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Michael D. Gooch

Michael D. Gooch DNP, APRN, CCP, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, ENP-C

Nurse Practitioner, Flight Nursing, Emergency Nurse
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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Dr. Gooch is board certified as an Acute Care, Family, and Emergency Nurse Practitioner. His current focus is on emergency and transport nursing. He currently serves as a regional director for the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners. He served as a content expert for the ANCC's Emergency Nurse Practitioner panel from 2013-2017. Michael completed his graduate education here at Vanderbilt with a focus on emergency and trauma management. He is a DNP graduate of Loyola University Chicago where he focused on changing practice to decrease the incidence of rapid sequence intubation-induced hypoxia in the emergency department.

Michael has over 25 years of emergency and critical care experience. Michael has completed over 1,500 patient transports during his tenure with the Vanderbilt LifeFlight transport program. Dr. Gooch also practices as an Emergency NP in Vanderbilt's adult emergency department and patient flow center, and at a community ED. He is a nationally recognized speaker regarding varied emergency and transport medicine topics.

From 2003-2011, he worked with the National Disaster Medical Systems, which is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, and has been involved in regional and national disaster responses including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. At Vanderbilt, he coordinates the Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics course and the trauma elective for the AG-ACNP program and primarily works with the Emergency NP program. Michael is also faculty with the Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia.

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