Richard A Pessagno DNP, FAANP
Richard Pessagno is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Dr. Pessagno has informed advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing through his work as an organizational leader, author, educator, and clinician. His scholarship and practice interests focus on thanatology, group psychotherapy, postpartum depression, perinatal loss, and LGBTQ+ mental health. His professional contributions have been recognized by the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association, and the New Jersey Society of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses.