43rd Annual Research Conference – Kansas City, MO -2019

Thank you for joining us in Kansas City, MO for the 43rd Annual Research Conference. The theme for the 2019 conference was “Nursing Research at the Forefront of Healthcare Crises”. The learner outcomes for the conference were:

Discuss exemplar research programs that have helped prevent and/or intervene in healthcare crises and sustain optimal health and healthcare
Describe how research can influence healthier public policy
Examine evidence-based approaches to prevent and/or intervene in health care crises, sustain optimal health and healthcare
Research on Nurse Wellbeing and Resilience

Keynote Speakers

MNRS was pleased to host the following Keynote Speakers for the 43rd Annual Research Conference:

Addiction, Pain and the Opioid Crisis: Exemplar Nursing Research

Dr. Compton is an Associate Professor and the van Ameringin Endowed Chair in the Department of Family and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Her areas of clinical expertise are opioids, addiction and pain. She has published extensively in the scientific literature on substance use disorder in chronic pain patients on opioid therapy, and the pain responses of opioid addicts with and without chronic pain. Having worked in several public treatment settings, she is expert in the use of methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone in the treatment of opioid use disorder. She has served on FDA, SAMHSA and NIH expert panels on prescription opioid abuse, and contributed to position statements from the American Pain Society, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and the American Society of Pain Management Nurses on pain management for patients with addictive disease. She currently serves as principal investigator on a NIDA-supported grant exploring hyperalgesic responses in individuals undergoing opioid taper.

Competing Healthcare Crises: Chronic Pain and Opioid Misuse

Melanie Simpson is the Pain Management Team Coordinator at The University of Kansas Health System. She has worked in pain management for over twenty-three years. Dr. Simpson has Bachelor’s Degrees in both Nursing and Human Relations, a Master’s degree in Health Services and a Doctoral Degree in Health Administration. She is nationally certified in Pain Management, Oncology, Hospice and Palliative Nursing and is a Certified Pain Educator. She is active both locally and nationally in several professional organizations including; American Pain Society, State Pain Policy Advocacy Network, and she is a Past-President of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Melanie is the recipient of the 2018 ASPMN Advocacy Award Pain Management.

Dr. Melanie Dreher, Nurse and Anthropologist, Dean Emeritus Rush University College of Nursing and Immediate Past Board Chair Trinity Health, presented the Opening Keynote Session on Friday, April 13th.