Don't miss out on attending the 17th Annual Great Lakes Chapter Conference November 1-2, 2024 - ONE WEEK AWAY

Angela Donovan is an Adult Nurse Practitioner and has been employed at William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, for the past 32 years. She graduated from Madonna University with her Bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1992, where she was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International, Kappa Iota Chapter. Prior to obtaining her advanced degree, she worked as a surgical intensive care nurse for 12 years. Angela graduated from Madonna University as an Adult Nurse Practitioner in 2004 and obtained a nurse educator certification from Madonna in 2006. In 2022, she completed her DNP at Frontier Nursing University in Kentucky. Since 2004, she has worked on a Trauma/General Surgery Service as well as managed a team of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the Surgery/Medical Departments at Beaumont. For the past 18 years, she has been adjunct faculty at Madonna University and Oakland University. For the past eleven years, she has worked contingent at the Beaumont Weight Control Center in Rochester Hills, MI managing the care of weight control and bariatric patients. Angela is very active in the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners and has been the Educational Coordinator for the past 20 years. She has also been active in Kappa Iota, Sigma Chapter, and held various board positions since 1992. In her free time, Angela loves to travel, read, exercise, listen to true crime podcasts and spend time with her husband and her 3 children.

Dr. Jason Hecht is originally from Southeast Michigan and obtained his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Butler University in Indianapolis. Following graduation, he completed an acute care residency at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and obtained board certification in both pharmacotherapy and critical care pharmacy. After finishing residency, he took a clinical pharmacy specialist position at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor where he works in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and serves patients following traumatic injury, cardiac surgery, and other surgical specialties requiring intensive care. Dr. Hecht serves as adjunct clinical faculty at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of Toledo College of Pharmacy, and Eastern Michigan University Physician Assistant Program. He also previously served as the pharmacy research director at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor where he has research interests and numerous publications in the study of older adult trauma patients, acute stroke management, traumatic brain injury, and the effects of oral anticoagulants on surgical outcomes. Dr. Hecht is also involved nationally in the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) where he is an elected member of the ICU Design Committee, is an author of the guidelines for intensive care unit design and has given numerous presentations at the SCCM Annual Congress.

As Sue Sirianni, RN, DNP, ACNP-BC, ANP-BC, CCRN celebrates her 38th year in nursing, she still feels that same sense of excitement and commitment with every patient and family encounter. Sue earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Windsor, a Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix, she holds certificates as both and Adult Nurse Practitioner and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from Madonna University, as well as, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Madonna University. Her Doctoral research focused on improving sepsis care throughout 4 adult hospitals within the Detroit Medical Center. Dr. Sirianni has been a presenter at numerous conferences both locally and nationally. She has presented extensively on sepsis, early mobility, delirium, reducing costs in healthcare, the ABCDE bundle and the role of the DNP, to name a few. Throughout her career she has held a variety of roles including staff nurse, preceptor, educator, Clinical Nurse Specialist and most recently as both a Nurse Practitioner with the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit and Associate Professor at Madonna University in the Acute Care NP program. As the lead NP in the SICU, Dr. Sirianni cares for a number of critically ill and injured patients on a daily basis. She precepts several NP students and helps to educate the numerous residents that rotate on her SICU service every month. In addition to her clinical work, she is an active member of a number of committees within her hospital and system wide. She has developed and facilitated numerous evidence practice changes within the Intensive Care units both at SGH and within the Detroit Medical Center. However, the work she is most proud of are her efforts to help raise public awareness regarding sepsis. After losing her brother to a 36hr battle of sepsis, she cofounded the 1st and subsequent Stomp out sepsis events to help raise sepsis awareness. Dr. Sirianni has been featured in the Neighborhood News, on Youtube and on CKLW radio discussing the need for early recognition and treatment of sepsis. Sue hopes that through increased awareness by both healthcare providers and the public, sepsis will be STOMPED OUT! Sue has also been the recipient of many awards.

Kevin Foley, MD, FACP, AGSF is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of Michigan. He has served as the Medical Director of the Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Service in the Department of Neuroscience at Trinity Health - Grand Rapids since 2003 and currently leads the Trinity-Health West Michigan Alzheimer’s disease monoclonal antibody infusion program.

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Tracy graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 2007 with her BSN. Her nursing career included working at St. John Moross, Detroit, MI, on an orthopedic/neurosurgery unit and then at Providence Park, Novi, on a cardiac step-down unit. She returned to school to pursue her MSN and graduated from Madonna University in 2012 with her Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner degree. Her NP experience includes working in a primary care office in Livonia for five years and volunteering at Hope Clinic for several years. She began working at Trinity Health Ann Arbor in the Center for Perioperative Care in 2017. In 2022, she transferred to the Trinity Health Pain Clinic, where she continues to work. Her role includes seeing most new patient consults and follow-up patient visits. She is responsible for evaluating patients' pain patterns, reviewing their imaging, and determining if an interventional pain procedure would be appropriate. She is also involved in the multidisciplinary pain committee meetings, working with several other specialists to determine if patients would be suitable for a spinal cord stimulator and helping guide them and their families through the trial process. She has been married to her wonderful husband, Dan, for 16 years, and they have three beautiful daughters together. She enjoys watching her kids participate in many sports, club activities, and family camping trips.

"Dr. Dalton started NP practice in a small family practice clinic in 2008. This developed into a house call practice serving seniors in a suburban community. Building relationships with patients and families in the home allowed longitudinal care to include palliative and hospice modalities. In 2014, Dr. Dalton became the program director and NP provider for an inpatient palliative care consult service. Patients were often transitioned to hospice in the community or managed for comfort and end-of-life care in the hospital by the consulting team. Dr. Dalton returned to federal service in 2019 to work for the Saginaw VA. In this role at the VA, he has managed patients on the inpatient hospice unit, performed palliative care consults, completed patient encounters in the palliative clinic, and provided formal and informal education on end-of-life care for staff and learners. "Dr. Dalton is also a lecturer at the University of Michigan - Flint School of Nursing, teaching topics that include ethics, gerontology, nursing theory, and palliative care."

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Michelle has been a nurse for 20 years, focused on cardiac and intensive care. She obtained her NP 4 years ago, starting in Plastic surgery and, most recently, over the past two years in chronic pain management.