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Ryan graduated from Notre Dame with two degrees, one in Economics and Policy, the other in Political Science. Ryan is the author of Mindset for Mastery: An NFL Champion’s Guide to Reaching Your Greatness. It is an excellent compassion book to Ryan’s Mindset for Mastery speech and provides strategies and steps learned from his personal life experiences. The books help to guide and motivate anyone wanting to achieve goals, dreams, and wishing to reach their full potential.
Whether in an official capacity or of her own volition, Kristen has tirelessly dedicated numerous hours to advocacy and advancement of systems for access to behavioral services. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Sustained Advocacy Award at the Autism Law Summit for her efforts related to consumer access to services, supporting families in rural and underserved areas, and focusing on increasing provider knowledge related to autism policy. In 2020, she received the Champion Award from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Autism Insurance Resource Center for her assistance with telehealth implementation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
She earned a bachelor’s in nursing from Towson University and a master’s in nursing from the University of Maryland. She obtained her CWOCN certificate from a program called WIC Educational Associates in Pennsylvania and was a one of kind program at the time incorporating a didactic and clinical component which she completed at Johns Hopkins University.
Michelle has developed wound education programs from the ground up. She served as a consultant to nurses, rehabilitation disciplines, and physicians; served as a member of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Task Force; and developed treatment guidelines for clinicians. She has been a member of the Wound Ostomy and Continence Association and served as an active member of the National WOCN Education and Advocacy Committees as well as a liaison to the Professional Practice Committee. She developed a monthly wound education program for all incoming clinicians at BAYADA and participates in various BAYADA committees addressing policy and procedure review and changes.
Kathleen combines her knowledge of organization and leadership development with her extensive experience working in the health care industry and leads the health care practice within Praxis. Her diverse client list includes Aqua Engineers, BAYADA Home Health Care, Comcast Corporation, Einstein Healthcare Network, Inspira Healthcare Network, Inergy Automotive Systems, Sentry Equipment Corporation, Penn Center for Community Health Workers, and Play on Philly!
Kathleen is also an adjunct faculty member at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she teaches Organizational Communication. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Denver.
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Laura Lamplough, RN
Job Title
Clinical Manager and Yoga Teacher
Company
BAYADA Home Health Care
Speaker Bio
Laura has been a nurse for 33 years. She knew she wanted to be a pediatric nurse since she was five years old. She went into private duty nursing after her first child was born with medical complications. Working in home health made it easier to care for her family, but it quickly became a passion. Laura joined the nursing management side about six years ago and began working for BAYADA in December, 2021 as a clinical manager with the Boston Skilled Nursing office. In August she joined the BAYADA Quality Assurance office as a QA specialist, fulfilling a career goal since she went into management.
Laura loves to stay active with hiking, kayaking, stand up paddling (SUP), weightlifting and yoga. She has a 200-hour yoga instructor certification. Laura is also certified in children’s yoga and has training in medical adaptive yoga. She has three daughters and two granddaughters whom she’s always encouraging to practice yoga and experience its wonderful benefits. Laura loves to attend different yoga experiences. She’s participated in goat yoga, elephant yoga, Wanderlust 108, glow yoga, spa yoga, beach yoga, and SUP yoga. Her next adventure will be Roof Top yoga on a sky-rise building in Boston at sunset.
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Therese Lanigan, RN
Job Title
Clinical Educator and Yoga Teacher
Company
BAYADA Ireland
Speaker Bio
Since becoming a nurse in 2002, Therese has dedicated much of her career caring for children in the emergency room setting. She has intertwined her nursing career with a love of travel, allowing her to live and work in Australia, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
During her time in the Middle East she trained as a yoga teacher and continued her love of the practice as both student and teacher. Since returning to her native Ireland, she works in the community as a clinical educator as well as teaching yoga at local studios. She loves to bring yoga to as many people as possible, creating fun flows where the student can get out of their own minds and back to connecting with their bodies.
Tony continues to stay involved in ventilation through transitioning patients to home ventilators with the physicians in the hospital and out-patient settings, and by providing ventilator in-services for hospitals and nursing agencies.
Sue's first eight years of nursing were spent working in Med-Surg/Oncology. She was OCN and ACLS certified and has CPR Instructor training. She also has more than 20 years of hospice experience, both as a field clinician, a team Manager, and a clinical manager.
During her six-year tenure with BAYADA, Sue has worked as a clinical manager for a hospice office and a clinical educator for both the Home Health and Hospice practices.
Although most of her experience has been in the surgical environment, she spent two years in the Emergency Department as a sexual assault forensic examiner (SAFE) nurse. Throughout the years, she has also served as an adjunct faculty member at York College of Pennsylvania. She was the nurse manager of the post anesthesia care unit and short stay unit at WellSpan Health York Hospital in York, PA for almost 10 years and is currently the director of surgical services for WellSpan Health Ephrata Community Hospital in Ephrata, PA.
Diane is passionate about working with her staff to create healthy and caring work environments, and it is one of her main motivators for joining Dr. Renee Thompson’s Healthy Workforce Institute. On the topics of bullying and incivility, Diane has been a guest presenter at Sigma Theta Tau’s International conference on Creating Healthy Work Environments, Johns Hopkins Advanced Nursing Leadership Academy, the Student Nurses Association of Pennsylvania’s state conference, and the Pennsylvania Association of Perianesthesia Nurses state conference. She also served on the American Nurses Association #EndNurseAbuse Professional Issues Panel Advisory Committee. In her own health care system, Diane has conducted workshops on bullying and incivility for over 3,000 staff members and continues to be the subject expert for her organization. At her former hospital in York, she served on both the hospital-wide workplace violence committee and the employee engagement committee, specifically addressing the topic of abusive behavior.
In March of 2022, Diane presented at the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) conference in San Antonio, Texas. The topic addressed the need for leadership development, and how she worked with the frontline leaders in her organization to provide them with the educational tools needed to develop and sustain a professional, compassionate, and healthy workforce.
As program manager for BAYADA, she is responsible for developing, managing, and executing enterprise-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies and initiatives. BT partners with team members representing BAYADA’s specialty practices by providing coaching, training, and diversity-related resources.
Prior to this, Joe served as the corporate field inclusion manager for Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), where he was responsible for an initiative to recruit, hire, and retain individuals with disabilities in the company’s workforce.
With over 15 years HR and diversity experience, he is experienced in how behaviors and attitudes can be improved through hiring practices, training programs, and feedback systems. He has worked with a variety of companies representing academic, not-for-profit, and the for-profit sector. Joe’s interests revolve around diversity and inclusion, equity and equality, training and development, work/life balance, motivation, and organizational climate. He also serves as the president of the board for Disability: IN Connecticut and has been appointed as a member of the Connecticut State Rehabilitation Council and The CT Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.
Throughout her career, Crystal has worked as a behavior analyst, teacher, program director and learning consultant in public and private facilities and in homes. She has treated children with autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and many other conditions, working in partnership with their parents and educators. She has had the privilege of providing these services in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nova Scotia, Canada before returning to New Jersey in 2016.