Class Notes 2000-2009

Terri Allison, PMC'00, was interviewed in February 2022 for "The DNP Executive Leadership Career Path: Is it Right for You?" by Minority Nurse, and presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April. She was promoted to professor at VUSN in June 2021, and was named Distinguished Alumna of Auburn University School of Nursing in Alabama in August 2020. She is assistant dean for academics and director of the doctor of nursing practice program at VUSN.

Angel Anthamatten, MSN'00, is author of "Prescribing Contraindications and Cautions for HIV," published in the January 2022 issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, and co-author of "Utilizing Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life Measures in the Management of Obesity," published in February in the  Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice. She co-presented a preconference workshop called "Pharmacologic Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Common Chronic Conditions," at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium in July, and received the Sara K. Archer Award from the students in the VUSN family nurse practitioner specialty in August. Angel received the VUSN FNP Sara K. Archer Award in August 2021, and published "Prescribing Contraindications and Cautions for HIV," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners that November. She co-authored "Pharmacologic Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Common Chronic Conditions," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in March 2020, and received the Sara K. Archer Award that August. Angel co-wrote "Development of an Interprofessional Home Healthcare Management Service within an Urban Housing Development," published in the September/October 2019 issue of Home Healthcare Now, and "Assessment and Treatment of Dizziness and Vertigo," published in The Nurse Practitioner in October. She received the 2016 VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Informatics Endeavors.

Alison Boehm Barlow, BS'95, MSN'00, was named VUSN Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Preceptor of the Year in August 2022, and received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November. She received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Russ Branch, MSN'00, was promoted to assistant professor in the nurse anesthesia program at Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta in September 2022. He is lead author of "Environmental Surface Hygiene in the OR: Strategies for Reducing the Transmission of Health Care-associated Infections," published in the October 2020 issue of the AORN Journal, and earned his doctor of nursing practice from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in December. Russ is a nurse anesthetist at Gastroenterology Anesthesia Associates in Atlanta.

Heather Carter-Templeton, MSN'00, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2020. She is an associate professor at the University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing in Tuscaloosa where her research links informatics with evidence-based practice.

Duke Chenault, MSN'00, DNP'16, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and wrote about thyroid awareness in the December 2020 issue of Health & Wellness, the Vanderbilt faculty and staff newsletter. He was interviewed for "Don't Get Tricked by Halloween Treats," in the October-November 2017 issue of Vanderbilt's Connection newsletter, and about skin exposure safety in its June-July 2016 issue.

Michael Cull, MSN'00, posted "Resilience Reconsidered," on the TCOM Conversations blog in March 2020. He is associate director for safe systems at the University of Kentucky's Center for Innovation in Population Health and associate professor in the UK Department of Health Management and Policy, both in Lexington.

Holly Gillon, MSN'00, retired in August 2017 from her career with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Nashville.

Erin Hardiman, MSN'00, co-authored "The Disruptive BEhavior ManageMEnt ANd Prevention in Hospitalized Patients Using a BehaviORal Intervention Team (DEMEANOR) Study Protocol: A Pragmatic, Cluster, Crossover Trial," published in Trials in May 2020. She is a child and adolescent psychiatric nurse practitioner at Wellness Solutions in Nashville.

Angela Hatchett, MSN'00, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Amy Helms, MSN'00, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Health First from OBGYN Specialists of Brevard in Melbourne, Florida (2021).

Nancy Hollingsworth, MSN'00, MBA'00, is president and chief executive officer at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, California (2017).

Tara King Holmes, BE'96, MSN'00, is a nurse practitioner at Valley Health's Urology Clinic of Winchester in Virginia (2020).

Jason Jean, MSN'00, DNP'16, is an instructor in the Nursing and Health Care Leadership and doctor of nursing practice programs at VUSN (2021).

Christine Machicao, MSN'00, is a nurse practitioner at the Children's Clinic in Saint Louis (2018).

Amanda Bailey McNeely, BE'98, MSN'00, wrote "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday!" published in the October/December 2020 issue of Plastic Surgical Nursing. She has served as president of the International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses.

India Medley, MSN'00, was profiled on the website of the North American Division of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in September 2020. She is vice president and chief nursing officer at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Donna Noland, MSN'00, was featured in et online in February 2020 in a story about her marriage to the East Tennessee State University president and life as ETSU's "first lady".

Robert Palmer, BE'98, MSN'00, PhD'05, co-presented a fundamentals of critical care course at the American Association of Nursing Practitioners conference in June 2019. He is on faculty at the D.E.L.T.A. STEAM Academy in Atlanta and director of informatics for the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Patrick Palmieri, MSN'00, was named a fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in October 2021. He was promoted in 2020 to vice chancellor for research at the Universidad Norbert Wiener in Lima, Peru, overseeing a team of researchers, methodologists, statisticians, analysts and assistants. Patrick co-presented a poster, "Resilience Levels and Family Function of Vulnerable Adolescents Residing in a Shelter in Peru," at the Sigma Theta Tau Congress in July 2019, and was named the Margaret Jean Watson Distinguished Professor at the Escuela de Enfermería at UNW. In 2018, Patrick was elected to chair the board of directors of the Sigma Foundation for Nursing. He was awarded the degree doctor honoris causa by the Universidad María Auxiliadora in Peru in October 2016, and co-authored the book, Global Advances in Human Caring Literacy, published that November. Patrick founded the Instituto Nacional de la Enfermería del Peru and is director of the EBHC South America: A Joanna Briggs Institute Affiliated Group. He leads a team of researchers in Peru that has been studying the human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, with grant assistance from Spain and the European Union.

Lateesa Posey, MSN'00, is a nurse practitioner at DeVito & Alvarado Pediatrics in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York (2020).

Sheila Ridner, MSN'00, PhD'03, is lead author of "A Comparison of Bioimpedance Spectroscopy or Tape Measure Triggered Compression Intervention in Chronic Breast Cancer Lymphedema Prevention," published in January 2022 in Lymphatic Research and Biology. Her research in lymphedema was featured in February in Yahoo!Finance and Finance News Network, and in March, she spoke with Oncology Nursing News about her research. Sheila's work was covered in April by MedicalXpress, Mirage.news, Oncology Nursing News, Oncology Nursing News again and Vanderbilt University Research News. She co-authored "Validity Testing of the Head and Neck Lymphedema and Fibrosis Symptom Inventory," published that month in Lymphatic Research and Biology. Sheila is co-author of "Risk Factors for Breast Cancer–related Lymphedema in Patients Undergoing 3 Years of Prospective Surveillance with Intervention," published in Cancer in July, and of "Prospective Surveillance with Compression for Subclinical Lymphedema: Symptoms, Skin and Quality-of-life Outcomes," in Lymphatic Research and Biology in September. Her piece, "Bioimpedance Spectroscopy May Play a Large Role in Proactively Preventing Chronic Lymphedema," was named among Oncology Nursing News top stories for 2022. Sheila co-authored "Standardization of Lower Extremity Quantitative Lymphedema Measurements and Associated Patient-reported Outcomes in Gynecologic Cancers," published in Gynecologic Oncology, and "Perceived Effects of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms on Functional Status in Early-stage Huntington Disease," in the Western Journal of Nursing Research, both in February 2021. She is co-author of "Perceived Benefits of a Brief Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-deployment Military Service Members," in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine in March, and was named professor emerita at Vanderbilt in May. Sheila is co-author of "Subjective Cognition Reported by Caregivers is Correlated with Objective Cognition in Liver Transplant Recipients," published in Liver Transplantation, and "Implementation Strategies in the Context of Medication Reconciliation: A Qualitative Study," in Implementation Science Communications, both in June. She co-authored "Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-deployment Military Service Members: A Randomized Controlled Trial," published in July in Clinical Nursing Research. She is the subject of a September Yahoo! Finance story about her work with Tactile Systems Technology to treat head and neck lymphedema, and an October Vanderbilt University Research News piece on faculty innovators. Sheila is lead author of "L-Dex, Arm Volume and Symptom Trajectories 24 Months after Breast Cancer Surgery," published in Cancer Medicine in January 2020. She co-authored "A Qualitative Examination of Patient Priorities and Preferences during Treatment Decision-making for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer," in Supportive Care in Cancer, both in May, and "Implementing a Prospective Surveillance and Early Intervention Model of Care for Breast Cancer-related Lymphedema into Clinical Practice: Application of the RE-AIM Framework," published in June in Supportive Care in Cancer. In October, "Measuring Functional Status in Huntington's Disease," which she co-authored, was published in Movement Disorders. Sheila is lead author of "Lymphedema Symptom Intensity and Distress Surveys—Truncal and Head and Neck, Version 2.0," published in Lymphatic Research and Biology, and was featured, along with her research, in Vanderbilt's MyVU in November. She retired from her role as Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of Nursing and director of the VUSN PhD in Nursing Science program in December. Sheila was named American Cancer Society ResearcHERS ambassador in May 2019. Her research on measuring the risks for developing lymphedema appeared in spring 2019 in BusinessWire, HealthDay, Medscape, U.S. News, Yahoo Finance and other media outlets, and, later, in Oncology Times, Journal of Women's Health, Lymphatic Research and Biology and The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. Sheila was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in July 2017 and the University of Kentucky College of Nursing Hall of Fame in November of that year. She received the 2016 VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Research Endeavors, and co-authored "A Prospective Study of the Lymphedema and Fibrosis Continuum in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer," published in the December issue of Lymphatic Research and Biology, and cited as one of the journal's most widely read, circulated and cited articles. Sheila is the principal investigator on a bioimpedance spectroscopy technology project for ImpediMed and is featured in an educational webinar about a proposed standard of care that may help people with lymphedema.

Denise Rowe, MSN'00, is featured in a podcast, "Addressing Transgender Patients' Barriers to Access Care," hosted by The Nurse Practitioner (2022) .

Cindy Scott, MSN'00, was interviewed by WKRN in Nashville in October 2020 regarding early voting in national elections.

Christy Carpenter Sparkman, MSN'00, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Dawn Vanderhoef, MSN'00, PMC'13, is co-author of "The Impact of an Educational Intervention on Nursing Staff Attitudes toward Patients Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness," published in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association in May 2021. She co-authored "Implementation of a Collaborative Smoking Cessation Referral Process in a Psychiatric Setting," published in the Journal for Interprofessional Education & Practice in March 2020, and received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from the students in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty in August. Dawn presented "Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Treatment Team Approach," at the Tennessee Nurse Practitioner Association conference in March 2019. She was selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's 2018 Leadership for Academic Nursing Program, and was interviewed about the role of neuropsychology nurses in mental health treatment that April on SiriusXM's Doctor Radio. She presented "Wait, What Mood Disorders are on a Spectrum? Identification of Mood Disorders in Primary Care," at the TNPA conference that year. Dawn received the Sara K. Archer Award in August 2017, was selected as a fellow of the American Association for Nurse Practitioners in 2016, and received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Education from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.

Amy Williams, MSN'00, of Nashville, passed away June 17, 2017.

Julie Womack, PMC'00, was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October 2021. She is an associate professor of nursing at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Sarah Streibig Wray, BA'98, MSN'00, co-authored "Transforming a Face-to-face Legacy Intervention to a Web-based Legacy Intervention for Children with Advanced Cancer," published in the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing in February 2020, and "Randomized Clinical Trial of a Legacy Intervention for Quality of Life in Children with Advanced Cancer," published in the Journal of Palliative Care Medicine in September.

Rodney Adams, MSN'01, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Terrah Foster Akard, MSN'01, PhD'08, is co-author of "Protocol of a Pilot Study of the Effects of Animal-assisted Interactions (AAI) on Quality of Life in Children with Life-threatening Conditions and Their Parents," published in December 2021 in the International Journal of Palliative Nursing, and lead author of "Ethical Considerations in Oncology and Palliative Care Research during COVID-19," in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing in February 2022. That month, she was named associate dean for academic affairs at the Vanderbilt University Graduate School, news of which was covered by Nashville Post and Women in Academia Report. Terrah co-authored "Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Parents of Children with Cancer," published in April in Pediatric Blood & Cancer, and "Postoperative Opioid Administration and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Preschool Children after Cardiac Surgery," in the November issue of the  Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Terrah was appointed director of Vanderbilt University's PhD in Nursing Science program in 2021. That March, four articles she co-authored were published: "Associations of Age, Gender and Family Income with Quality of Life in Children with Advanced Cancer," in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing; "Parental Posttraumatic Growth after Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant," in the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care Medicine; "Parent Caregiving Experiences and Posttraumatic Growth following Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant," in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing; and "Facebook Recruitment for Children with Advanced Cancer and Their Parents: Lessons from a Web-based Pediatric Palliative Intervention Study," in Progress in Palliative Care. She was a panelist for "How the Media and Entertainment Industry Perpetuate Stereotypes of Nursing (and Why That Hurts Everyone)," in May, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. Terrah is co-author of "Impact of End-of-life Circumstances on the Adjustment of Bereaved Siblings of Children Who Died from Cancer," published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings in June, and "Parenting Surviving Children after the Death of a Child from Cancer: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis," in the Journal of Child & Family Studies. She co-authored "Hemoptysis Associated with Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy: Development of Critical Events Checklist and Procedure Outcomes," in the Journal of Radiology Nursing in September, and, in October, "Animal-assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer: Child and Parent Perceptions," published in Palliative Medicine Reports. That month, Terrah received the Alumni Award for National Leadership, presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony. She is co-author of "Digital Storytelling for Bereaved Individuals in a Virtual Setting," published in Omega–Journal of Death and Dying, and "The Effects of Animal-assisted Interactions on Quality of Life in Children with Life-threatening Conditions and their Parents," in the International Journal of Palliative Nursing, both in December. Terrah co-authored "'Connection': The Integration of a Person-centered Narrative Intervention into the Electronic Health Record: An Implementation Study," in the January 2020 issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine, and "Transforming a Face-to-face Legacy Intervention to a Web-based Legacy Intervention for Children With Advanced Cancer," in the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing in February. She is lead author of "Randomized Clinical Trial of a Legacy Intervention for Quality of Life in Children with Advanced Cancer," published in the Journal of Palliative Care Medicine, and co-authored "Toward a Better Understanding: An Exploration of Provider Perceptions in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Adherence," published in Pediatric Transplantation, both in September. She is lead author of "Improved Parent-child Communication following a RCT Evaluating a Legacy Intervention for Children with Advanced Cancer," in Progress in Palliative Care in October, and "Research Cooperative Groups in Pediatric Palliative Care Research," published in December by Palliative Medicine Reports. Terrah was named a Vanderbilt University Chancellor Faculty fellow in May 2019. She co-published "Parent and Child Preferences and Styles of Communication about Cancer Diagnoses and Treatment," in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, and co-presented a poster, "Exploration of Parent and Child Preferences for Communication about Cancer," at the Sigma Theta Tau Congress that July. She co-authored "The Influence of Parent Distress and Parenting on Bereaved Siblings' Externalizing Problems," published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies in December. Terrah received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter 2018 Nurse of the Year Award for nursing education, and was invited to participate in the Vanderbilt Leadership Academy, the university's program to identify and develop academic and administrative leaders. In 2017, Terrah was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, was featured in The Vanderbilt Hustler for her work with children with life-threatening conditions, and was named Nurse of the Week by The Daily Nurse. She was approved for tenure in 2016 as an associate professor at Vanderbilt. Terrah and her team are studying the effects of songwriting intervention for children with serious illnesses and their family members.

Tina Sheridan Allocco, MSN'01, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Dalisa Barquero, MSN'01, is lead author of "Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: New Insights on an Old Issue," published in Women's Care in October 2021.

Keeley Roberts Bowman, MSN'01, moved to Nome, Alaska, in July 2019 to become manager of forensic nursing services at Norton Sound Health Corporation, where her patients are pediatric and adult victims of sexual or physical violence. The organization serves 10,000 people, including those of 15 Native Alaskan villages. A poster she co-presented received first place at the International Association of Forensic Nurses conference in September.

Marlee Crankshaw, MSN'01, DNP'10, was interviewed for the Academy of Neonatal Nursing ANNTalks podcast, "Leadership: Workforce Engagement," recorded in July 2021, and was a panelist for "Compassion Fatigue during COVID-19: How Nurses and NPs Can Stay Grounded," in November 2020, the first VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She co-presented posters, "Implementing the Couplet Care Model When Not Every Baby is a 'Well Baby'" and "Neonatal Staff Engagement Strategies," at the 2019 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nursing Research Day, and received the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony that October. Marlee is administrative director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital.

Kimberly Arnold Currier, MSN'01, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is a nurse practitioner specializing in gastroenterology, hepatology, nutritional deficiencies and weight loss at the Vanderbilt Center for Human Nutrition.

April Clements DeMers, MSN'01, was featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight. She is a nurse practitioner in VUMC's adult kidney and pancreas transplant unit in Nashville (2018).

