Meet the Speakers: BCEN Learn Live Destin

Meet the emergency and critical care nursing subject matter experts speaking at BCEN Learn Live Destin, October 13-15, 2025!

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Keynote Speaker: Chris Clews

What 80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Leaving A Legacy

In the spirit of BCEN’s 45th anniversary, let’s take a look back at the 80s to explore what it means to advocate for something important to you, and the importance of leaving a legacy!

Growing up in the 80s and having over twenty years of leadership experience in corporate marketing, Chris knows three things very well: 80s pop culture, business, and this crazy but totally awesome thing we call life.

Chris believes that the best lessons for life and work come from the most unexpected places and people. 80s pop culture is one of those places, and the amazing and entertaining characters that populated it are those people!

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Clair Barnett, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, CFRN

The Night Everything Went Wrong: Navigating IMC, an Emergency Landing, and Critical Patient Care

Clair Barnett is a Chief Flight Nurse with extensive experience in emergency medicine, critical care transport, and disaster response. With a background spanning International Medevac, trauma, and HEMS, she brings a deep understanding of patient care in high-risk, high-pressure environments and a passion for risk mitigation in air medical transport.

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Kristi Bonny, BSN, RN, CPHQ, TCRN, EMT-P

Hypothermia in Trauma: Prevention is Priority

Kristi Bonny is a Trauma Clinician at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, an ACS verified Level II trauma center. Having worked in prehospital, critical care, emergency, and quality management areas, Kristi uses her passion for performance improvement to promote change leading to better outcomes for trauma patients.

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Mark Boswell, APRN, FNP-C, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, CPEN

ABGs Made Easy

Mark Boswell has over 20 years of emergency medicine experience as an RN/APRN. Mark has used his passion for emergency education to teach others, having taught over 200+ CEN review classes for thousands of CEN candidates.

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Hollye Briggs, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN

Gamification Meets Certification

Hollye Briggs is a professional development specialist at the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. Her experience in emergency and trauma nursing has taught Hollye to find learning opportunities in every moment.

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Greg Cain, EMT-P

Response to Opioid Overdoses

Greg Cain is the Operations Chief for Okaloosa County EMS. Greg has worked in EMS for the last 40 years and extensive experience in pre-hospital and emergency medicine.

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Caitlin Chapman, MSN, RN, CPEN, CNEn

Helping New Nurses Succeed in the Pediatric Emergency Room

Caitlin Chapman is a full time assistant professor of nursing with over 10 years pediatric nursing experience, 8 of those years in a pediatric emergency room setting. Have worked in both the clinical and classroom setting, Caitlin uses her experience to help guide new nurses in the transition into pediatric emergency nursing.

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Ryan Dale, MSN, RN, CFRN, EMT-P

To Pace or Not to Pace? That is the Question

Ryan Dale is currently working as a Registered Nurse in the Cath Lab and Flight Team at AdventHealth in Orlando, FL. Ryan has nearly 30 years of experience in these various settings including ICU and over a decade as a Clinical Rep for the Impella device. These experiences have provided Ryan with the ability to care for numerous types of patients, in particular cardiac, across a multitude of acute settings.

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Scott DeBoer, MSN, RN, CPEN, EMT-P

Peds Pain: Fallacies, Facts, & Future

Scott DeBoer is a dynamic seminar leader with over 30 years of emergency, critical care, & flight nursing experience. After 25 years of flight nursing at the University of Chicago, Scott is currently the primary seminar leader for Pedi-Ed-Trics, a company dedicated to teaching better ways to care for kids and an active medical-legal consultant. However, his most unique current role is being a theme park paramedic at Universal Studios Orlando.

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Sean Elwell, DNP, RN, NE-BC, TCRN, EMT

Up for the Challenge: A Pediatric Case Study

Sean Elwell is the Senior Director of Emergency Services, Critical Care Transport, and the Pediatric Trauma Center at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Sean’s experience in pre-hospital, emergency services, critical care transport, and trauma, and allow him to share perspectives across the continuum of care.

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Amanda Felder, MSN, RN, TCRN, CPEN

Pediatric Trauma Care & Considerations Beyond the Trauma Bay Resuscitation

Mandy is a leader in Pediatric Trauma spending 12 years at the bedside of a Pediatric Emergency Department and 11 years as Trauma Program Manager of an ACS Level II Pediatric Trauma Center. She is involved at the regional, state, and national levels in all aspects of peds trauma care from Pediatric Readiness, prehospital care, education, disaster preparedness, and more.

