Dr. Nash serves as Director, HIV Programs, Tennessee Department of Health (TDH). He earned his BA from Centre College of KY (religion), his MBA (finance) from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and his MSN and PhD from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.  In his current role, Dr. Nash is responsible for the TN Ryan White Part B program, which provides ART and clinical care to over 10,000 low-income Tennesseans living with HIV. Dr. Nash is also responsible for HIV Prevention efforts in TN, via contracts with six community-based organizations that provide PrEP/PEP, HIV rapid testing, HIV rapid start ART, educational programming, and condom distribution across the entire state. Lastly, Dr. Nash is responsible for TDH’s HIV Surveillance and Epidemiology team, whose work outputs include TDH’s annual HIV Epidemiological Profile and our public-facing TN HIV Dashboard. Prior to joining TDH, Dr. Nash served as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic (VCCC), the largest HIV clinic in the Southeastern US. During his almost 12 years at the VCCC, Dr. Nash founded and launched the PATHways Program, a novel approach to addressing the clinical, behavioral, and social environmental needs of traumatized patients living with HIV. Deemed “difficult patients”, Dr. Nash and his team provided interdisciplinary, intensive support to over 60 individuals over a four-year period, with a cumulative HIV viral suppression rate of 80%. Prior to joining the VCCC, Dr. Nash served as the Nurse Practitioner for Nashville’s second-largest shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Room In The Inn. Dr. Nash serves as a member of the TN CFAR Executive Committee.