Margaret Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, is the Founder, President and Principle Lecturer with Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc., a national provider of NP Certification Preparation and ongoing continuing education for healthcare providers. An internationally recognized presenter, she has provided hundreds of programs for numerous professional organizations, universities, and national and state healthcare professional associations on a wide variety of topics. In addition, she is a family nurse practitioner at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Lawrence, MA and adjunct faculty for the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Family Practice Residency Program. She recently completed the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. The Nurse Practitioner Journal has featured her as one of the nation’s 25 most influential NPs. She is widely published, with more than 80 articles, book chapters, monographs, and audio and video programs to her credit.
Wendy L. Wright, MS, APRN, BC, FNP, ANP, FAANP, is a Partner in Partners in Healthcare Education, LLC, a healthcare education company, and Founder and President of Wright & Associates Family Healthcare, a nurse practitioner-owned and operated family practice, in Amherst, NH. She is the Past-President of NPACE and is currently the Senior Lecturer for Fitzgerald Health Education Associates. She has made thousands of clinical presentations in 42 states, including keynote presentations. She is widely published and has produced a number of videos and audiotapes. Ms Wright is the Editor-in-Chief of APC Today, a Web site for advanced practice clinicians, and an author of the Physical Assessment and Health History Cue Card Series.
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Loretta Ford, EdD, PNP, FAAN, FAANP served as Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Rochester and Director of Nursing at the University Medical Center from 1972 to 1986. She is currently Professor and Program Director for the Commonwealth Fund’s Executive Nurse Leadership Program. Dr. Ford’s work in the field of nursing has made her an internationally known nursing leader. She has devoted her career to practice, education, consultation and influencing health services inquiry. Most notably, she co-founded the pediatric nurse practitioner program, which began the initiation of advanced nurse practitioner programs around the country.
Dr. Ford has held professorships at the University of Colorado School of Nursing and the University of Rochester. Dr. Ford is a charter Fellow of the American Nurses’ Association Academy of Nursing and a charter member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Her vision of creating new roles for nurses with the use of the “unification model” is a vision that has made nurse practitioners an integral part of our health care system and a model that is aspired to today by schools and hospitals across the country.
William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH, is a medical epidemiologist, CDC, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in Atlanta, GA. He is responsible for development and implementation of immunization education and training materials for vaccine providers and has been the principal writer and presenter for 97 national satellite broadcasts and webcasts on multiple vaccine-preventable disease topics since 1995. Dr Atkinson has presented at more than 100 immunization training courses and more than 600 invited lectures on vaccine-preventable diseases throughout the United States. He is author or coauthor of 52 publications and book chapters primarily relating to vaccine-preventable diseases. He is principal writer and editor for Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, commonly known as the “Pink Book”, now in its 10th edition.
Janet DuBois, DNP, AARNP, FAANP is regional manager of operations for The Little Clinic, headquartered in Brentwood, TN. She is also a nurse practitioner at Palma Sola Medical Associates, Bradenton FL, and an emergency room nurse practitioner at Doctor’s Hospital, Sarasota. Dr. DuBois was awarded a fellowship by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in 2007 and received the South Carolina Nurses Association Advanced Practice “Excellence in Practice” Award in 1999. She has presented at numerous conferences, most recently at the 1st Annual Sino-American Inter-University Medical/Dental/Nursing Exchange Conference, Bradenton, FL.
Douglas "Duffy" MacKay, N.D., is Vice President, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). Dr. MacKay is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and was a co-owner and practitioner in a family-owned New Hampshire complementary and alternative medicine private practice for seven years. In addition to his hands-on experience as a practitioner in the field of integrative medicine, he spent eight years working as a medical consultant for two companies in the dietary supplement industry, including four years with Nordic Naturals, where he served as Vice President, Clinical Research. He previously served as Senior Technical Advisor for Thorne Research. Dr. MacKay has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, and previously served as a Senior Editor of the peer-reviewed clinical journal Alternative Medicine Review. Dr. MacKay earned his B.S. in Marine Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz and his N.D. from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Dr. MacKay is licensed in the state of New Hampshire.
Patricia Jackson Allen, MS, RN, PNP, is a Professor at Yale University School of Nursing and an Emeritus Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is currently director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty at Yale University, School of Nursing and practices at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Pediatric Primary Care Clinic. She has published widely on a variety of topics including the use of cough and cold preparations in children and is most widely known professionally for her book Primary Care of the Child With a Chronic Condition, Elsevier, that she co-edits with Dr. Judith Vessey.
Seema Khaneja, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician at Integrative Pediatrics, Rochester, NY. She is a graduate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed her residency in pediatrics at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She has also studied many complementary approaches to health and healing, with training in homeopathy, mind/body medicine, Qigong, yoga, hypnosis and Avurvedic medicine. She has written several chapters on various medical topics for Attorney’s Textbook of Medicine (published by Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender), including autism, battered child syndrome and psychological maltreatment of women and children.
Barbara Safriet, JD, LLM, is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer in Law (Retired) at Yale Law School. In addition to her academic administrative duties, she taught seminars on Health Law & Policy and The Regulation of Health Care Providers. She has served as a member of The Pew Health Professions Commission, and its Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation. She has also served as a Health Law Consultant and Presenter for numerous foundations, associations, and governmental agencies.. Dean Safriet has published and lectured extensively on topics of administrative and constitutional law, issues of health care professionals’ licensure and regulation, and health care workforce problems.
Barbara Pierce, CCS-P, ACS-EM, is the President of Barb Pierce Coding and Consulting, LLC. She has extensive knowledge in the areas of coding and billing. Her strengths include an extensive knowledge of CPT and ICD-9 coding as it is applied in a medical practice. She is often asked to perform compliance audits and evaluations for practices and clinics of various specialties. Barb has worked with a variety of clients performing medical record reviews and education and has become a nationally recognized speaker on the CMS/AMA Documentation Guidelines.