Monica Deshpande, BS'95, MSN'01, is a nurse practitioner and instructor of otolaryngology at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine in Portland (2020).

Caroline Duley, MSN'01, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Becky Edwards, MSN'01, is a nurse practitioner at Dermatology & Skin Care Center of Birmingham in Alabama (2021).

Marcos Fernandez, MSN'01, is chief nursing officer at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville (2020).

Sarah Fogel, MSN'94, PhD'01, retired in June 2021 from her role as professor and director of the Associate of Science in Nursing-Masters of Science in Nursing PreSpecialty program at VUSN. She received the Spotlight Award from the Vanderbilt University Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life in May 2020 for her advocacy of LGBTQI health, and co-authored "Perceptions of Sexual and Gender Minority Content in Graduate Nursing Curricula," published that month in Nursing Education Perspectives. Under Sarah's leadership, the ASN to MSN program was ranked by RN to MSN as the top registered nurse to MSN program in the United States in 2019.

Ceree George, MSN'01, is a certified nurse-midwife at CentraCare in Long Prairie, Minnesota (2019).

Genevieve Hofmann, MSN'01, is co-author of "Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: New Insights on an Old Issue," published in Women's Care in October 2021. She is a nurse practitioner at University of Colorado Health Women's Care Clinic-Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.

Sally Humphrey, MSN'01, DNP'19, is an associate professor in the pediatric nurse practitioner primary care program at University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis (2019).

Jean Markie, MSN'01, is an assistant professor at the Jeanette C. Rudy School of Nursing and Health Professions at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee (2017).

Ashley McFarland, MSN'01, is the owner of Ashley McFarland Aesthetics in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2020).

Gerald Meredith, MSN'01, DNP'10, was elected by colleagues to a three-year term as an at-large member of the U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Executive Board. He is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner with the VA in East Tennessee.

Colleen Reilly Moss, BS'00, MSN'01, became director of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner specialty at VUSN in January 2022, and published "Fluid and Electrolyte Management in the Neonate: Sodium and Chloride," in Neonatal Network in May. She was named to the neonatal editorial board for the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. In July, she co-presented "Growing from What We Learned… VUMC Preceptor Assessment," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center advanced practice grand rounds, and published, "Fluid and Electrolyte Management in the Neonate: Potassium and Phosphorus," in the July/August issue of Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing. Colleen is lead author of "Evaluation and Nonsurgical Treatment of Neonatal Ear Anomalies: A Case Report," published in Advances in Neonatal Care, and recipient of the Sara K. Archer Award from the students in the VUSN neonatal nurse practitioner specialty, both in August. She is co-author of "Perceptions of Motivating Factors and Barriers to Precepting," published in the  Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, in November, and lead author of "Neonatal Fragile Skin: Novel Use of Simulation to Improve Knowledge and Confidence for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Student," in Nurse Educator , in December. Colleen was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021 and named to the 2021-22 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program in the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, and received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the NNP specialty in August. She is author of "Examining Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay for Neonatal Nurse Practitioners: The Impact of Mentoring," published in Advances in Neonatal Care in September, and "Utilization and Meaningfulness of National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners' Mentoring Toolkit Activities," in its November issue. Colleen received funding from the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program in March 2020 for her project "Evaluating the Impact of a Formalized Mentoring Program Using the National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners Mentoring Toolkit." She authored "Neonatal Hypocalcemia in the Infant of a Diabetic Mother," in Neonatal Network, July/August, and received the Sara K. Archer Award. Colleen published "Mentoring New Graduate Nurse Practitioners," in the May/June 2019 issue of Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing, and was invited to present her doctor of nursing practice project on the same subject at the National Association of Neonatal Nurses conference that October. She wrote "Mentoring New Graduate Nurse Practitioners," which was chosen as a Manuscript of Exceptional Merit by Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing. That year, she received the DNP Outstanding Student of the Year Award from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and second place for her poster, "Mentoring New Graduate Nurse Practitioners in the NICU," at the VUMC Nursing Research Day. Colleen completed her doctor of nursing practice from the UTC that December.

Brittany Huffman Nelson, BA'00, MSN'01, co-authored "Child Abuse Response Simulation for Advanced Practice Nursing Students," published in the July/August 2020 issue of Clinical Nurse Specialist. She received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care specialty in August 2018.

Jeannie Noblitt, MSN'01, is a nurse practitioner at the Asthma, Allergy and Sinus Center in Knoxville, Tennessee (2017).

Cara Osborne, MSN'01, was featured in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in February 2022 for "High Profile: Cara Blaize Caskey Osborne Creates Businesses to Solve Problems," and was profiled by Talk Business & Politics for founding, expanding and selling Baby + Company. She is a professor in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Venture Innovation at the Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she became an assistant professor in the university's college of education and health professions in September 2018. Cara was featured in January 2017 by The Blount County Daily Times (Tennessee) in a story about Baby + Company.

Liz Peck, MSN'01, and her husband were featured in a January 2016 Maryland Capital Gazette story about their healthcare work in Africa.

Heather Quaile, MSN'01, was named treasurer of the National Association for Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health in January 2022. She was a panelist for "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Part 2)," in April, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June. She was a panelist for "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault," in October 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. That month, her manuscript, "Trauma-informed Care Part 2: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals," was published in Women's Healthcare. She received the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2020. Heather is medical administrator and nurse practitioner at Wellspring Living for trafficked youth, founder and chief medical officer of The SHOW Center for sexual medicine, and clinical nursing faculty at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is listed on the ProfNet network website as an expert in women and aging.

Peter Richards, MSN'01, of Rock Island, Illinois, passed away November 23, 2016.

Bedelia Russell, MSN'01, was promoted to full professor at Tennessee Technological University's Whitson-Hester School of Nursing in Cookeville, and appointed as the associate provost for online education and faculty development in the university's division of academic affairs in July 2022. She received the Tennessee Tech Outstanding Faculty Award for Professional Service.

Joshua Squiers, MSN'01, PhD'12, is director of the acute care nurse practitioner program and assistant professor at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing in Portland, and assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine (2020).

Michelle Terrell, MSN'01, DNP'18, is co-author of "Development and Testing of an Advanced Practice Clinical Advancement Program within an Academic Medical Center," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in September 2021, and was a panelist for the VUSN Alumni Board's annual DNP Know Your Value in January 2019. Michelle presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018 and at the VUMC Pediatric Critical Care Boot Camp in September 2017.

Pamela Thompson, MSN'01, is a family nurse practitioner at Precision Pain Care in Nashville and Smyrna, Tennessee (2020).

Julianne Wagnon, MSN'01, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is a nurse practitioner specializing in asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, immunology, gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition for adults and children at the Vanderbilt Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic.

Bob Weber, MSN'01, is a family nurse practitioner at Middle Tennessee Family Medicine in Murfreesboro (2017).

Allyson Hilton Yanni, MSN'01, joined the Lake Norman Medical Group in Mooresville, North Carolina, as an adult nurse practitioner in neurology/neuro-ophthalmology in February 2020.

Laura Swann Craddock, MSN'02, is a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Center in Nashville and Vanderbilt Hepatology, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplant in Madison, Alabama (2020).

Travis Dunlap, MSN'02, received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty in August 2021. He co-authored a chapter on hepatitis C treatment in an e-book, Sexually Transmitted Infections, An Issue of Nursing Clinics, published by Elsevier Health Sciences in August 2020, and successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in April 2019. Travis was quoted in a July 2017 Memphis Daily News article about children playing football, and co-presented a poster at Vanderbilt University's Health Professions Education Research Day that October.

Norma Edwards, MSN'02, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Wakako Eklund, MSN'02, was inducted as a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing in October 2022.

Tammy Graham, MSN'02, spoke at her alma mater, Beaverton High School in Michigan, in April 2019, for its THINK Big Talk Series connecting students with alumni. She is a nurse practitioner in Saginaw at Covenant Healthcare Regional neonatal intensive care unit.

Scott Grigg, MSN'02, is a nurse practitioner at Mercy's neonatal intensive care unit in Joplin, Missouri (2021).

Aimee Chism Holland, MSN'02, was named a Visionary Leader by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing in April 2021, received the Nurse Practitioner Award for Excellence for Alabama from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in August, and was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing that October. She presented "Office Gynecology Procedures," at the AANP conference in June 2019, and received the Alumni Award for Innovation in Health Care presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October. She received the 2016 Rising Nurse Educator Award from the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Aimee is assistant dean for graduate clinical education in the UAB School of Nursing and past chair of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health.

Adriene Hughes, MSN'02, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Mednax, Inc., in Middle Tennessee, treating neonates to six weeks of age in high-risk delivery and throughout their intensive care unit stay. She is also practicing in Houston, Texas, where she is the lead nurse practitioner in a level 2-3 setting (2018).

Angela Jackson, MSN'02, is a family nurse practitioner at Saint Thomas Medical Partners in Nashville (2017).

Jinaki James, MSN'02, is a women's health nurse practitioner at El Centro de Corazon in Houston (2019).

Janet McLean Lowe, MSN'02, is a nurse practitioner at Middle Tennessee Emergency Physicians in Lafayette, where she specializes in emergency medicine and adult and pediatric emergency services (2022).

Elizabeth Warren Netsch, MSN'02, is a nurse practitioner at Faith Family Medical Center in Nashville (2020).

Julie Elam Otte, MSN'02, was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October 2019. She is an associate professor at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis.

Rashida Pollion, MSN'02, was a nominee for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Nurses: The Heart of Health Care program in April 2018.

Caroline Portis-Jenkins, BS'97, MSN'02, was honored among Women of Influence by the Nashville Business Journal in November 2018. She is co-chief executive officer of Connectus Health.

Heather Lafever Potts, MSN'02, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Katie Nolan Rosenhagen, MSN'02, is a nurse practitioner in the office of Elizabeth LaRoche, MD, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and a CrossFit coach (2017).

Michelle Dillow Schramm, BS'99, MSN'02, joined the Johns Hopkins University Student Health and Wellness Center in Baltimore in December 2020 as a women's health nurse practitioner, and is featured in a National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health video, "Why Be a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner?" She was a women's health nurse practitioner at University Health Services in New Jersey, serving Princeton University students and their dependents, as well as faculty and staff.

Liz Sharpe, MSN'02, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2020, and re-elected in October 2016 as a director-at-large to the National Association of Neonatal Nurses board of directors. She is an associate professor and director of the neonatal nurse practitioner specialty at Ohio State University in Columbus.

Valerie Turpen, MSN'02, joined Deaconess Primary Care for Seniors in Evansville, Indiana, in May 2016 an acute care nurse practitioner.

Traci Warner, MSN'02, is co-piloting a faith-based community health initiative in Nicaragua called Helping Hands. She trains lay people with some medical experience to meet the physical and spiritual needs of members of their community as an extension of a local church (2017).

Michelle Wilson, MSN'02, was interviewed in August 2016 by WPSD-TV about her role as a nurse practitioner at the Baptist Health clinic at Paducah Tilghman High School in Kentucky.

Sheree Allen, MSN'03, is highlighted as one of the Professors to Know from schools with online doctor of nursing practice programs in nursing leadership by Nurse Practitioner Schools (2018). 

Melanie Allison, MSN'03, was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021.

Shannon Sweeney Bell, MSN'03, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Traci Turner Boswell, MSN'03, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Genesis Psychiatric Services in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2017).

Jason Boylan, MSN'03, has a private practice in downtown and East Nashville called Third and Church Health Care (2017).

Kiersten Brown-Espaillat, BS'99, MSN'03, was named to the American Heart Association's Greater Southeast Affiliate board of directors for the 2018-19 fiscal year. She presented "Assessing Neurological Changes," at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in September 2018, where she is the stroke program manager. She was appointed in August 2016 to the AHA Greater Southeast Affiliate Board and serves on its Tennessee advocacy subcommittee. 

Melissa Griswold Davis, MSN'03, is lead author of "Hypothyroidism: Diagnosis and Evidence-based Treatment," published in April 2022 in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. She co-presented "Nutrition Basics for Midwives," "Overcoming Your Fear of Rashes: A Dermatology Review for Midwives," and "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Updates and Gender Inclusive Care," at the American College of Nurse Midwives conference in May, and, "Where Do I Begin… Scholarly Work and Publications," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center advanced practice grand rounds in August. Melissa is featured in a 2021 video on the importance of post-childbearing age women to seek preventative care during a pandemic, part of the Vanderbilt University Ask an Expert series, and named a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives that May. She received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Clinical Practice in July 2020. In 2019, she was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN and was interviewed in December 2018 by My Southern Health for an article about the advantages of seeing a nurse practitioner. Melissa is director of the VUSN faculty nurse-midwives and primary care practice.

Cindy DeSio, MSN'03, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Laura Beckwith Dotson, MSN'03, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Centerstone in Titusville, Florida (2018).

Emily Lee Durbin Edwards, MSN'03, was named chief nursing officer at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point in January 2017.

Patricia Wells Haeberle , MSN'03, is an acute care nurse practitioner at Saint Thomas Medical Partners in Nashville, specializing in adult cardiothoracic and vascular medicine (2017).

Tina Hodges, MSN'03, was featured as one of the Nashville Business Journal's Women of Influence in April 2017, and recognized by Inc. Magazine as an Impact 50 Award recipient in November 2015.

Mona Galbreath Hoehler, MSN'03, of Nashville, passed away in February 24, 2016.

Suzanne Tilley Hurley, MSN'03, was interviewed by The Tennessee Tribune in July 2022 for "Connectus Health Launches Full-Service Mobile Healthcare Unit," and in November 2019 by National Public Radio for a Morning Edition story about the health risks of chronic hunger. She was honored among Women of Influence by the Nashville Business Journal in November 2018. Suzanne is co-chief executive officer of Connectus Health,

Krista Koleas, MSN'03, of Nashville, passed away April 5, 2021. She was posthumously awarded the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing, presented to her family by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2021. Krista was named to the board of Siloam Health in Nashville in January 2017 and was a nurse manager at Nashville Skin and Cancer.

Melissa McGuire Logue, MSN'03, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022. She is a stem cell transplant nurse practitioner. 

Sarah Mannle, MSN'03, is an assistant professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina (2021).

Wendi Mason, MSN'03, presented about pulmonary fibrosis in January 2017 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and "Not all Shortness of Breath is Created Equal," in December at Vanderbilt Heart in Franklin, Tennessee. She is program director of Vanderbilt's idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis center.

Rachel McDowell, MSN'03, PMC'12, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She co-authored "Developing Best Practices to Mitigate Opioid Abuse Is a Priority in Cancer Care," which was published in Oncology Live in July 2018 and appeared on the front cover, and she was published in The Empowered Nurse: Peer-Reviewed Journal for Innovative VUMC Nursing Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, that November.

Marie-Louise Miesel, MSN'03, became a certified health and wellness coach in 2017 and a diplomat of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is a nurse practitioner at Regents Medical Center in Pleasant View, Tennessee, specializing in internal medicine.

Annie Moon, MSN'03, is featured in a Vanderbilt News article in February 2021 about her work with the Navajo Nation in Chinle, Arizona, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was a panelist for "The American Indian Health Care Delivery System: How and Why it Works," in June, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She received the Alma Gault Alumni Award for Public Service presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2018. Annie is supervisor of the Department of Adolescent and School Health Services in the Indian Health Services' Chinle Service Unit.

Abigail Moss, MSN'03, was voted to receive the Readers' Choice Award for Favorite Nurse Practitioner in Prentiss County, Mississippi, in 2015. She works at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. 

Jennifer Nichols, MSN'03, is an acute care nurse practitioner at Erlanger Health System Neuroscience Institute in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2020).

Bree Fryz Osborne, MSN'03, was named the 2021 VUSN Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty Preceptor of the Year in December. She is an NP at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in thoracic surgery.

Julie Perry, MSN'03, is lead author of "Transitioning Community Health Clinical Experiences to an Online Format during COVID-19," published in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Nursing Education. She presented a poster, "Simulated Home Visit to Promote Chronic Disease Management Competencies in Pre-licensure Nursing Students," at the Society of Pediatric Nurses conference in April, and started a two-year term as a member of the SPN nominating committee in May. She is lead author of "Simulated Home Visit to Promote Chronic Disease Management Competencies in Prelicensure Nursing Students," published in June in Nurse Educator, and co-author of "The Value of Nurses during the Opioid Crisis," published in August in Tennessee Nurse. Julie is lead author of "Utilizing Academic-community Partnerships with Nursing Students to Improve Hand Hygiene in Elementary Students to Reduce Transmission of COVID-19," published in NASN School Nurse in January 2021, and co-presented a poster, "Structured Debrief: From Theory to Integration," at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference in October. She successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Missouri in Columbia in May 2018. Her study is titled "Pediatric Critical Care Nurses: Distress and Appraisal during Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment."

