Fostering Resilience through Adverse Childhood Experiences and Self-care Tools

Dr. Angela D. Mehringer is an Assistant Professor and Simulation Faculty at the University of Louisville School of Nursing and a graduate student at Northern Kentucky University. She is completed her DNP practicum hours jointly with the Green River District Health Department and the International Center of Kentucky, Owensboro, focusing on refugee health. Angela received her Master of Nursing in Nursing Education Degree from the University of Southern Indiana and has taught at the undergraduate level for 10 years. Her expertise is focused on Maternal Child Health, Community and Public Health, and Innovative teaching strategies, including Simulation. She recently presented “Incorporating Refugee Health Perspectives in Undergraduate Nursing Education” at the 2022 Transform AACN Conference. Angela and co-author are the recipients of the Society of Pediatric Nurses 2018 Evidence-Based Practice Grant Award for the EBP project “Fostering Resilience by Educating Undergraduate Nursing Students about Adverse Childhood Experiences.” In addition to teaching undergraduate community health and global health nursing, Angela is a Faith Community Nurse. Angela recently collaborated in the development of a fourth-semester culminating simulation that included cultural diversity, developed an annual faculty development titled “Our journey to being intentional with diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and collaborated to develop a faculty workshop “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Cultural Humility in Simulation.”

Luz Huntington-Moskos, PhD, RN, CPN, FAAN is an Associate Professor and Director of the Community Engagement Core for the Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Louisville. She is a Latina nurse scientist with Bolivian heritage. She received her Ph.D. in Nursing from The University of Alabama, Birmingham in 2013 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Kentucky BREATHE program in 2014. Dr. Huntington-Moskos is a 2021-2024 Betty Irene Moore Fellow and her program of research is focused on the intersection between adolescent health, environmental health and health disparities. She is working to develop report-back strategies geared towards adolescents, with the goal of building environmental health literacy and promoting positive health behavior change. She has a long-standing interest in promoting adolescent health, which she first developed during her work as high school science teacher in the Peace Corps (Malawi 1994-1996). Her scholarly work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Preventing Chronic Disease, Journal of Adolescent Health and Public Health Nursing.

Following graduation from an accelerated BSN program, Paul Clark worked in the post-operative medical surgical and adult emergency department care settings. After completing graduate school, Clark joined the faculty at the University of Louisville School of Nursing where he teaches and is building a program of research. He participates in emergency nursing research as an advisory board member of the Emergency Nursing Research Advisory Council, the research arm of the ENA. As part of his full-time work with the UofL School of Nursing, Clark is a Nurse Scientist at Baptist Healthcare – Louisville, KY.

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