARNP, is currently employed in the Cardiac Intermediate Care Unit at Shands Healthcare, UF-Gainesville, Florida. She received her masters in Medical-Surgical Nursing in 1978 from the University of Maryland. Karen has created numerous instructional manuals on Medicare and conducted educational programs on cardiovascular assessment and was curriculum and instructional design consultant to the Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida for a self-paced instructional module of SSI Disability for children.
Maryam Mamou, BSN, RN, CRM, CWOCN, is an Irish-trained RN who has lived and worked in the United States for 20 years. During her career, she has completed a BSN and went on to become a certified rehabilitation nurse, a certified life care planner, and more recently a certified wound ostomy and continence nurse. She is a graduate of the wound ostomy and continence program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and is nationally certified in these areas.
Ms. Mamou has worked in various rehabilitation settings and has first-hand experience of how pressure ulcers impact patients' recovery and quality of life. She has held positions as staff nurse, unit coordinator, educator, and director of nursing in home health care. She has been involved in developing and implementing several staff education programs in a variety of settings. She was most recently employed as a wound ostomy and continence nurse at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Alabama.
Jamie Marich-Merkin, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC, has worked in mental health residential treatment and in chemical dependency treatment as an inpatient, outpatient, and dual diagnosis counselor. Dr. Marich-Merkin obtained her PhD in Counseling Studies from Capella University and her MA in Counseling from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. She teaches for several reputable online universities, and she offers original workshops for counselors and social workers on a regular basis. Dr. Marich-Merkin began her career in social services while serving as a humanitarian aid worker in post-war Bosnia-Hercegovina. In 2008, Dr. Marich-Merkin was the outstanding poster research winner at the EMDR International Association annual conference, and she was honored with several peer reviewed publications in 2009 and 2010 on her work with EMDR. She is also a member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the International Center for Clinical Excellence, and the Ohio Counseling Association.
Dr. Marich-Merkin practices out of the PsyCare, Inc. office in Youngstown, Ohio, where she specializes in addiction treatment (chemical and behavioral), PTSD, issues related to abuse and trauma, dissociative disorders, spiritual issues (including recovery from spiritual abuse), cross-cultural issues, consultation/mentoring, grief/loss, and group therapy, and she has a special passion for treating young adults and women. Much of the enthusiasm that Dr. Marich-Merkin brings to the counseling setting has sprung forth from her own recovery and experiences with the healing process. She has recorded three musical albums in striving to use the creative arts, including her first love, music, into the counseling and healing process.
Sandra Mesics, CNM, MSN, RN, is a native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She attended Penn State University where she graduated with a BS in Psychology. In 1983, she moved to Miami, Florida, where she earned a BS degree in Nursing at Barry University, graduating magna cum laude. Ms. Mesics worked as an RN in Labor & Delivery, postpartum, and newborn nursery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, and started work on her Master's degree in 1994. She became a certified nurse-midwife in 1997, and was the first nurse-midwife granted privileges at Mount Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami. In 2001, Ms. Mesics returned to Bethlehem, PA, to accept a faculty position teaching maternity nursing at St. Luke's School of Nursing. She also maintains privileges at St. Luke's Hospital, providing nurse-midwifery care in the women's health clinic. In 2004, Ms. Mesics became director of the School of Nursing. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, as well as the National League for Nursing. She served on the advisory committee for fetal fibronectin.
Elizabeth T. Murane, PHN, BSN, MA, received her Bachelor's degree in nursing from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a Master's of Arts in Nursing Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Her nursing experience includes hospital nursing on pediatric, medical, and surgical units. She lived for 15 years in a village in Eastern Papua New Guinea providing medical and linguistic/literacy services for the villagers. She was a public health nurse for a year with the Brooklyn, New York Health Department and 20 years with the Shasta County Public Health Department in Redding, California. As a public health nurse she established influenza vaccine clinics throughout the community, prepared health education materials on the flu, interacted with the media during influenza season, and participated in surveillance activities.
Joan Needham, MSEd, RNC, was a graduate of Copley Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing from the College of Saint Francis in 1977 and a Master’s degree in adult education from Northern Illinois University in 1981. She was certified in gerontological nursing by the American Nurses Association and worked in nursing education at various colleges in Illinois for many years. Regrettably, Ms. Needham passed away in 2010.
Michele Nichols, RN, BSN, MA, received her Associates Degree in Nursing in 1977, her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing in 1981 and obtained her Master of Arts Degree in Ethics and Policy Studies in 1990 through the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She was Chief Nurse Executive at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Currently, Ms. Nichols is the System Director for the Valley Health System University, a five hospital system in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jane C. Norman, RN, MSN, CNE, PhD, received her undergraduate education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus. There she completed a double major in Sociology and English. She completed an Associate of Science in Nursing at the University of Tennessee, Nashville campus and began her nursing career at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Jane received her Masters in Medical-Surgical Nursing from Vanderbilt University. In 1978, she took her first faculty position and served as program director for an associate degree program. In 1982, she received her PhD in Higher Education Administration from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. In 1998, Dr. Norman took a position at Tennessee State University. There she has achieved tenure and full professor status. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau National Nursing Honors Society. In 2005, she began her current position as Director of the Masters of Science in Nursing Program.
