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Amy Butts is a physician assistant/associate who is a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), a certified diabetes care and education specialist and board certified in advanced diabetes management. Amy has specialized in endocrinology for 24 years. She works as an endocrine PA for WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital in an outpatient endocrine clinic in Wellsburg, West Virginia. She has served on several volunteer groups for ADA and ADCES. She is on the Editorial board for the ADA’s publication Clinical Diabetes. Amy is the current President of ASEPA (American Society of Endocrine Physician Assistants). Amy has spoken at several AAPA conferences and ADA conferences and does education for various CME organizations. She is the owner of Amy Butts Metabolic Consulting, LLC. She has been awarded America’s Top Physician Assistant by Point of Care Network (POCN) for two years, 2020 and 2021.

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Barb Dehn is a board certified Women's Health NP, the award-winning author of The Hot Guide to a Cool Sexy Menopause, a practicing Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, and a television health expert, who’s known as Nurse Barb on NBC’s California Live. She earned her Master’s degree from UCSF and BS from Boston College. She’s active in social media and a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Barb works on Global Health Initiatives at FAME Hospital in Karatu, Tanzania, where she serves on their board and as a volunteer.

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Owner and Family Nurse Practitioner, NP From Home, LLC, Munds Park, Arizona, and NP Obesity Treatment Clinic Flagstaff, Arizona  Angela Golden, DNP, is a family nurse practitioner, owner, and sole provider at NP From Home and NP Obesity Treatment Clinic. She earned her doctoral degree emphasizing health policy and evidence-based practice at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.  Dr. Golden is a member and fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, where she served as past President and founding co-chair of the Obesity Specialty Practice Group/Community. She is a member and Fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association and was Chair of the CME overview committee. She is a member of the Arizona Nurse Practitioners Council (Chapter AZNA) and The Obesity Society, where she serves as the Chair of the TOS Clinical Section.  Dr. Golden has presented at conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally. She authorizes several book chapters and books, including Treating Obesity in Primary Care. Her research has been published in periodicals, including the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Education Today, Obesity, Population Health Management, and Postgraduate Medicine. Dr. Golden serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Obesity. She is the recipient of several honors and awards, including the 2023 America’s Top NP Award, the 2021 Steelman-Seim Educator Award for Excellence in Academics from the Obesity Medicine Association, the NP Excellence Award from AANP, and the Dr. Wm. David LaFevers Memorial Lectureship Award from the Advanced Practice Nurses of the Ozarks. 

hris has been board certified as an adult nurse practitioner since 1999. He has also gone on to earn his Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner Certification (ONP-C). His specialty has been in the adult orthopedic spine for the last 23 years. Chris has spent over 12 years moonlighting in the emergency department near his hometown in the St. Louis area. He is on the executive board for the Association of Missouri Nurse Practitioners (AMNP). He has also published in JNP, Orthopedic Nursing, & the International Journal of Therapy and rehabilitation. Chris has also presented numerous webinar presentations for various organizations in his field of expertise over the years. Dr. Hemmer started teaching as an adjunct for Saint Louis University in 2007. In 2013, Christopher accepted a full-time position with the nursing school as an assistant professor for graduate students. He has since been promoted to full tenure Associate Professor at Saint Louis University School of nursing. Chris frequently presents orthopedic and radiologic talks on the local, state, and national levels over the years.

Victoria Lazareth, MA, MSN, NP-C, DCNP, is a Board-Certified Dermatology Nurse Practitioner who has cared for Dermatology patients for over twenty years. She received her undergraduate BSN from Wagner College, NY, and a postgraduate M.A. degree from Webster University, Switzerland.  Victoria worked for 15 years abroad as an Intensive Care nurse, manager for an international clinical trial, and relief coordinator with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kigali, Rwanda, before returning to the US. She settled in New England and attended Simmons University Boston, where she attained her MSN and national Nurse Practitioner certification. Victoria has served as a Dermatology instructor and preceptor for graduate nursing students at both the UMass and Simmons GSN for many years and continues to provide dermatology education to NPs and PAs as a speaker with the AANP, DNA, MauiDerm, and NPACE. She has served as a Director for the Dermatology NP Certification Board and has taught Dermatology NPs preparing to sit for certification with the CAPD Review Course. She held leadership positions as co-founder of the Society of Dermatology Nurse Practitioners and Chair of the NP Society of the Dermatology Nurses’ Association. Additionally, Victoria is a contributing author to the Dermatology for Advanced Practice Clinicians textbook, the published author of multiple dermatology articles, and the content editor for the JCAD NP/PA and JDNA professional journals. She provides general dermatology care in Massachusetts, focusing on psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. She also specializes in dermatology surgery and cutaneous oncology.