Join your colleagues and friends at the 2023 Annual Conference! A slate of exciting lectures have been selected for 2023. A preliminary program is now available for your review! Click on the link below:

2023 ISPN Annual Conference Final Program

2023 Annual Conference Abstracts

 

Highlighted Speakers

Thursday, March 30, 2023

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Opening Keynote Lecture
Enhancing Mental Health and Well-being During Character-building Times: Evidence-based Strategies that Work


Bernadette MelnykPhD, RN, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
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1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Building and Sustaining ISPN Historical Archives for Education and Research
Catherine Kane, PhD, RN, FAAN
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Daniel Wesemann, DNP, PMHNP-BC, ARNP
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Dominique Tobbell, PhD
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4:20 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Susan McCabe Lecture
The Brain, Gut and Immune Interconnections in Psychiatric Symptoms and Disorders


Karan KvernoPhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC
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Fatima Ramos-MarcusePhD, NPP, PMHNP-BC
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Friday, March 31, 2023

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Melva Jo Hendrix Lecture
Hold on There Cowboy: This Rodeo is Not Over - This is My Story

Julian Don Howe, RN, PhD, ThD, RN-BC, CARN, LCDC, ADC, FIAAN, FAAETS, FAPA
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5:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
For Such a Time as this...Psychiatric Nurses Uniquely Qualified to Heal the Divides from War, Violence and Inequities

Sonata Bohen, APRN, CNS
Levanta, Inc.

Saturday, April 1, 2023

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Diversity and Equity Lecture
Diversity, Equity, and Exclusion: If it Ain’t One-ism, it’s Another


Shaquita Starks,
PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
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11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Closing Keynote Lecture
Preparing to Part: Love, Loss and Living

Steve Shefter
Author of 
Preparing to Part-Love, Loss and Living
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Individuals can purchase Steve's book,  "Preparing to Part: Love Loss and Living" at Amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Book Baby, and other online retailers.