Barry Panzer, PhD, ACSW, is a practitioner with more than 35 years of clinical experience with children, teens, adults, and families. Dr. Panzer is currently the Mental Health Consultant to the Live Light Live Right Pediatric Obesity Program at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He received a PhD with Distinction in social work from Columbia University and has served as a clinical instructor at Downstate Medical Center (at State University of new York) and adjunct professor at Columbia University. His post-graduate training includes family therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, and child and adolescent nutrition. He has published in the areas of sudden infant death syndrome, crisis intervention, and ADHD. Dr. Panzer's interest in childhood obesity dates to 2003 and since then he has published articles in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, ICAN: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition, and ADHD Report. He has also made presentations at major conferences, including for the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and the National Association of Social Workers. Dr. Panzer is passionate about educating and motivating colleagues to become involved in caring for families of obese youth.
Peter Peraud, MD, is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in economics and a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine. As a medical student, Dr. Peraud participated in the American Medical Association Government Relations Internship Program, working at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He completed an emergency medicine residency on the medical staff at Advocate Christ Medical Center in suburban Chicago. Currently, he is practicing emergency medicine at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Teisha Phillips, RN, BSN, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2005. She has nursing experience in a variety of clinical settings including, women's health, fertility, multispecialty outpatient surgery, and cosmetic/aesthetic nursing. Her primary focus and passion is on direct patient care and patient education. She is presently employed as IVF coordinator at one of the leading fertility clinics in the Los Angeles area.
Kalynn Pressly, ARNP, DSN, received an Associate Degree in Nursing from Wallace College in Dothan, Alabama, her BSN from Troy State University, her Masters and Doctoral degrees from University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her Nurse Practitioner education at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Pressly has practiced in a variety of settings, including obstetrics, medical-surgical, dialysis, critical care, nursing education, nursing research, and, most recently, infectious disease. She currently serves as an infectious disease nurse practitioner, employed by the Florida Department of Health.
Richelle A. Rennegarbe, PhD, RN, earned her RN degree from Kaskaskia College in Centralia, Illinois, her BSN from McKendree University in Lebanon, IL and her MS in Community Health Nursing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Edwardsville, IL. She earned her PhD in Health Education from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, IL. Dr. Rennegarbe's primary areas of expertise include community health nursing, women's health issues, nursing management, and chronic conditions including systemic lupus erythematosus. She is the President/CEO at Salem Township Hospital in Salem, IL.
Mark Rose, BS, MA, is a licensed psychologist and researcher in the field of alcoholism and drug addiction based in Minnesota. He has contributed to the authorship of several papers on addiction, as well as other medical disorders, and serves as an Expert Advisor and Expert Witness to various law firms on matters related to substance abuse. He is on the Board of Directors of the Minneapolis-based International Institute of Anti-Aging Medicine, and a member of several professional organizations.
Gayle Roux, PhD, RN, CNS, FNP, received her BSN from University of Nebraska, and her MS and PhD in Nursing from Texas Women's University. She has been employed in various aspects of women's care including childbearing, family planning, and women's health. Currently, she practices as a family nurse practitioner and is faculty at Texas Woman's University. Dr. Roux's area of research is focused on inner strength in women living with chronic health conditions such as breast cancer. She lives in Dallas, Texas, and has two daughters. Dr. Roux enjoys cross-country skiing, traveling, and reading mystery stories.
Anele Runyion, RN, MS, received her diploma in nursing from Berea College School of Nursing in Berea, Kentucky. She subsequently received a Baccalaureate and Master’s degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She has extensive experience in psychiatric nursing, including adolescent and adult psychiatry.
For twenty years she was psychiatric nurse consultant and coordinator of psychiatric nursing consultation at San Francisco General Hospital. She was Assistant Clinical Professor in Mental Health, Community and Administrative Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. She created and co-chaired a National Psychiatric Consultation/Liaison Conference in 1987, which provided continuing education in nursing. This conference meets annually and has subsequently become an international conference.
She created a brief curriculum and practicum in consultation/liaison nursing for graduate nursing students at UCSF that is currently being practiced. As a psychiatric nurse consultant, she assisted non-psychiatric nurses in the hospital to assimilate and integrate psychological principles into their practice. During this time, she developed a protocol for management of acute post-traumatic stress response. This protocol was adopted by the hospital as a standard care plan for nursing management of patients with acute post-traumatic stress response in the non-psychiatric areas of the hospital.
