Clinical Leadership
Dr. Shannon M. Smith, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, PMHNP-C
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, TrueEval Medical Group — a Doctor of Nursing Practice and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse.
Shannon founded TrueEval and runs it, and she is a practicing clinician — which is the part that decides how the company behaves. The standards the provider network operates to are set by someone who has sat in the room, taken the history, made the call and carried the consequence, rather than by a policy team writing about care from a distance.
Her clinical background is unusual for a founder in this category: family practice and psychiatric-mental health, board-certified in both. That combination is why TrueEval takes on behavioral health and controlled-substance work that platforms without a psychiatric clinician in charge tend to route around.
What she is responsible for
- The clinical and compliance standards the provider network operates to
- Which clinicians are credentialed onto the network, and against what bar
- The Good Faith Exam standard and what counts as a real clinical encounter
- Where TrueEval will and will not operate, and under what structure
- Escalation: what reaches a physician, and what reaches her
What you can check, and what you can't
Her state license is public and you can confirm it yourself in under a minute. Her national certifications are not — and that is worth explaining rather than glossing.
| State | License | Status | Verified at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | APRN11009335 | Clear/ActiveAutonomous Practice APRN · Nurse Practitioner · Psychiatric Nurse · no discipline on file | Florida DOH, Division of Medical Quality Assurance |
On the certifications: nurse practitioner certification bodies — AANPCB and ANCC — publish no public lookup. Verification is issued only with the certificant's consent, to a named requester, for a fee. That is true for every nurse practitioner in the country, not a quirk of ours, so no NP bio anywhere can offer you a self-service check the way a physician's can. We will arrange primary source verification for a client or a payer on request, and we would rather tell you that than imply a check exists.
Her NPI is 1790316040, which resolves in the federal NPPES registry with Family and Psychiatric/Mental Health nurse practitioner taxonomies. She holds licenses in further states beyond the one listed; which apply to an engagement is a scoping question we answer in writing.
Credentials
- DNP — Doctor of Nursing Practice, The University of Alabama. A doctorate in nursing practice, not a physician credential.
- FNP-C — Family Nurse Practitioner — Certified
- PMHNP-BC — Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner — Board Certified
- PMHNP-C — Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner — Certified
- APRN — Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, with autonomous practice authority in Florida
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