Speakers

Kate Gawlik DNP, APRN-CNP, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
The Ohio State University

Dr. Kate Gawlik is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of Undergraduate Health and Wellness Academic Programming, and the Director of the Bachelor of Science in health and wellness program at The Ohio State University. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner and her areas of expertise are in wellness, cardiovascular prevention, parental burnout, and nursing education. She pioneered an online educational program, the Million Hearts Fellowship, for healthcare professionals that has resulted in the cardiovascular screening and education of over 110,000 people nationwide and has been embedded into nursing curricula across the U.S. This work has received four national awards, including most recently, the AACN’s Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Academy of Nursing. 
 

Jennifer Cooper, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC, CNE
Associate Professor & Chair 
Hood College Department of Nursing

Dr. Jennifer Cooper is an Associate Professor and Department Chair for Nursing at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.  Her experience in community/public health nursing practice and nursing education provides the foundation for her practice, teaching, scholarship and service.  She is a Past President of the Association of Public Health Nurses and liaison to the national Million Hearts® initiative.  Dr. Cooper leads Hood Million Hearts®, where she works with nursing students to promote cardiovascular disease prevention in the Frederick community.  She serves as a liaison for nursing to the Frederi ck County Board of Health as a Board Member of the Maryland Nurses Association.  Dr. Cooper earned her DNP from The George Washington University, MSN from Rush University and BSN from Cedarville University.
 

Speakers

Kristine L’Ecuyer, PhD, RN, CNE, CNL
Interim Dean
Saint Louis University Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing
 

Dr. Kristine L’Ecuyer is a distinguished nurse educator with experience caring for adult and pediatric patients recovering from cardiovascular surgery and preparing future generations of nurses through innovative teaching and leadership. At Saint Louis University, Dr. L’Ecuyer has made a significant impact as a faculty member, teaching medical-surgical clinicals and nursing courses in adult health, critical care, pathophysiology, and Ph.D.-level knowledge development in nursing. Her leadership roles include Director of Continuing Nursing Education, coordinator for the Accelerated Master of Science in Nursing (AMSN) program, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Pre-Licensure Education. She currently serves as Interim Dean, where her leadership continues to advance the school's mission of excellence in nursing education and practice. Dr. L’Ecuyer is a recognized leader in preceptor training and development, teaching the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) Preceptor Academy for the past 15 years. She is the developer of the Preceptor Self-Assessment Tool (PSAT-40), a licensed resource widely used to enhance preceptor competency and training. Her scholarly contributions include publications on preceptor training, interprofessional education, clinical nurse leader (CNL) certification and outcomes, nursing leadership, and preceptors’ experiences with nursing students who have learning disabilities.

Speakers

Catherine Horvath, DNP, CRNA, CNE, CHSE, FAANA
Simulation Director and Faculty
Anesthesia for Nurses Program
Medical University of South Carolina

Catherine Horvath is a nurse anesthesiology educator and currently works at Medical University of South Carolina in the Anesthesia for Nurses Program. Previously, Catherine served in the role of Program Director for the DNP Nurse Anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Assistant Program Director for the DNAP Program at Georgetown University. In those roles, she was responsible for leading institutional planning, curriculum design, and governance roles. She has served as the simulation/cadaver lab director and led innovative approaches to incorporate novel educational uses of simulation into the training curricula for over 18 years. Foundational to these efforts, Catherine has completed a fellowship in simulation pedagogy through the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning and has earned the status of Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator with the Society of Simulation in Healthcare. Catherine also has a passion for the health of providers in the anesthesia profession, having focused her DNP project on drug security, and previously was chair of the AANA Health and Wellness Committee. She received her BSN in 1992 from University of Virginia, MSN in 1994 from Northeastern University, and DNP in 2016 from Georgetown University. Her CRNA clinical practice spanned 32 years.

