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Congratulations!June 11, 2015Friends, Family Members, and Colleagues,On behalf of the Fellows’ Executive Committee, I welcome you to the 15th annual InductionCeremony. This is a special evening as we celebrate our 15th Anniversary. It has been anamazing 15 years of growth, development and fellowship. Fifteen years ago we embarked on ajourney that has raised the Fellows to great heights within the Nurse Practitioner community.My sincere gratitude for the tireless energy and investment to all who served before me aschair as well as the 542 members and their engagement with Fellows activities. This past yearhas been a year of growth and change. As we honor this group of impressive individuals, wealso welcome this year’s Honorary Fellow, Dr. Patrick DeLeon, who has been instrumental inthe advancement of the nurse practitioner role. In honor of 50 years of the Nurse Practitionerand 15 years of FAANP, the Executive Committee has unanimously decided to honorDr. Henry Silver posthumously as an Honorary Fellow. We will also be honoring Dr. JudithBerg as our Loretta C. Ford Award for Advancement of the Nurse Practitioner Role in HealthCare awardee. Drs. DeLeon and Berg have promoted and enhanced the role of the nursepractitioner in their lifelong careers.Those members inducted as the Class of 2015 have dedicated themselves to promoting andadvancing the role of nurse practitioners through achievements in health policy, educationalinitiatives, innovative practice models, or research endeavors.Being inducted as a Fellow represents a point of great personal accomplishment for eachindividual. It also brings additional responsibilities to advance the nurse practitioner role andimprove the health of our patients, and the nation. The combined initiatives of the AmericanAssociation of Nurse Practitioners and our Fellows’ Program, require ongoing leadership insupport of the profession and our patients. The Fellows being inducted tonight are leaders,and will now expand their leadership talents and energy into Fellow initiatives.As the current Chair of the Fellows, it is both my honor and privilege to open the evening’sevents. Please join me in welcoming our new Fellows while also celebrating all who camebefore in Fellowship.Best Wishes to the Class of 2015, and Congratulations to FAANP for 15 years of fellowship.Sincerely,Mary Ellen E. Roberts, DNP, APN-C, FNAP, FAAN, FAANPChair—Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners1
FAANP 2014-2015 LeadershipHistory of FAANPFAANP Executive CommitteeThe Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) impactsnational and global health by engaging recognized nurse practitioner (NP) leaders whomake outstanding contributions to clinical practice, research, education, or policy toenhance the AANP mission. From invitational Think Tanks to the Mentorship Program,FAANP is dedicated to advancing the NP profession.Chair—Mary Ellen Roberts, DNP, APN-C, FNAP, FAAN, FAANPPast-Chair—Elizabeth R. Barker, PhD, APRN-BC, CHE, FAANPSecretary—Brenda Hoskins, DNP, ARNP, GNP-BC, FAANPTreasurer—Ric Ricciardi, PhD, CRNP, FAANPMembers-at-Large—Mona M. Counts, PhD, CRNP, FNAP, FAANP, FAANMary Jo Goolsby, EdD, MSN, NP-C, FAANP, FAANSelection CommitteeChair—Cathy M. St. Pierre, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANPJean Aertker, DNP, FNP-BC, ARNP, COHN-S, FAANPCharon A. Pierson, PhD, GNP, FAANP, FAANKatherine Joleen Kenny, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, FAANPJoyce M. Knestrick, PhD, CFNP, FAANPBarbara Sheer, PhD, PNP, FNP, FAANPSusan Eileen Kennel, PhD, ARNP, FAANPT. Jeanne Merritt, PhD, MSN-C, ARNP, FNP, FAANPSophia Thomas, APRN, FNP-BC, PPCNP-BC, FAANPLorna Schumann, PhD, NP-C, ARPN-BC, FNP, ACNP, FAANPJulie Stanik-Hutt, PhD, ACNP, FAANPThe Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) programwas established by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) in 2000 torecognize nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to healthcare through nurse practitioner (NP) clinical practice, research, education, or policy andto provide a forum through which to extend and enhance such efforts. In 2013, FAANPbecame Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners with the mergerof two national NP organizations. Priority initiatives of FAANP are the developmentof leadership and mentorship programs for nurse practitioners and nurse practitionerstudents. All active members maintain current membership in both AANP and FAANP.The FAANP leadership reports to the AANP Board of Directors.Nomination CommitteeChair—Dixie Harms, DNP, ARNP, FNP-C, BC-ADM, FAANPKerri L. Rupe, ARNP, FNP-C, COHN-S, DNP, FAANPJoy S. Elwell, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP23