Ms. Runyion has published and spoken nationally. She was listed in Who’s Who in American Nursing in 1991-92 and 1996-97. Currently, she is a self-employed consultant and writer.
Susan Semb, MSN, RN, CDE, received her Master's degree in nursing from the University of San Diego. Her nursing experience includes direct patient care, case management, staff development, program development and health education. She is presently employed as a diabetes educator in the Health Education Department of a major health maintenance organization. Ms. Semb also authored Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: A Growing Concern and Diabetes Care and Patient Education,among other continuing education courses for nurses published by CME Resource. In addition to her professional work, Susan volunteers for the San Diego Chapter of Families with Children from China.
Carol Shenold, RN, CIC, graduated from St. Paul’s Nursing School, Dallas, Texas, achieving her diploma in nursing. Over the past thirty years she has worked in hospital nursing in various states in the areas of obstetrics, orthopedics, intensive care, surgery and general medicine.
Mrs. Shenold served as the Continuum of Care Manager for Vencor Oklahoma City, coordinating quality review, utilization review, Case Management, Infection Control, and Quality Management. During that time, the hospital achieved Accreditation with Commendation with the Joint Commission, with a score of 100.
Mrs. Shenold was previously the Infection Control Nurse for Deaconess Hospital, a 300-bed acute care facility in Oklahoma City. She is an active member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). She now works for the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality.
Michelle Sigillo, RN, BSN, received her Bachelor's degree in nursing from San Diego State University in 2005. Since then, she has worked primarily in emergency and critical care settings, during which time she gained an appreciation of the importance of forensic evidence collection and supportive care of assault victims. She currently works as an emergency department nurse in Walnut Creek, California.
Dee Spring, PhD, MFT, ATR-BC, an international lecturer, specializes in the treatment of individuals who experienced "intimate" trauma with resultant PTSD; she is a consultant and qualified expert witness in several states. She has written professional articles, book chapters, and authored two books. Dr. Spring has taught at many universities and conducted training for professionals in a variety of settings. Additionally, she designed, implemented and directed the first federally funded rape crisis center in the world to utilize visual art in crisis intervention and treatment for victims of sexual assault. She is Past President of the California Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Art Therapy Association, receiving awards from both for clinical and educational achievements, contributions, and innovations related to research and use of visual art in trauma treatment. Regrettably, Dr. Spring passed away in 2010.
Linda Strangio, RN, MA, CCRN, CRN, graduated from The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing in New York City. Linda has been a staff nurse, head nurse and patient care coordinator in medical, surgical and pulmonary intensive care units in New York, Ohio and New Jersey. In 1992, she became the nursing coordinator of the department of radiology at Atlantic Health System's Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey, where she had worked for twenty-six years. She held national certification in critical care nursing (CCRN) and radiology nursing (CRN), as well as two degrees in psychology. She was the editor of Images, which is the national journal of the American Radiological Nurses Association (ARNA), has been published over fifty times in professional journals and magazines and has authored three books. Regrettably, Linda Strangio passed away in October 2002.
Mark J. Szarejko, DDS, FAGD, received his dental degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985. He received fellowship from the Academy of General Dentistry in 1994.
Diane Thompson, RN, BSN, CDE, CLNC, has an extensive history in nursing and nursing education. She possesses a strong background in diabetes and cardiac care, starting her professional career at the cardiac care area of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Thompson took the knowledge and experience she learned from the Cleveland Clinic and transferred it into the home health arena in rural Ohio, after which she moved to Florida and obtained further knowledge while working as a PRN nurse in all areas, including medical/surgical, intensive care, emergency, critical care, and cardiology. With a desire to have a specific area to concentrate her profession, Ms. Thompson accepted a position as a pneumonia case manager, which led into a diabetes case manager career.
Ms. Thompson has been employed in diabetes care since 2001, when she was hired as a diabetes case manager. After the completion of 1000 hours of education to diabetes patients, Ms. Thompson earned her certification as a diabetes educator in 2003. Since 2006, Ms. Thompson has been the Director of Diabetes Healthways at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida. As the director of the diabetes center, Ms. Thompson is responsible for the hospital diabetes clinicians, hospital wound care clinicians, and out-patient education program. Ms. Thompson has also lectured at the local, state, and national level regarding diabetes and the hospital management of hyperglycemia. Ms. Thompson is a member of the ADA, AADE, Florida Nurses Association, and the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants.
Ms. Thompson acknowledges her family as her greatest accomplishment. She is a wife of 20 years and a mother of a daughter and son, of which she is very proud. Ms. Thompson credits her husband for the support needed to see a goal and achieve it. He has been by her side through nursing school, completion of her Bachelor's degree, and onward to her Master's degree, which she is currently working towards at Loyola University in New Orleans.