Keri Revett , MSN'03, is a program manager with Vanderbilt Network Services in Nashville, a division of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2017)

Sheila Ridner, MSN'00, PhD'03, is lead author of "A Comparison of Bioimpedance Spectroscopy or Tape Measure Triggered Compression Intervention in Chronic Breast Cancer Lymphedema Prevention," published in January 2022 in Lymphatic Research and Biology. Her research in lymphedema was featured in February in Yahoo!Finance and Finance News Network, and in March, she spoke with Oncology Nursing News about her research. Sheila's work was covered in April by MedicalXpress, Mirage.news, Oncology Nursing News, Oncology Nursing News again and Vanderbilt University Research News. She co-authored "Validity Testing of the Head and Neck Lymphedema and Fibrosis Symptom Inventory," published that month in Lymphatic Research and Biology. Sheila is co-author of "Risk Factors for Breast Cancer–related Lymphedema in Patients Undergoing 3 Years of Prospective Surveillance with Intervention," published in Cancer in July, and of "Prospective Surveillance with Compression for Subclinical Lymphedema: Symptoms, Skin and Quality-of-life Outcomes," in Lymphatic Research and Biology in September. Her piece, "Bioimpedance Spectroscopy May Play a Large Role in Proactively Preventing Chronic Lymphedema," was named among Oncology Nursing News top stories for 2022. Sheila co-authored "Standardization of Lower Extremity Quantitative Lymphedema Measurements and Associated Patient-reported Outcomes in Gynecologic Cancers," published in Gynecologic Oncology, and "Perceived Effects of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms on Functional Status in Early-stage Huntington Disease," in the Western Journal of Nursing Research, both in February 2021. She is co-author of "Perceived Benefits of a Brief Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-deployment Military Service Members," in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine in March, and was named professor emerita at Vanderbilt in May. Sheila is co-author of "Subjective Cognition Reported by Caregivers is Correlated with Objective Cognition in Liver Transplant Recipients," published in Liver Transplantation, and "Implementation Strategies in the Context of Medication Reconciliation: A Qualitative Study," in Implementation Science Communications, both in June. She co-authored "Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-deployment Military Service Members: A Randomized Controlled Trial," published in July in Clinical Nursing Research. She is the subject of a September Yahoo! Finance story about her work with Tactile Systems Technology to treat head and neck lymphedema, and an October Vanderbilt University Research News piece on faculty innovators. Sheila is lead author of "L-Dex, Arm Volume and Symptom Trajectories 24 Months after Breast Cancer Surgery," published in Cancer Medicine in January 2020. She co-authored "A Qualitative Examination of Patient Priorities and Preferences during Treatment Decision-making for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer," in Supportive Care in Cancer, both in May, and "Implementing a Prospective Surveillance and Early Intervention Model of Care for Breast Cancer-related Lymphedema into Clinical Practice: Application of the RE-AIM Framework," published in June in Supportive Care in Cancer. In October, "Measuring Functional Status in Huntington's Disease," which she co-authored, was published in Movement Disorders. Sheila is lead author of "Lymphedema Symptom Intensity and Distress Surveys—Truncal and Head and Neck, Version 2.0," published in Lymphatic Research and Biology, and was featured, along with her research, in Vanderbilt's MyVU in November. She retired from her role as Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of Nursing and director of the VUSN PhD in Nursing Science program in December. Sheila was named American Cancer Society ResearcHERS ambassador in May 2019. Her research on measuring the risks for developing lymphedema appeared in spring 2019 in BusinessWire, HealthDay, Medscape, U.S. News, Yahoo Finance and other media outlets, and, later, in Oncology Times, Journal of Women's Health, Lymphatic Research and Biology and The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. Sheila was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in July 2017 and the University of Kentucky College of Nursing Hall of Fame in November of that year. She received the 2016 VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Research Endeavors, and co-authored "A Prospective Study of the Lymphedema and Fibrosis Continuum in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer," published in the December issue of Lymphatic Research and Biology, and cited as one of the journal's most widely read, circulated and cited articles. Sheila is the principal investigator on a bioimpedance spectroscopy technology project for ImpediMed and is featured in an educational webinar about a proposed standard of care that may help people with lymphedema.

Virginia Edwards Rosas, MSN'03, wrote "SonoSpine: A New Tool in the Fight against Opioid Addiction," published in the Washington Times in April 2018.

Laura Scudder, MSN'03, is a school nurse at Saint Vincent DePaul Catholic School in Rogers, Arkansas (2021).

Erin Black Shankel, MSN'03, PMC'13, was honored in May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville, where she is an associate professor and family nurse practitioner coordinator. She is quoted in the NP Schools blog for "Tennessee NPs: The Fight for Full Practice Authority." 

Andy Shirley, BS'00, MSN'03, is a nurse practitioner in the neurology intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center Shock Trauma in Baltimore (2018).

Rachael Goad Smith, MSN'03, is a nurse practitioner at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center in Little Rock (2020).

Sherrie Smith, MSN'03, is a nurse practitioner specializing in sleep disorders at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock (2021).

Tanya Sorrell, MSN'03, was a panelist for both sessions of "Mental Health and Black America Today: Where Are We?," part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum in February and July 2021. In April, she was interviewed at length by WGN9 in Chicago and on National Public Radio after the Derek Chauvin verdict, on the emotional effects of systemic trauma on society. That May, she was promoted to director of Substance Use Disorder Community Services for the Illinois Regional Leadership Centers based at Rush University in Chicago. Tanya was named assistant director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network—Great Lakes Region in July 2020. In July 2019, while she was associate professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing in Aurora, Tanya began a $5 million, two-year legislative program to train advanced practice providers and assist patients needing substance use treatment in rural areas of the state. She is featured in the American Nurses Association on-demand webcast, "How You Can Have a Direct Impact on Reducing the Devastating Racial Disparities of COVID-19," and the ANA webcast, "Boosting Vaccine Confidence in Minority Populations: Specific Strategies to Encourage and Educate Your Patients." Tanya has trained over 5,000 community leaders in vaccine confidence for the InterFaith Youth Core. She is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Rush and owner and provider at Yuma Mental Health and Wellness Center in Arizona.

Tiffany Street, MSN'03, DNP'18, received the Jeanne E. Doyle Award from the Society of Vascular Nursing (the highest honor given by the organization) and co-presented at its conference in June 2022. She served on the SVN board in 2014-16 and was national president in 2016-17. Her article, "I Am TNA," was published in the winter 2021 issue of Tennessee Nurse. Tiffany was promoted to associate nursing officer at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute in March 2021. She was named assistant professor at VUSN in January 2020 and appointed to represent VUSN as a board member of the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association, starting that July. She presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018.

Liz Adams Threlkeld, MSN'03, is a nurse practitioner at Faith Family Medical Center in Nashville (2020).

Ty Williams, MSN'03, DNP'12, co-presented, "DNP Project Matching Strategies," at the National Organization of Nursing Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, and is lead author of "Linking Process Improvement with DNP Projects: Strategies to Advance Clinical Leadership Initiatives," published in Nurse Leader in May. He is co-author of "Identifying Mental Health Issues Associated with Infertility," published in the November issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Ty wrote the chapter, "Herbal Supplements: Precautions and Safe Use," for the book, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Part II: Herbal Supplements and Vitamins, published by Elsevier in March 2021. He received the DAISY Award for Recognition of Small Group Facilitator at the DNP Level from VUSN in June, which he also received in 2019. He is co-author of "Supporting Student Success: A Meaningful and Efficient Teaching Strategy to Document Practice Hours," published in Nurse Educator in July 2020. Ty is an assistant professor at VUSN and a member of the Alumni Board.

Donna Wimberly, MSN'03, of Albany, Georgia, passed away August 31, 2021.

Kristen Lind Anton, BS'03, MSN'04, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Soheyl Asadsangabi, MSN'04, DNP'13, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She co-manages and staffs the Vanderbilt Center for Women's Health clinic that opened in July 2016 in Thompson's Station, Tennessee.  

Nichole Berglund-Clark, MSN'04, celebrated the eighth anniversary of Hope Medical Clinic, her nurse practitioner-owned rural health clinic in Clinton, Arkansas, in July 2017, which expanded to four nurse practitioners and a doctor of osteopathy. She welcomed her second child in fall 2016.

Laura Beth Brown, MSN'04, was a panelist in March 2021 for "Women's Leadership in the COVID-19 Era: How Women Responded and Led the Charge to Mitigate the Pandemic," as part of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's celebration of Women's History Month. She was cited as an example of a nurse with innovative thinking by Daily Nurse in a July 2018 piece called "4 Ways to Build Innovative Ideas into Nursing Practice." Laura Beth was interviewed by The Tennessean and VUMC Reporter, and on WBRC in Birmingham in December 2016, for stories about the Vanderbilt Health OnCall program. She is on the Nashville Health Care Council Fellows advisory committee.

Lisa Bushnell, MSN'04, is a nurse practitioner at Epiphany Dermatology in Taos, New Mexico (2021).

Kristin Carter Campbell, MSN'04, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at the Children's Health Center in Marble Falls, Texas (2017).

Margaret Morrison Chotard, MSN'04, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She got married in July 2019. Margaret is an acute care nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Heart.

Tom Christenbery, MSN'87, PhD'04, of Nashville, passed away February 16, 2021. He was posthumously awarded the Alumni Award for Diversity and Inclusion presented by the VUSN Alumni Association to his family during the school's annual awards ceremony in October. In September 2020, his book, Fast Facts for Writing the DNP Project: Effective Structure, Content and Presentation, was published by Springer. Tom presented about engaging faculty in philanthropy at the Nursing Advancement Professionals conference in April 2019, and received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Media in June. That year, Tom co-sponsored a challenge gift incentive during Vanderbilt University's Giving Day, and co-authored "Writing a Diversity and Inclusivity Statement: Guidelines for Nursing Programs and Faculty," published in Nurse Educator that November. He co-authored "Appreciative Advising Pilot Study: An Innovative Approach to Advising Doctor of Nursing Practice Students," published in Nurse Educator in August 2018. Tom presented at a Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty scholarly writing workshop in October 2017. He was a professor at VUSN, director of program evaluation and member of the Alumni Board.

Debbie Drake-Davis, MSN'04, DNP'12, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, passed away November 6, 2018. She was an adjunct instructor at VUSN. 

Jessica Estes, MSN'04, became the executive director of the Kentucky Board of Nursing, based in Louisville, in July 2019. 

Lisa Fournace, MSN'04, co-published "The Impact of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause on Quality of Life," in the November/December 2017 issue of Urologic Nursing.

Carolyn Freeman, MSN'04, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Pathways of Tennessee where she provides psychotropic medication management services in an outpatient community mental health clinic (2018). 

Jennifer Hicks, MSN'04, joined the faculty of Lipscomb University in Nashville as an instructor in October 2022. She wrote an article on miscarriage and stillbirth for the August 2020 issue of Tennessee Nurse.

Judy Hoffman , MSN'04, is on a team that provides care in the field with the Community Treatment Unit of Clayton County Fire and Emergency Services in Georgia. Nurse practitioners partner with paramedics to treat patients and arrange appropriate follow-up, reducing unnecessary hospital transports (2016).

Linda Hughlett, MSN'04, DNP'13, co-moderated "Educators, Leaders and Nurses: Resetting Relationships," presented in April 2022 to VUSN students, alumni, faculty and staff. She is chief nursing officer and senior vice president at Regional One in Memphis, Tennessee.

Joanie Laughlin Jeannette, BSN'83, MSN'04, served as moderator of "Compassion Fatigue during COVID-19: How Nurses and NPs Can Stay Grounded," in November 2020, part of the VUSN Dore to Dore Alumni Forum. She was quoted in the VUMC Reporter in August 2017 about patient flow nurses at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Joanie is administrative director of adult inpatient medicine at VUMC and president of the VUSN Alumni Board.

Laurie Holland Lee, MSN'04, is an in vitro fertilization nurse practitioner at the Nashville Fertility Center (2020).

Lori Lincoln, MSN'04, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, passed away February 16, 2022.

Shara Mayberry, MSN'04, is co-author of "Grady Health System's Mobile Integrated Health Program: A Statistical Analysis of Low-acuity 911 Calls," published in JEMS Exclus in August 2021. She is a lead nurse practitioner at Emory Coordinated Care Center in Stockbridge and Decatur, Georgia.

Janet Mulroy, PMC'04, DNP'16, joined the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses board of directors in July 2021.

Diana Johnson Oakes, MSN'04, works with inpatient adult diabetes management at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago (2019).

Leigh Guinn Powers, MSN'04, DNP'11, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Bluewater Behavioral Health in Niceville, Florida (2021).

Teresa Richardson, MSN'04, DNP'10, is a clinical professor and director of the executive leadership program at the University of Memphis Loewenberg College of Nursing in Tennessee (2022).

Luz Salazar, MSN'04, is a family nurse practitioner at Neighborhood Health in Nashville (2016).

Randi Singer, MSN'04, received the Emerging Researcher Award from the American Public Health Association Public Health Nursing Section in November 2022, and a faculty fellowship from the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy in December 2019 for her studies on how Black sex workers protect their health and prevent human immunodeficiency virus. She is a clinical assistant professor in the department of human development nursing science at University of Illinois Chicago, where she is the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health-funded study, "Centering Those Engaged in Transactional Sex: A PrEP Innovation for Getting to Zero." 

Ben Smallheer, MSN'04, PhD'11, is consulting editor of Burnout in Nursing: Causes, Management and Future Directions, published by Elsevier in March 2022, and he received the Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity in Simulation Leadership Excellence Award from the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning in June. He was invited to join the advisory committee for the King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Nursing—Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in early 2021. He was a panelist for "How the Media and Entertainment Industry Perpetuate Stereotypes of Nursing (and Why That Hurts Everyone)," in May, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and wrote a chapter, "Early Recognition of Preventable Factors Associated with Delirium Saves Lives and Costs," for the book, Best Practices in Nursing: An Issue of Nursing Clinics, published by Elsevier in September. Ben co-sponsored a challenge gift incentive during the 2019 Vanderbilt University Giving Day, and presented "Using the Revised INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation SM," and "Strategies for Effective In-Situ Simulation," at the Saudi Health Simulation Conference, in November. Ben is lead faculty for the adult gerontology nurse practitioner-acute care program and an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina.

Mollie Palmore Weinman, MSN'04, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at VIP Midsouth Children's Clinic in Springfield and Pleasant View, Tennessee (2016).

Johnny Wyatt, MSN'04, of Portland, Oregon, passed away July 27, 2019.

Alison Anderson, MSN'05, PhD'21, is co-author of "Determining the Impact of Age and Sex on the Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Response to Thermal Pain across the Adult Lifespan," published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing in January 2021, and lead author of "Experimentally Evoked Pain in Alzheimer's Disease," published in March in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She co-authored "Neuroimaging Methods for Nursing Science," published in December 2019 in Nursing Research, and "Pain Management," in the December 2017 issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics.

James Askew, MSN'05, is an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner in the pediatric intensive care unit at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2016).

Beth Barry, MSN'05, is a nurse practitioner specializing in family medicine at Crestwood Medical Group, Bailey Cove in Huntsville, Alabama (2020).

Carol Brandon, MSN'05, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away February 25, 2018.

Eydie Cloyd, MSN'05, opened a practice, Mindful Psych, in Nashville in 2022. She was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021, and was interviewed for the Going Through It with Holly and Kacy podcast, "Episode Four: Eydie Cloyd, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Answers Common Questions about Psychotropic Medications," recorded that year. She and her spouse, Kacy Silverstein, BA'04, MEd'06, welcomed babies in August 2019 and October 2017. Eydie co-presented "Who's Caring for the Midwife? Compassion and Caregiver Fatigue in the Setting of Secondary Traumatic Stress," at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference in May 2018, and spoke about mindfulness for Vanderbilt University Medical Center's grand rounds in July 2015.

Amy Cochran, MSN'05, is a nurse-midwife with Covington Women's Health Specialists in Georgia (2016).  

Denise Woodring Cochran, MSN'05, was named Preceptor of the Year for the VUSN nurse-midwifery specialty in 2021.

Shanita Coleman-Dockery, MSN'05, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is a nurse practitioner in the Vanderbilt Health Family Practice in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

Nina Sanfilippo Collins, BS'99, MSN'05, co-authored "Dedicated, Proactive, Nurse Practitioner Rapid Response Team Eliminating Barriers," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in September 2019.

Sarah Halberg Cossette, MSN'05, was named among AZBusiness and AZRE magazines Most Influential Women in Arizona in August 2021. She is chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phoenix.

Amanda Decker, MSN'05, was interviewed on the Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show in September 2020.

Megan Mutz Fish, MSN'05, is a women's health nurse practitioner specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at Hendricks Regional Health in Danville, Indiana (2020).

