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Ending season 1 with a quick story on how Advancing Present Practice began.

Dr. Collett sees the world in a unique way. She boldly carries her perspective, expresses her messages with clarity, and celebrates the voices of others. For more than 15 years, Dr. DeShana Collett has been committed to academic and professional excellence within the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Collett’s didactic responsibilities include course director for the Clinical Methods and Patient Evaluation and Management courses. &n...

Brandon and Bryan are stabilizers. Their nature is stabilizing in a variety of academic and virtual settings. In addition to their individual clinical and academic work, together they founded Critical Care Scenarios in 2019, a podcast dedicated to scenario-based critical care training. Their podcast aims to develop a practical, hands-on understanding of the management of critically ill patients through the medium of “talked through” verbal scenarios, presented bi...

Tria Kinnard does not just survive; she thrives. While surviving is merely getting by, thriving is living and thinking abundantly. Tria is an Advanced Practice Provider practicing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University of Kentucky. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology at Berea College, a Master of Arts in Behavioral Ecology and a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Kentucky. She completed a one-year post-graduate re...

Dr. Eva Stone is a resilience engineer. Resilience engineering is a term defined as the "focus on understanding the nature of adaptations, learning from success and increasing adaptive capacity." She is the District Health Manager of Jefferson County Public Schools, Kentucky's largest school system with 98,000 students. Eva earned her bachelor’s degree in Nursing from West Virginia University and her master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Kentucky.&nbs...

There are no technical guests for the final episode of 2021. This is a general year in review from a few sources to provide perspective on this wild year. In addition, we will be covering some strategies on how to process the unique challenges that were brought upon each of us. Topics include: 1. Remarks from members during our last University of Kentucky Advanced Practice Provider Council meeting of the year. 2. Content overview from Ed Yong's bone-chilling articl...