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Rebecca Geyer, MSN, RN, TCRN

Failing Forward: How Mistakes Can Be Some of Our Greatest Mentors

Rebecca Geyer is the Director of Trauma Performance Improvement at the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation. She’s worked in trauma nursing for the past 20 years and uses her experiences in performance improvement to continue working to improve trauma care for patients and also for clinicians working in the trauma specialty area.

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Kristen Gilmore, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, NE-BC, NC-BC

RISE: A Psychological First Aid Program for Distressed Healthcare Workers

Kristen Gilmore is the Program Manager for Nurse Well-being at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Bucks, Frankford, Torresdale, and Montgomery Campuses, in Pennsylvania. Kristen is also the Philadelphia Emergency Nurses Association President and the Chairperson of the Emergency Nurses Association’s Wellness Council.

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Michael Gooch, DNP, APRN, CCP, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, ENP-C, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, NRP, FAASTN, FAANP, FAEN

Does it Matter if the Head of the Bed is Up or Down?

Dr. Michael D. Gooch is an emergency and flight nurse practitioner with 30 years of experience in emergency and transport nursing. He practices at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, and is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

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Kathryn Kasen, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, NEA-BC

Emerging Leaders in the Emergency Department

Kathryn Kasen is the Nurse Manager for the Adult Emergency Department at UVA Health. Kathryn leverages her skillset in emergency nursing and education to develop leaders and emerging leaders both within the Emergency Department and hospital-wide.

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Capt. Angela M. Leonardo, USAF, NC, BSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN

Trauma-Informed Care: Not All Wounds Are Visible

Captain Angela Leonardo is a highly skilled Emergency Trauma Nurse in the United States Air Force. She’s Critical Care Air Transport Nurse and a Ground Surgical Team Nurse with unwavering dedication to her country and expertise in military emergency medicine.

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Ashley Lunkenheimer, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CEN

Tele-Emergency Care and the Emergency Room Nurse

Ashley Lunkenheimer is a dedicated healthcare professional with over 15 years of clinical experience. As the Director of Nursing for the National Emergency Medicine Office for the Veterans Affairs, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in emergency care.

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Jamin Rankin, MSN, RN, NREMT-B, CEN, CFRN, TCRN, CPEN, CTRN

Not Just Another Fall: Rethinking Trauma Principles for the Aging Patient

Jamin Rankin is a certified trauma and emergency nurse with over a decade of experience in emergency, flight, and trauma care. He currently manages both the Trauma and Stroke Programs at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe, where he leads initiatives to improve patient outcomes and enhance healthcare delivery.

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Dave Repsher, RN, NREMT-P and Amanda Repsher, RN

A Tragic Day, A New Life: The Repsher Story

Dave and Amanda Repsher are critical care nurses and former paramedics from Colorado. Dave survived an air medical helicopter crash in 2015 with 90% full thickness burns, and now they share their story—including their perspective being on the other side as former care providers.

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Emily Snyder, MSN, RN, CBRN, CCRN

More Than Skin Deep: Understanding the Complex Nature of Burn Injuries

Emily Snyder is the Burn Educator at Medical City Plano in Texas. She has worked with the burn population for 12 years and has a passion for education and ensuring the best care for this unique population.

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Carol Tulley, DNP, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN

When Two Worlds Collide: Ryan’s Story

Carol Tulley is the Trauma Coordinator at a suburban Chicago Level II trauma center. She has been an emergency department nurse for 35 years. Trauma is her specialty, and she enjoys sharing her knowledge with others in the emergency medicine field.

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Adam Vilander, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, CFRN, CCRN

HALO Training: Rethinking In-Person Education for Emergency Nurses

Adam is a master’s-prepared nurse educator with 20 years of experience in healthcare and over a decade of experience in emergency nursing. He is the Emergency and Trauma Nursing Specialist for a 6-hospital system in Oregon and works as a flight nurse.

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Michael Zonak, MSN, RN, CEN, CNL, CPEN

When Lightning Strikes: Emergency Care for Lightning Injuries

Michael Zonak is the Emergency Department clinical educator for Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, FL. He is able to use his experience in critical care, emergency nursing, clinical informatics and education to improve the knowledge of the stretcher-side nurse.