Celia Forno, MSN'05, is self-employed as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner for adults and children in Raleigh, North Carolina (2018).

Virginia Sinclair Gardner, MSN'05, presented "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia," at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference in October 2019. She received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty in August 2018. Virginia is a PMHNP at the Nashville Center for Hope and Healing.

Michael Gooch, MSN'05, was appointed to serve as the Dermatology Dilemmas Column editor for the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal and to membership on the Emergency Nurses Association's Advanced Practice Advisory Council, both in March 2022. He presented, "Single Dose Killers: Pediatric Toxicology," at the Critical Care Transport Medicine conference in April. In June, He co-taught two four-hour workshops on "Basic to Advanced HEENT Procedures Used in Primary and Emergency Care Settings," and presented, "Single Dose Killers: Pediatric Toxicology," and "When the Heat is on: Hyperthermic Emergencies," at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference. Michael presented on hyperthermic emergencies and bites and stings at the Emergency Care Update conference in September, and "Hot Topics in EM Pharmacology," "Bugs and Drugs," "When the Pressure is On: Head Trauma Management," "But It Is Just a Finger: Top 5 Finger Complaints in the ED" and "COVID-19: A New Rash Differential," at the ENA conference in October. That month, he presented, "Case Studies in ECG and Polypharmacy," at the Air Medical Transport conference and, in November, "When the Heat is On: Hyperthermic Emergencies," at the Texas EMS Conference. Michael is author of "A New Rash Differential: COVID-19," published in the January/March 2021 issue of Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, and a contributing author for the book, Emergency Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum, published by Springer in August. He presented, "Bugs and Drugs," "Hormones, Glands and Steroids: An Endocrine Review," "Evaluation and Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)" and "GU Complaints: Discharge to Stones and More," at the AANP conference in September. That year, he was appointed to the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association's Advanced Practice Transport Nurse Committee as one of two liaisons to the ASTNA Board. Michael is the author of "Preventing Cauliflower Ear," published in the July/September 2020 issue of the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. He presented "Basic to Advanced Emergency HEENT Procedures," "Hormones, Glands and Steroids: Endocrine in the ED," and "Toxicology in Emergency and Critical Care," at the AANP conference in June 2019. Michael was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in January 2018, and successfully defended his doctor of nursing practice project on rapid sequence intubation at Loyola University Chicago, in July 2016. 

Nalo Hamilton, MSN'05, is co-author of "Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Students and Faculty in Women's Health," published in Women's Healthcare in April 2022. She was a panelist for "What a Nurse Can Do: The Surprisingly Broad Range of Expertise among Nurses/Nurse Practitioners," in May 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. Nalo is an associate professor at the University of California Los Angeles School of Nursing and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar; and an affiliate member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Abby Bowen James, MSN'05, is a women's health nurse practitioner with Cumberland Skin in Nashville, a private practice dermatology office seeing both medical and cosmetic dermatology patients (2017).

Terry Jenkins, PMC'05, is a nurse practitioner specializing in Hematology at Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute in Tulsa (2022).

Karyn Jones, MSN'05, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

April Kapu, MSN'05, DNP'13, was interviewed in January 2022 on Fox News for "Nurses Face Burnout as COVID Enters Third Year," and by CNBC for "Here Are the Top Jobs in the U.S. and How to Land Them." That month, she was featured on the RN-Mentor Podcast, quoted in Clinical Advisor, HealthLeaders and MedPage Today, and published "New Year, New Commitment to Nurse Practitioner (NP) Excellence," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. She was interviewed by Contemporary Clinic and HealthLeaders in February, and, in March, spoke again with Contemporary Clinic and twice with HPCLive (and here). April published "Choosing the Ideal Advanced Practice Leader for Your Organization," in The Journal of Nursing Administration in April. That month, she was interviewed by Forbes and HealthLeaders, and presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference. April is lead author of "Encouraging and Facilitating Research Opportunities for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: The Role of the Chief Nursing Officer," published in May in JONA, was featured in Contemporary Clinic and presented "How the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Can Support You in Your Career: A Visit with President April Kapu, DNP'12, MSN'05," to VUSN students, alumni, faculty and staff. That month, she also presented the Vanderbilt Mobile Vaccine Program with an American Association of Nurse Practitioners award (covered by Nashville Post and Vanderbilt University Research News). In June, she was quoted in the American Journal of Nursing, Contemporary Clinics and the Nashville Scene, and was recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives. April was interviewed by Nurse.com in July regarding states with full practice authority. That month, she was on a Facebook Live panel called "A Conversation with Dr. Loretta C. Ford and Dr. April Kapu," hosted by Nurses Care Hub. In August, she spoke about monkeypox with Clinical Advisor Online, and was nominated for the Modern Healthcare 100 Most Influential People in Health Care list in September. April is author of "Nurse Practitioner Leadership Essential: Ensuring a Positive Onboarding Experience for New Nurse Practitioners," published in the September issue of The Journal of Nursing Administration, and co-author of "Promoting Adaptation in Female Inmates to Reduce Risk of Opioid Overdose Post-release through HOPE," in Nursing Science Quarterly in October. In December, she was interviewed by HealthLeaders and MedpageToday about issues affecting NPs. April was interviewed in a Vanderbilt Magazine article in February 2021 about the emotional impact of caring for COVID patients had on Vanderbilt University Medical Center providers. In March, she was a panelist for the VUSN Alumni Board's annual DNP Know Your Value, and for "Capturing APP Value: Industry Leaders Share Their Experiences," a webinar hosted by the Chartis Group. That April, she spoke before the Tennessee Nurse Practitioners Association and was a panelist for "Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus: Stories from the Top," part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She was also active in VUSN/VUMC's efforts to get COVID-19 vaccines to refugees, immigrants and other underserved communities in Nashville, which covered by Fox 17, Nashville Post, Nashville Scene, NewsChannel 5, Tennessean, Tennessee Tribune and WSMV. In July, April became president of AANP and VUSN's associate dean for clinical and community partnerships. The news was picked up by many outlets, including Fierce Healthcare, The Hill and The Tennessee Tribune. She co-presented, "Advanced Practice: State and Federal Updates," in July during VUMC Advanced Practice grand rounds, and, in October, gave the Viana McCown Lectureship hosted by the Center for Nursing Leadership at the University of South Carolina College of Nursing. Hers was the lead story in HealthLeaders; she appeared July to December in interviews by HealthLeaders, Wall Street Journal, WSMV, HealthTech, GoodRX, Advisory Board, Clinical Advisor, WRCB, HealthLeaders, Hematology Advisor, NewsChannel 9, Clinical Advisor, Vice and the Modern Medicaid Alliance website. In the fall, she was interviewed on a variety of nursing, staffing, COVID and health care topics, including 17 times in November around Nurse Practitioner Week. In September, she published "Patients are Choosing Nurse Practitioners as Their Primary Care Provider in Many Communities across the U.S.," in the  Journal of Nursing Administration, and is lead author of "Development and Testing of an Advanced Practice Clinical Advancement Program within an Academic Medical Center," in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. An opinion piece April wrote about full practice authority in Tennessee was published in the Tennessean in May 2020. She was interviewed by Medical Ethics Advisor for "Burnout Prevention Is Central Ethical Concern for Hospitals," both that July. She presented "Crisis and DNP Opportunity: Practice and Policy during COVID," in October at the DNP Summit hosted by the University of Rochester School of Nursing, and co-authored "Developing and Expanding APRN and PA Teams," published by American Nurse in December. April received a Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citation in February 2019, and presented "NP Value: Know Your Why and Know Your Worth," at the TNPA conference in March. She co-presented "Preventing Burnout," and "Deployment of NPs to Combat America's Opioid Crisis," at the AANP conference in June, and co-authored "Dedicated, Proactive, Nurse Practitioner Rapid Response Team Eliminating Barriers," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, and "Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in Acute and Critical Care: A Concise Review of the Literature and Data 2008–2018," in Critical Care Medicine. April was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October, and shared the spotlight with Dean Linda Norman to receive the American Association of Colleges of Nursing New Era for Academic Nursing Award for a partnership between VUSN and VUMC. She co-authored "Assessing and Addressing Practitioner Burnout: Results from an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Health and Well-being Study," published in November in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. In 2018, April was appointed by Governor Bill Haslam to the Tennessee Commission on Pain and Addiction Medicine Education. She was director of the VUMC Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp, and was published in VUMC's The Empowered Nurse: Peer-Reviewed Journal for Innovative VUMC Nursing Research, Volume 1, Issue 2. She received funding from the Fellows of the AANP to recruit participants and conduct an expanded advanced practice registered nurses Choosing Wisely collaborative study in 2017, and co-directed the sixth annual ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp at VUMC that September. She co-presented "Optimized Efficiency and Effectiveness: Impact of an Academic Medical Center APRN Workflow Analysis," at the National Magnet Conference, and received the Tennessee Hospital Association's Clinical Nurse of Distinction Award, both in 2015.  

Brett Kinzig, MSN'05, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Lisa Lachenmyer, MSN'05, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Children's Gastroenterology in Nashville (2019).

Julie Lindsay, MSN'05, is assistant professor at the Saint David's School of Nursing at Texas State University in Round Rock (2019).

Alana Ludwick, MSN'05, DNP'12, was named director of nursing at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington, in 2016.  

Leilea Koucheki Martin, MSN'05, of Pike Road, Alabama, passed away January 27, 2022.

Heather Hair Meissen, MSN'05, DNP'21, was appointed as commissioner to the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs in August 2020. She co-presented a fundamentals of critical care course at the American Association of Nursing Practitioners conference in June 2019, and presented at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute meeting in May 2018. Heather is director of the nurse practitioner/physician's assistant critical care residency program and clinical instructor at Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, and a nurse practitioner in the critical care medicine-surgical intensive care unit at Emory University Hospital.

Jennifer Mitchell, MSN'05, was quoted in the VUMC Reporter in May 2020 for a story about Vanderbilt University Medical Center's quick transition to telehealth in the early days of COVID-19. She co-presented "Innovative Models for the Delivery of Convenient Outpatient Care," during VUMC advanced practice grand rounds in September 2019. Jennifer is director of Vanderbilt Health OnCall.

Bette Moore, PhD'05, retired in August 2021 from VUSN where she was an associate professor. She wrote The Dreaming Road, a book about the passing of her daughter, and was interviewed in the Tennessean and The Vanderbilt Hustler in 2018 about her hope that the book will help others who are experiencing loss. The novel was a finalist in the Best Book Awards (new age category), given by the American Book Fest. In 2016, her research on skin-to-skin contact between mothers and newborns was featured in media such as the Huffington Post, Asia One Health, Jordan Times and the Grand Forks Herald. Bette was a technical advisor for the World Health Organization Guideline Development Group Nutrition Actions sub-committee, and was on a team that received the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professional Research Recognition Award. She was a Top 5 poster finalist in the research category at the 2015 Summer Institute on Evidence Based Practice at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Abigail Morgan, MSN'05, received the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2022. She is a women's health nurse practitioner at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation clinic in Bethel, Alaska.

Abby Luck Parish, MSN'05, received a health affairs scholarship from the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association in September 2022, and was a panelist for a Southeastern Conference Nursing Deans Council event on evidence-based practices for online learning in November. She is co-author of "Educational Theory and Cognitive Science," published in Nursing Clinics of North America in September 2021. She was named director of education innovation at VUSN in September 2020, and was hosted by the Vanderbilt Family and Child Center to present self-care tips for caregivers in November. Abby was appointed to represent VUSN on the Vanderbilt University Online Education Committee in August 2019. That year, she co-presented "Speak up Culture and the Academic Nursing Environment: The Junior Faculty Perspective," at a Sigma Theta Tau International conference, and was featured as a GAPNA Rising Star on the organization's website. Abby received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award in May 2018, received the Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty in August 2017, and welcomed a baby that September. She was featured on the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching website in February 2016, as a junior faculty teaching fellow, and co-authored "A Nurse Practitioner-Led Heart Failure Education Program for Certified Nursing Assistants in a Long-Term Care Facility," published in the Annals of Long Term Care in May.

Mia Pelt, MSN'05, is a certified nurse-midwife in Seattle at Swedish Midwifery Ballard (2017).

Carrie Plummer, MSN'05, co-received the Vanderbilt Martin Luther King Jr. Award in January 2022 for developing and leading the Vanderbilt Mobile Vaccine Program, and was a panelist for "COVID Perspectives, Values and Vaccination Hesitancy," presented by the VUSN Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She was featured in Daily Nurse in February and, in May, received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Clinical Practice. That month, the VMVP co-founders received an American Association of Nurse Practitioners award (covered by Nashville Post and Vanderbilt University Research News). She was honored as a Nurse Hero by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's College of Nursing, also in May. Carrie is co-author of "Simulated Home Visit to Promote Chronic Disease Management Competencies in Prelicensure Nursing Students, published in Nurse Educator, and was promoted to associate professor at VUSN, both in June. She received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Margaret Maddox East Family YMCA in Nashville in August, and facilitated a panel, "Unraveling Social Injustice Conversations: Let's Talk About It! Climate Change & Environmental Justice," hosted by the VUSN Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in November. Carrie led VUSN's participation in a mass-vaccination event at Nashville's Nissan Stadium in March 2021, and is co-founder and co-leader of the VUSN/VUMC Mobile Vaccine Team that provides COVID-19 vaccines and boosters throughout Middle Tennessee, covered in 2021 by Fox 17, NewsChannel 5, The Tennessee Tribune and WSMV. She and her mother presented gardening tips to VUSN faculty, staff and students in May, hosted by the School Life Committee. In October, Carrie received the Alma Gault Award for Public Service, presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony, and co-presented a poster, "Structured Debrief: From Theory to Integration," at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference. She received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Academic Endeavors in July 2020. Carrie co-presented a poster, "Gifted High School Students Excel in Challenging Interprofessional Course Evaluating Social Determinants of Health," at Vanderbilt University's Health Professions Education Research Day in October 2019, and was featured on PBS NewsHour in November about Nashville nonprofit Music for Seniors and the benefits of music for older adults. Carrie was showcased in the Nashville Public Television documentary, Companionship & Intimacy: Aging Matters, which aired that December, during which she and others shared information about intimacy and health for older adults. In July 2018, she was interviewed by Daily Nurse about the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, an interprofessional program she piloted at Vanderbilt involving the Law School, Medical Center and VUSN to assist older adults with advanced care planning. She co-presented about the Partnership at the Tennessee Nurses Association conference that October. Carrie received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty in May 2017.

Heather Robbins, MSN'05, was recognized by Vanderbilt News in May 2020, for her innovative thinking that allowed VUSN students to continue simulation lab work in spite of COVID-19 challenges. She was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in 2019, and received funding that December from the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program for her project, "Clinical Evaluation Improvement Project: Assessing Student Clinical Competency."

Donna Robinson, MSN'05, is an adult-gerontologic nurse practitioner at QC Kinetix (Springs Medical) in Louisville, Kentucky.

Tina Sasso, MSN'05, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Kathryn Scoville, MSN'05, is a nurse practitioner in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system in Winchester, New Hampshire (2020).

Megan Simmons, MSN'05, PMC'13, DNP'13, presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022 and wrote "Older Adult Mental Health," for the May issue of Tennessee Nurse. She was named academic director of the VUSN psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner specialty, effective August 2022. She was featured in Nurse.com in the article, "Mental Health Nursing Fast-growing Field with Diverse Possibilities," published in October. Megan co-presented, "Innovative Strategies for Optimizing Virtual Learning and Telehealth Simulation Experiences for PMHNP Students," at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference in October 2021. She welcomed babies in July 2020 and in March 2018. Megan spoke about mental and emotional health in older adults during Vanderbilt's January 2017 Boomers, Elders and More series, and earned the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association's first-ever Rising Star Award in August 2015.  

Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PMC'05, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2020. She is the Carol Morde Ross Distinguished Professor of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Missi Willmarth Stec, MSN'05, DNP'10, joined Wilson Health in Sidney, Ohio, in June 2021 as a certified nurse-midwife, and, in September, became a professor at Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta. In 2017, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Missi is chair of the American College of Nurse-Midwives division of education.

Erica Anderson Stone, MSN'05, was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021, and authored "Best Practices in Nursing: Advocacy and Empowerment," published in September in Nursing Clinics of North America, for which she was editor. She earned her doctor of nursing practice from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in May 2018. Her project is titled "Challenging Barriers to Physical Activity: An Urban Clinic-based Walking Intervention." Erica wrote a letter to the editor about full practice authority for advanced practice registered nurses that was printed by the Tennessean in May 2016.

Missy Travis, MSN'05, is founder of IP&C Consulting, a provider of classes and other educational resources about infection prevention (2020).

Raven Dedrick Wentworth, MSN'05, was interviewed in June 2020 by Memphis Medical News for its "Nurses Roundtable" about full practice authority. She is president of the board of the Tennessee Nurses Foundation, associate professor at Freed Hardeman University, and a nurse practitioner in central West Tennessee.

