Faculty

Amber Hoberg

PMHNP-BC
Baptist Health Systems
Morning Star Family Medicine PLLC

Amber Hoberg is a dedicated Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with extensive experience spanning various clinical settings and populations. She holds a master’s degree in advanced practice nursing, specializing in Family Psychiatric Mental Health, obtained from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2010. Her career is marked by a commitment to providing evidence-based, individualized psychiatric care to patients across the lifespan, including children/adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations.
Currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon, at Visionary Psychiatry, Amber serves as a PMHNP-BC, focusing on nursing home and group home settings. Her role includes collaborating with others on the treatment team to ensure comprehensive care and managing EMAR and e-Prescribing documentation. She also practices at Morning Star Family Medicine PLLC in Floresville, Texas, where she practices and manages medication regimens for residents across outpatient, nursing home, and group home settings. Here, she collaborates closely with case managers, nurses, and psychological care teams, overseeing care for a substantial patient load. Her diverse clinical background includes roles at Northeast/Downtown Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, where she manages acute psychiatric care in an inpatient setting, working closely with psychiatrists and medical staff to deliver comprehensive treatment plans.

2027 Sessions

The Aging Brain on Medications: Optimizing Psychiatric Care in Older Adults

Psychopharmacologic treatment in older adults requires careful consideration of age-related changes, medical comorbidities, cognitive health, and the risks associated with polypharmacy. This session explores practical, evidence-based strategies for selecting, dosing, monitoring, and deprescribing psychiatric medications in older patients. Faculty will address medication interactions, anticholinergic burden, fall and cognitive risks, and approaches to balancing symptom management with safety, function, and quality of life.

Speaker

Tuesday, April 13 1:50–2:50 PM
Faculty

Amber Hoberg

PMHNP-BC
Baptist Health Systems
Morning Star Family Medicine PLLC

Amber Hoberg is a dedicated Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with extensive experience spanning various clinical settings and populations. She holds a master’s degree in advanced practice nursing, specializing in Family Psychiatric Mental Health, obtained from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2010. Her career is marked by a commitment to providing evidence-based, individualized psychiatric care to patients across the lifespan, including children/adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations.
Currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon, at Visionary Psychiatry, Amber serves as a PMHNP-BC, focusing on nursing home and group home settings. Her role includes collaborating with others on the treatment team to ensure comprehensive care and managing EMAR and e-Prescribing documentation. She also practices at Morning Star Family Medicine PLLC in Floresville, Texas, where she practices and manages medication regimens for residents across outpatient, nursing home, and group home settings. Here, she collaborates closely with case managers, nurses, and psychological care teams, overseeing care for a substantial patient load. Her diverse clinical background includes roles at Northeast/Downtown Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, where she manages acute psychiatric care in an inpatient setting, working closely with psychiatrists and medical staff to deliver comprehensive treatment plans.

Faculty

Brooke Kempf

PMHNP-BC
Adjunct Faculty
Indiana University Indianapolis

Brooke Kempf, PMHNP-BC, is a nationally recognized psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and educator with nearly three decades of experience providing direct patient care and advancing evidence-based mental health services.
She began her career at Hamilton Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, where she worked as a psychiatric nurse across multiple areas of the community mental health center. Her leadership earned her the Hamilton Award for Outstanding Staff Member and helped shape an outpatient care model now used across several sites.
Brooke earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Stony Brook University and is board-certified as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Her advanced certification expanded her clinical role to include medication management and psychiatric care as an outpatient provider, inpatient hospitalist, and Chief Nursing Officer. She also played a key role in integrating psychiatric services into Wabash Valley Health Center, expanding access to care for underserved communities.
In addition to her clinical and administrative leadership, Brooke serves as adjunct faculty in the PMHNP program at Indiana University Indianapolis, where she has taught Neuro-Psychopharmacology and serves as a clinical instructor. She has contributed to program development at George Washington University and received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty. Nationally, she serves on pharmaceutical advisory boards, the Psych Congress Steering Committee, and volunteers with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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