Bridging the Policy/Clinical Practice Divide: A Conversation With Parmeeth M. S. Atwal, JD, MSN, RN, MPH, FNP.

Marie Manthey, founder of Creative Health Care Management, interviews Parmeeth "Par" Atwal, whose first career included representing the National Association of Community Health Centers as an attorney, editor of a major health policy journal, and a senior position in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He then became an active participant in the health care system, earning a bachelor of science in nursing, working in cardiac critical care, and now becoming a family nurse practitioner. He shares his perspective on the divide between health care policy and regulation, and the delivery of direct patient care.