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Alice Geis, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Assistant Professor
Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing
Education

DNP Systems Leadership, Rush University

 
Areas of Expertise

Integrated healthcare, Interprofessional continuing education, Academic-practice partnerships, Health behavior change

 
Contact Info:

600 S. Paulina Street
Suite 1061A
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 942-3437
alice_geis@rush.edu

 
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Biography

Alice Geis is board certified as a Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, with doctoral preparation in Systems Leadership nursing. She has held a number of clinical, administrative, academic and consulting roles. Leadership roles have included being director of an integrated health program and psychiatric medical director at a community mental health organization, director of a hospital-based psychiatric home care program, member of a United Nations team investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, and program development consultant. Her clinical work has incorporated both individual and group modalities, and includes psychiatric diagnostic evaluations, medication management, and health promotion with individuals with mental illness, multiple medical comorbidities, and substance use disorders. She teaches various courses in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Doctor of Nursing Practice program as well as core courses for doctoral students across programs.

In the News

Let Healers Heal with Medicare for All (Medium)

It’s open enrollment time — workplace wellness program could be making you sick (The Hill)

If You Smoke, Kiss Your Career Goodbye (HealthZette)

 
Honors and Activities

  • The Kathleen Andreoli Clinical Practice MVP Award, Rush University College of Nursing, 2015

  • Integrated Healthcare award for the Trilogy, Illinois Psychiatric Society, 2015

  • “Voice of the APN Award” Nominee, Rush University Medical Center, 2012

  • “Heroes” award for Trilogy Integrated Health Program, NAMI Illinois, 2012

  • 1st place Reintegration Honoree in Clinical Medicine for the Trilogy Integrated Health Program, The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, 2012

  • Faculty Practice Award, Rush University College of Nursing, 2010

 

Speaking Engagements

  • 2/22/16 Presentation on Trilogy’s Integrated Health Program to the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group Learning Collaborative on Integrated Healthcare

  • 6/4/15 Presentation on Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration to the Psychiatric Workforce Summit, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA

  • 5/20/14 Panel presentation on implementing an organizational smoke-free policy for a mental health and tobacco cessation training at the Change Institute’s Mental Health and Tobacco Cessation Training, at Loyola University Stritch College of Medicine, sponsored by UIC MidAmerica Center for Public Health Practice, and Cook Co. Dept. of Public Health.

 
Publications

 

 
Grants

 

 
  • CE Course: “Integrated Behavioral Health, Primary Care & Wellness: An Interprofessional Approach”