Victoria Nalls, GNP, is a geriatric nurse practitioner and the Mid-Atlantic clinical educator for Optum CCM. She also has certifications as a wound specialist through the American Board of Wound Management and hospice/palliative care certification through HPCC. She has been a clinician for almost a decade and graduated from Johns Hopkins for BSN and University of Maryland for masters, where she is also currently a PhD student focusing on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia under the mentorship of Drs. Elizabeth Galik and Barbara Resnick.