With more than 30 years of experience as a clinician and leader, Christy Dempsey is frequently called upon to inspire audiences across the continuum to reduce patient suffering through patientcentered strategies. Christy is a registered nurse with more than three decades of health care experience in nursing, perioperative and emergency services management, medical practice, supply chain and materials management, and physician-hospital collaboration. Christy earned her BSN, MSN and MBA degrees from Missouri State University. Currently she is pursuing a DNP degree, with an emphasis in population health management, from Quinnipiac University.