The Fourth Annual Rita M. McGinley Symposium

Speakers

Karen Cox, PhD, RN, FAAN
Karen Cox brings over 20 years of nursing experience in clinical and executive practice. She currently serves as Executive Vice President, Co-Chief Operating Officer at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, a 314 bed academic pediatric medical center in Kansas City, Missouri. Cox led the organization to receive Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, becoming the first hospital in Kansas and Missouri, and only the third children's hospital. Dr. Cox also serves as Assistant Dean for Clinical Partnerships at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). Read more...

Awak Howsepian, MD, PhD
A.A. Howsepian, M.D., Ph.D. received his M.D. from the University of California, Davis, and completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco – Fresno Medical Education Program where he is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. In that capacity, he supervises Psychiatry residents and teaches courses in Psychiatric Ethics, Psychiatry and Religion, Neuropsychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Forensic Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy, and the Paraphilias and Perversions. Read more...

Tammy L. Hughes, PhD
Tammy Hughes is the Martin A. Hehir Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling, Psychology and Special Education at Duquesne University. Active at the national level she currently serves on the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) She is the Past‐President of the Division of School Psychology (16) of APA, Past‐President of Trainers of School Psychologists (TSP), and served on the 2009 APA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Psychology Practice. Read more...

Rev. Larry Snyder
Father Larry Snyder is President of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), the national office of more than 160 local Catholic Charities agencies nationwide that provide help and create hope to more than 10 million people a year, regardless of their religious, social, or economic backgrounds. Since joining CCUSA in 2005, Snyder has been responsible for leading the overall direction of the Catholic Charities movement and the strategic leadership of CCUSA. Read more...