Kelley Whitaker, MSN'05, is clinical nurse supervisor and a nurse practitioner at Nashville Fertility Center (2020).

Tracie Doyle Wilder, MSN'05, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Tennessee Maternal Fetal Medicine in Nashville (2020).

Tamara Batson, MSN'06, is a family nurse practitioner at NorthCrest Family Healthcare in Springfield, Tennessee (2020).

Molly Butler, BS'05, MSN'06, co-presented, "Designing a Behavioral Health Curriculum for Family Nurse Practitioner Students: Integrated Care Begins in the Classroom," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, and, "Trauma in Children and Adolescents: A Roadmap for Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment," at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Pre-Conference in October 2021. She is an assistant in psychiatry and behavioral science as well as advanced practice registered nurse lead at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Keith Caldwell, MSN'06, was hailed in December 2020 by VUMC Voice when he saved the life of a woman in the parking lot of his workplace, a Vanderbilt Health Clinic in Nashville.

Shawana Crawford, MSN'06, DNP'12, is a medical scientist with Gilead Sciences, studying liver disease (2017).

Victor Czerkasij, MSN'06, completed the doctor of nursing practice program at Graceland University in Independence, Missouri, in 2022. He is a dermatology nurse practitioner in Cleveland, Tennessee, and participates on a surgical reconstruction team in Ukraine for soldiers wounded in the war. He is featured in several podcasts hosted by The Nurse Practitioner on topics such as psoriasis, psychiatric dermatology, acne and eczema.

Dot Dunn, MSN'06, received Northern Arizona University's 2019 Research and Creative Activity Award for Most Significant Research/Scholarly Work for her middle range theory of compassion energy and her work with caregivers of persons with dementia in rural Northern Arizona. She is a widely published tenured associate professor in the NAU School of Nursing in Flagstaff.

Mary Ellen Egger, MSN'06, was a reviewer for the textbook Women's Gynecologic Health , 3rd ed. in 2016. She presented "Breast Cancer Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment," that October during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's One Hundred Oaks campus grand rounds.

Bethany Riley Evans, MSN'06, presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018.

Nan Schrag-Dobbins Gentry, MSN'06, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Nikole Gettings, MSN'06, was a panelist for "The Evolving Role of Nursing in Transgender Care," in March 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and received the American College of Nurse-Midwives Outstanding Preceptor Award in May 2017. Nikole is a certified nurse-midwife/nurse practitioner at West Cancer Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martha Goodyear, MSN'06, is an in vitro fertilization nurse practitioner at Nashville Fertility Center (2020).

Julie McFarlane Hamm, MSN'06, was interviewed by the Tennessean in March 2022 for "Tennessee Voices: Julie Hamm, President, Tennessee Nurses Association." She was interviewed by Nashville's NewsChannel 5 in June 2021 regarding a new state law making it a felony to assault a nurse on the job, and was on WZTV in September for an interview about the nursing shortage. She was named president-elect of TNA in December 2020. Julie had a poster published in Vanderbilt University Medical Center's The Empowered Nurse: Peer-Reviewed Journal for Innovative VUMC Nursing Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, in November 2018, and received the 2016 Middle Tennessee Advance Practice Nurses President's Award. Julie is manager of the VUMC adult urology clinic.

Laura Hein, MSN'99, PhD'06, is associate professor at University of South Carolina College of Nursing in Columbia (2018).

Jamie Hollowell, MSN'06, is a critical care nurse practitioner at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina (2016).

Paul Kadetz, MSN'06, co-edited The Handbook of Welfare in China, published in July 2017, and Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency, published by Elsevier. He is the Robert Fisher Oxnam Professor of Science and Society at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

Emily Wachs Kane, MSN'06, published "Allergic Rhinitis: Updates in Diagnosis and Management," in the January/February 2017 issue of San Francisco Medicine. She married in July 2016 and is a nurse practitioner at San Francisco Ear, Nose and Throat Medical Group .

Cara McCracken Kirkland, BS'05, MSN'06, is a nurse practitioner specializing in female urological health at Urology Associates, Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville (2020).

Janna Konze Landsperger, MSN'06, was interviewed by the Nashville Scene in December 2020 in an article honoring health care workers as Nashvillians of the Year. She was co-organizer of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018, and co-chair of the planning committee for the ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp in both 2017 and 2016. Janna is a nurse practitioner in the medical intensive care center at VUMC.

Brandee Madden, MSN'06, co-moderated "COVID Perspectives, Values and Vaccination Hesitancy," presented by the VUSN Diversity and Inclusion Committee in January 2022. She was selected to participate in New York University's Substance Abuse Research Education and Training Visiting Mentor Development Program and was the moderator of "How the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Can Support You in Your Career: A Visit with President April Kapu, DNP'12, MSN'05," at VUSN, both in May. She was a panelist for "Trauma and Addiction: Breaking the Cycle for Women," in September, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and co-presented, "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Psychiatry," at the DNPs of Color conference in October. Brandee was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021, was named a member of the Dismas House board of directors in Nashville, and was certified as a tobacco treatment specialist. She completed her doctor of nursing practice from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in December 2018. Her project, "Impact of Brief and Intensive Interventions for Tobacco Use in Adult Women at a Residential Substance Use Treatment Facility," was completed at The Next Door in Nashville.

Shawna Johnston Marion, MSN'06, was named deputy director at Micmac Family Health Clinic, an Indian Health Service location in Presque Isle, Maine, in August 2020. She had been assistant medical director for the Alamo Navajo Health Center in New Mexico.

Allyl McClure, MSN'06, is a nurse practitioner at Scripps Health in San Diego (2020).

Beth Coleman Norwood, MSN'06, founded a continuing education company in Nashville called Suture and More, offering workshops such as wound closure, joint reduction and foreign body removal (2019).

Robbie Panepinto, MSN'06, co-authored "Transitioning Community Health Clinical Experiences to an Online Format during COVID-19," published in the Journal of Nursing Education in March 2022, and was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June. She presented, "Self-care Tips for Caregivers," in November at an event hosted by the Vanderbilt Child and Family Center, and presented a poster, "Active Older Adult Wellness," at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Health Professions Education Research Day in December. She was named 2022 Volunteer of the Year by the Margaret Maddox East Family YMCA in Nashville. Robbie is lead author of "A Review of Best Practices Related to Intravenous Line Management for Nurses," published in Nursing Clinics of North America in September 2021.

Melinda Leigh Phillips-Freeman, MSN'06, is a nurse practitioner at Optimum Internal Medicine and Pediatrics office in Dickson, Tennessee (2016).

Ashlie Pullen, MSN'06, earned her doctor of nursing practice in leadership and management from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion in August 2021, and created and piloted an online residency program in both Georgia and Wisconsin for public health nurses. She is deputy chief nurse of emergency preparedness for the State of Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta, where she provides leadership, consultation and technical assistance regarding the practice of public health nursing in disasters.

Wendy Elrod Reynolds, MSN'06, is a family nurse practitioner at Nashville Gastrointestinal Associates (2020).

Bethany Domzal Sanders, MSN'06, was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and co-presented "Nutrition Basics for Midwives,"  "Overcoming Your Fear of Rashes: A Dermatology Review for Midwives," and "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Updates and Gender Inclusive Care," at the ACNM conference in May 2022. She was named the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health reviewer of the year for 2020. She received the Tennessee Nurses Foundation 2018 Scholarly Writing Award in connection with Nurses Week for her paper, "The Impact of Student-Run Clinics on the Development of Nurse Leaders." She presented "Preparing for Labor and Birth," at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in July 2017. Bethany participates regularly as a blogger for Nashville Public Television's Call the Midwife.

Meg Shifrin, MSN'06, passed the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator examination in February 2022, offered through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and co-authored "Using a Standardized Rounding Tool to Improve the Incidence of Spontaneous Awakening and Breathing Trials," published in Critical Care Nurse in April. She is co-author of "Perceptions of Motivating Factors and Barriers to Precepting," published in the November issue of the  Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Meg is lead author of "Incorporating the Lived Experience into Graduate Nursing Education," published in the Journal of Nursing Education in April 2021, and co-author of "Improving Medical and Nurse Practitioner Student Confidence and Clinical Skill in Advance Care Plan Development: A Multidisciplinary Mentorship Model," published in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine in May. She was promoted to associate professor at VUSN in June and received the Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialty in August. She was inducted as a fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in September and presented, "There's No Time to Waste: How to Approach the Diagnosis and Prioritized Management of Anaphylactic Shock in Adults," at the AANP conference. She is co-author of "Necrotizing Fasciitis in the Adult Patient: Implications for Nurse Practitioners," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in May 2020, and "Critical Care Considerations in Adult Patients with Influenza-induced ARDS," published in Critical Care Nurse in October. Meg received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Academic Endeavors in June 2019, and presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018. Her poster, "Drug-associated Electrolyte Derangements in the Adult: Critical Practice Essentials for Nurse Practitioners," received the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners spring 2017 poster award. That year, Meg received the Sara K. Archer Award from AGACNP specialty students and welcomed a baby.

Priscilla Simms-Roberson, MSN'06, received the Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission in May 2020, and was named to the board of the Tennessee Chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nursing in December. She presented "Pursuit of Knowledge: A Study of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Knowledge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Non-occupational Post-exposure Prophylaxis Evidence-based Practice Guidelines," in September 2019 at the International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice. Priscilla was named Outstanding Nursing Faculty Member for the 2017-18 school year at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she is assistant professor and Kay Chitty Chair in the Master's of Science in Nursing program, and nursing coordinator at Partnership Rape Crisis Center. She developed a new undergraduate elective course titled "Introduction to Forensic Nursing," and taught it for the first time in fall 2018. Priscilla received her doctor of nursing practice in 2016 from UTC and founded the state's first domestic violence examiner program.

MaryLou Phillips Smith, MSN'06, was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in May 2022. She received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021, and held a workshop, "Abnormal Uterine Bleeding," and taught how to perform endometrial biopsies at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference in May 2017. MaryLou is an assistant professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at VUMC.

Melan Smith-Francis, MSN'06, returned to VUSN in May 2021 as an assistant professor of nurse-midwifery. She had been an adjunct professor of nursing at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Stephanie Spence, MSN'06, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Julie Stembridge, MSN'06, was interviewed by Online FNP Programs about her career as a certified nurse-midwife. She is on staff at WakeMed Physician Practices in Raleigh, North Carolina (2018).

Otobong Udoudoh, MSN'06, is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Pediatrix Medical Group's Neonatology Associates of Atlanta. He had been a nurse practitioner at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, where he was with a group of private practice critical care physicians under the umbrella of Pediatrix.

Amber Worrell Vermeesch, MSN'06, became chair of the family and community nursing department at the University of North Carolina Greensboro School of Nursing in August 2022, and is featured on the website for the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies. She was named a fellow in both the National Academies of Practice in Nursing and the American College of Sports Medicine in 2020, and was an associate professor at the University of Portland School of Nursing in Oregon. Amber was selected to represent nursing faculty at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing National Faculty Intensive Program in March 2016.

Stacy Fuqua Ward, MSN'06, is a family nurse practitioner at NorthCrest Orthopaedics in Springfield, Tennessee.

Kristin Werking, MSN'06, is a nurse practitioner in the department of thoracic surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2021).

Jennifer Ezell Wilbeck, MSN'99, PMC'06, is co-author of "Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice through Clinical Immersion: Evaluating the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trainee Experience," published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing in January 2022, and is lead author of "Postpartum Hemorrhage: Emergency Management for Uncontrolled Vaginal Bleeding," in the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, and of "Utilization of Phone Simulations to Assess Competency within Nursing Education," in Nurse Educator, both in July. She is co-author of "A Collaboration to Unify Emergency Nurse Practitioner Competencies," published by The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in August, and lead author of "Consideration of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner as a Population within the APRN Consensus Model: A SWOT Analysis," in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in October. Jennifer was interviewed in the summer of 2021 for the NP Schools blog on "Day in the Life of an Emergency NP: Two Experts Share Their Perspectives." She is co-author of "Revisioning the ENP among Emergency Workforce Changes: Specialty or Population?" published in Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, in July/September, and a contributing author for the first edition of Emergency Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum, published by Springer in August. She presented at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference in September and was interviewed for the NP Pulse: The Voice of Nurse Practitioners podcast in November. She led a group in authoring the 2021 Emergency Nurse Practitioner Competencies, endorsed by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Jennifer was featured by Prevention in March 2020 in an interview about fevers and what to look for regarding COVID-19. She moderated a panel, "Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19," hosted by the American College of Medical Toxology in June, and received a Certified Nurse Award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She co-authored "Ensuring Relevance and Currency for the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Profession: A Call for Collaboration," published in the October/December issue of the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. In April 2019, Jennifer co-presented "Trauma-informed Care for the Sexual Assault Survivor," at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses regional section conference, and co-authored "Dental Pain Relief in the Age of ALTO," published in the July/September issue of Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. Also that year, she co-published "Supporting Program Rigor in Newly Developed Specialty Academic Programs: Use of a Self-evaluation Reporting Tool for Emergency Nurse Practitioner Academic Programs," for Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in August, and a poster she co-presented received first place at the International Association of Forensic Nurses conference that September. Jennifer was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October. She became director of VUSN's emergency nurse practitioner program in June 2018, and received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Academic Endeavors and the Advance Practice Nurse of the Year Award from the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter, both in 2017. She was named fellow by AANP in 2016.

Kirsten Wister, MSN'06, is a nurse practitioner at Sonora Family Care, a nurse-managed primary health care clinic in Sierra Vista, Arizona (2017).

Kathyrn Wyatt, MSN'06, is a family nurse practitioner at Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology Specialists in Huntsville, Alabama (2020).

Cara Calloway Young, MSN'06, PhD'10, received the Colleen Conway-Welch Alumni Award for National Leadership presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2022. She was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2021, and co-authored "A Systematic Scoping Review of Psychological Capital Related to Mental Health in Youth," published in December in The Journal of School Nursing . She was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nursing Practitioners in June 2019, and received the Rising Star award from the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties in April 2018. Cara is an assistant professor at University of Texas Austin School of Nursing and on the editorial review board for The Journal of Nursing Education and Practice.

Carol Ziegler, MSN'06, DNP'12, was a panelist for "Supporting Nursing Students of Color: Success Strategies from Academia to Practice," part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and for "Climate Change and Social Justice," presented by the Vanderbilt Global Health and Environmental Justice Club, both in February 2022. She spoke at the Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light webinar, "Climate Change and Children's Health," in April and received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty in May. Carol was a panelist for "Hot in Here: Nashville's Urban Heat Island, Impacts and Mitigation Efforts," hosted by Cumberland River Compact in July, and for "Climate and Health Equity," in August, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. In August, she was interviewed by Nashville's NewsChannel 5 for "Are Infectious Diseases Linked to Climate Hazards?" and, in October, she spoke about trends in public health and climate change at an event hosted by the Lancet Countdown U.S. Policy Brief authors and the American Public Health Association. In November, she was a panelist for "Decarbonization Opportunities with FutureVU Sustainability and Vanderbilt University Medical Center," at the Impact Tennessee Symposium hosted by U.S. Green Building Council—Tennessee, and was interviewed by Nashville Public Radio's This is Nashville about solar energy. Carol was a panelist for a discussion around the documentary, Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air, hosted by the Tennessee Asthma Coalition in honor of Air Quality Awareness Week in May 2021. She received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Social Justice that same month. She was welcomed by The Vanderbilt Hustler as a head of house in Vanderbilt's undergraduate residential program and, in September, was invited to chair the new Planetary and Global Health Committee of the American Nurse Association's Innovation Advisory Committee, expected to launch in 2022. Carol was a speaker for the VUMC Discover podcast, "Climate Is Us: Why Climate Change Is Healthcare's Lane," in October, and, in December, gave the keynote for "Environmental Health and Justice: The Challenges Our Population is Facing," presented by the Shade Tree Clinic in Nashville. Carol was promoted to professor at VUSN in January 2020 and appointed to the Vanderbilt University Sustainability Advisory Council that February. She was selected to create and teach one of Vanderbilt's new interdisciplinary courses that spring, "Planetary Health, Policy and Social Justice," which was open to students from across campus. She received a Southeastern Conference faculty travel grant to collaborate with the University of Tennessee on climate change and inter-professional education, and was quoted in NP Schools for "Tennessee NPs: The Fight for Full Practice Authority." In April, Carol was quoted in the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle about the effects of air quality on health and, in May, she presented at the Nursing Summit on Environmental Health hosted by the Alliance of Nurses of Healthy Environments. She received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty in June. In 2018, Carol was featured by the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching in its Junior Teaching Spotlight, and was on the faculty of "Climate Change and Human Health: Impacts and Adaptation Strategies," an interprofessional series taught by five instructors at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. Carol opened Thrive Holistic Care and is the Vanderbilt representative for the Lancet Commission on Climate and Health, as well as a professor at VUSN and co-director of the Climate, Energy and Health Equity Lab at the Wond'ry.

