Specialties & Experience

General Specialties: Forensic Medicine and Nurse

Specialty Focus: Forensic Nursing, infant death, child abuse, abusive head trauma, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, intentional/unintentional injury, vicarious trauma, work place violence, healthcare serial killers, elder abuse

Education: DNP, University of TN Health Science Center; MNSc, University of AR for Medical Sciences; BSN, University of AR for Medical Sciences

Years in Practice: 42

Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs: 4

Additional Information

Board Certified Advance Forensic Nurse; Advanced Health Specialty Forensic Science Certification; Certified Law Enforcement Standards and Training Instructor; Past Director of Infant and Child Death Review and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program,; Testified at the Pentagon; Military Trial Experience,; Consultant and Trainer for Arkansas Coroner Association; Teach multiple forensic topics at the state, national and international level; Developed and Implemented Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Investigations to multidisciplinary partners, Consulted for Department of Defense, AR Governor, Attorney General, Legislature, and the Arkansas Commission on Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence; Trainer at Criminal Justice Institute; Consulted and Trained for National Fetal, Infant, and Child Death Review Program; Consulted at CDC; Videos and Podcast: Infant Death Investigation (Academy of Forensic Nursing, 2020), Out of the Shadows: Empowering Nurses to Identify and Respond to Child Maltreatment (PESI, 2018) (, Human Trafficking: Identification and Response Within Healthcare (PESI, 2017); and Forensic Nursing: The Harsh Realities in Every Patient Care Setting (PESI, 2016); Board of Directors for the International Association of Forensic Nurses (2 terms); Committee Secretary for Medicolegal Death Investigations with the Academy of Forensic Nurses; Arkansas Forensic Nursing Council, co-founder and secretary; Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Council Founder and President (3 terms); Publications: Nurses and Medicolegal Death Investigation, Journal of Forensic Nursing; Chapter Three, Death Investigations, Core Curriculum for Forensic Nurses; Infant Death Scene Investigation. Journal of Forensic Nursing; Arkansas Commission on Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence. Healthcare Protocol Manual for Sexual Assault, Contributor, and editor in chapters on Adult Medical/Forensic Exam, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV Prophylaxis and Pregnancy.