Elizabeth Temple serves as the President and CEO of Birchwood Solutions, LLC. – a healthcare compliance firm changing the engagement of substance abuse for individuals during and post treatment.

Elizabeth has over 14 years’ experience in healthcare primarily focusing on administrative processes and compliance. Her experience began as clerical work, quickly expanding to work in clinical billing and audits reviewing Medicare insurance claims and appeals. Elizabeth continued her clerical experience in a healthcare legal and compliance department where she assisted healthcare paralegals and attorney focus on facility compliance. With her strong healthcare experience, Elizabeth advanced as an office manager for a private network of family practice clinics while she worked her way through college.

After receiving a Master’s of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis of Instructional Technology from the University of South Florida, Elizabeth began developing a process for online recovery support groups for healthcare professionals. Combining her knowledge of healthcare and passion for education, Elizabeth designs and implements effective solutions for the recovery communities.

Her work with State Alternative Programs and Licensing Boards continues to enhance program offerings and make a positive impact on lives. Birchwood’s expanded solutions, including electronic assessments, allow programs to stratify the behavioral/dependency levels of a patient population to establish a dependency care plan.

Throughout her career, she has served on several educational committees including the Instructional Technology Student Association of Florida and Media & Tech Committee of Florida. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Hemophilia Association for almost 2 years.Olan Milligan got sober 33 years ago, went back to school and became a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. He has worked with homeless veterans, co-occurring disorders, wayward teens, nurses who erred in their ways, and PTSD survivors. His therapeutic style is genuinely eclectic. Whatever works, I am for it. My motto is “if you can’t be therapeutic, at least don’t be boring.”

He believe that persons who have suffered from addiction can heal to return to a full and satisfying life and thinks that nurses understand that at a level that few others do. “I have been amazed at the recovery rate of nurses in TNPAP and I am honored to be part of that.”

Olan is a Texan but I grew up in Kenya and moved to Tennessee from West Berlin. He was a German linguist with the army branch of the NSA.