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The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation (AANP Foundation) is an independently incorporated 501(c)(3) philanthropic non-profit organization. Beginning operations in March 1998, the AANP Foundation operates for the benefit of nurse practitioners of all specialties. Many AANP Foundation programs are exclusive AANP member benefits. The AANP Foundation is governed by its own independent board of directors. Consisting of eleven members, the current board make-up contains six nurse practitioner members and five non-nurse practitioner and corporate members. AANP Foundation board members uphold the mission of the AANP Foundation and strive to promote NP excellence in their professional lives. The AANP Foundation thanks the members of the 2012 board of directors for volunteering their time and expertise so that the AANP Foundation can successfully fulfill its mission and accomplish its goals.
2012 Board President
Commander (CDR) James LaVelle Dickens, FNP-BC, FAANP is the current president and former vice-president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Board of Directors. He serves in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office, Office of the Secretary, Region VI Dallas, TX. He is the Lead for the Office of Minority Health. CDR Dickens holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Nursing from Hampton University. He is currently a student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center completing a Doctorate in Nursing Practice with an emphasis on Executive Leadership. He is an experienced Registered Nurse and Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with over twenty years of combined federal healthcare experience. CDR Dickens' clinical experience includes orthopedics, emergency department, operating room, long-term care, and the primary care setting.
CDR Dickens is a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service whose mission is to promote, protect and advance the health and safety of the Nation. He was selected to participate as a clinical team member for the Afghanistan Health Initiative (AHI) in Kabul, Afghanistan. The mission of the AHI is to improve quality of care, as well as decrease maternal and infant mortality rates at the Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital in Kabul.
CDR Dickens is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American Nurses Association, North Texas Nurse Practitioners and North Texas Nurse Practitioners - Metroplex West. He is the current Chair of the AANP Nominations Committee. CDR Dickens serves on the Regional Action Coalition as a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Texas Team. He has received numerous awards to include the 2007 AANP State Award for Excellence (Texas) and he was designated as one of the "100 Great Nurses" of North Texas (2007). He was nominated and accepted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) class of 2010. In 2011, prior to joining the AANP Foundation board, CDR Dickens was awarded a doctoral scholarship through the AANP Foundation Scholarship & Grant Program.
2012 Vice-President
Susan M. Matthews, PhD, NP, FAANP is the current vice-president of the AANP Foundation Board of Directors. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner and owner of Bluegrass Regional Healthcare, Inc. in Beaver Dam, Kentucky. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
Susan is the Kentucky State Representative to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She is currently serving as a member of the AANP State Advisory Council and has served as an abstract reviewer. She is an active Fellow of the AANP. Susan had the honor of meeting Michele Obama and Dr. Mary Wakefield and participating in the nationwide teleconference on the role of nursing in the Affordable Health Care Act in September 2010.
She is an active member of the Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives and currently serves on the Legislative Task Force, Governmental Affairs and Reimbursement Committees. Locally, Susan serves on the coalition for a Smoke Free Ohio County and the Ohio County Health Coalition. She is a successful grant writer, published author and has presented her research both nationally and internationally.
2012 Board Secretary
Debra A. Allan Danforth, MS, ARNP, FAANP is the current secretary, and a past president, of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Board of Directors. Ms. Danforth is currently the director of the Skills & Simulation Center, the interim director of the Clinical Learning Center and an assistant professor at Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, Florida. In addition, she is an adult nurse practitioner at Neighborhood Health, where her clinical practice focuses on the primary care of African-American and Hispanic adults. She is also an instructor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU), College of Pharmacy. Ms. Danforth received her master’s degree and nurse practitioner training at the University of South Florida and is currently working on a PhD at Texas Woman’s University. She is a recipient of the Woman in Red 2006, AANP State Award of Excellence 2004, Delta Beta Excellence in Leadership Award 2002, was chosen as a Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Omada Mentee for 2005-2007, was FAMU Teacher of the Year 2005, and is a STTI Virginia Henderson and Billye Brown Fellow. She is currently the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network legislative chair. Ms. Danforth has been a member of the AANP nominating committee and a president of the Tallahassee Council of Advanced Practice Nurses. She has presented regionally, nationally and internationally on topics, including OSCEs (objective structured clinical examinations), diabetes, hypertension, self-esteem in chemically impaired nurses, basic and advanced electrocardiography, adolescent in sex, and how to use the panoptic ophthalmoscope and macroview otoscope. She has also published articles and book chapters. Currently, she is an editor of AANP Smart Ideas and a reviewer for HESI, Elsevier, and FA Davis. Prior to joining the AANP Foundation board, Ms. Danforth acted as a reviewer for the AANP Foundation Scholarship & Grant Program.
