Dr. Kristian Dambrino is an ANCC board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, and founder of Dambrino Wellness, an outpatient mental health clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. As a Fulbright Scholar and Adjunct Faculty at Belmont College of Nursing, she is currently working on multi-site nursing partnerships in Indonesia and India that build nursing capacity and reduce mental-health stigma. During her Doctor of Nursing Practice program, Dr. Dambrino studied the impact of high-deductible health insurance on mental health treatment through a retrospective analysis, exploring how cost transparency between the provider and patient can mitigate financial decision-making for patients accessing psychiatric care.

As a national speaker and psychopharmacology expert, Dr. Dambrino regularly delivers continuing medical education programs at conferences across the United States. Her academic contributions include authoring accredited graduate nursing courses in psychopharmacology, guest lecturing at Vanderbilt University, and holding adjunct appointments at Michigan State University and Marian University.

Dr. Dambrino has authored a masterclass in jazz vocal improvisation, delivering the 6-hour curriculum completely in French in Caen, France in May of 2023. An accomplished vocalist and fluent in French, she performs annual jazz concerts in France and has shared stages with Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Jean Smart, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ray Romano, to name a few. Dambrino has been featured on national television in the United States as an entertainer on MSNBC, CNBC, and CMT, and she was awarded the 2017 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Best Contemporary Music Composition.