Yvonne D'arcy MS, APRN-C, CNS, FAANP

Yvonne D'Arcy MS, APRN, CNS, FAANP is an expert pain management and palliative care nurse practitioner and consultant. She has extensive clinical experience in various roles, including leading a nurse practitioner pain management consulting service at Suburban Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; pain service coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital Oncology Department, Baltimore, Maryland; and supervisor of the chronic pain clinic and coordinator of the acute pain service at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.

Ms. D'Arcy has received numerous awards and was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2016. She is a prolific speaker and author, delivering more than 100 poster and oral presentations, publishing more than 100 journal articles on pain-related topics, and authoring eight books, including the AJN award-winning and highly reviewed Compact Clinical Guide to Pain series by Springer Publishing Company.

Ms. D'Arcy has been a member of the American Pain Society, where she served on the education committee and helped draft and review national pain management guidelines. She is a past member of the board of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses as well as the immediate past co-chair of the Pain Special Practice Group of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Her latest book, Pain Management for Primary Care Providers, was published in September 2020.