Kathy Baldridge

DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP

Dr. Kathy Baldridge is an FNP in Alexandria, La. She is the NP Education Specialist – Lead for Advanced Practice Education Associates, an ATI Brand. Dr. Baldridge is the author of Coding & Billing in the Outpatient Clinical Setting: A quick guide and editor of Hollier's Clinical Practice Guidelines, 5th edition. She has authored and co-authored multiple journal articles and book chapters. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker and is honored to be invited to speak at the state and national level. She has served on the Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners board of directors for 14 years, 6 of those years as President. She is a member of the Louisiana State Nurses Association and serves on multiple committees dedicated to nursing. She is a staunch advocate for the nursing profession and determined to align nurses across the nation with one voice to disrupt the current healthcare system. Dr. Baldridge is the recipient of the AANP award for excellence in 2016 and the AANP award for advocacy in 2024. She was inducted as a Fellow in the AANP in 2017.

Passionate about caring for others, Dr. Baldridge remains in family/internal medicine clinical practice where she cares for people with challenges in the social determinates of health. She earned her ADN from Louisiana State University, Alexandria in 1993; her BSN (2006) and MSN (2009) from Northwestern State University; and DNP from the University of Alabama in 2013.

Wendy L. Wright

DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP

Dr. Wendy Wright is an adult and family nurse practitioner and the owner of two, nurse practitioner owned and operated clinics within New Hampshire. Her family practices have won numerous awards, including Top Providers in New Hampshire 2020, Top 20 Fastest Growing Family Business, and Top 20 Women-Owned Business in New Hampshire. In addition, she is the Owner of Partners in Healthcare Education, a medical education company. She is the Past President of NPACE and the Senior lecturer for Fitzgerald Health Education Associates.

Dr. Wright is the recipient of numerous awards and was chosen by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as the 1999 recipient of the New Hampshire State Excellence Award. In addition, she received the 2009 NH Nurse Practitioner of the Year and the 2014 Top 5 Women in New Hampshire Business Award. In 2020 and 2022, Dr. Wright won the Top Family Practice Doctor in Souhegan Valley and the 2021 State of NH Advocate of the Year Award. In 2005, she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; in October 2014, a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, and in March 2017, a Fellow into the National Academies of Practice.

Dr. Wright is the founder of the NH Chamber of Entrepreneurial Nurse Practitioners, an organization designed to assist nurse practitioners with independent practice issues. In addition to full-time clinical practice, she presents nationally to different audiences and has been a speaker at over 1000 conferences in 47 states. She is the nurse practitioner representative to the State of NH Immunization Advisory Board. She has been a medical media spokesperson for numerous companies and has appeared on radio, television, and in print magazines. In October 2020, Dr. Wright was featured in the Wall Street Journal for her Nurse Practitioner Led Clinics and the care they provide. She is frequently consulted by malpractice attorneys around the area of clinical practice and has worked on more than 100 malpractice cases involving nurses and nurse practitioners.