2015 Loretta C. Ford Award2015 Induction Ceremony & SoiréeEvening ProgramJune 11, 2015Welcome15th Anniversary CelebrationRecognition of Charter Members and Past ChairsIntroduction of 2014 – 2015 FAANP Executive Committee2015 Loretta C. Ford Award2015 Honorary Fellow Induction2015 New Fellows InductionJudith A. Berg, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN, FAANPDr. Judith Berg received her MSN and WHNP from the School of Nursing,University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) in 1975. She has practiced as aWHNP at Planned Parenthood in California for almost 30 years. Dr. Berg receivedher PhD from UCSF in 1997 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in symptommanagement at UCSF in 10/97. She is currently an Associate Professor, Universityof Arizona College of Nursing. Dr. Berg has mentored countless NPs and has servedas an outstanding role model for the profession.Dr. Berg teaches women’s health and research design and utilization in the NPoptions. Her program of research focuses on women’s health promotion andsymptom management strategies across the lifespan. She is a well-known speakerat national and international scientific conferences and has contributed to theliterature via numerous articles on the perimenopausal experiences of FilipinoAmerican midlife women, use of health promotion strategies by Mexican-Americanmidlife women, and long term physical activity continuation in Mexican-Americansedentary elder women.She is currently conducting an intervention study on the use of a multimodaltreatment package of health promotion behaviors for perimenopausal symptommanagement in special populations, including Mexican-American women andbreast cancer survivors. She is also studying breathing perception and distress inasthmatic women across the menstrual cycle.Soirée45
2015 New Honorary Fellow InducteePatrick H. DeLeon, PhD, MPH, JD, FAANP(H)Sponsors: Heather Johnson, Jacqueline Rychnovsky, Diane SeibertDr. DeLeon is the Distinguished Professor at the Uniformed Services Universityof the Health Sciences (DoD) in the School of Nursing and School of Medicine.He also serves on the faculty of the University of Hawaii in Nursing, Law, andPharmacy. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academiesof Science in 2008 and served as President of the American PsychologicalAssociation (APA) in 2000.For over 38 years he was on the staff of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii)retiring as his Chief of Staff. He has received numerous national awards includingthe Order of Military Medical Merit; Distinguished Service Medal, USUHS;National League for Nursing Council for Nursing Centers, First Public PolicyAward; Sigma Theta Tau, Inc., International Honor Society of Nursing, FirstPublic Service Award; Ruth Knee/Milton Wittman Award for OutstandingAchievement in Health/Mental Health Policy, NASW; Delta Omega HonorSociety Award for Outstanding Alumnus from a School of Public Health;APA Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology Award; AmericanPsychological Foundation Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in thePractice of Psychology; and Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Hawaii.He has been awarded three honorary degrees. He is currently the editor ofPsychological Services and associate editor of the American Psychologist. He hasover 200 publications.The designation of Honorary Fellow will honor an extraordinarynon-nurse practitioner for exceptional and sustained contributions in oneor more of the following areas of importance to nurse practitioners:practice, education, policy, and research. The Honorary Fellow is entitledto: non-voting honorary associate membership in AANP; non-votinghonorary membership in FAANP; ability to use the title “FAANP (H)”;no obligation to pay AANP or FAANP dues.6Honorary Fellow–PosthumouslyHenry K. Silver, MD, FAANP(H)Sponsors: Mary Jo Goolsby, Ric RicciardiDr. Henry K. Silver was born in 1918 in Philadelphia, PA. He attended medicalschool at the University of California at Berkeley, and completed a pediatricinternship at the University of California San Francisco and a pediatric residencyat the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After serving early in his career on thefaculty at the University of California Medical School and Yale University Schoolof Medicine, Dr. Silver joined the faculty at the University of Colorado School ofMedicine in 1957; where he served as Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics andas the Medical School’s Associate Dean of Admissions and until his death in 1991.As Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Dr. Henry K. Silver,partnered with Loretta C. Ford, EdD, Professor and Chair of Public HealthNursing, to start the first pediatric nurse practitioner educational program. Theprogram opened in 1965 at the University of Colorado’s Schools of Medicine andNursing with Susan G. Stearly enrolled as the first student. In addition to beingthe co-founder of the nurse practitioner role, in 1968 Dr. Silver was the foundingdirector of the Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program at theUniversity of Colorado—among the first PA programs (after Duke) and the firstPA program that focused on children’s health. Dr. Silver was a recognized expertin general pediatrics, pediatric endocrinology and growth and development. SilverSyndrome, a syndrome of failure to grow, bears his name. Dr. Silver was one ofthe early pioneers in the recognition of child abuse and neglect, he and C. HenryKemp published the first paper on the “battered child syndrome”, and he reportedgroundbreaking research that abuse and neglect had on normal growth anddevelopment in children.Dr. Silver published many scholarly papers and authored textbooks on pediatrics.Dr. Silver’s Handbook of Pediatrics, referred to as the “green bible”, wasuniversally carried in the pocket or a fixture on the desk of the first generationof NPs.On this 50th Anniversary of the Nurse Practitioner, AANP honors the vision,pioneer spirit, courage, dedication, friendship, and work of Dr. Henry K. Silverand welcome him as a Fellow in the AANP.7
