With 42 years of expertise in Alzheimer's and dementia as a gerontological nurse practitioner, Susan Scanland narrowed the focus of her practice in 2000 as a consultant for long-term care (LTC) physicians and interdisciplinary staff, specializing in dementia behaviors. Most recently, she spearheaded the establishment of a UCLA-affiliated outpatient dementia center in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she adeptly diagnosed and managed mild cognitive impairment and dementia. In 1999, Susan established Dementia Connection®️, a dementia education and consulting firm founded in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. She has delivered more than 750 seminars to nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, LTC staff, and caregivers across 42 states and internationally. Susan is one of ten authors contributing to "The Alzheimer’s Association Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnostic Evaluation, Testing, Counseling, and Disclosure of Suspected Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders." Since 2000, Susan held faculty appointments in Binghamton University’s gerontological/family nurse practitioner programs and University of Scranton’s undergraduate nursing program. Susan has contributed her expertise to 25 pharmaceutical advisory boards and has published in multiple nursing, geriatric, and business journals. She earned her BSN degree from Wilkes University, completing a senior internship at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Subsequently, in 1981, she graduated from the inaugural nurse practitioner master’s program at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing her thesis on dementia.