2012 Board Treasurer
Carla Duryee is the current treasurer and a past vice-president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Board of Directors. She is currently the president of Carla Duryee Consulting, LLC, specializing in primary care provider relationships, including the development of advocacy groups and marketing and educational plans. Ms. Duryee retired from sanofi-aventis in 2005 after 32 years in the industry, developing programs that positively impact the patient through the primary care medical community. Ms. Duryee occupies many positions on association and foundation boards, including the national boards of both the American Academy of Physician’s Assistants Foundation and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation, as well as the local Kansas City, Missouri boards of the American Heart Association and National Kidney Foundation. Ms. Duryee received a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Webster University.
2012 Past President
Thomas Mackey, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP is the past president and past treasurer of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Board of Directors. Dr. Mackey is a certified family nurse practitioner and associate dean for practice in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He received his nurse practitioner training from Emory University, a master's degree in Public Health from The University of Tennessee, and a doctorate in Health Education from Southern Illinois University. He has a strong primary care clinical background with over 30 years of practice in rural and urban settings and private and group practices. In addition to being the associate dean for practice at The University of Texas, Dr. Mackey is a professor of Clinical Nursing, the director of the Occupational Health for Nurses Program, and practices at The University of Texas Health Services which is a large primary and occupational health care practice started in 1990. Dr. Mackey implemented a fully integrated electronic health record at the UT practice in 1994. This is thought to be the first academic nursing practice in the country to have such a system. In 2007, Dr. Mackey received the first PARTNERS endowed Professorship of Nursing at The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston. Dr. Mackey has authored and co-authored several journal articles on clinical as well as administrative issues encountered in nursing practice. Likewise, he has given presentations nationally and internationally on these issues as well as managed care and occupational health. In 2003, prior to joining the AANP Foundation board, Dr. Mackey was awarded a diabetes-focused research grant through the AANP Foundation Scholarship & Grant Program.
2012 Board Member
Richard Barnes, JD
Researcher, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law
After practicing law for over 33 years, Richard L. Barnes gave up his practice to devote his time and talent to public policy advocacy as the full-time Volunteer Government Relations Manager for the American Lung Association of Oklahoma (ALAO) from December 1997 to June 30, 2004. He was responsible for all of the public policy advocacy activities of ALAO on tobacco control and other public health issues.
He is a past Chair of the Oklahoma Alliance on Health or Tobacco, a partnership of 33 voluntary public health organizations, healthcare professional associations, healthcare provider organizations, ethnic organizations and children's and seniors' advocacy groups, along with numerous community coalitions, that led the successful campaign for smoke-free workplaces and public places legislation in 2003.
He has been a Researcher at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) since July 1, 2004 and completed a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the UCSF Health Services Research Training Program in 2006. In addition to research of the tobacco industry documents in the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (resulting in two first author peer-reviewed journal articles), his other projects at the CTCRE have included mentoring other researchers and researching and writing state tobacco control activity reports that explore the reasons for the successes, and the failures, of tobacco control efforts.
He has won numerous awards in recognition of his leadership and skills in public policy advocacy and has used his extensive advocacy experiences to train others in successful public health policy advocacy methodologies. He currently teaches a public policy advocacy course for students from all four health sciences schools at UCSF and an identical public policy advocacy course for law students at UC Hastings College of the Law.
2012 Board Member
Yvonne Moragne-Coon, PhD, CRNP, FAANP is a past vice-president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Board of Directors. Dr. Moragne-Coon is a certified Adult Nurse Practitioner. She received her nurse practitioner training at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Master's Degree from Central Michigan and Doctorate from Capella University, Minneapolis, MN. For several years, she was a preceptor for nurse practitioner students from George Washington University and Howard University, Washington, D.C. and Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD. At George Washington University, she also taught second year medical students physical assessment. Since her graduation from her NP program, she has worked in many settings, such as Medicine - where she treated patients with diagnoses from URIs to more complicated medical problems, Occupational Health Services, Research, and Long Term Care. Dr. Moragne-Coon was also employed by the Department of Defense Dependent Schools, Incirlik, Turkey as Health Educator - a job she thoroughly enjoyed. Recognized for her expertise, she was chosen as the only NP on an investigative research team concerning the effects of high dose estrogen birth control pills on cholesterol. In 1995, as Director of Occupational Health Services, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, she co-authored and implemented an Alternative Work Program that provided employees who were injured in the workplace a means to return to work sooner. This program saved the Medical Center thousands of dollars in the first year of implementation. Dr. Moragne-Coon has been Associate Dean, Undergraduate Nursing, BSN Program at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD and prior to this appointment was Associate Professor, Graduate Family Nurse Practitioner, MSN Program, also at Coppin State University. Dr. Moragne-Coon has given presentations locally on hypertension and breast cancer. She was the Maryland State Representative, AANP for nine years and was on the AANP Certification Review Committee from 1999-2008. Dr. Moragne-Coon was a member of the AANP Conference Committee for many years and co-chair of AANP National Conference from 2007-2010.
