05/13/2021
Speaker Spotlight: Dr Laura G Leahy, DrNP, APRN, PMH-CNS, PMH-NP, CARN-AP, FAANP, FAAN
Dr Laura Leahy is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing & the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. An honors Graduate of Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania & Drexel University), Dr Leahy practices as a Board Certified as a Child/Adolescent & Adult Psychiatric & Addictions Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN), specializing in individual, couples and family therapy as well as pharmacogenetics and psychopharmacology, including medication assisted management of substance use disorders. Dr Leahy maintains specialization as a Master Clinician in Psychopharmacology through the Neuroscience Educational Institute.
As an advocate and leader in Addictions nursing, Dr Leahy co-chairs the American Psychiatric Nurses Association’s (APNA) Addictions Council & Steering Committee. She has also represented APNA at the Nursing Community Coalition Congressional Briefing on the role APRNs play in combatting the Opioid Epidemic. As faculty, Dr Leahy developed and produced APNA’s “Effective Treatments for Opioid Use Disorders”, free webinars to educate ALL nurses & APRNs on the ways they can provide care to individuals with Opioid Use Disorder. She also developed Seton Hall University’s interprofessional 24-hour Medication Assisted Training Program for physicians, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants as a consultant on a grant from SAMHSA.
Dr. Leah's session "Treating Co-Morbidities & Opioid/Substance Use Disorders" will take place on Thursday, June 10th.
Register here: https://www.yamwi.org/register
