Today we will hear from Megan Moyer who implemented the Penn Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group in 2017. In this interview, she will tell us about the purpose of the support group, the topic and format of the meetings, and why and how to attend.
To find out more about the Penn Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group, visit: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/neurology/traumatic-brain-injury/tbi-support-group
Megan Moyer, MSN, ACNP-BC (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner – Board Certified), CNRN (Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse) is a neuroscience nurse practitioner. She received her undergraduate degrees from Gwynedd Mercy University, Master’s in Nursing from Thomas Jefferson University and is a PhD candidate at Villanova University at the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. Megan formerly worked at Penn Medicine for 18 years in a variety of roles as a neuroscience nurse, a nurse practitioner in the Neurointensive care unit, and as a nurse practitioner within the traumatic brain injury clinical research initiative at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center at the University of Pennsylvania under the leadership of the primary investigator Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD. It was during this role that Megan implemented the Penn TBI support group in August 2017.