TeamPeds Talks newest series, focused on Nurse Practitioner Leadership and Career Development, is brought to you by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. This series of podcasts includes inspiring and thought-provoking conversations with expert leaders in pediatric health care with a focus on advancing career development and leading change. This series is hosted by Dr. Andrea Kline-Tilford, NAPNAP’s Executive Board President.

Andrea Kline-Tilford, PhD, CPNP-AC is an Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with significant clinical experience in pediatric critical care and pediatric cardiac surgery. She is the NAPNAP Executive Board President and the Professional Issues Department Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.  She is the co-editor of two books: Lippincott Certification Review: Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Cases in Pediatric Acute Care: Strengthening Clinical Decision Making. She has presented internationally on topics of pediatric acute care and pediatric advanced practice nursing, with many publications in these areas. She is an advocate for children and proud mother of two.

This episode's guests are Raji Koppolu, Christopher Newman and Courtney Robinson.

This episode of TeamPedsTalks features a conversation with three Advanced Practice Providers in formal leadership roles. Tune in to hear about the benefits of APP leadership models, current trends, and tips for APPs considering formal leadership roles.

Raji Koppolu is a nurse practitioner with the general surgery team at Stanford Children's Health and manages the Advanced Practice Provider Professional Development program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California where she has worked for 18 years. She leads programs to support the professional development of APPs. She is a volunteer assistant clinical professor at the UCSF School of Nursing and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Pediatric Healthcare. Raji is past president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

Christopher Newman is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Director of APP Practice Development for the Department of Pediatrics in the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He practices clinically as a Physician Assistant in the PICU at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Courtney Robinson is a pediatric acute care nurse practitioner and Director of Advanced Practice Providers at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha.  She has spent the last 24 years taking care of children, the past nine have been in progressive leadership roles.    Prior to Omaha, Courtney was at Johns Hopkins All Children’s and Texas Children’s Hospitals.