2010 Advanced Practice Nursing Conference

Featured faculty

Barbara Coloroso is an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on parenting, teaching, school discipline, positive school climate, bullying, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution, and restorative justice. She has appeared on Oprah, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and NPR, and has been featured in the New York Times, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, and other national and international publications. Coloroso’s uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field-tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children. She is the author of four international bestsellers and has two critically acclaimed video programs.

Edward T. Creagan, MD, is the Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine and a
professor of oncology at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
He is board certified in hospice medicine and palliative care. Creagan has received
the Distinguished Clinician Award, Mayo Clinic’s highest honor. He is the author of
approximately 400 scientific papers and has given approximately 700 presentations
throughout the world. Creagan recently received the International Toastmaster’s
Award for speaking skills and showmanship.

Mark T. Keegan, MB, BCh, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Divisions of Critical Care and South Division of Anesthesiology, is a
graduate of Trinity College Medical School in Dublin, Ireland. After completing a
residency in Internal Medicine in Ireland and becoming a Member of the Royal College
of Physicians of Ireland, Keegan moved to Mayo Clinic Rochester. He completed a
residency in Anesthesiology and a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine as a Mayo
Special Clinical Scholar. His clinical interests include critical care medicine and
liver transplant anesthesia. Keegan has won numerous clinical and teaching honors
including the Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award, multiple Critical Care
Clinician of the Year and Teacher of the Year awards, and the Department of Anesthesia Distinguished Clinician Award. He has published more than 60 original manuscripts and 10 book chapters and presented more than 100 abstracts at academic meetings.

Jeffrey O. Korsmo, MS, is executive director of Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center. He has served in many leadership roles, including chief administrative officer at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and chief financial officer of Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and Rochester. He is active in healthcare finance and other policy issues for Mayo Clinic and its patients on a national level. Korsmo is a member of Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees. Through the Health Policy Center, Korsmo leads Mayo Clinic in its convening role, seeking consensus to achieve crucial reforms in the American healthcare system.

Carrie Langer, MPT, PRC, ATC, has a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from South Dakota State University and a master’s degree in physical therapy from St. Ambrose University. She is a certified athletic trainer, as well as a practicing physical therapist. Langer has worked in outpatient orthopedics since 1993 and covers for local high school athletic events. For the last four years, she has been developing her skills in postural restoration, consulting and responding to referrals from therapists and physicians in a large geographic area. Langer participates in the Physician Residency Program for the University of Minnesota, including shadowing, which involves weekly observation. She has earned the designation of Postural Restoration Certified (PRC) as a result of advanced training and extraordinary interest in the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns, and the influence of polyarticular chains of muscles on the human body as defined by the Postural Restoration Institute™.

Wendy L. Wright, MS, RN, ARNP, FNP, FAANP, is an adult/family nurse practitioner,
co-owner of Wright & Associates Family Healthcare in Amherst, New Hampshire,
and a board member of the National Heartburn Alliance. Wright’s day-to-day
responsibilities in Amherst include assessing, diagnosing, and managing healthcare
issues for infant to elderly patients. She is a partner with Partners in Health Care
Education, a company founded by Wright and colleague, Lane Edwards that
provides continuing education for medical/healthcare professionals. Previously,
she was the president of the board of directors for the Nurse Practitioner Associates
for Continuing Education (NPACE). Wright is a nationally-known lecturer and has
given talks at hundreds of clinical presentations in more than 42 states. She is a
senior lecturer with Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, a distinguished nursing
continuing education company. She serves as faculty on Medscape’s Ask the Expert
Nurse Practitioner web site and is an editorial board member on Medscape’s e-journal. Wright has received numerous awards and accolades for excellence in various disciplines within the nursing field, including the Excellence in Research Award and the Excellence in Clinical Practice Award through the department of graduate nursing at her alma mater, Simmons College in Boston. Notably, in 1999, she received the New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and in 2005, she was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.