911 Care Team/ARMOR Medical Control

Shelley Moore MD

Dr. Moore grew up in Houston, Texas. She attended and graduated medical school at the University of Texas at San Antonio and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Moore practiced Emergency Medicine for over 10 years in Austin, Texas prior to moving with her family to Colorado.

As a wife, mother and avid athlete, and a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician, Dr. Moore appreciates the value of providing the best care possible to speed along recovery time and getting our First Responders back to full duty, stronger and smarter. Dr. Moore is not only one of FRTC's valued Culturally Competent healthcare providers, she is our "Medical Control" for our vital 24-hour ARMOR Overwatch Team Program.

Dr. Moore is an FRTC National Peer Support Academy graduate. We are proud to offer our northern Colorado system another truly Culturally Competent resource.

Meet Robert (Rob) Owens

Robert (Rob) Owens PMHNP-BC

Rob's career in healthcare started in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his EMT training at Weiss Memorial Hospital before going to work on Chicago’s southside for a private ambulance company while waiting for the next exam to open for the Chicago Fire Department.

Unfortunately, at that time the next exam was five years off, so he opted to go back to school and become a Registered Nurse at Northern Kentucky University. After earning his RN license, he went to work on a pediatric mental health inpatient unit for preteens with behavioral issues secondary to severe trauma. Disturbed by the over reliance on medications to treat mental health issues, he returned to school at Eastern Kentucky University to become a Psychiatric Mental Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to have a greater say in how those he serves are treated.

Rob understands the sacrifice of First Responders as he has been there and done that. He states that, "the First Response career requires you to be at your best when others are at their worst. The difficulty of spending all shift dealing with atrocities and then trying to leave them at the door when you get home. Of working nights, weekends, holidays; missing birthdays, children sports games, and anniversaries."

Rob has made sure that getting assistance is not just another burden on the First Responder and their family by offering telehealth, weekend and evening appointments. He can often get you in for an appointment within 24 hours.

First Responder Trauma Counselors is proud to have Rob join our team of Culturally Competent Practitioners.

Meet Shannon Darling

Shannon Darling PMHNP-BC

After becoming a Registered Nurse and working in various aspects of acute care (including Emergency Services, Neonatal Intensive Care, and Labor and Delivery) for 15 years in hospital based systems in northern Colorado, Shannon realized the toll that compounded traumas took on her personal mental health, her family, and her fellow health care workers. That's when she decided to become part of the solution to the growing behavioral health crisis and became a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.

Shannon realized that traditional behavioral health care was based upon talk therapy and medication control, and, in many cases, frontline workers did not have the time or patience to allow months and years to find relief. So Shannon became keenly interested in other therapies that mitigate compounded traumas faster. The new neurosciences as a promising frontier of behavioral health care for caregivers provided her answers to the care crisis.

Shannon prides herself on being an integrative practitioner who is passionate about treating each person in body, mind, and spirit to create a solid foundation for lasting results. She has certifications in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and integrative psychiatry, and specializes in group work with ketamine. She has a deep-rooted passion for first responders and other frontline workers.

Shannon is a Colorado native. She loves Olympic weightlifting, being outdoors with her children, mountain biking, and all the things to do with Colorado outdoor life. First Responder Trauma Counselors is very excited to be on the cutting edge of neuroscience medicine with Shannon and The Wholeness Center.

Meet Tiffany Lipsey

Tiffany Lipsey MEd, ACSM

Tiffany is the Assistant Director of the Human Performance Clinical/Research Laboratory, Director of Heart Disease Prevention Program (HDPP) and Management of Teaching and Outreach Programs at Colorado State University. The HDPP includes the First Responder Testing Programs and the Cardiac One Risk Evaluation (CORE). Her experience includes over 20 years in exercise physiology focusing on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment, prevention and treatment for CVD.

She has been working with Colorado firefighters and emergency personnel for nearly 20 years and has been involved in physiological testing for over 2,000 of them. Projects include cardiovascular disease risk assessment, lifestyle modification, temperature regulation, cooling mechanisms using adjunct cooling tools, novel medical devices, noise exposure and performance. As an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses encompassing health, wellness, aging, chronic disease, electrocardiography and exercise testing and prescription.

Prior to coming to Colorado State University, Tiffany was the Director of the Faculty/Staff Wellness Program for Towson University and Saint Joseph Medical Center, and the Assistant Director of LIFEWORx Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. She also taught courses in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University. In addition, Tiffany has over 7 years of experience in EMS at Western Albemarle Rescue Squad and Owings Mills Fire Department.

As a graduate of First Responder Trauma Counselors’ National Peer Support Academy, Tiffany is a valuable member of FRTC’s Medical Care 911Overwatch Team, providing our area First Responders with another layer of culturally competent health and safety.