Diversity Advanced Practice Nurse Doctorate Symposium - August 29, 2020

CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS

Diversity Advanced Practice Nurse Doctorate Symposium @ Emory University's

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Saturday, August 29, 2020 - One Day Only

Time: 7:30 am to 5:00 pm

Meet Nurse Practitioners & CRNAs of color with doctorate degrees (PhD, EdD, DNP or DNAP). Learn about doctorate programs, differentiation of PhD dissertation and DNP capstone project, rigors of each program, post-doctorate programs, grant writing opportunities, and career trajectories in academia.

And, learn how to build a body of work towards being a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and or Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP).

Dr. Fields has 28 years of experience in the health sector as an educator, researcher, clinician, administrator, consultant, health policy specialist, and entrepreneur/business owner. He received his Ph.D., in Nursing Science from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.S., in Family Nursing and B.S., in Nursing from Binghamton University. He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of California San Francisco. He is an Advanced AIDS Certified Registered Nurse and a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. He has held faculty and administrative appointments at Binghamton University, the University of Rochester, Florida International University, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and the New York Institute of Technology.

Dr. Fields is a former director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and currently serves on the board of directors of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. He is the founding President of the Greater New York City Chapter of NBNA. He is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Academies of Practice, and the prestigious American Academy of Nursing.  He is the founder and CEO of “The S.D.F Group, LLC”, which is a health innovation consultant company (www.thesdfgrp.com).

Dr. Fields was the first-ever male Registered Nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program. He served as a policy adviser to then-Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on the Senate HELP Committee during the historic healthcare reform debates and passage of the Affordable Care Act.

CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS

Ticket Prices:

$150.00 (CRNAs, RNs, Nurse Practitioners, and Students)

Member's Discount

Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch

Registration suspended until further notice pending COVID-19 developments.