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Dr. Carolyn Rutledge is Professor and Associate Chair of the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University (ODU). She is the director of the online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at ODU, which ranks 15thin the nation. In addition to her academic role at ODU, Dr. Rutledge holds the position of Professor of Family Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School where she has maintained an active clinical practice for the past 32 years and served in a faculty role for the medical school, family practice residency, and faculty development. Dr. Rutledge has published over 55 articles and served as an investigator on 28 successful grant applications totaling over $18 million with a primary focus on utilizing new models of care such as telehealth to provide care to rural and underserved populations. Since 2010, Dr. Rutledge has focused on improving the way healthcare is delivered in remote areas using telehealth to enhance patient care and communication. She was the lead in developing the NONPF position paper on educating Nurse Practitioners in telehealth. She is a sought-after national consultant in the area of telehealth education and has a book, “Telehealth Essentials for Advanced Practice Nursing” in press. She is currently serving as the Academic Director of the Center for Telehealth Innovation, Education, and Research (C-TIER) at ODU. In 2014, Dr. Rutledge received the SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, the highest honor provided to faculty in Virginia.

Dr. Gustin has over 35-years of advanced practice nursing experience. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University (ODU) School of Nursing where she teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. Her most recent appointment was as the Director of the school’s Center for Telehealth Innovation, Education, and Research (C-TIER). The center serves as a telehealth learning hub and research center not only for the state but also the East Coast Region of the United States. She is the clinical manager for the Pediatric Telehealth program at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk Virginia. Dr. Gustin has been responsible for the development of this new program and assuring clinical competence of the telehealth providers. She is the PI and Co-PI for several Health and Human Services Administration (HRSA) grants totally over 6 million dollars. These grants have aimed at reaching the rural and underserved though telehealth and interprofessional collaboration. Dr. Gustin has extensively published and presented on both interprofessional team-based care and preparing providers for telehealth both nationally and internationally. She served on the American Nurses Association task force for technology and was most recently elected to the Center for Telehealth and eHealth Law (CTeL) Advisory Board, she is currently chairing the Telehealth Education Task for CTeL. She has been invited to several nursing and medical schools to assist in the development of a telehealth curriculum and to present her work.

Janice Hawkins is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Community and Global Initiatives for the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University. She completed her BSN at the University of South Carolina and her MSN at the Medical University of South Carolina. She graduated with her PhD in Nursing Education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in undergraduate nursing education and currently serves as the Chief Academic Advisor for the nursing program at ODU.

Lynn Wiles is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University. Lynn completed her BSN at Radford University, MSN with a major in nursing education and minor in critical care at Marymount University, and PhD in Nursing at Duquesne University. Currently she serves as the Undergraduate Program Director for the pre-and-post licensure programs. Previously she was the Director of Technology and Simulation for the school. She has nearly 25 years of experience teaching in both online and face to face formats.

Dr. Diane Tyler is a family nurse practitioner and Director of Certification with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB). She has been an advanced practice nurse since 1996, and has worked in community health clinics, school-based primary care, occupational and retail health care clinics. Prior to her current role with AANPCB, Dr. Tyler was a professor of clinical nursing and director of the NP programs at The University of Texas at Austin. Recent professional activities include advancing certification and accreditation standards and nursing specialty role development. Dr. Tyler is a certified association executive, an appointed member on the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She received her BSN from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio and her MSN and PhD from UT Austin. Post-graduate FNP preparation was completed at UT Galveston as a component of a post-doctoral fellowship in primary care sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Southern Regional Education Board.

Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP is a digital health and diabetes researcher at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She maintains an active clinical practice as an endocrinology nurse practitioner at the Utah Diabetes and Endocrinology Center. She is a Jonas Scholar (2010-2012), Vice President Clinical & Translational Scholar (2017-2019) and Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Her research is focused on the social context of chronic disease management across the lifespan as it relates to online and family environments. Her research has been highlighted on NPR Science Friday, Medscape, and U.S. World News Reports.

Karen Jacobs is the Vice President of Account Management at Liaison. She is a higher education leader with over 30 years of experience in the field of admission and enrollment management. Specialties include diversity and holistic-based admissions, emerging technologies, professional communication, operational efficiencies and process management.

Stephanie Wurth is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at AACN and oversees NursingCAS in her role. She has over 15 years of experience in higher education with expertise in admission and enrollment management within healthcare colleges. Stephanie has managed centralized application services at the national level for osteopathic medicine and physician assistant programs as well.

Adele Foerster, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC/AC is PNCB’s Chief Credentialing Officer. She oversees exam development including job task and role research for all four PNCB certifications, currently held by over 50,000 RNs and CPNPs. She is also responsible for a variety of CE products that strengthen lifelong learning for pediatric nursing professionals. A 1977 graduate of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing and the University of Maryland, she served as an Army Nurse in pediatric settings until 1998 including roles in management and education. After completing a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate from Johns Hopkins University in 2000, she worked full time in a local emergency department in Maryland until joining PNCB in 2010. Over the past three decades, she has enjoyed a variety of nursing experiences including pediatric home care, research data collection at Baltimore’s Shock Trauma Units, nursing staff development, and teaching in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Uniformed Services University. She has past affiliation with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and has served as leadership with the Maryland Chesapeake Chapter of NAPNAP.

