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Dr. Mary D. Moller, DNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN is an Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Nursing where she is the Specialty Director for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. She is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse dually certified as a clinical specialist in adult psychiatric-mental health nursing and a psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner. Dr. Moller received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Mount Marty College, Yankton, SD in 1971; her Master’s Degree in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing in 1982; and, the Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2006. She received the Dean’s Legacy Award for her research entitled The Lived Experience of the Patient with Schizophrenia in the Postpsychotic Adjustment Phase of Recovery from Psychosis.
From 1992-2008 she was the Clinical Director of The Suncrest Wellness Center, an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Spokane, WA that was featured with Patty Duke on "Good Morning America." In addition to her administrative duties, she carried a full caseload of over 150 patients where she was responsible for primary mental health care including prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medications. She is also President of NurSeminars, Inc, an international consulting firm, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Kansas University School of Nursing in Kansas City, Kansas, where she developed their first web-based psychopharmacology course for psychiatric nurse practitioner students. Dr. Moller is also consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Health Division of Psychiatric Nursing.
Her main clinical focus is in the ongoing development and implementation of The Three R’s Program: Relapse, Recovery, Rehabilitation: A Wellness Approach to Psychiatric Rehabilitation. This includes three books: "Recovering from Psychosis: A Wellness Approach," "Symptom Management: A Wellness Expedition," and, "BE SMART--Become Empowered: Symptom Management for Abuse and Recovery from Trauma." Her work focuses on improving the quality of life for individuals with serious mental illnesses and their families.
She has authored or co-authored over 40 articles and book chapters including a pharmacology review book and is on the Editorial Review board of the "Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association" and for 10 years for the "Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal." Dr. Moller has four published research articles, and is also producer of the award-winning "Understanding and Communicating With . . ." videotape series which has four videos/DVDs and has international circulation. "Understanding and Communicating With a Person Who is Hallucinating" is a recipient of the 1991 Comendation Award from Superfest XVI--International Film Festival on Disabilities and Telecommunications , Understanding and Communicating With a Person Who has Mania; Understanding Relapse: Managing the Symptoms of Schizophrenia; and Understanding and Communicating with a Person Who Has Delusions—Recipient of the Silver Telly Award ast the Best Medical Video for 1996.
For the past 20 years she has been a very active member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. Currently she is the President-elect and will be inducted as President in October, 2009. Dr. Moller served as Chair of the Advanced Practice Committee from 2000-2002. She was a panel member of the December, 2005 meeting of the Logical Job Analysis with the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and has been elected to the Nominations Committee twice. Dr. Moller has been a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the National Nursing Honor Society since 1982 when she was inducted into Gamma Pi Chapter in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1986 she served as Chair of the Chapter Formation Committee of Theta Omega Chapter housed at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Nebraska. She transferred to Delta Chi Chapter in Spokane in 1992.
She has served on two task forces at the National Institute of Mental Health and has received numerous honors and award. In 1991 she was the Dorothy Kent Distinguished Lecturer at Vanderbilt University, received the 1994 Award for Clinical Excellence from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. In October of 1995, she chaired the Global Schizophrenia Forum in London, England. Dr. Moller received the 1996 Professional of the Year Award from The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. She was a Visiting Professor at NYU School of Nursing in 1999. Also in 1999, she conducted trainings for the Israeli Ministry of Health. Dr. Moller has led three delegations for the People to People Ambassador Program: 1999: a delegation of psychiatric nurses to mainland China and Hong Kong; 2000 a delegation of doctors and nurses to study spirituality in health care in Israel; 2001: a delegation of psychiatric nurses to Cuba. In June 2001, she presented her collaboration with the Israeli Psychiatric Nursing Division at the International Council of Nurses in Copenhagen, Denmark. She received the 2001 award for Leadership and Management from the Washington State Nurses Association. In 2003, she presented the Keynote address for the Canadian Schizophrenia Society annual meeting in Toronto. In 2006, Dr. Moller received the Clinical Excellence Award from the Ass’n of Advance Practice Psychiatric Nurses of WA state. She is currently the chair of the Curriculum, Training, and Practice Consortium for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
She presented her doctoral research in 2006 at the World Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Athens, Greece, and in Tel Aviv, Israel; in 2007 at the American Psychiatric Association Division of Community Psychiatry in New Orleans; and, in 2008 at the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association in Chicago.
Dr. Moller has keynoted conferences for the National Association of Ambulatory Behavioral Health, the Assertive Community Treatment Association, the Menninger Foundation, Ohio State University, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Mayo Clinic, UCLA and for 38 State Alliance for the Mentally Ill conferences. She has led workshops for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill annual conventions, the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing, Contemporary Forums, and Nursing Transitions. In 1992 she was a presenter at the 2nd International Conference on Schizophrenia in Vancouver, BC and at the Hospital and Community Psychiatry International Institute in Toronto. She is currently a consultant to a NINR research grant at the University of California San Francisco Graduate nursing program. She has made over 800 professional and research presentations in 44 states and internationally since 1980.
She and her husband, Chuck, have been married for 38 years and have two grown sons, Brock, 36 and Scott 34. Her first grandchild, Braden Larson Moller was born 1/14/2008.
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