Lindsey Baksh, MSN'07, DNP'19, co-presented, "Trauma-informed Teaching," at VUSN in February 2022. She received the Sara K. Archer Award from students in the VUSN Women's Health Nurse Practitioner specialty in August, and was a panelist for "Trauma and Addiction: Breaking the Cycle for Women," in September, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. Lindsey co-authored "Opioid Use Disorder Screening for Women across the Lifespan," published in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May 2021 and was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June. She co-presented, "Opioid Use Disorder Screening across the Women's Health Lifespan," at the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health annual conference in October and co-authored "Generational Learning Preferences," published in American Nurse in December. Lindsey received the Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the WHNP specialty in August 2020. She is a member of the Center of Women's Health Clinic drug dependency group, which received Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Team Award in May 2018. 

Caroline Banes, MSN'07, presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018. 

Tisha Barzyk, MSN'07, DNP'12, is a Nexus legal nurse consultant in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, specializing in the field of wound management and wound care cases, and a wound care consultant for Integumetrix (2018).

Brenda Baxter, MSN'07, is a nurse practitioner specializing in diabetes management at Saint Thomas Medical Group in Nashville (2020).

Susan Beaird, MSN'07, was interviewed by My Southern Health for, "Going Back to School Can Literally Be a Headache," published in August 2022. She received the Sara K. Archer Award in August from students in the VUSN Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Primary Care specialty, and the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November. Susan was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021. She was interviewed by My Southern Health in July 2019 for a story about children's headaches triggered when they return to school after summer break, and was highlighted in the VUMC Reporter in May 2016 for a study about family history and concussion recovery.

Anila Bhimani, MSN'07, is a nurse practitioner at Georgetown Pediatrics in Cumming, Georgia (2020).

Andrea Boohaker, MSN'07, is lead advanced practice provider in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she autonomously evaluates and treats upper extremity trauma injuries, supervises 12 providers and serves on several executive committees to advocate for advanced practice providers across the UAB system (2020).

Amy Brin, MSN'07, was appointed as a member of the National Institutes of Health's National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council in February 2022. She is executive director and chief executive officer of the Child Neurology Foundation, serving families in all 50 states as well as those in more than 70 countries.

Ashley Brouwer, MSN'07, was the speaker at "What's Up Down There?" in March 2021, hosted for the public by Fairbanks Urology in Alaska where she is a nurse practitioner.

Erin Hepper Burrell, BS'06, MSN'07, presented, "Supporting Our Nurses in the Face of Adversity," in June 2021, during the advanced practice grand rounds at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she is assistant in surgery on the critical care outreach team.

Rochell Sasse Burton, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Ashley Davis Campbell , MSN'07, is a health operations systems consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2016).

Erin Castellano, MSN'07, is an advanced practice registered nurse and board-certified adult nurse practitioner specializing in cardiovascular health at Gross Family Practice in Orangeburg, South Carolina (2020).

Elizabeth Cooper, MSN'07, DNP'11, is an associate professor at the Jeanette C. Rudy School of Nursing and Health Professions at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. She had been dean of the Aquinas College School of Nursing in Nashville (2016).

Jo Anne Davis, PhD'07, wrote an opinion piece, "Reducing Unexpected Pregnancies Would Diminish Rate of Abortions," published in the Cincinnati Enquirer in June 2022.

Lauren Fincher DeVine, MSN'07, became an assistant in otolaryngology in the pediatric ear, nose and throat clinic at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in August 2017.

Margo Fortney, MSN'07, is an adult psychiatric nurse practitioner at Alleviant Health Centers in Brentwood, Tennessee (2020).

Jasmine Good Geisinger, BS'03, MSN'07, is a nurse practitioner at VIP Midsouth Children's Clinic, in several locations throughout Middle Tennessee (2020).

Jayme Gibson, MSN'07, presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018.

Amy Graves, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Diane Johnson, MSN'07, was mentioned in a January 2020 Overton County News (Tennessee) story about Vanderbilt researchers studying noise levels during critical times of surgery, and the impact on patient safety and employee well-being.

Anna Bergman Kirk, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Anne Wolfenden Knight, BS'06, MSN'07, is a nurse practitioner at Heritage Ear, Nose and Throat in Brentwood, Tennessee (2020).

Kevin Krenek , MSN'07, is a family nurse practitioner at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago (2016).

Jacqueline Kunz, MSN'07, is a neonatology hospitalist at HSHS Medical Group in Breese, Illinois (2017).

Tiffany Latham, MSN'07, DNP'10, was a panelist for "Supporting Nursing Students of Color: Success Strategies from Academia to Practice," in February 2022, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and served as co-chair of VUSN's Reunion held in October. She is a nurse practitioner at Inova Heart and Vascular Institute in Falls Church, Virginia.

Jennifer Lorton, MSN'07, is a nurse practitioner specializing in neonatal-perinatal medicine in Oklahoma at Ascension Health's Newborn Specialists of Tulsa (2020).

Megan Manor, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Theresa Wilson Monroe, MSN'07, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Genesis Psychiatric Services in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2017).

Deonna Moore , MSN'07, PhD'17, is associate nursing officer at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Transplant Patient Care Center and Vanderbilt Lung Institute (2018).

Jay Morrison, MSN'07, is co-author of "Using a Learning Health Care System to Advance Nursing and Patient Care," published in Nurse Leader in November 2022.

Ashley Moss, MSN'07, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Womens Group of Franklin, Tennessee (2020).

Robb Nash, MSN'07, PhD'16, was hired in April 2021 as the first executive/medical director of The Village at Glencliff, a medical respite community in Nashville that serves people who would otherwise recover on the street after hospitalization. He co-wrote "Suboptimal HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Willingness to Use among Women Who Use Drugs in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," published in October 2019 in AIDS and Behavior.

Helen Nation, MSN'07, joined VUSN faculty full time in 2022 as an assistant professor in the neonatal nurse practitioner specialty. She is lead author of "A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Frequency of Skin-to-skin Contact for Extreme Low-birth-weight Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit," published by The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing in July/September 2021.

Jill Nelson, MSN'07, co-presented, "Gaining Insight into the Meaning of Palliative Care," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's advanced practice grand rounds in October 2022. She was on the faculty of the Palliative Care to You conference in April 2018 at Vanderbilt University, and presented "Integrating Palliative Care into Acute Care," in October 2017 at the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association annual conference. Jill received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse of the Year award in December 2016.

Cynthia O'Neal, PhD'07, was named Alumna of the Year by the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Nursing in October 2020. She is associate dean for undergraduate studies at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and a member of the VUSN Alumni Board.

Natalie Wood Owen, BS'05, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Jacob Page, MSN'07, is an acute care nurse practitioner at Middle Tennessee Internal Medicine Associates in Nashville (2020).

Elizabeth Bumpus Parnell, MSN'07, was named president of the Tennessee Chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nursing in December 2020.

Holly Pierce, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is an assistant in medicine specializing in preventative cardiology.

Samuel Robbins, MTS'01, MSN'07, co-presented, "Gaining Insight into the Meaning of Palliative Care," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center advanced practice grand rounds in October 2022, and received the Patient Experience Award from VUMC in November. He is an assistant in medicine specializing in internal medicine and palliative care.

Rachel Schreier, MSN'07, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is an acute care nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Medicine.

Jessica Simpson, MSN'07, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Children's Neonatology Intensive Care Clinics (2020).

LeTizia Baxter Smith, MSN'07, is featured in the NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner podcast, "Building an Anti-burnout Work Culture," recorded in March 2022, and co-presented "Advocacy among Underrepresented Faculty Group Leverages Advances in Nursing Workforce Diversity at a Predominantly White Institution," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April. She was invited to serve on the DNPs of Color advisory committee and co-presented about wellness skills for nurse practitioner and patients at the Tennessee Nurse Practitioner Association statewide conference, both in July. She co-presented, "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Psychiatry," at the DNPs of Color conference in October and became co-recipient of a Vanderbilt University Sesquicentennial Grant for "Project SHARE: Sharing Strategies for Academic Faculty and Student Recruitment," in the fall. LeTizia was moderator for "Mental Health and Black America Today: Where Are We?" in February 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June and is featured in a Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching podcast, "Mentoring Nursing Faculty: Inclusive Scholarship Support Group," posted that month. She was also moderator for "Mental Health and Black America Today: Where Are We? (Part 2)," in July. She co-authored, "Remembering and Honoring Tennessee Nurses Who are Deceased as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in Tennessee Nurse in December. LeTizia earned her doctor of nursing practice at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta in May 2020. The title of her project is "Improving Organizational Culture and Decreasing Burnout: Leveraging Collaborative Decision-making to Retain Community Mental Health Professionals." She was named to the Center for Teaching Junior Faculty Fellows program at Vanderbilt University in August 2019, and co-authored "Mentoring Nursing Faculty: An Inclusive Scholarship Support Group," published in the September issue of Nurse Educator. LeTizia was named an American Nurses Association Minority Fellowship Doctoral Fellow for 2018-19, and welcomed a baby in October 2017. LeTizia is owner of Silver Lining Psychiatric Consultants and a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at the Mental Health Cooperative in Nashville, as well as Diversity and Inclusion Committee chair and instructor at VUSN.

Jennie Bowers Stevens, MSN'07, is an assistant in pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (2020).

Tiffany Terrill , MSN'07, is a women's health nurse practitioner in the office of Bruce R. Goodman, MD, TriStar Summit Medical Center, in Hermitage, Tennessee (2016).

Shelley Thibeau, MSN'07, PhD'15, is director of the Mothers' Milk Bank of Louisiana at Ochsner Baptist in New Orleans, providing donor human milk to critically ill infants (2018).

Linda Upchurch, MSN'07, is director of Ogeechee Area Hospice in Statesboro, Georgia (2016).  

Jessica Van Meter, MSN'07, DNP'15, is co-author of "Capacity Building in Low- and Middle-income Countries: The Essentials of Sustainable Education Programs," published in The Nurse Practitioner in August 2022. She and colleagues received Best Abstract Honor at the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies conference for "Capacity Building in Northern Laos: An Evaluation of the Pediatric Nursing Training Program at Laos Friends Hospital for Children," published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in November. Jessica was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021, and shared a Children's Emergency Care Alliance EMS Star of Life Award that month for saving the life of a baby as a Vanderbilt University Medical Center flight nurse. She is co-author of "Development and Implementation of a Trauma Team Education Program in Georgetown, Guyana," published in The Nurse Practitioner in July. Jessica was a panelist for the VUSN Alumni Board's annual DNP Know Your Value in January 2020 and was named coordinator of the global perspectives column for The Nurse Practitioner that June. She presented "Sustainable Emergency Nursing Education in a Global Health Setting," in September at the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health and was interviewed in October by VUMC Reporter about staff from Vanderbilt's Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital and emergency medicine department who provided education in obstetrics and neonatology for all emergency medical services providers in the nation of Guyana. Jessica was a panelist for DNP Know Your Value in January 2019, and co-presented "VUMC Advanced Practice: Making a Difference around the World," at a VUMC advanced practice workshop that October. In 2018, she received VUMC's Inspiring Global Nurse Award and the VUSN Alumni Award for National Leadership presented by the Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony. Jessica and her mother, Jade Van Meter Forlidas, BSN'73, MSN'90, were profiled in the Medical Center's VUMC Voice in November 2017. Jessica co-directs a bachelor's in emergency nursing program for nurses at Georgetown Public Hospital Corp. in Guyana, in collaboration with the University of Guyana and VUMC. She is featured in a podcast, "Global and Public Health," hosted by The Nurse Practitioner.

Rose Vick, MSN'07, co-presented "Designing a Behavioral Health Curriculum for Family Nurse Practitioner Students: Integrated Care Begins in the Classroom," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, about wellness skills for nurse practitioner and patients at the Tennessee Nurse Practitioner Association conference in July, and a poster at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association meeting in October. She co-presented, "Meeting the Needs of Underserved Populations: Designing Behavioral Health Content for a Family Nurse Practitioner HRSA Training Grant," at the APNA conference in October 2021. She co-authored "Treating Child and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care," and "Treating Child and Adolescent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Behavioral Disorders in Primary Care," both in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in September 2020, and welcomed a baby in October. Rose was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in 2019 and presented "Psycho-oncology and the APRN: Integrating Behavioral Health into Cancer Care," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center advanced practice grand rounds that August. In 2018, she received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Nurse of the Year Award for behavioral health, and appeared on the Tennessee Department of Health's "Healthy Parks, Healthy Persons" website, promoting the program. She successfully defended her dissertation, "Meaning Making and Dispositional Mindfulness among Women with Breast Cancer," at the University of Arizona in Tucson that April, for which she received the Mary Opal Wolanin Research Endowment. Rose received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Clinical Practice in May 2017.

Hilary Weiss, BS'04, MSN'07, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Saint Thomas Heart in Franklin, Tennessee (2020).

Keith Adkins, MSN'08, is a nurse practitioner at The Heart Center of Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, specializing in cardiology (2020).

Terrah Foster Akard, MSN'01, PhD'08, is co-author of "Protocol of a Pilot Study of the Effects of Animal-assisted Interactions (AAI) on Quality of Life in Children with Life-threatening Conditions and Their Parents," published in December 2021 in the International Journal of Palliative Nursing, and lead author of "Ethical Considerations in Oncology and Palliative Care Research during COVID-19," in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing in February 2022. That month, she was named associate dean for academic affairs at the Vanderbilt University Graduate School, news of which was covered by Nashville Post and Women in Academia Report. Terrah co-authored "Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Parents of Children with Cancer," published in April in Pediatric Blood & Cancer, and "Postoperative Opioid Administration and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Preschool Children after Cardiac Surgery," in the November issue of the  Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Terrah was appointed director of Vanderbilt University's PhD in Nursing Science program in 2021. That March, four articles she co-authored were published: "Associations of Age, Gender and Family Income with Quality of Life in Children with Advanced Cancer," in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing; "Parental Posttraumatic Growth after Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant," in the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care Medicine; "Parent Caregiving Experiences and Posttraumatic Growth following Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant," in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing; and "Facebook Recruitment for Children with Advanced Cancer and Their Parents: Lessons from a Web-based Pediatric Palliative Intervention Study," in Progress in Palliative Care. She was a panelist for "How the Media and Entertainment Industry Perpetuate Stereotypes of Nursing (and Why That Hurts Everyone)," in May, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. Terrah is co-author of "Impact of End-of-life Circumstances on the Adjustment of Bereaved Siblings of Children Who Died from Cancer," published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings in June, and "Parenting Surviving Children after the Death of a Child from Cancer: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis," in the Journal of Child & Family Studies. She co-authored "Hemoptysis Associated with Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy: Development of Critical Events Checklist and Procedure Outcomes," in the Journal of Radiology Nursing in September, and, in October, "Animal-assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer: Child and Parent Perceptions," published in Palliative Medicine Reports. That month, Terrah received the Alumni Award for National Leadership, presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony. She is co-author of "Digital Storytelling for Bereaved Individuals in a Virtual Setting," published in Omega–Journal of Death and Dying, and "The Effects of Animal-assisted Interactions on Quality of Life in Children with Life-threatening Conditions and their Parents," in the International Journal of Palliative Nursing, both in December. Terrah co-authored "'Connection': The Integration of a Person-centered Narrative Intervention into the Electronic Health Record: An Implementation Study," in the January 2020 issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine, and "Transforming a Face-to-face Legacy Intervention to a Web-based Legacy Intervention for Children With Advanced Cancer," in the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing in February. She is lead author of "Randomized Clinical Trial of a Legacy Intervention for Quality of Life in Children with Advanced Cancer," published in the Journal of Palliative Care Medicine, and co-authored "Toward a Better Understanding: An Exploration of Provider Perceptions in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Adherence," published in Pediatric Transplantation, both in September. She is lead author of "Improved Parent-child Communication following a RCT Evaluating a Legacy Intervention for Children with Advanced Cancer," in Progress in Palliative Care in October, and "Research Cooperative Groups in Pediatric Palliative Care Research," published in December by Palliative Medicine Reports. Terrah was named a Vanderbilt University Chancellor Faculty fellow in May 2019. She co-published "Parent and Child Preferences and Styles of Communication about Cancer Diagnoses and Treatment," in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, and co-presented a poster, "Exploration of Parent and Child Preferences for Communication about Cancer," at the Sigma Theta Tau Congress that July. She co-authored "The Influence of Parent Distress and Parenting on Bereaved Siblings' Externalizing Problems," published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies in December. Terrah received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter 2018 Nurse of the Year Award for nursing education, and was invited to participate in the Vanderbilt Leadership Academy, the university's program to identify and develop academic and administrative leaders. In 2017, Terrah was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, was featured in The Vanderbilt Hustler for her work with children with life-threatening conditions, and was named Nurse of the Week by The Daily Nurse. She was approved for tenure in 2016 as an associate professor at Vanderbilt. Terrah and her team are studying the effects of songwriting intervention for children with serious illnesses and their family members.

