Laurie Kennedy-Malone, PhD, GNP-BC, FAANP, FAGHE, is a Professor and Director of the Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Laurie has been a certified gerontological nurse practitioner for over 25 years. She received her BSN in nursing and sociology from Worcester State College, Worcester MA in 1981 and her master's degree as a gerontological nurse practitioner from The University of Lowell in MA in 1982. She received her PhD in Nursing from The University of Texas in Austin in 1990. She has received numerous grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration for the nurse practitioner program at UNCG. She was one of the… recipients of the John H. Hartford and AACN Geriatric Nursing Education Project: Enhancing Gerontological/Geriatric Nursing for Advanced Practice Nursing Program. She is one of the authors of "Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner working with" "Older Adults" published by FA Davis.