This series will focus on summer health and wellness. In this podcast series, our host, Dr. Andrea Kline-Tilford, NAPNAP’s Executive Board President, will explore different aspects of children and teen health and wellness through conversations with NAPNAP member experts and special interest group leaders.

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.

Christina “Tina” Rickenback, MSN, APRN, CPNP

Tina Rickenback earned her BSN from The Catholic University of America and her MSN from the Yale University School of Nursing. She is a primary  care PNP at Wildwood Pediatrics in Connecticut.  A retired Captain from the US Naval Reserves with over 20 years of service,  she participated in mass casualty exercises and was deployed to a tent hospital during Operation Desert Storm. She is a member of her local Medical Reserve Corps. She has written articles for the lay press about emergency preparedness and is Co-Chair of the  Children in Disasters Special Interest Group.

Cat Goodhue is a PNP with over 30 years of pediatric experience. She earned her BSH from Georgetown University and her MN from UCLA. Currently she is the Outpatient Trauma Clinic PNP at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has conducted pediatric disaster preparedness research in various populations, lectured regionally and nationally, and co-edited Nursing Management of Pediatric Disaster. She is the Co-Chair of the Children in Disasters Special Interest Group.