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Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, Ph.D., PMHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN: Principal Investigator and Project Director
Dr. Soltis-Jarrett is the Carol Morde Ross Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and has over 30 years of advanced clinical practice, academic teaching, and grants totaling over 14 million dollars in the past decade focusing on education, practice, and outcomes of Nurse Practitioners, and implementation of models of behavioral health integration into acute, extended, and primary care settings. |
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Leslie Sharpe, DNP, RN, FNP-BC: Primary Care Team Lead
Dr. Sharpe is an assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing and has practiced for 20 years as a family nurse practitioner in rural communities in NC. Her practice focus is on the integration of behavioral health into primary care. With over 20 years of experience in primary care specializing in the care of patients with complex, co-morbid physical and mental health illnesses, Dr. Sharpe is committed to educating NP’s to be able to apply behavioral health concepts in primary care. |
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Mary Lynn, RN, PhD: Evaluation Team Lead
Dr. Lynn began her nursing career at Orange Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Orlando, Florida, graduating the same year Disneyworld opened. Her research interests include measuring the quality of care, patient expectations for care, work satisfaction, instrument development, and testing, and the employment of doctorally-prepared nurses. Her role on these projects is focused on evaluation, which is what data need to be collected, how often to collect them, and what to do with all the information. She has been to Disneyworld 15 times and is 100% a Tar Heel fan. |
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Elizabeth Pointer, MSN, FNP-BC: Coordinator, Clinical Education and Training
Ms. Pointer is a Family Nurse Practitioner with 25 years of healthcare experience. Volunteer work with sexual assault survivors and in EMS as an undergraduate at UNC School of Nursing solidified her passion for caring for underserved populations and meeting people where they are. She worked for 11 years as a bedside nurse predominantly in emergency and critical care medicine before receiving a dual Master of Science in Nursing as a Women’s Health and Family Nurse Practitioner from UNC SON in 2011. She began her FNP career in a retail health clinic then moved back to her roots working at a small, rural FQHC where she focused on collaborative relationships with patients and providing whole person care using an innovative BHI model. |
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Hanna Beers, MSW: Project Manager
Ms. Beers is a Project Manager with five years of qualitative research experience with a focus in data management and social/behavioral health. In May of 2021, she graduated from East Carolina University with a Master of Social Work degree and a Graduate Certificate in Substance Abuse. Her ability to build strong interpersonal relationships, pay high attention to detail and manage multiple projects simultaneously allows her to successfully fulfill her role within the Carolina Nursing Excellence in Whole Health Care office. |
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Elizabeth (Liz) Sherwood, MSN, ANP-BC: Carolina Nurse Practitioner Residency Faculty
Ms. Sherwood is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 35 years of health care experience. Early in her career she worked in psychiatric/mental health settings and received her Master of Science in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing at the University of Colorado. She began working at UNC Lineberger Cancer Center in 1998 and helped to create their psycho-oncology program, integrative medicine program and survivorship program. She completed her Adult Nurse Practitioner post-masters certificate in 2004 at the University of North Carolina. She did volunteer work with First Descents, an outdoor program for young Adult cancer survivors that reinforced the benefit of the physical, emotional, nutritional, and community support when dealing with difficult diagnoses. She specializes in wellness and integrative oncology. |
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Ann-Marie Jones, DNP, PMHNP-BC: Psychiatric Mental Health Team Lead
Dr. Jones earned her Bachelor’s Degree at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Canada, her Master’s at UNC Chapel Hill, and her DNP at UNC Wilmington. Having worked with severe and persistent mental illness most of her career in both community health and inpatient state psychiatric facilities. She joined the Faculty at UNC in 2020 and primarily works in the graduate PMHNP program and some undergraduate courses. She continued to practice with chronically ill children and adolescents in community mental health. Areas of interest continue to be severe and persistent mental illness, access to care, and equity. |
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Consultants, Guest Speakers, and Subject Matter Experts:
Michael Baca-Atlas, MD
Kelly Bossenbroek-Fedoriw, MD
Elisabeth Johnson, PhD, FNP-BC, CARN-AP, LCAS
Stephen Wyatt, DO
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