Conference Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Virginia Trotter Betts

JD, MSN, RN, FAAN

Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of                                  
Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities

OTHER SPEAKERS

Diane Snow

PhD, APRN-BC, CARN, PMHNP

Clinical Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
School of Nursing

Director of the UTA Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program

Co-Director of the UTA Center for Psychopharmacology Education & Research

Patricia D. Cunningham

DNSc, APRN-PMH

Assistant Professor and Doctor of Nursing Practice Psychiatric Nursing Option Coordinator at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Nursing

Patricia M. Speck

DNSc, APRN-BC, FAAN, DF-IAFN, SANE-A/P

Assistant Professor and Doctor of Nursing Practice Public Health Nursing Option Coordinator at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Nursing

Ellen Jones

RN, PMHNP

Program Manager

Substance Abuse Programming
Prairie Region of the Correctional Services of Canada

PANELISTS

Mike Harkreader

MS, RN, ARN

Executive Director of the Tennessee Professional Assistance Program

Dianna Phares

PhD, APRN, BC

Assistant Professor of Nursing at Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri

Community Liaison CenterPointe Hospital, St. Charles, Missouri

Chair of the Peer Assistance Committee, Missouri Nurses Association DNP Student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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