Dr. Brayden Kameg currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Department of Health and Community Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where she coordinates the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) program. She currently teaches across undergraduate and graduate programs. Her primary teaching responsibilities include family therapy, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric management in primary care. Additionally, she serves as the clinical course coordinator for the undergraduate psychiatric-mental health nursing course. Dr. Kameg’s academic interests include integrating substance use and mental-health-related competencies across undergraduate and graduate programs. She has received extramural funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This funding has supported her work, which seeks to improve the ability of both nurses and nurse practitioners to meet the mental and behavioral healthcare needs of the populations that they serve.