2015 New Fellow InducteesJulie Adkins, DNP, APN, FNP-BC, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Louann BaileySecondary Sponsor: Kevin BallardDr. Adkins is a family nurse practitioner employed as a sole provider of a walkin clinic for an acute and chronic medical home with an emphasis on diseaseprevention. She has served in this position for the past 13 years and has establishedherself in the community and continues to work with multidisciplinary colleaguesin the care of her patients. Dr. Adkin’s contributions to NP practice has beenrepresented by her active political presence and continued effort to shape the scopeof practice for all APRNs in Illinois. She received the ISAPN award twice and theAANP Excellence Award.Ivy M. Alexander, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Michelle BeauchesneSecondary Sponsor: Joy ElwellDr. Alexander is a Clinical Professor and Director of Advanced Practice Programsat the UConn School of Nursing and a practicing NP. She is a renowned educatorand clinician dedicated to translating and disseminating evidence-based, culturallysensitive information and self-care strategies for multi-ethnic, midlife womenfor osteoporosis and menopause-related symptom management. Dr. Alexanderis transforming clinical care for midlife women through numerous presentationsand publications, direct patient care, precepting, and providing consultation tocolleagues and has received numerous awards, including the Penn State SONDistinguished Alumna, APRN and Clinician of The Year, and Nightingale Awardfor Excellence in Nursing.Nanette Alexander, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Denise LinkSecondary Sponsor: Mary Anne DumasLucie J. Agosta, PhD, RNC, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Sattaria DilksSecondary Sponsor: Demetrius PorcheDr. Agosta is an Associate Professor and Director of the FNP Program atSoutheastern Louisiana University, serves as the APRN representative to theLouisiana State Board of Nursing, and is coordinator of the Woman’s HospitalEmployee Health NP Clinic. She received the prestigious AANP State Award ofExcellence in 2008, the LANP APRN of the Year in 2008 and Entrepreneur of theYear in 2007. Dr. Agosta received a BS in Nursing from Southeastern LouisianaUniversity, an MSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center atHouston, and a PhD from Louisiana State University in 2005.8Dr. Alexander is a certified adult nurse practitioner in Glastonbury and WestHartford, CT. She provides primary care and specialty pulmonary care to a diversepatient population. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from StonyBrook University in 2010. Dr. Alexander received the Nurse Practitioner of theYear Award from CTAPRNS in 2002 and has testified and lobbied for the removalof restrictions on practice and filed for autonomous practice in August 2014. Shebelieves that the models of best health care delivery include collaboration of careand utilizing all healthcare providers to their full scope of practice.9
Brenda Bergman-Evans, PhD, APRN-NP, APRN-CNS, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Kathryn FiandtSecondary Sponsor: Dixie HarmsMary Brennan, DNP, AGACNP-BC, ANP, RN, FAANPDr. Bergman-Evans is the Vice President of Advanced Practice and ProgramDirector of the Nursing Home Network (NHN) at CHI Health: AlegentCreighton (CHI-AC). In 2005, she joined CHI-AC to design and implementthe Nursing Home Network; an NP model of caring for skilled nursing homeresidents. In 2012, she led initiatives for receipt of CMS funding for a CommunityCare Transitions Program (CCTP) and a four-year 5.2 million grant for theEnhanced Care and Coordination Program (ECCP). She is extremely proud to benamed the 2007 and 2014 American Association of Nurse Practitioners NebraskaState Excellence Award.Dr. Brennan is a Clinical Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Adult AcuteCare Nurse Practitioner Program, and faculty in the Doctor of Nursing PracticeProgram at NYU. As an educator, she has developed a number of innovativetechnologies to promote clinical decision-making and diagnostic reasoning.Working in West Africa, she taught emergency room nurses guidelines fortreatment of acutely ill infants and children. She is an expert in evidence-basedpractice, co-chair of the Evidence-Based Steering Committee and is leading aninterprofessional Cochrane systematic review team. She