My professional experience has been gained in diverse settings and includes work with children, adolescents, families, and individual adults:

• PMHNP, Private Practice, Denver Area – Children and Adolescents
• PMHNP: Pike’s Peak Mental Health Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Nurse Manager: Child & Adolescent Acute Services, Department of Psychiatry Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY
• PMHNP: Child & Adolescent Acute Services, Department of Psychiatry Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY
• PMHNP: Hillside Children’s Center Juvenile Justice Non-secure detention programs. Hillside Children’s Center, Rochester, NY
• Director of Nursing: Hillside Children’s Center, Rochester, NY
• Supervision of Nurse Practitioner students at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 

Education

• Currently completing PhD in nursing with the University of Rochester, Rochester NY -Dissertation Focus: Children’s Mental Health: “Predictors and correlates of acute psychiatric hospitalization in school age children in the new millennium”
• Received her Master’s Degree in Nursing and certification as Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatry from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/son/
• Received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing with Minor in Psychology from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

 Licensure

• Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatry, Colorado State Certificate #  RXN-06-204
• Certified Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatry, New York State Certificate # F400745
• Registered Professional Nurse, Colorado License #175944
• Registered Professional Nurse, NYS License #506035
• DEA Registration –Colorado

Member of:

• The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
• The American Nurses Association (ANA)
• The Colorado Nurses Association (CNA)
• The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)