James Trent, PhD, earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Mississippi in 1977. He has worked in rural community mental health, where psychiatric emergencies were managed without the benefit of adjacent inpatient psychiatric facilities. He has managed an independent practice of psychology since 1979, a practice that has included managing patients presenting with psychiatric emergencies. Dr. Trent taught at Middle Tennessee State University and Capella University, lecturing graduate students on psychopathology and psychotherapy. He supervised practicum students and interns at the VAMC Nashville, Tennessee, and at the Vanderbilt University Psychological and Counseling Center. He is currently the staff psychologist for the Charleston, South Carolina, VAMC Home Based Primary Care program, providing psychological services to elderly veterans who have chronic, comorbid illnesses that preclude their ability to receive primary care at the hospital. Dr. Trent also acts as the Psychology Division Planner at CME Resource.
Connie Vogel, PhD, ANP, is a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric nursing and a nurse educator. She holds a Master's degree in Psychiatric Nursing and a doctorate in Family Studies. Her primary clinical focus is geriatric psychiatry. She has worked in Veteran's Affairs facilities, managed care, mental health centers, and private psychiatric practice. She currently resides in Colorado, where she works as a consultant and in teaching an online MSN program.
Patricia Walters-Fischer, RN, BS, has worked in the healthcare field since 1992. Starting out as a nurse's aide, she worked her way from LVN to ASN while working in several hospital units, including ICU/CCU and adult and pediatric trauma. During her career, she worked at the busiest pediatric emergency center in the country, Children's Medical Center of Dallas Emergency Room. While there, she cared for and educated asthmatic children and their caregivers. Ms. Walters-Fischer is also an honors graduate of Washington University, St. Louis, with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications and Journalism and has been writing for the past ten years in local, national, and international publications.
Susan Waterbury, MSN, ARNP, ACHPN, has been working as a geriatric and family nurse practitioner since 2000. Ms. Waterbury received a Master's degree in 1999 from the University of Central Florida, specializing in Family Nurse Practice. She achieved ANCC certification as a family nurse practitioner in 2000.
Since 2001, Ms Waterbury has focused on geriatrics, providing primary care to residents of rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and assisted living facilities. Her interest in end-of-life care prompted her to receive training and certification as an Advanced Practice Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse in 2006. She has also developed and presented many education programs for nurses and community groups.
Denise Wheeler, MS, ARNP, is a certified nurse-midwife in private practice in Des Moines, Iowa. She earned an Associate degree in Nursing in 1975, a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from St. Louis University in 1982 and a Master's degree in Nursing Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1983. She has worked in a variety of settings, from out-of-hospital birth centers to tertiary care centers, and has gained significant experience in caring for women experiencing bleeding in pregnancy. She has authored papers and book chapters for publication and has been a guest lecturer at conferences for undergraduate and graduate nursing education programs.
John J. Whyte, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Expert and Vice President of Continuing Medical Education at the Discovery Channel. He is a board-certified internist, having completed an internal medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center and a health services research fellowship at Stanford University. His research focused on the management of hyperlipidemia in patients with coronary disease.
Dr. Whyte has worked in Washington, DC, since 1998. He has served as Medical Officer/Senior Advisor in the Coverage and Analysis Group as well as the Acting Director, Division of Items and Devices at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration). In those roles, Dr. Whyte made recommendations as to whether or not the Medicare program should pay for certain procedures, equipment, or services. Dr. Whyte is responsible for more national coverage decisions than any other CMS staff. These decisions include insulin pumps, home prothrombin monitors, respiratory assist devices, cryosurgery for prostate cancer, breast biopsy, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, intravenous iron, stems cells for multiple myeloma, ultrasound for fracture healing, and pneumatic compression pumps.
Dr. Whyte worked as an advisor to Secretary Tommy Thompson as part of the Council on Private Sector Initiatives to Improve the Safety, Security, and Quality of Healthcare. He remains clinically active, performing as a locum tenens in underserved areas.
Dr. Whyte has written extensively in the medical and lay press on health policy issues.
Richard L. Wynn, BSPharm, PhD, is the lead author of Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook for Dentistry, now in its 9th edition, a recognized reference source in dentistry in North America. He is the recognized authority in the use of drugs in dental practice, and his credibility as an information resource to the dental health professional has been well established. Dr. Wynn has been teaching pharmacology to dental students and has been doing research in analgesia and pain control over the last 25 years.
Lloyd Zimmerman, MD, MPH, received his MD from Ross University School of Medicine and his MPH from New York Medical College. He has written extensively on a variety of critical healthcare topics, such as cardiovascular medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, urology and obstetrics/gynecology. Currently, Dr. Zimmerman is an active member of Science Writers in New York (SWINY), the American Medical Writer Association (AMWA), and the American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE).
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