Tina Gustin DNP, CNS, RN
2024 Keynote Speaker

Carolyn Rutledge PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN
2024 Keynote Speaker

Presentation:  DNP-led Interprofessional Clinics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Care

Dr. Gustin is an Associate Professor at Old Dominion University’s School of Nursing; she teaches in the DNP Program. She is the Director of the university’s Center for Telehealth Innovation, Education, and Research.
She is the clinical manager for the Pediatric Telehealth program at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk Virginia.
She led the development of ODU’s Community Care Clinic at the People in Need ministry. This clinic is a nurse-led-integrated clinic that provides holistic care to people living in homelessness. She led the implementation of telehealth at the clinic allowing clients to see providers in the area.

Dr. Rutledge is a Professor and Associate Chair of Nursing as well as the Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (APN) program in the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University. She also holds the position of Co-Director of the Center for Telehealth Innovation, Education, & Research (C-TIER). Dr. Rutledge has practiced as a Family Nurse Practitioner for 32 years, primarily in Family Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School where she holds an appointment as professor. She is actively involved in providing a national program/certification in telehealth for Providers and Educators. Dr. Rutledge is also leading an initiative that is developing nurse-led clinics for homeless and underserved populations focusing on telehealth delivery and interprofessional collaboration. She was the 2014 recipient of the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) award for the leading faculty in the state of Virginia. Dr. Rutledge is being inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), a designation that is achieved by fewer than 1% of nurses nationally.