2012 Board Member
Rosalinda Morales, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP is a past vice-president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Board of Directors. Dr. Morales is a certified family nurse practitioner and works at the Texas Liver Center, Memorial Hermann Hospital – Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. She received her NP training and doctorate from the University of Texas Medical Branch Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 1996 and 2007, respectively. Her current clinical practice is at Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital, The Texas Liver Center where she one of the primary providers for patients undergoing treatment of Hepatitis C and liver disease. She also manages the Paracentesis Clinic in the same setting. Dr. Morales is very active in her home community of Santa Fe, Texas. Between 1991 and 2001, she served three terms as a city council woman and one term as mayor pro-tem. Dr. Morales also ran for public office in 2002 as a candidate for Galveston County Commissioner, Pct. 2. Although unsuccessful, she garnered over 44% of the general votes against a sixteen-year incumbent. While on the city council in Santa Fe, she founded the Santa Fe Child Safety Fair, which has become an annual event that provides children's safety education to area residents. Dr. Morales continues to be recognized as an outstanding community advocate and public figure. She is a past president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners organization and currently serves as secretary of the Galveston College Foundation board. In 2006, she was appointed for a 3-year term by the UT Regents to serve as a member of the UTMB Community Liaison Committee where she serves as recording secretary. Honors awarded to Dr. Morales include: The UTMB SON Eleanor Brasher Farley and Stephanie Farley Pardue Memorial Leadership Award for Community Service, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners State Award of Excellence, the Independence Award: Promoting Tolerance in the Community, and the Henry B. Gonzalez Hispanic Leadership Award. She was inducted into the UTMB SON Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2006. She was nominated and accepted as a Fellow of American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) in 2009. In 2004, prior to joining the AANP Foundation board, Dr. Morales was awarded a doctoral scholarship through the AANP Foundation Scholarship & Grant Program.
2012 Board Member
Susan Harrow Rago, MS, RD is Director, Professional & Advocacy Relations at Novo Nordisk. In this role, Susan is responsible for developing strategic alliances and programs with key third party associations to support the company's goal of Changing Diabetes.
Susan joined Novo Nordisk in 2002. Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, she was Director, Program Development for Health Answers. Susan has more than 30 years of healthcare industry experience including 11 years as Director of Health Promotion and Education at HIP of NJ where she supervised all aspects of patient education related to preventative health and disease management including diabetes education services and corporate health promotion. As a registered dietitian, Susan has worked in various healthcare arenas including acute care, outpatient clinics, long-term care, public health, alcohol and drug rehab, and nursing education. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association, The American Diabetes Association, The Endocrine Society, & the American Association of Diabetes Educators and is a graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Arizona.
2012 Board Member
Carolyn Sabatini, MBA joined the AANP Foundation board in January 2008. Ms. Sabatini has been with Pharmavite, manufacturer of Nature Made vitamins, since 1990, first in product management and new product development. In 2000, she created a new department at Pharmavite which incorporates Government and Corporate Relations. She serves as Pharmavite's in-house lobbyist for federal government affairs as well as being responsible for Pharmavite's corporate programs with health care professional organizations. She works with the Council for Responsible Nutrition's Government Relations Committee and its Medical Affairs Committee. Ms. Sabatini received a bachelor's degree in American studies from California State University and an executive MBA from the Peter Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University.
2012 Board Member
Kimberley Tiller, RN, MPH joined the board of the AANP Foundation in 2010. Ms. Tiller serves as the Associate Director of Healthcare Alliance Development for Purdue Pharma, L.P., a position she has held since 2006. Purdue is known for its pioneering work on pain and is committed to improving patients' lives by providing safe, effective therapies and offering educational tools that support their proper use. In her role at Purdue, Ms. Tiller is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with healthcare professional associations and patient advocacy organizations. Ms. Tiller has worked in a variety of clinical settings in Canada and the United States, primarily in the areas of patient education and public health. She holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a master's degree in public health from New York Medical College.
AANP Foundation board members can be contacted via AANP Foundation staff at foundation@aanp.org. |