Professor Receives Prestigious Award

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association will award our own Dr. Michael Terry with the “Excellence in Education” award at the AAPN Annual Conference later this year.

Eight Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses are chosen from among thousands around the country to receive this award each year.  The award showcases the accomplishments of nurses whose work improves the lives of individuals, their families, and communities. 

Michael Terry, DNP, FNP, PMHNP, will receive the Award for Excellence in Education, for his dedication to all facets of preparing nurses to serve in psychiatric-mental health, including teaching, advising, mentoring, designing an innovative behavioral health simulation, and pursuing grants for augmenting existing curriculum. His most recent grant will increase clinical training sites at integrated community health centers by 50 percent.

Dr. Terry says he is honored to be chosen.

“This award recognizes ten years of program development, innovative curricula, ground-breaking simulation events, and expansion of our clinical placement sites, he  said. “The nomination was submitted by our two full-time faculty, Drs. Theresa Nguyen and Katie Lais, two clinical/simulation faculty, Drs. Robynn Cavaliere and Kristin Lulich, and Dr. Marie Gianterro-Young, a colleague from UCSF. Our entire program is a collaborative, interdependent process and I share this award enthusiastically with all of my colleagues at USD.”

Dr. Terry will receive his award in October at the Annual AAPN Conference in Louisville, Ky.