Marti Alexander-Bingham, MSN'08, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away February 25, 2022.

Rob Anderson, MSN'08, is an assistant in general internal medicine and public health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville (2017).

Richard Aries, MSN'08, is in medical staff services at Swedish Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle (2016). 

Anabel Robertson Atkinson, MSN'08, is a school nurse at University Park Elementary in Dallas (2017).

Autumne Bailey, MSN'08, is administrative director of performance, management and improvement at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (2017).

Sarah Barrett, MSN'08, was nominated in May 2022 for a Vanderbilt University Medical Center award named in memory of the late Jerita Payne, MSN'90, MMHC'13 , and presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at VUMC in August 2018.

Kalin Bird, MSN'08, is medical science liaison at Gamida Cell headquartered in Boston. She was in clinical practice as a nurse practitioner until 2018, specializing in hematology, oncology and stem cell transplant.

E lizabeth Morrell Brannan, MSN'08, is a nurse practitioner at University of Maryland Saint Joseph Medical Center's Towson Orthopaedic Associates (2022).

Ashley Brown, MSN'08, is a family psychiatric nurse practitioner at Mental Health Cooperative in Nashville (2021).

Brittany Hagy Broyhill, BS'06, MSN'08, DNP'13, was a panelist for "Capturing APP Value: Industry Leaders Share Their Experiences," hosted by the Chartis Group in March 2021, and is featured in the NP Pulse: The Voice of Nurse Practitioners podcast, "NP Leadership: Going the Extra Mile," recorded in November. She co-authored "Developing and Expanding APRN and PA teams," published by American Nurse in December 2020, and received the Pinnacle Award from Atrium Health in November 2019. Brittany presented at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute meeting and at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, both in 2018. She received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association at the school's annual awards ceremony in 2016.

Mary Carter-Orbke, MSN'08, was a panelist for "Trauma and Addiction: Breaking the Cycle for Women," in September 2022, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum.

Amanda Brown Comer, MSN'08, is co-author of "Consideration of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner as a Population within the APRN Consensus Model: A SWOT Analysis," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in October 2022. She is system director of advanced practice providers at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee, where she leads and develops the implementation of system-wide, team-based, integrated clinical care models throughout the organization.

Trina Corley, MSN'08, is the owner and provider at Advanced Family Medical Clinic in Nashville (2017).

Kalyn Bowra Crosby, BS'07, MSN'08, joined Nashville Skin as a nurse practitioner in March 2018.

Claire Givens Crunk, MSN'08, was featured by the Tennessean in August 2021 in an article about Trace Femcare, the company she founded, which manufactures tampons made from hemp. She participated in a VUSN women's health nurse practitioner alumni panel in August 2017.

Katie DeFries, MSN'08, is the 2014 recipient of the Distinguished Nursing Alumna Award from the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville.

Laura Devor, MSN'08, is a nurse practitioner at Rocky Mountain Restorative Medicine in Montrose, Colorado (2020).

Tracey DeWire, MSN'08, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is featured on the VUMC website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight and is a nurse practitioner in surgical oncology at Vanderbilt Breast Center.

Louise Dobkins, MSN'08, is an adult nurse practitioner at Swedish Primary Care at Mercer Island, Washington, and mother of Caroline Leithner, MSN'16, MDiv'16.

Michelle Drew, MSN'08, was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and hosted a workshop on "Manual Vacuum Aspiration Skills for Midwives: Midwifery as Radical Justice," at the ACNM conference in May 2022, where she received the Health Equity Award. She is a nurse practitioner in obstetrics and gynecology at ChristianaCare's Wilmington Women's Health in Delaware.

April Dunlevy, MSN'08, is a registered nurse at Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute in Anchorage (2019).

Samantha Eagle, MSN'08, PMC'13, presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018. 

Anitra Ellerby-Brown, MSN'08, was a panelist for "Mental Health and Black America Today: Where Are We?" in February 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She is director of clinical services and a family nurse practitioner/certified nurse-midwife at PopHealthCare in Franklin, Tennessee.

Stephanie Fisher, MSN'08, was selected for the 2016 Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.

Lisa James Flemmons, MSN'08, presented, "Navigating a Pandemic: Our Team's Journey," during the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Advanced Practice Grand Rounds Kick-Off in January 2022, and was interviewed in a Vanderbilt Magazine article in February 2021 about the emotional impact of caring for COVID patients on VUMC providers. She was photographed by the Nashville Scene in December 2020 in an article honoring health care workers as Nashvillians of the Year, and appeared in The Vanderbilt Hustler, Columbia Daily Herald and several local television stations stories about VUMC distributing the first COVID-19 vaccines to heath care providers. Lisa presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp in August 2018 at VUMC, where she is a nurse practitioner in the medical intensive care center.

Amber Avara Fountain, MSN'08, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away March 22, 2022.

Lisa Garwood, MSN'08, is a nurse practitioner at Mid-State Gastroenterology in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2020).

Tracey Gibbs, MSN'08, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Comprehensive Care Behavioral Health in Meridian, Mississippi (2022).

Amy Hamlin, PhD'08, is a board member of the Tennessee Nurses Foundation (2021).

Alison Hartwell, MSN'08, is a certified nurse-midwife at Acclaim Nurse-Midwives in Fort Worth, Texas (2020).

Chelsia Harris, MSN'08, received the Tennessee Rising Star Nurse Leader Award from the Tennessee Nurses Association, Tennessee Hospital Association and Tennessee Action Coalition in April 2022, and was named executive director of the Lipscomb University School of Nursing in Nashville in June 2019. She appeared on OzarksLive! in Springfield, Missouri, in September 2015 to discuss her book, Created & Called.  

Hillary Hatcher, MSN'08, presented about osteoporosis at the Franklin, Tennessee, office of Dani Williamson, MSN'09, in August 2017. She is a nurse practitioner at Neurosurgery Associates in Nashville.

Lydia Vincent Hathorn, MSN'08, is a women's health nurse practitioner at the Gynecology Specialty Clinic at Parkland Hospital in Dallas (2019).

Elizabeth Adair Herbert, MSN'08, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She is a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Children's Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

Jane Hipps, MSN'08, of Waynesville, North Carolina, passed away February 6, 2019.

Liz Howard, PhD'08, is lead author of "Ode to a Mentor," published in the January/March 2021 issue of The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. She presented "Understanding Your Options: From Bump to Birth and Beyond," in October 2020, as part of the Empowered to Flourish Series presented by the Flourish Fund and Women & Infants.

Haley Hoy, PhD'08, is the associate dean of graduate programs, associate professor and acute care nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (2017).

Todd Isbell, MSN'08, was named chief nursing officer in July 2019 at Memorial Health in Savannah, serving 35 counties in southeast Georgia.

Sharon Karp, MSN'99, PhD'08, is co-author of "Choking, Allergic Reactions and Pickiness: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Perceived Threats and Risk Avoidance Strategies during Complementary Feeding," published in April 2022 in Appetite . She was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June. Sharon was named director of program evaluations at VUSN in June 2021. She co-authored "Clinical Strategies for Addressing Obesity in Infants and Toddlers," published in The Nurse Practitioner in February 2021. She was appointed director of program evaluations at VUSN in May. She co-authored "Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices: Effects of Maternal Personal Characteristics," published in the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing in May 2020, and "Family-Centered Care: How Close Do We Get When Talking to Parents of Children Undergoing Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorders?" published in November in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. She was published in the March 2019 issue of Nursing Clinics and received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award in May 2018. She is chair of the Acute and Chronic Care Community at VUSN.

Kristina Kimball, MSN'08, joined the Watkins Clinic in Lakeland, Florida, in March 2021 as a pediatric nurse practitioner.

Rachel Kimble, MSN'08, is an acute care nurse practitioner at CHI Memorial in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2017).

Ingrid Larson, MSN'08, is one of 20 members named to the 2021 American Organization for Nurse Leadership's Young Professional Voices.

Amanda Dean Martin, MSN'08, is chief of advanced practice and clinical integration for the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she provides strategic oversight of advanced practice providers, genetic counselors, telehealth, cancer screening, cancer survivorship and patient access efforts for the oncology service line throughout Arizona and Northern Colorado (2018). 

Lesley Mathis, MSN'08, wrote "Keys to Maximizing Business, Clinical and Operational Efficiencies in the World of Remote Patient Monitoring," published on the Care Innovations blog. She is a clinical manager with Care Innovations and lives in the Nashville area (2019).

Cameron McGregor, MSN'08, was named among the Dayton Business Journal's 2015 Class of Forty Under 40. She is system vice president at the Neuroscience and Oncology Institutes for Premier Health in Dayton, Ohio.

Keith McKernan, MSN'08, joined the faculty of Aspen University School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Denver as an adjunct professor in September 2020, teaching in the bachelor of science in nursing pre-licensing and bachelor of science in health care administration programs.

Amanda Fordham Milliniks, MSN'08, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Academy Children's Clinic in Nashville (2020).

Sonya Moore, MSN'08, is the director of adult performance management and improvement in the department of quality, safety and risk prevention at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2018).

Corrie Logan Morris, MSN'08, joined the staff of Baptist Health Medical Group Cardiology in Lexington, Kentucky, in October 2020 as a nurse practitioner.

Diane Nicholls, MSN'08, of Bakersfield, California, passed away May 6, 2022.

Lauren Nevels Oliver, MSN'08, presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018. 

Mary Prisco, MSN'08, is a nurse practitioner at Neighborhood Health in Nashville (2017).

Mollie Lehner Reed, MSN'08, is a nurse practitioner in the Sarah Cannon Research Institute drug development unit at Tennessee Oncology in Nashville and a leadership board member of the AIM with Immunotherapy Foundation and (2020).

Cathi Reisenberg, MSN'90, PhD'08, is assistant clinical professor and director of the Washington Squared Program at George Washington University School of Nursing in Ashburn, Virginia (2021).

Teresa Reske, MSN'08, was promoted to associate dean of graduate and doctoral studies for the school of nursing at the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, Massachusetts, in September 2020.

Anna Samuel, MSN'08, authored "Acute Myocardial Infarction from Embolized Left Ventricular Thrombus in Coronavirus Disease 2019," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in June 2022. She is an inpatient cardiovascular nurse practitioner at the Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas, while pursuing her doctorate of nursing practice at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Matt Schroer, MSN'08, co-presented at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference in June 2022. He received APNA's Tennessee Chapter Award and the Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the VUSN Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty, both in August. He is co-author of "Identifying Mental Health Issues Associated with Infertility," published in the November issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Matt presented at the Tennessee chapter of APNA at its conference in April 2021 and was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June. He received the Sara K. Archer Award from PMHNP students in August, and co-presented, "Trauma in Children and Adolescents: A Roadmap for Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment," in October at the APNA Pre-Conference, and "Mental Health Virtual Escape Room," at the APNA conference in October. Matt co-authored "Easing the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 for Nurses," published in April 2020 in American Nurse, and received the VUSN Daisy Award for Small Group Facilitator at the MSN Level in June. He co-authored "Easing the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 for Nurses: An Update for Tennessee Nurses," published in the summer issue of Tennessee Nurse. Matt is lead author of "Treating Child and Adolescent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Behavioral Disorders in Primary Care," and co-author of "Treating Child and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care," both in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in September. He was a panelist for "Compassion Fatigue during COVID-19: How Nurses and NPs Can Stay Grounded," in November, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. Matt completed his doctor of nursing practice at Maryville University in Saint Louis in September 2017. His project, "The Qualitative Examination of the Lived Experience of a Mindfulness Information Course on the Self-care Practices of Mental Health Clinicians," was completed at Mercy Clinic in Franklin, Tennessee, where he is a psychiatric NP.

Katie Levy Sibler, MSN'08, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Trickera Sims, MSN'08, is a family nurse practitioner in Savannah, Georgia (2016).

Micah Skeens, PhD'08, is lead author of "Toward a Better Understanding: An Exploration of Provider Perceptions in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Adherence," published in Pediatric Transplantation in July 2020.

Amanda Fullerton Squires, MSN'08, DNP'15, is a nurse practitioner at Las Vegas Urology (2022).

Christine Gerson Suriani, MSN'08, is on staff at Centre Pediatric Associates in Brookline, Massachusetts (2016).  

Erin Tolbert, MSN'08, founded MidLevelU, an online resource for nurse practitioners and physician assistants (2016). 

Ashley Mark Walker, MSN'08, DNP'21, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Pediatrix Critical Care and Hospitalist Care of Nevada in Reno (2022).

Dederick Yeargin, MSN'08, is an advance practice nurse at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Dover, Tennessee, where he assists retired and disabled vets in the region (2017).

Lisa Blount, MSN'09, is a certified nurse-midwife at Connectus Health in Nashville, where she sees patients who are uninsured, underinsured and fully covered, including a large Spanish-speaking population and people from Africa and the Middle East (2019).

Leanne Boehm, MSN'09, PhD'16, co-authored "Characteristics of Post-ICU and Post-COVID Recovery Clinics in 29 U.S. Health Systems," published in Critical Care Explorations in March 2022. She was on the planning committee for the American Delirium Society's annual conference held in June, and is co-author of "An Educational Strategy for the Implementation of a Delirium Assessment Tool," published in the Journal of Clinical Intensive Care and Medicine in August. Leanne is co-author of "Patients' and Caregivers' Perceptions of Intensive Care Unit Hospitalization and Recovery," published in the July issue of the American Journal of Critical Care, and lead author of "Factors Influencing Engagement with In-person Intensive Care Unit Recovery Clinic Services," in the September issue of the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. She co-authored "Association of Incident Delirium with Short-term Mortality in Adults with Critical Illness Receiving Mechanical Ventilation," published in JAMA Network Open in October, and "Symptom Clusters Seen in Adult COVID-19 Recovery Clinic Care Seekers," in November in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Leanne co-authored "Peer Support for Post Intensive Care Syndrome Self-management (PS-PICS): Study Protocol for Peer Mentor Training," published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing in January 2021, and both "Benefits of Peer Support for Intensive Care Unit Survivors: Sharing Experiences, Care Debriefing and Altruism," and "Establishing a Peer Support Program for Survivors of COVID-19: A Report from the Critical and Acute Illness Recovery Organization," published in the American Journal of Critical Care in March. She co-authored a chapter, "The Role of the Volunteer across the Critical Care Recovery Arc," for the book, Improving Critical Care Survivorship: A Guide to Prevention, Recovery, and Reintegration, published by Springer Nature in April, and, in May, received the Borten Family Foundation Junior Investigator Award from the American Delirium Society. Leanne is co-author of "Assess, Prevent, and Manage Pain; Both Spontaneous Awakening and Breathing Trials; Choice of Analgesia/Sedation; Delirium: Assess, Prevent and Manage; Early Mobility; Family Engagement and Empowerment Bundle Implementation: Quantifying the Association of Access to Bundle-enhancing Supplies and Equipment," published in Critical Care Explorations in September, and lead author of "Delirium-related Distress in the ICU: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis of Patient and Family Perspectives and Experiences," in the October International Journal of Nursing Studies. An overview of that study is in a video. In February 2020, Leanne co-authored "Monitoring for Delirium in Critically Ill Adults," published by Delirium, and is lead author of "Implementation of a Patient and Family-centered Intensive Care Unit Peer Support Program at a Veterans Affairs Hospital," published in Critical Care Clinics of North America that June. She co-authored "Implementation of an Intensive Care Unit Diary Program at a Veterans Affairs Hospital," published in Nursing Care Quality in August. She is lead author of "A Multisite Study of Multidisciplinary ICU Team Member Beliefs toward Early Mobility," published in Heart and Lung, and co-author of "Institutional Challenges and Solutions to Evidence-based, Patient-centered Practice: Implementing ICU Diaries," in Critical Care Nurse, both in October. That month, Leanne co-presented "Introduction to Implementation Science: Examples from Clinical Operations," at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Nursing Virtual Research Day, and, in November, co-authored "Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth after Critical Illness," in the American Journal of Critical Care. Leanne is co-author of "Implementation Science Training and Resources for Nurses and Nurse Scientists," published in the September 2019 issue of Journal of Nursing Scholarship. That year, she received an American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Impact Research Grant and a Vanderbilt University Provost Discovery Grant in support of her research into interventions for post-intensive care syndrome problems, and co-authored "Caring for Survivors of Critical Illness: Current Practices and the Role of the Nurse in Intensive Care Unit Aftercare," published by American Journal of Critical Care. She was featured in Vanderbilt University's MyVU in November 2018 as a new faculty member. Leanne earned the Best Poster Award from ADS in June 2017, and presented a poster at the American Delirium Society meeting in June 2016.

