Dr. Shurts has over forty years of nursing leadership and practice experience in rural and frontier emergency rooms, higher education in holistic nursing, hospital, and school nursing. She served as the Director of the RN-to-BSN program at Western New Mexico University. Relationship-centered care has guided her clinical and teaching career. Her north star as an …
Biyyiah A. Lee, MSN, RN, PAHM Biyyiah Lee is a registered nurse in Detroit, Michigan with over 10 years of nursing experience in a variety of nursing settings. She is a member of the American Cannabis Nurses Association, Society of Cannabis Clinicians, and Minorities for Medical Marijuana. Biyyiah also serves as a board member for …
Alice O’Leary Randall co-founded the medical cannabis movement in 1976 with her late husband, Robert C. Randall, the first person in the U.S. to legally receive medical cannabis (to treat glaucoma). They worked tirelessly to reform the prohibitions against cannabis until Robert’s untimely death in 2001. Alice then became a hospice nurse and later a …
Thomas A. Clobes holds a B.S. in Biology, another B.S. in Psychology, an M.S. in Administration, another M.S. in Medical Cannabis Science & Therapeutics, and a Ph.D. in Health Sciences. After spending over 20 years in healthcare, he transitioned to a full-time academic role. His research focuses on attitudes and stigmas toward medical cannabis and …
Sandra Guynes, MSN, RN, is one of the leading forces behind Pacific College’s Medical Cannabis programs, teaching in both the medical cannabis certificate and the Master of Science in medical cannabis therapeutics (MS-MCT). She is a nurse educator with a passion for holistic health and healing. She earned her BS in Nursing from Hampton University …
Timothy is Pacific College’s Director of Cannabis Programs. He is a researcher, writer, and curriculum developer with over 20 years of experience writing, editing, and developing content, and has been active in the cannabis industry since 2014. In 2015, Timothy co-founded The Agathist Collective, a consulting and delivery service that helped members—most of whom were …
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