Christy Cotner

Christy Cotner is a psychiatric-mental health and family nurse practitioner who teaches the APEA Live Review Course & Clinical Update for PMHNPs. She is the director of the PMHNP program at Western University of Health Science and previously was the FNP program director at California Baptist University.

Dr. Cotner is in clinical practice at Riverside Medical Group in Riverside, Calif., where she delivers psychiatric-mental health care. Her past primary care experience includes an impactful role at Riverside Medical Clinic, where she focused on primary care and developed a comprehensive care plan that reduced hospital readmissions by 30%.

Dr. Cotner is a frequent presenter at conferences and education events, and her topics have included heart failure, safe prescribing of opioids, and the management of coexisting chronic disease and mental illness.