Joshua Hamilton DNP, RN/PMH-BC, ARNP, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CTMH, CNE, CLNC, FAANP

Josh Hamilton serves as Clinical Professor & Chair, Department of Advanced Practice and Community-Based Care at WSU. He practices Telepsychiatry on a national scale. With more than a quarter-century of nursing experience, he has held professorial appointments, academic leadership positions, and provided extensive professional consultation services in higher education, industry, and clinical affairs. He was associate medical director for the largest managed care behavioral health network in the Desert Southwest, and, as a university dean and vice president, he built one of the largest portfolio collections of competency-based graduate Nursing degrees in the United States.

His professional interests include neurobiology, pharmacology, brief intervention, and precision mental healthcare. He is an internationally recognized speaker on these (and related) topics at conferences and professional meetings. He served on the psychiatric medication working group at the Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation, a FDA-sponsored project at the University of Maryland, as well as the Health Policy Advisory Committee at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). He is a NEI Master Psychopharmacologist and a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. The Point of Care Network proclaimed Josh to be America’s Top Psychiatric NP in 2021.