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Michael Desjardin MSN APRN PMHNP-BC is a board certified Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. He completed his graduate level training at the University of Utah and he was selected as a Linda K. Amos Leadership Fellow two years in a row, studying Advanced Health Care Administration and Leadership concurrently with his Psychiatric APRN. Michael has extensive experience providing substance abuse and mental health treatment in multiple settings including inpatient and outpatient centers. Michael currently serves on several professional boards such as the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Nursing and Nursing Quarterly Forum. He was a founding board member of the Nursing Organizations Alliance. A federation of national specialty nursing organizations. Michael served as Vice-President of the Utah Nurses Association from 2002-2004 with a strong focus on legislative healthcare advocacy. Michael has a strong commitment to implementation of evidenced-based care. In this respect, he recently devoted a year of his full-time professional time to a variety of research projects focusing on the neuroscience of addiction at the University of Utah Brain Institute, as a Co-Investigator in the Dr. Perry Renshaw Laboratory, a Spectroscopy Lab, utilizing advanced MRI techniques to study the effects drugs have on the brain and exploring novel treatments to aid in neural repair. Michael has a long history of providing clinical leadership in mental health organizations and substance abuse treatment centers. He has worked in the private, and non-profit sectors and in both inpatient and outpatient settings and from 1998-2005 at The University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute. Michael’s treatment experience has evolved and grown through various roles from direct clinical care to senior leadership such as in his role as the Director of Behavioral Medicine at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful, Utah. Michael is currently a Clinician and Clinical Director at Nexstep Medical Detox in Orem, Utah; he provides psychiatric consultation & clinical supervision services at Journey Healing Centers and has an outpatient psychiatric mental health practice at Alpine Center for Personal Growth in Taylorsville, Utah.