Speakers

Nicole Mollenkopf, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCPPS
Assistant Professor
Director of Interprofessional Education
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Nicole Mollenkopf is a nursing educator, pharmacist, and patient safety specialist with over 20 years of clinical experience working in interprofessional health care teams in both the community and acute care settings. She has been educating nursing, pharmacy, and other health professions students for 18 years with the last 8 years as full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing as an assistant professor and Director of Interprofessional Education. In this role, Nicole oversees the interprofessional education (IPE) program which educates thousands of learners each year. Under her leadership, the IPE program scope expanded to include a community-based, health equity focus. We have an IPE experience that leverages teams to mitigate provider and systemic bias in opioid-use disorder care, as well as an interprofessional critical service-learning program that brings interprofessional students together with community partners to foster community-service learning within a social justice framework. Similarly, the IPE program has moved from didactic learning methods to include simulation- and clinically-based interprofessional experiences. Her scholarship involves a variety of funded and unfunded projects assessing outcomes associated with interprofessional education, simulation training, as well as the use of human factors engineering to improve medication safety and team-based care.
 

Jessica Heacock, MSN, PMHNP-BC
DNP Executive Student
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Jessica Heacock is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, aspiring policy expert, and nurse educator nearing completion of her doctoral degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has twenty years of nursing experience, much of which has been dedicated to working with underserved populations. In her clinical role, Jessica specializes in working with people with severe and persistent mental illness and co-occurring substance-use disorders. She consistently demonstrates the value of patient-centered care, focusing on patient education and shared decision-making. She has previously worked with similar patient populations as a care manager, helping to address the many social determinants negatively impacting health outcomes. Jessica is passionate about mentorship and is committed to passing these values to future practitioners. Jessica was recently awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Interprofessional Education Fellowship. In her fellowship capacity, she collaborated with the National Academy of Medicine to lead a pilot project implementing the 3Cs Framework for Pain and Unhealthy Substance Use for interprofessional education development focused on opioid use disorders.

Speakers

Nicole Mollenkopf, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCPPS
Assistant Professor
Director of Interprofessional Education
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Nicole Mollenkopf is a nursing educator, pharmacist, and patient safety specialist with over 20 years of clinical experience working in interprofessional health care teams in both the community and acute care settings. She has been educating nursing, pharmacy, and other health professions students for 18 years with the last 8 years as full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing as an assistant professor and Director of Interprofessional Education. In this role, Nicole oversees the interprofessional education (IPE) program which educates thousands of learners each year. Under her leadership, the IPE program scope expanded to include a community-based, health equity focus. We have an IPE experience that leverages teams to mitigate provider and systemic bias in opioid-use disorder care, as well as an interprofessional critical service-learning program that brings interprofessional students together with community partners to foster community-service learning within a social justice framework. Similarly, the IPE program has moved from didactic learning methods to include simulation- and clinically-based interprofessional experiences. Her scholarship involves a variety of funded and unfunded projects assessing outcomes associated with interprofessional education, simulation training, as well as the use of human factors engineering to improve medication safety and team-based care.
 

Jessica Heacock, MSN, PMHNP-BC
DNP Executive Student
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Jessica Heacock is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, aspiring policy expert, and nurse educator nearing completion of her doctoral degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has twenty years of nursing experience, much of which has been dedicated to working with underserved populations. In her clinical role, Jessica specializes in working with people with severe and persistent mental illness and co-occurring substance-use disorders. She consistently demonstrates the value of patient-centered care, focusing on patient education and shared decision-making. She has previously worked with similar patient populations as a care manager, helping to address the many social determinants negatively impacting health outcomes. Jessica is passionate about mentorship and is committed to passing these values to future practitioners. Jessica was recently awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Interprofessional Education Fellowship. In her fellowship capacity, she collaborated with the National Academy of Medicine to lead a pilot project implementing the 3Cs Framework for Pain and Unhealthy Substance Use for interprofessional education development focused on opioid use disorders.