Douglas Stephens is IN! Dr. Stephens is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program at Jacksonville State University (JSU). He is nationally certified as Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) through American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and licensed through the Alabama Board of Nursing. Dr. Douglas J. Stephens received a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Alabama Birmingham in 2017. Dr. Stephens is a highly committed and compassionate healthcare professional, offering broad-based leadership and teaching experience within acute and critical care settings. Actively engages in mentorship and preceptorship of aspiring advanced practice providers.
Lindsey Harris is IN! Lindsey began her nursing journey as a student-athlete at Samford University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a minor in Business. Her passion for helping others stemmed from her loving and giving family who always provided for and helped others in need. The desire to give and help was innate. The profession of nursing seemingly was the natural progression to fuel her passion. After earning a BSN, Harris received her MSN with a concentration in family practice and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. Dr. Lindsey Harris is a family nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medicine and faculty at the UAB School of Nursing. Harris is the first person of color to serve as president of the Alabama State Nurses Association in 107 years. Harris advances the organization’s mission to promote nursing excellence and the vision of being the professional voice of registered nurses. Harris was named an Alabama Influencer and was featured on billboards, media spots, and mailers statewide. She has presented extensively on healthcare disparities, access to care, mentorship, mental health, and nursing advocacy issues. Harris continues to address healthcare inequities that have been highlighted by COVID-19. Proficient in Spanish, she helped to manage COVID-19 vaccine sites improving access in Hispanic communities. Lindsey is actively involved in working within the community as in the past President of the Birmingham Black Nurses Association Inc. She is also a member of the Hispanic Nurses Association, Philippine Nurses of Association, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Dr. Harris remains an advocate for nursing as she held office in the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama and lobbied for advancing nursing practice within Alabama. As past president of the Birmingham Black Nurses Association, Harris leveraged partnerships with the state’s minority nursing associations, local city officials, hospital and pharmacy associations, and district church leaders in efforts to increase healthcare access and education in Alabama’s underrepresented communities. The National Black Nurses Association awarded her the Advanced Practice Nurse and Staff Nurse of the Year awards. She received the Living Legacy and Young Alumnus of the Year awards from Samford University. UAB School of Nursing awarded her the Joann Barnett Compassionate Care Award, and in 2021 recognized her with the Visionary Leader Award. Dr. Harris is now completing a fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Health Policy. As a public servant in the House of Representatives, Harris serves as a Legislative Fellow in Representative Lauren Underwoods’ office working towards advancing women’s health equity worldwide.
Pamela Stewart Fahs is IN! Pamela (Pam) Stewart Fahs is Associate Dean and professor and holds the Dr. G. Clifford and Florence B Decker Endowed Chair in Rural Nursing at Binghamton University, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Fahs is the Editor-in-Chief of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care. Professor Stewart Fahs began her professional nursing career in an Appalachian Regional Miners Hospital in southeastern KY. Stewart Fahs was a KY National Guard and Army Nurse Corp Reserves officer for a decade, holding ranks from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain. With a research focus on Cardiovascular Disease in Rural Populations, she has built a research trajectory combining her expertise in cardiovascular disease, passion for rural health care, and community-based participatory research. She has been published in some of the top journals in her discipline, such as Nursing Research, Annual Review of Nursing Research, and Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Professor Fahs has successfully garnered research support from various sources ranging from local and regional non-profit organizations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2016, she received the Anna Mae Erickson Nurse Leadership Award from the Rural Nurse Organization. The University of Alabama (UAB) School of Nursing presented her with the Marie L. O’Koren Alumni Award for Innovation in 2017 and recognized her as one of the 70th Anniversary Visionary Leaders in 2021. Pamela Stewart Fahs, PhD, RN, FAAN, was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2022. Dr. Fahs received her DNS in 1991 (converted into a PhD) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds a Master of Science degree in Family Nursing, with certifications as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Scientist, from the State University of New York at Binghamton; a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Kentucky; and an Associate Degree in Science, Nursing from Eastern Kentucky University.
Tonya Breaux-Shropshire is IN! Dr. Tonya Breaux-Shropshire is a Clinical Scientist specializing in Hypertension Research and a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also works at the Women’s Infant Center and hosts the Mother Baby Daddy Podcast. Additionally, Dr. Breaux-Shropshire hosts the Hypertension Resistant to Treatment Podcast. A former postdoctoral scholar in the School of Medicine and a VA Quality Scholar, she led critical improvements in hypertension management metrics in primary care clinics. She was also the lead coordinator for the SPRINT Study, the landmark trial that influenced the 2017 hypertension guidelines. Dr. Breaux-Shropshire was the first to study home blood pressure monitoring and medication adherence at UAB. Her doctoral nursing project was entitled “Use of Automated Office Blood Pressure Monitoring.”
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