Charlene M. Hanson, EdD, FNP, FAAN

Dr. Charlene "Chuckie" Hanson is Professor Emerita in Nursing at Georgia Southern University. She received her RN nursing education at St. Peters Hospital, Albany, New York; her BSN at SUNY Oneonta; and her MSN at Syracuse University. She earned a Doctorate in Education from the University of Georgia. Dr. Hanson is a Past President of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. She has had two congressional appointments on the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health during the Reagan administration and on the National Advisory for Nursing Practice and Education under President Clinton. She recently co-chaired the technical advisory committee on the workforce crisis in health care for Georgia. She is a consultant to the APN Advisory Committee for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
 
Dr. Hanson is well published in the nursing and rural health literature and is a sought-after speaker and nurse practitioner education curriculum consultant nationally and internationally. The 4th edition of Hamric, Spross and Hanson, Advanced Paractice Nursing: An Integrated Approach was published in 2009. She currently serves as Co-Editorial Director of the American Journal for Nurse Practitioners and is Editorial Director for NP World News. Dr. Hanson was the recipient of the Loretta Ford Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Nurse Practitioner Education in 1995 and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academies of Practice. She was a Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow in 1994. Dr. Hanson continues to teach in the FNP program at Georgia Southern University that she founded in 1980 and to mentor faculty and schools of nursing who offer nurse practitioner education. She volunteers as a family nurse practitioner at the Bread of Life Health Clinic in Montezuma, Georgia.

 
Becky K. Captain, RN, MSN, CLS, BC, FNP-C
Clinicial Lipid Specialist, Director Preventive Cardiology, Kansas City, MO

Leslie L. Davis, PhD, RN, ANP-BC
Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Becky K. Captain, RN, MSN, CLS, BC, FNP-C
Clinicial Lipid Specialist, Director Preventive Cardiology, Kansas City, MO

 
Tieraona Low Dog, MD
Director of the Fellowship, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ

Peggy P. Francis, DNP, RN, FNP, CUNP
Urology San Antonio, Nurse Practitioner, UTHSCSA School of Nursing, Adjunct Factuly, San Antonio, TX

Mary Lou Hayden, RN, MS, FNP-C, AE-C

Tieraona Low Dog, MD
Director of the Fellowship, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ

 
Wendy L. Wright, MS, APRN, FNP, FAANP

R. Mimi Secor, MS, MEd, FNP-BC, FAANP

Wendy L. Wright, MS, APRN, FNP, FAANP

R. Mimi Secor, MS, MEd, FNP-BC, FAANP

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