Service to Profession + Community

• American Assisted Living Nurses Association (AALNA)
  • Advisory Board Council
    2021-present
• Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA)
  • Social Media Consultant
    2018-2019
• GAPNA
  • Annual Conference Planning Committee
  • Annual Conference Session Moderator
    2018, 2019
• GAPNA Liaison to GAPNA Board of Directors for Research Committee
  • 2017-present
• Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations (CGNO)
  • Coordinator
    2017-present
• National Alzheimer’s Project Act
  • Research Summit on Dementia Care: Building Evidence for Services and Supports
  • Volunteer Coordinator for National Institute of Health Research Summit; Bethesda, MD
    2017
• GAPNA
  • Research Committee 2015-present
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program
  • 2015 National Meeting Planning Committee
    2015
• National Hartford Centers for Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE)
  • NHCGNE Board of Directors,
  • Elected Chair, HGNL
  • Elected, Legacy Affiliate Director
    2014-2016
• John A. Hartford Foundation
  • Change AGEnts Conference
  • Planning Committee
    2014
• NHCGNE
  • Annual Academic Leadership Conference Planning Committee

2014-2016

• Hartford Geriatric Nursing Leaders (HGNL) (fka the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Alumni Organization)
  • Elected, HGNL Chair

2014-2015

• HGNL
  • Elected, Chair-Elect
    2013-2014
• HGNL
  • Member, Finance & Sustainability Committee
    2011-2013
• National Gerontological Nurses Association (NGNA)
  • Research Committee Member
    2009-2010

• Age-Friendly Ecosystem Summit (inaugural event)
  • Convener; Center for Aging, Health and Humanities in partnership with Age-Friendly: Alexandria, Arlington, DC, Hyattsville, and Montgomery County
    2021

• Southern Nurses Research Society (SNRS)
  • Member, Policy and Procedures Committee

2013-2015

• Co-chair, Aging Research Interest Group (RIG)
  2014-2015
• Annual Conference Session Moderator
  2013
• Communications Liaison/ John A. Hartford Foundation
  2010-2015
• Student Representative, SNRS Communications Sub-committee
  2009-2010

• North Carolina Medical Society, Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST)
  • Member, Inaugural Steering Committee
    2012-2015
• North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA)
  • Delegate
    2013
• NCNA
  • Secretary, Gerontological Nursing Council
    2011-2013
• NCNA
  • Nurse of the Day North Carolina General Assembly
    2010, 2013
• Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes Campaign
  • Local Area of Excellence (LANE) and Co-convener
    2009-2011
• North Carolina Association of Nursing Students (NCANS)
  • Editor
    1995-1996