Dr. Ziehm has 30 years of experience teaching and serving as an academic administrator overseeing Master’s Entry programs. He has been an invited consultant to over 20 universities to either develop or revise accelerated programs that offer entre to nursing for second career students. He has published nationally and internationally on this work. In 2018, he presented at the AACN Masters Conference titled, “Accelerated Masters-Entry Programs: Structuring a Program Built for Success.”

Since 2015, Dr. Ziehm has served as the Associate Dean for Prelicensure Programs and Accreditation and Professor at the University of San Francisco, School of Nursing and Health Professions. His work on this initiative focused on making revisions to ensure the program met high quality outcomes for the students and the partnership.

Mary Donnelly, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC, ACNP-BC, CNL has a record of leadership and advocacy for increasing patient access to primary care and advocating for the increased presence of nursing leadership in primary care settings.

Dr. Donnelly has provided primary care for over 40 years in a variety of settings on three continents. This experience has provided her with the expertise in practice and in graduate education to foster and promote independence, ethical behavior, critical thinking and sensitivity to the varied perspectives of culturally diverse populations.

Dr. Donnelly was a site supervisor for a nurse run community health center is Baltimore, MD which provided healthcare resources for community member with no insurance or insufficient health insurance while precepting medical residents and graduate nursing students in primary care management of chronic diseases. She received the Johns Hopkins Biennial Retreat in Primary Care, Service Excellence Award for this work. Dr. Donnelly also received a grant award for over $9,000.00 to evaluate a program for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk factors in the Urban Environment, sponsored by Urban Health Institute.

As an educator, Dr. Donnelly has 12 years of experience working with Masters’ entry into nursing programs, formerly with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and currently with the San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. She is currently serving on a task force with the AAACN to develop guidelines for academic and practice partnerships.

Erica Hooper-Arana has nursing experience working in the areas of geriatrics, pediatrics, primary care, public health, leadership, program development, research, and education. She has a BSN and DNP in Health Care Systems Leadership from the University of San Francisco. She also has an MSN in Advanced Community Health and International Nursing with a minor in Education from the University of California San Francisco. She has been a nurse educator at the University of San Francisco since 2005.

At USF Erica Hooper-Arana serves as faculty lead for the Joint Venture Health Initiative (JVHI), which is a clinical option designed to prepare nursing master’s-entry students for nursing roles in primary care. She was a participant in the 2016 Macy Conference on preparing registered nurses for enhanced roles in primary care. In 2019, she co-authored a poster presented at the annual AAACN conference that described the incorporation of ambulatory care competencies in USF nursing education. She recently published a co-authored Nurse Educator manuscript describing the pilot years of JVHI. She is also a co-author for the 2019 AACN award nomination for innovations in professional nursing education based on JVHI, which led to USF being selected as recipient of the award and to the fruition of this webinar.

Additionally, Erica Hooper-Arana is a Caritas Coach® and has a passion for alternative healing practices as well as promoting the health and wellness of vulnerable populations. She has an expertise working in community health with an emphasis on juvenile justice system-involved youth.

Dr. Brasher has 10 years of experience teaching prelicensure nursing students on the subject of Pediatric Nursing. She is a pediatric Registered Nurse and Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. She obtained her PhD in Nursing with a minor in neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She is recognized as a content expert in Pediatrics and is actively involved in curricula development.

Ruth Gallego is an AACN-CDC Public Health Nursing Fellowship with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She co-leads the Immunization Resources for Undergraduate Nursing (IRUN) project. She earned her MPH with a specialization in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Washington University in St Louis and her BS in Nursing from CUNY College of Staten Island.

Dusti Annan-Coultas, EdD is Assistant Professor and Director of Operations in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Annan’s background is in the area of education and instructional technology, and her teaching and research interests include teaching innovations, experiential learning, instructional technology, faculty professional development for teaching.

Kimberly Kascak is an instructor in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical Unviersity of South Carolina. Kimberly graduated from the College of Charleston with a bachelor’s degree in Special Education and has an M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction.

In 2016, she joined the South Carolina AHEC Program Office in July as the Curriculum Coordinator for the Office of Telehealth Education. Kimberly has extensive national and international experience educating children with disabilities. As a Peace Corps volunteer, she taught Moroccan children attending Beni-Mellal School for the Blind. In the United States, a great portion of Kimberly’s experience has centered on children with severe disabilities, and she is a co-founder of Pattison’s Academy, a non-profit, public charter school specializing in this population. Kimberly is also an author of the developing Pediatric Sensory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique (SMART). Kimberly spent the many years promoting personalized and individualized student learning among educators and administrators in the Charleston County school district as well as providing information technology mentorship to students and staff.

As Executive Director of the Office of Instructional Technology and Faculty Resources, Dr. Mauldin brings over 20 years of experience in instructional design and educational technology, leading a team of instructional designers, multimedia specialists, programmers, and graphic artists in the design of interactive online instructional programs. The team has created over 250 online web-based programs, with several used by over 300,000 participants from around the world.

