Dennis Kan, DNP, FNP-C

·         Deliver graduate-level nursing education in the Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs
·         Served as Clinical Instructor (CI) for 10 NP students in clinical courses
Teaching responsibilities include Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning

·       Manage a complex panel of over 500 patients living with HIV within a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
·       Translate emerging scientific evidence to clinical practice, optimize treatment outcomes for people living with HIV
·       Serve as clinical consultant on the latest treatment and modalities for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Tuberculosis & othe

·       Completed New Graduate Transition to Practice for Nurse Practitioners in a Family Medicine Residency Clinic
·       Served as HIV and STI subject matter experts to over 50 family and internal medicine clinicians
·       Provided same-day family medicine services for 20 patients a day
·       Performed in-office procedures such as incision & drainage, joint injections, nerve blocks, & cryot

·       Delivered scientific presentations on the topics of HIV, infectious diseases, immunology, and epidemiology to diverse learners
·       Facilitated transfer of knowledge to more than 300 baccalaureate and graduate nursing students
·       Consistently recognized as a high-impact educator with overall course evaluations of more than 5.0 out of 6 points
·       Teaching responsibilities inclu

·       Provided system-wide urgent/emergency infection control expertise to 10 hospitals across 3 states
·       Content expert on hospital epidemiology and high-consequence infectious diseases such as Ebola Virus Disease
·       Managed database development life cycle for disease outbreaks and exposures.
·       Developed and led outbreak investigations within 10 hospitals and 160 clinics.

• Provided interim Infection Prevention expertise to 2 hospitals within a metropolitan area serving over 400 beds
• Led outbreak investigation of different diseases, including Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Supported and trained novice Infection Preventionists within the region

• Led the Infection Prevention and Control program for a 200-bed hospital
• Prevent and eliminate the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections
• Evaluates patient care environment for safe care related to infection prevention practices
• Provide expertise during pathogen outbreaks and emergent situations
• Education professionals in infection prevention and their roles in providing safe pa

·       Led high-impact infection prevention & harm elimination initiatives within a 165-bed pediatric acute care facility
·       Developed training and education for the region's only high-risk infectious diseases care unit.
·       Interpreted infection-related data to provide understandable information for frontline and leadership staff
·       Designed and implemented system-wide data analyti

• Analyze and elevate examination questions used to assess application of baccalaureate nursing knowledge
• Improved rigor and quality of nursing exams based on Bloom’s taxonomy and the nursing processes
• Implement high-risk test-taking software, ExamSoft for faculty and staff within the school of nursing

• Lead a team of 8 infection prevention professionals within 6 hospital sites
• Act as liaison and represent Infection Prevention & Control at System-wide meetings
• Analyst and develop strategic initiatives such as employee engagement

·       Bridged clinical and technical teams to provide effective clinical documentation tools within a 5-hospital system 
·       Served as an expert on Epic Clinical Documentation and Epic Stork modules
·       Advised system-wide Pediatric Specialty User Groups & Nursing Advisory Council on workflow improvements
·       Designed and implemented an innovative mobile critical care transport docum

·       Delivered high-quality care to 1 to 3 critically ill patients with congenital heart defects
·       Led and presented patients’ cases during patient rounds with multidisciplinary team members
·       Educated patients’ caregivers on cardiac implications using evidence-based text and visual aids

Early clinical foundation in oncology, hematology, and bone marrow transplant nursing; developed strong evidence-based practice habits and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Primary Care – Training and Education in Addiction Medicine (PC-TEAM) Fellowship

Scholarly Project: Driving appropriate syphilis management through the use of microlearning and actionable patient education

Issued Nov 2024 · Expires Dec 2027

Specialty Rotations:
-Oregon Health & Sciences University HIV Clinic | Portland, Oregon
-Kaiser Permanente HIV Prevention and Care (HPC) Clinic | Portland, Oregon

Issued May 2023 · Expires May 2028

Issued Feb 2018 · Expires Dec 2028

Issued Jan 2016 · Expired Jan 2017

Issued Jan 2015 · Expired Jan 2017

Scholarly Project: "Determining perceptions related to virtual patients as a teaching tool"

Minor: Biological Sciences

Groningen, Netherlands