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Wendy Dusenbury, PhD, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, ANVP-BC, ASC-BC, FAHA, is the lead nurse practitioner for the inpatient tele-stroke consult service and an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the College of Medicine for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She is a former stroke program reviewer for the Joint Commission (2018-2022) where she reviewed Acute Stroke Ready, Primary, Thrombectomy Capable, and Comprehensive Stroke Centers across the United States.
Wendy has a special interest in systems of care along with process and quality improvement and has worked with rural hospitals in Kansas through the Kansas Clinical Improvement Collaborative addressing routing for stroke patients, rapid care and treatment of stroke patients, and provider education. She is passionate in working with rural hospitals to build strategies to overcome the unique obstacles associated with the geographical and transfer challenges that they face.
Dr. Dusenbury graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University, a Master of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner) from Wichita State University, a Post-Master’s Certificate as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and PhD from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Wendy completed a post-graduate neurovascular advanced practice fellowship program in 2013 from Arizona State University through the NETSMART program.
Dr. Dusenbury has experience speaking nationally and internationally on various topics surrounding stroke care and has publications on clinical localization, mobile stroke units, systems of care, and nursing care of stroke patients. She is the current chair for the State of the Science Nursing Symposium for the American Heart Association, a member of the Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Committee for the American Heart Association, and a Past President of the Association of Neurovascular Clinicians. She has a wide range of clinical experience as a nurse practitioner to include primary care, pediatrics, neurosurgery, neuro ICU, stroke program management, and acute stroke service both inpatient and mobile stroke units.
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