As Associate Director of Education of the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives, Dr. Mauldin provides consultation in the development of interprofessional education courses and experiences. These programs focus on the integration and assessment of interprofessional teamwork in education, research and practice as a means to improve health care for individuals and communities.

For six years, she led the Interprofessional Faculty and Staff Development Institute, providing over one hundred faculty and staff the opportunity to gain experience in interprofessional teamwork and practice. She has also served as the advisor for the Maralynne D. Mitcham Interprofessional Fellowship, and led MUSC’s research project for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.

Edward L. Rogan, PharmD, BCACP, FCPhA earned his bachelor of science in biology from University of Illinois and his doctor of pharmacy from University of Iowa. Originally from Chicago, Dr. Rogan followed his Californian wife to the West Coast to pursue a career as a pharmacy manager. He oversaw a community site for Pacific's Advance Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) program. Dr. Rogan received the Stockton Region Preceptor of the Year award in 2006 for his excellence in facilitating students on rotations. Dr. Rogan has a wealth of experience in pharmacy practice from working at an independent pharmacy. He became a member of the Pacific faculty in 2014. Dr. Rogan currently precepts a Veterans Affairs telehealth clinic.

Holly H. Wise, PT, PhD, FNAP is a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and is an academic educator with a breadth of experience in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice. She has worked in settings ranging from acute care to rehabilitation centers, co-owned a private practice for 13 years, and co-founded two interprofessional post-polio evaluation clinics.

She served from 2012-2018 as the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) representative to the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Health and Medicine Division, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine). She currently continues to serve as the ACAPT alternate representative to the Global Forum as well as the Interprofessional Education Collaborative.

Dr. Wise has multiple publications and presentations related to the scholarship of teaching with a focus on IPE and collaborative practice.

Deepti Vyas, PharmD earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Purdue University in 2006. She then completed a pharmacy practice and administration residency at Moses Cone Health Systems in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is currently the Director of Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of the Pacific. She runs an IPE program consisting of students from eight different health professions and across four US states. Prior to coming to Pacific, she was a faculty member at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy and was a practicing clinical pharmacist.

When Dr. Vyas is not teaching, she enjoys traveling. Her love for travel stems from her background; she is originally from India, while she was born in Malaysia, she grew up in Kenya before moving to the United States.

Lisa Howley is an Educational Psychologist who has spent over 20 years advancing medical education. She currently leads strategic efforts to support the advancement of teaching and learning across the continuum of medical education. Prior to becoming the Senior Director of Initiatives and Partnerships at the Association of American Medical Colleges, she served as the Assistant Vice President of Medical Education and Physician Development for the Carolinas HealthCare System in North Carolina. In that role, she led a number of medical education initiatives across the professional development continuum, including graduate medical education accreditation and physician leadership development. She concurrently served as the Assistant Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where she supported curriculum and faculty development at the UNC regional campus in Charlotte, and engaged in scholarship contributing to empirical and conceptual literature in evaluation and assessment of clinical performance.

She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida, and both her Master of Education and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Kathy McGuinn, MSN, RN, CPHQ, FNAP is the Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice Partnerships and Special Advisor on Quality Initiatives at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Ms. McGuinn has been a leader for AACN’s strategic initiatives related to interprofessional education and practice, which include assisting with the planning of the national Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Institutes; actively participating with the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC); and partnering with the Schwartz Center on collaborative compassionate care. Most recently, Ms. McGuinn was the lead staff for AACN’s 2016 groundbreaking report, Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing. This report has strong interprofessional underpinnings.

Dr. Kelly Ragucci received her undergraduate pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Toledo. Subsequently, she completed a clinical pharmacy residency in Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Kelly was a faculty member at Wilkes University for 2 years and then on faculty at MUSC for 19 years. She served as Assistant Dean for Curriculum for 4 of those years and as Department Chair of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences for 6 years.

She is currently the Vice President of Professional Development with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Her teaching and research interests include interprofessional education, the scholarship of teaching and learning, educational technology, transformative practice models and women’s health.

She has published a total of 59 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Dr. Ragucci is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. She is an active member of a variety of professional organizations, including AACP, American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and IPEC.

Tamara Martinez-Anderson has spent her 20-year career in higher education as an admissions professional. Early in her career, as an assistant dean at Gonzaga University School of Law she was involved in developing processes that moved the review of law school applications from a metrics-heavy emphasis to one that valued a holistic review of a candidate’s experiences, personal attributes, and professional competencies.

In her current role as the Director of Admissions at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine (UNR Med), Martinez-Anderson oversees pipeline development initiatives aimed at creating a more diverse and prepared applicant pool. She directs a highly holistic review process built on a rubric that evaluates each candidate on ten essential competencies based upon the institutional mission and values at UNR Med. In addition, she is responsible for the delivery of over 330 Multi-Mini Interviews each year and unconscious bias training for over 200 MMI interviewers and all members of the admission staff and committee.

Martinez-Anderson has served as a consultant with the AACN and has been part of the team delivering Holistic Admissions Review Workshops.