Lennie Wilson, MSN, APRN, CNS-BC

KS&A Director Since 2009
Director of Scientific Communications Services

Lennie is a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist with over twenty-five years experience in working with children, adolescents, adults and their families in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings.  Lennie presently serves as Psychiatric Emergency Room Clinical Nurse Specialist at Montefiore Hospital, the teaching hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York; and Director of Scientific Communications Services for KS&A.

Lennie is also the developer and a principal of the Minds-On SCV Database, a proprietary computerized database focusing on X and Y chromosome aneuploidy and related health and wellness issues that includes over 6,200 books, articles and other publications, about half of which are full-text documents.  In addition, she directs, teaches, mentors and collaborates with individuals and teams to facilitate an improved understanding of these conditions as well as to encourage and enhance greater inter-disciplinary flow of information among researchers and clinicians interested in these complex conditions, and to provide scientifically-grounded information to individuals who are directly affected, their family members and primary care providers.

As a clinical nurse specialist, Lennie is involved in program development and maintenance for emergency room psychiatric services for pediatric, adult and geriatric patients, nurse education and consultation.  She is a member of the National Honor Society for Nursing and is certified by the American Nurses Association (ANA) in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.

Prior to joining the staff at Montefiore Hospital in 1998, Lennie served as Chief Nurse for the State of Illinois, Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the nation’s largest state child welfare agency to earn accreditation from the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services (COA).  In this position, reporting to the Deputy Director of DCFS, Lennie managed nurses all across the state of Illinois, and collaborated in the creation of one of the nation’s first behavioral managed care programs, including more than 54,000 children, expressly for wards of the state.

During her varied career, Lennie has managed a 50-nurse child abuse unit for a major Chicago hospital; owned and operated an independent private mental health family practice; and served as psychiatric clinical nurse specialist for a 1200-bed hospital, where she was responsible for four units, including psychiatric intensive care, forensic psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.  Additionally, she has supervised various outpatient therapy programs involving drug and alcohol education, crisis intervention and suicide prevention education, and previously served as Program Director of a health services program for homeless children under the age of 21 and their mothers.

Lennie received post-graduate training in family therapy and family systems intervention from the Family Institute of Westchester. She graduated from Lewis University with a BSN, and from Lehman College at City University of New York with a MSN in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing.

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