Susan Scanland
Dementia Connection® LLC, USA
Biography
Susan Scanland is a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner and Certified Dementia Practitioner and national Alzheimer’s and Dementia Expert with 34 years of experience. She received her MSN from University of Pittsburgh and BSN from Wilkes University. She has been nationally certified as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner since 1984 and is also a Certified Dementia Practitioner. She holds a Nursing Faculty Specialist position at the University of Scranton. She taught in geriatric faculty positions at Binghamton University (SUNY) from 1999-2004 and the Wyoming Valley Family Practice Residency in Kingston, Pennsylvania from 1987-1999. She is Founder of Dementia Connection® LLC. She is one of two nurse practitioners in the world to receive the Certified Speaking Professional award (CSP) through the National Speakers Association. She presented to geriatric psychiatrists from 15 countries at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting in Washington DC in March 2016. She is Dementia Consultant to a long-term care facility in northeastern Pennsylvania and also provided rural nursing home consults via telehealth. She co-authored two articles on antipsychotic reduction recently in consultant pharmacist and geriatric nursing.