was recently named oneof 16 “Great Acute Care Professors” by nursepractitionerschools.org.Nancy R. Berman, MSN, ANP-BC, NCMP, FAANPBrian R. Buchner, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Diane PaceSecondary Sponsor: Barbara DehnNancy Berman practices with Michigan Healthcare Professionals in FarmingtonHills, Michigan and is a clinical instructor at Wayne State University Schoolof Medicine. Ms. Berman became an NP in 1978, was one of the first nursecolposcopists, and is an acknowledged expert in HPV and cervical cancerprevention and colposcopy, as well as in menopause management. She serves onmultidisciplinary faculties, advisory boards, and committees and is a certifiedNAMS Menopause Practitioner. She is on Board of Directors of the AmericanSociety for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) and has received theircolposcopy recognition award.10Primary Sponsor: Jamesetta NewlandSecondary Sponsor: Donna HallasPrimary Sponsor: Ruth KleinpellSecondary Sponsor: Randall HudspethDr. Buchner is a Hospitalist with Straub Clinic & Hospital in Honolulu, HI, andis a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Buchner is theco-chair of the AANP Clinical Practice Committee and the Chair for the AANPAcute Care Specialty Practice Group. Dr. Buchner’s interest includes evidencebased practice, nurse practitioner education, holistic care, and advancing the roleof nurse practitioners on hospitalist services. He frequently lectures, and recentlydeveloped the online EBP resource directory for AANP. He is a previous recipientof the Outstanding Leadership and Involvement Award.11
Theresa M. Campo, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, ENP-BC, FAANPDeborah W. Chapa, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Karen HoytSecondary Sponsor: Margaret FitzgeraldPrimary Sponsor: Christine PintzSecondary Sponsor: Joyce PulciniDr. Campo is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the FNP Program atFelician College. She is an NP in the ED at Atlanticare Regional Medical Center.Dr. Campo is the Column Editor for the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journaland has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and has coauthored a procedural book with a 2nd edition under contract. Dr. Campopresents lectures nationally and internationally. She is Vice-Chair of the ANCCcontent expert panel for ENP-Board Certification and was the first ENP-BC inNew Jersey. Theresa was awarded the AANP State Award for Excellence in 2011.Dr. Chapa is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the DNP Program atGeorge Washington University, School of Nursing. She is an expert in the field ofpsychosocial variables and cardiovascular health. She has published in the areas ofNP clinical decision making and psychosocial variables and cardiovascular health.Dr. Chapa currently practices in inpatient palliative care for the Lee MemorialHealth System in Fort Myers, Florida.Virginia Conley, PhD, ARNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAANPDoreen Cassarino, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Gail SadlerSecondary Sponsor: Janet DuBoisDr. Cassarino is a FNP from Naples, Florida providing primary and specialtydiabetes care, where she has improved outcomes by developing innovative prediabetes program and an interdisciplinary care model for diabetic patients.She was one of the first of 300 NPs nationwide holding the prestigious BoardCertification in Advanced Diabetes Management. She directed the developmentand implementation of legislation improving access to NP services. Dr. Cassarinohas received numerous awards including AANP Florida Advocacy Award,Florida Nurses Association Great 100 Nurses and recognition as a model ofexemplary leadership by the Institute of Medicine/Robert Wood Johnson FloridaAction Coalition.12Primary Sponsor: Kerri RupeSecondary Sponsor: Rebecca SiewertDr. Conley is a clinical associate professor at the University of Iowa Collegeof Nursing where she coordinates the PMHNP track and is Director of DNPand MSN/CNL Programs. She is certified as both an FNP and a PMHNP.She practices with a PACT (Program for Assertive Community Treatment)team where she is the health care provider for persons with severe and chronicmental illness. She has been honored for both teaching and practice excellenceand has presented on topics related to the scholarship of teaching nationally andinternationally.13
Katherine Darling, DNP, PMHNP/FNP-BC, APRN, FAANPKristene Diggins, DNP, MBA, DCC, CNE, FAANPPrimary Sponsor: Rosalinda MoralesSecondary Sponsor: Janette ZdanukPrimary Sponsor: Deborah VarnamSecondary Sponsor: Nancy BalkonDr. Darling owns Northwest Arkansas Psychiatry clinic which provides inpatientpsychiatric care. She’s authored policy briefs, white papers, executive summaries,quality improvement recommendations, and psychiatric curriculum forundergraduate nurses. At ISPN; she’s been a Foundation Board member, treasurer,and Marketing/Development Chair; for APNA; the nominations committee,Advanced Practice Steering Com
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