Featuring keynote speaker: Dr. Daisy Lara, DNP, CRNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC
CEO & Founder, Resilio Mental Health Solutions
Presenting: “Awareness to Advocacy: Provision I and the Call to Inclusive Neurodiverse Care”

Along with panelists: Michael Damon Hannon, PhD, LPC (NJ), BC-TMH, NCC
Department of Counseling, College for Community Health, Montclair State University

and Terry Watson, MS
Associate Director, Student Disability Services
Interim Director, Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity, Penn State World Campus

Moderated by Sheldon D. Fields, PhD, RN FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN

Registration and Program Information

This event is free and open to the public.
Both in-person and virtual attendees must register in advance.
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For full event details, please visit the online event program.
2025 Gunter-Gooding DEI Lecture Online Event Program »

Contact Hour Information

This activity has been submitted for Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours.  In-person attendees will have the opportunity to digitally obtain contact hours after the event. Virtual attendees will receive a link via email after the event to complete the contact hour requirement.

Participants with a valid RN license who attend the entire program may earn 1.0 contact hours; partial contact hours are not awarded. Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.