Kelly Brown, MSN'09, of Batesville, Arkansas, passed away December 9, 2016.

Lindsey Caldwell St. Cyr, MSN'09, is a nurse practitioner at Cleveland Clinic Canada in Toronto (2020).

Billy Cameron, MSN'09, was co-organizer of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in August 2018, and co-chaired the event's planning committee in 2017 and 2016. He presented "Assessment of the GI and Liver Patient," at VUMC in September 2018.

Pam Carney, MSN'09, retired from her position as a nurse navigator at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in February 2021.

Gina Clarkson, MSN'09, PhD'16, co-authored "Factors Affecting Time NICU Nurses Spend with Fathers: Results from a Larger Study," published in the October 2019 issue of Advances in Neonatal Care.

Beth Anne Baus Connaway, MSN'09, of Marietta, Georgia, passed away July 28, 2020.

Hannah Diaz, MSN'09, continued to post commentary on the Nashville Public Television Call the Midwife blog throughout spring 2022. She co-presented, "Building Bridges across Practice Sites: Improving Interprofessional Communication and Client Satisfaction with Birth Center to Hospital Transfers," at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference in May. She is co-author of "Strengthening Interprofessional Collaboration to Improve Transfers between a Freestanding Birth Center and an Academic Medical Center," published in the November issue of the  Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. Hannah provided weekly blog posts following each episode of Season 10 of Call the Midwife in spring 2021. She was a blogger for Season 9 of the show, which aired in 2020, and Season 8 in 2019. She is a certified nurse-midwife at Vanderbilt Nurse-Midwives and Primary Care for Women.

Monica Greenwald Dohrman, MSN'09, is owner and provider at Front Porch Pediatrics in Phoenix (2020).

Lauren Drees, MSN'09, opened Haven Birth and Wellness in Nashville in May 2017 and was quoted in a Nashville Ledger story that month, "Natural Way: Midwife Aided, Mother Approved."

Leanna Copeland Dugan, MSN'09, co-presented "Look at Pediatric Sexual Assault Exam Findings and Their Significance within the 2018 Adams Classification Scale," in September 2019 at the International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice.

Dana Parry Estevo, MSN'09, is a certified nurse-midwife at Mendocino Community Health Clinic in Ukiah, Lakeport and Willits, California (2020).

Devin Frost, MSN'09, is an adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner at the Advanced Care Group in Nashville (2020).

Anne Gildehaus, MSN'09, is a pediatric acute care nurse practitioner in the department of neurosurgery at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in Saint Louis (2022).

Addie Graham, MSN'09, was quoted in a May 2017 Nashville Ledger story called "Childbirth in the Age of Social Media," and interviewed by the Daily Nurse blog that December about her career as a nurse-midwife.

Brittany Blalock Haemmerlein, BA'06, MSN'09, is director of nursing and a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Centerstone Tennessee in Nashville, where she oversees and provides treatment for patients age five and older, supervises registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, chairs the infection control committee, and places PMHNP students in clinical training (2022).

Courtney Hammond, MSN'09, joined Concordia Life Plan Community in Oklahoma City as the company's first on-site nurse practitioner in September 2020. She is an expert in INVU Care telemedicine software.

Angela Hanor, MSN'09, is the student programs director for Christian Community Health Fellowship, in Memphis, Tennessee (2016). 

Susan Hellervik, MSN'09, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and was interviewed in a Vanderbilt Magazine article in February 2021 about the emotional impact of caring for COVID patients on VUMC providers. She presented "Nasal Cannula and Non-invasive Ventilation," at the American Association of Nursing Practitioners conference in June 2019.

Ryan Henderson, BA'06, MSN'09, is an assistant in anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville (2020).

Holly Houston, MSN'09, is a certified nurse-midwife at Connectus Health in Nashville (2020).

Amy Howard, MSN'09, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Meegan Jones, MSN'09, is a nurse practitioner at San Diego Cardiac Center, an outpatient cardiology practice with specialization in advanced heart failure and electrophysiology (2016).

Lauren King, MSN'09, was interviewed by My Southern Health for "Going Back to School Can Literally Be a Headache," published in August 2022, and received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021. She was interviewed by My Southern Health in July 2019 for a story about children's headaches triggered when they return to school after summer break, and was highlighted in the VUMC Reporter in May 2016 for a study about family history and concussion recovery. Lauren is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Children's Neurology where she specializes in headache and migraine.

Jennifer Parker Kurkowski, MSN'09, contributed to the book, NASPAG's Protocols for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology: A Ready-reference Guide for Nurses, published by Springer in October 2020, and co-authored "Contraceptive and Reproductive Care in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus," published in the December 2019 issue of Women's Healthcare. She received the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony, and co-presented at the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health conference, both in October 2018. In 2016, Jennifer received second place for a poster at the NPWH conference and co-presented about sexual health in teens at the Texas Children's Hospital Advanced Practice Provider Conference.

Claire Leezer, MSN'09, co-authored "Pain Management," in the December 2017 issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics.

Kanah May Lewallen, MSN'09, is co-author of "Patient-reported Barriers and Enablers to Deprescribing Recommendations during a Clinical Trial," published in July 2022 by The Gerontologist, and recipient of the Sara K. Archer Award from students in the VUSN adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner specialty in August. In September, she co-presented, "Assessment of the Older Adult Driver in the Primary Care Setting," at the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association conference. She is the author of "Evaluation and Management of Rectal Prolapse among Geriatric Patients," published in Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, and co-author of "Teaching Nurse Practitioner Students about Polypharmacy through a Novel Simulation," in Nurse Educator, both in July. Kanah co-presented a four-part educational course for family caregivers of individuals with dementia and Alzheimer's, hosted by the Vanderbilt University Child and Family Center in winter/spring 2021, and was promoted that June to assistant professor at VUSN. She co-presented, "Using Simulation to Teach Office-based Screening of At-risk Older Adult Automobile Drivers," in December at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Health Professions Education Research Day. Kanah welcomed a baby in June 2020 and received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Informatics Endeavors in July. She was named Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing by the National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence in September 2019. That October, Kanah received GAPNA's Excellence in Education Award at its conference, and co-presented a poster, "Gifted High School Students Excel in Challenging Interprofessional Course Evaluating Social Determinants of Health," at Vanderbilt University's Health Professions Education Research Day. She was featured on the GAPNA website as a Rising Star, and presented "Delirium across the Care Continuum," at its national conference, both in September 2018. Kanah presented "Sundowning: A Symptom of Alzheimer's Disease," at the Boomers, Elders and More lunchtime series at VUMC in September 2017, and was featured by the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching in its December Junior Teaching Spotlight. She welcomed a baby in November 2016.

Kelly Luskin, MSN'09, was quoted in February 2019 by Clarksville Online for a piece on cervical cancer prevention. She is the director of reproductive and women's heath for the Tennessee Department of Health in Nashville.

Danielle Mahan, MSN'09, is a nurse practitioner specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at Women's Care of Nashua in New Hampshire (2022).

Amy Lynn, BS'07, MSN'09, is a women's health nurse practitioner for the Defense Health Agency at the Joint Base Anacostia—Bolling in Washington, D.C. She had eight years of active duty military experience, including assignments in Germany, Kenya, California and Mississippi, as well as a deployment to Southwest Asia.

Ginny Massey-Holt, MSN'09, is president of District 3 of the Tennessee Nurses Association (2022).

Stacy Ochsenrider, MSN'09, joined the West Michigan Cancer Center and Institute for Blood Disorders in March 2016, in Kalamazoo, working as a nurse practitioner in radiation oncology.  

Katie Stewart Page, MSN'09, co-presented, "Induction of Labor Techniques to Avoid Unnecessary Cesarean Birth: Updates from the New ACNM Clinical Bulletin on Induction of Labor," and had an article honored with Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health Review Article of the Year, at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference in May 2022. She led a team of volunteers from the Virginia affiliate of ACNM to successfully advocate for that state to, in the spring of 2021, recognize certified midwives and allow certified nurse-midwives to practice to the full extent of their education and clinical training and be regulated without physician control. In May, Katie presented "Advocacy in Action!" as part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum and at the ACNM annual meeting. She was named a fellow of the ACNM at its national conference in May 2019, where she presented about using bundles to reduce primary cesareans and how to use data for quality improvement. She shared the results of the 2019 National Midwives and Liability Survey at the Midwifery Works meeting that October. Katie is a certified nurse-midwife at Centra Medical Group Women's Center in Lynchburg and chair of the Professional Liability Committee of the ACNM and president of its Virginia chapter.

Vikki Pedigo, MSN'09, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Urology Associates in Nashville (2017).

Courtney Young Pitts, MSN'09, DNP'11, co-authored "Forty Years of HIV Care: Optimism and Challenges," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in January 2022 and wrote a guest editorial in the same issue. She was a panelist for "Supporting Nursing Students of Color: Success Strategies from Academia to Practice," in February, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and, in March, was quoted in the Fort Campbell Courier for "Vanderbilt, BACH Open Doors for Nursing Students through Leadership Tour." She co-presented, "Promoting Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April, and "Unravelling Bias and Building Cultural Sensitivity in Day-to-day Work Culture," at the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved STAR² Center's workforce symposium in May. Courtney co-authored "Building a Culturally Responsive Workforce: Faculty of Color in Nursing Education," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners that month, and was promoted to professor at VUSN in June. She co-presented, "Pharmacologic Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Common Chronic Conditions," at a preconference workshop of the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium in July. Courtney was named a 2021 Rising Star Nurse Leader in February by the Tennessee Action Coalition, Tennessee Nurses Association and Tennessee Hospital Association, and was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June. That month, she co-presented, "Bolstering Diversity in the Health Professions Applicants' Pool," at the Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement Conference. In August, Courtney was appointed for a four-year term to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Education and Practice by the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and co-presented, "Connecting with Readers through Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity," at the International Association of Nursing Editors conference. Courtney was interviewed in February 2020 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education about two Health Resources and Services Administration grants received by VUSN to grow the number of nurse practitioners in rural, underserved areas that lack primary care providers. She welcomed a baby in June and edited an e-book, Sexually Transmitted Infections, An Issue of Nursing Clinics, published by Elsevier Health Sciences in August. Courtney co-authored and "Pharmacologic Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Common Chronic Conditions," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in March 2019, and presented "HIV and Primary Care: Clinical Updates for the Nurse Practitioner," and a poster, "Hand Pain during and after Pregnancy," at the AANP conference in June. That October, she co-authored "A Checklist for Faculty and Preceptor to Enhance the Nurse Practitioner Student Clinical Experience," published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She co-authored "Writing a Diversity and Inclusivity Statement: Guidelines for Nursing Programs and Faculty," published in November by Nurse Educator. Courtney welcomed a baby in August 2017.

Melissa Weinand Purvis, MSN'09, was named chief nursing officer in October 2017 for Greystone Healthcare Management, a Tampa-based company that operates 27 skilled nursing locations in Florida and eight in Ohio.

Jen Heath Ragan, MSN'09, is a cosmetic injector at Elan Skin in Nashville (2020).

Brian Ramirez, MSN'09, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Tucson, Arizona (2021).

Sheryl Redlin-Frazier, MSN'09, gave a podium presentation, "Radiology Resource Nurses: A Novel Nursing Role Transforming the Patient Experience and Creating a Strategic Framework for Improving Quality and Safety in Radiology," at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Nursing Virtual Research Day in October 2020.

Nicole Lee Rhoden, BA'07, MSN'09, is a nurse practitioner at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance in Nashville, Cookeville and Dickson, Tennessee (2020).

Bethany Andrews Rhoten, MSN'09, PhD'13, co-authored "Association of Inventory to Measure and Assess imaGe Disturbance—Head and Neck Scores with Clinically Meaningful Body Image-related Distress among Head and Neck Cancer Survivors," published by Frontiers in Psychology in December 2022. She co-authored "Perceived Effects of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms on Functional Status in Early-stage Huntington Disease," published in February 2021 in the Western Journal of Nursing Research , and "Perceived Benefits of a Brief Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-deployment Military Service Members," in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine in March. She is lead author of "Impact of an LGBTQ Cultural Competence Training Program for Providers on Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-efficacy and Intensions," published in the Journal of Homosexuality in April. She co-authored "First Data from OUT: The National Cancer Survey of LGBTQ+ Survivors," published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in May, and "Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Post-deployment Military Service Members: A Randomized Controlled Trial," published in Clinical Nursing Research, and "Factors Associated with Risk of Body Image-related Distress in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer," in JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery in July. Bethany is lead author of "A Qualitative Examination of Patient Priorities and Preferences during Treatment Decision-making for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer," published in Supportive Care in Cancer in May 2020, and "Priorities and Preferences of Patients with Head and Neck Cancer for Discussing and Receiving Information about Sexuality and Perception of Self-report Measures," in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in August. She co-authored "Randomized Clinical Trial of a Legacy Intervention for Quality of Life in Children with Advanced Cancer," published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine in September, and "Measuring Functional Status in Huntington's Disease," published in Movement Disorders, and "Assessing Preferences in Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Phase I and II of Questionnaire Development," in Cancers, both in October. That month, VUSN announced that she is co-primary investigator for OUT: The National Cancer Survey, a research project to document experiences of LGBTQI+ people with cancer. Bethany was named one of three Valere Potter Distinguished Dean's Faculty Fellows at Vanderbilt in June 2019. That year, she received the Sexual Tipping Point Mental Health Award from the Sexual Medicine Society of North America and the MAP Education and Research Foundation, and co-authored "A Comparison of Symptoms among Patients with Head and Neck or Truncal Lymphedema and Normal Controls," published in Lymphatic Research and Biology. She received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Nurse of the Year Award for research and was selected by VUSN doctoral students to receive the Dean Colleen Conway-Welch Award for PhD faculty, both in 2018. She was awarded an American Cancer Society grant in 2017 to investigate the impact of head and neck cancer treatment on a patient's sexuality. Bethany is an assistant professor at VUSN.

Julie Riedel, MSN'09, is a family nurse practitioner at Mercy Community Healthcare in Franklin, Tennessee (2017).

Jenny Slayton, MSN'09, co-authored "A Systems Approach to Addressing Covid-19 Health Inequities," published in the January 2021 issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery. She was promoted in July 2020 to senior vice president for quality, safety and risk prevention at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and is a member of the Healthcare Executive Forum.

Julie Booher Smith, MSN'09, is a family nurse practitioner at Cookeville Pediatric Associates in Tennessee (2020).

Lisa Smith, MSN'09, joined Connectus Health in Nashville as a family nurse practitioner in August 2019.

Christine Morrill Stengel, MSN'09, is a nurse practitioner specializing in anti-aging and functional medicine, hospital medicine and internal medicine at her private practice in Nashville (2020).

Jannyse Starks Tapp, MSN'09, DNP'11, co-presented, "Promoting Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, and presented the poster, "What's the SKINny? A look at Racial Disparities in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis and Asthma," on behalf of Courtney Young Pitts, MSN'09, DNP'11, Julia Martin Steed, MSN'10, PhD'18, and herself at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium in July. She was inducted as an inaugural fellow of the National League for Nursing/Walden University Institute for Social Determinants of Health and Social Change Leadership Academy in August. Jannyse welcomed a baby in August 2021 and is co-recipient of the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Award, presented by VUSN and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, for her work educating students, faculty and staff about the effects of poverty on health. She published "Vaginal Irritation in Prepubertal Girls: Age-Specific Considerations in Primary Care," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in September 2019, and was featured in November in a WTVF-NewsChannel 5 story about VUSN's poverty simulation, which she co-leads. Jannyse is an assistant professor at VUSN.

Kristin Vollrath, MSN'09, is a family nurse practitioner at Pediatric Associates of Franklin in Tennessee (2017).

Britney Whitaker, MSN'09, got married in April 2016. 

Dani Williamson, MSN'09, spoke at the "It Starts in the Gut" Summit in March 2022, and is on the KBH It Starts with Attraction podcast, "How Childhood Experiences Affect Your Health," and in the Reverse Aging Naturally interview series. She is author of the book, Wild & Well: Dani's Six Commonsense Steps to Radical Healing, published by Morgan James in November 2021, news of which was in the Williamson Herald and on Newsbreak in "Local Nurse Practitioner Pens New Book." Dani was interviewed in November 2020 by Nashville's WSMV about suicide prevention and how to help those who may be at risk and received the 2019 FranklinIs Sizzle Award for best family practice in Williamson County, Tennessee. Her Integrative Family Medicine was the only nurse-led practice nominated for the award.

Linda Zajac Woods, MSN'09, completed the Ironman 70.3 Gulf Coast triathlon in Panama City Beach, Florida, in May 2018.