Ann Roselle, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC

Ann Roselle has been a registered nurse since 1998 and an acute care nurse practitioner in cardiac surgery since 2006. Her first 5 years of NP practice were with the Johns Hopkins Hospital, section of cardiac surgery in Baltimore, Maryland. She moved to New England in 2011 at which time she joined the Heart and Vascular Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital, managing cardiac surgery patients as part of a group of mid-level providers in a fast-paced academic setting. At the end of 2015, she made the difficult choice to trade one passion, cardiac surgery for another, and joined Geriatric and Adult Psychiatry as a nurse practitioner. She started her DNP in psychiatric mental health nursing at Rush University summer 2018.

Her personal passion focuses on mental illness. She was diagnosed with postpartum bipolar disorder in 2013 and now devotes a great deal of time volunteering and blogging to raise awareness of topical issues that the mental health community is challenged with; featured in three mental illness as campaigns. She can be found teaching about mental illness on her YouTube vlog Bipolar&Me. She wrote guest essays posted on various mental health themed blogs and websites. She is published in the Stigma Fighters anthologies. Her writing is now more academically focused in nature with two guest editorials for JPN and one article in press for Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

She had had a presentation “Coming Out of The Shadows: Serious Mental Illness and Nursing Practice” accepted and presented at both International Society of Psychiatric Nurses and NY state chapter of APNA. She presented at the 2018 APNA national conference on psychiatric advocacy. She has also lectured at Quinnipiac University, Fairfield University and Yale University on: aging and depression, mental illness and media portrayal, and most recently Guns, Mass Shootings and Mental Illness: Myth vs Fact.

Ann presently sits on the International Society for Psychiatric Nursing Foundation Board, serving a three year term.

Sub-specialties: Mental illness; Guns, mass shootings and mental illness; Bipolar disorder; Mental illness and social media use; Psychiatric advocacy; Parenting with mental illness; Pediatric bipolar disorder versus DMDD; Mental illness and media portrayal