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Margarete Sandelowski PhD, RN, FAAN
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Nursing Faculty
Specialty Area: Women's health, qualitative and mixed-methods research
Margarete Sandelowski earned a PhD in American Studies from Case Western Reserve University; the MS in Maternal-Child Nursing from Boston University; the EdM in Nursing Education from Teachers College, Columbia University; and the BSN from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Director of the Summer Programs in Qualitative Research offered at the UNC-CH School of Nursing, an Associate Editor of Research in Nursing and Health, and on the editorial boards of Qualitative Health Research, Field Methods, and Journal of Mixed Methods Research. She has published widely in nursing and social science anthologies and journals in the areas of technology and gender, especially reproductive technology and technology in nursing, and qualitative and mixed-methods research. She recently completed--as principal investigator--a NINR/NIH study to develop techniques to synthesize qualitative and quantitative research findings. |
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Cheryl Stetler PhD, RN, FAAN
Amherst, MA USA
Cheryl advocates the promotion of evidence based practice in nursing care.
Cheryl B. Stetler, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a consultant in evidence-based practice/evaluation/implementation science in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is widely published and recognized in these fields. Cheryl advocates more rigorous study of the implementation of evidence based practice in nursing. |
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Ian Graham, PhD
Vice-President of the Knowledge Translation Portfolio at CIHR
Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Ian Graham is Vice-President of the Knowledge Translation Portfolio at Canadian Institutes of Health Research. At CIHR, he is responsible for knowledge translation, partnerships and citizen engagement, communication and public outreach, and pan-institute affairs and initiatives. Dr Graham is on leave from his position as Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa and Senior Social Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He holds cross-appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine and is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Nursing at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Graham obtained a B.A. in sociology from McGill University, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Victoria, and a Ph.D. in medical sociology from McGill University.
Dr. Graham's research has largely focused on knowledge translation (the process of research use) and conducting applied research on strategies to increase implementation of research findings and evidence-based practice. He has also advanced KT science through the developed two planned action models, the Ottawa Model of Research Use and more recently the Knowledge to Action Model, as well as the Practice Guideline Evaluation and Adaptation Cycle. Specific research projects have related to the adaptation, implementation, and quality appraisal of clinical practice guidelines, as well as the uptake of guidelines and decision support tools by practitioners. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers. He is co-editor of Knowledge Translation in Health Care published by Wiley-Blackwell (2009). |
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Julia Littell, PhD, MA, BA
Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Bryn Mawr College
Julia Littell's scholarly work focuses on services for children and families, assumptions underlying social work practice with children and families, methods of social work research and synthesis, and the uses and misuses of empirical research in social policy and social work practice. She is co-author of Putting Families First: An Experiment in Family Preservation (Aldine de Gruyter), Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (Oxford University Press), and numerous journal articles and book chapters on research, social work, and social policy. |
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Mark Petticrew, PhD, BA
Professor of Public Health Evaluation
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
Disciplines: Epidemiology, Policy analysis, Psychology.
Research areas: Complex interventions, Health inequalities, Public health, Research : policy relationship, Systematic reviews.
Dr. Petticrew's main research interests are in evidence-basedpolicymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies. He is a co-editor of the new Cochrane Public Health Review Group, and is closely involved in the Cochrane/Campbell Health Equity Field. He recently co-authored a book which among other things aims to provide guidance on how to do systematic reviews in public health. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Population Health and an Honorary Researcher at
the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow. His current research involves systematic reviews in the areas of tobacco control, housing and regeneration, and employment policy, and primary research on the health impacts of investment in social housing in the UK. He is involved in systematic reviews carried out as part of the Campbell Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaboration. |
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Alison Kitson, PhD, RN, BSc, FRCN, FAAN
Director of CEPSA
Professor and Head of Discipline of Nursing, University of Adelaide
Associate Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Adelaide, South Australia
Alison Kitson took up the post of Professor of Nursing and Head of Discipline at the University of Adelaide at the beginning of 2009. She became Director of CEPSA in February 2009. She was the Royal Adelaide Hospital Nursing Education Fund Inaugural Fellow and has worked closely with interdisciplinary teams around improving the fundamentals of care for older people going through the acute hospital setting. She was previously Director of the RCN Institute. As Director she supported the development of a number of innovative projects including the Clinical Leadership Program, the RCN Learning Zone, an e-learning venture with three higher education establishments and an extensive set of practice-based research programs. She has had a distinguished academic and professional career. In 1991 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing for her work on Standards of Care. She is a supernumerary Fellow of Green College, Oxford, holds a number of Visiting and Honorary Chairs and in 2001 was awarded Distinguished Graduate of the Year from her old university, University of Ulster. Alison has published over 100 academic and professional articles and has appeared on numerous local, national and international platforms. She has also worked with the World Health Organization and as a consultant on international projects for the World Bank. She is a Trustee of the Brendoncare Foundation and former member of the Health Advisory Service 2000 Board and the Policy Advisory Board of the Nuffield Trust. |
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Ronda Hughes, PhD, MHS, RN, FAAN
Howe Endowed Chair for Healthcare Transformation
University of Milwaukee and the Aurora Health Care System
Milwaukee WI USA
Dr. Hughes is the Howe Endowed Chair for Healthcare Transformation at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and the Aurora Health Care System. In this multifaceted position she works with interdisciplinary teams to imbed evidence into daily practice and to develop evidence to inform care at the beside. She holds a joint tenured appointment with the College of Nursing and the School of Public Health. Previously, she was a Senior Health Scientist in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) where she was involved in both intramural and extramural research. She led AHRQ's quality improvement initiatives for nursing involving research and implementation of evidence. She writes regularly on patient safety and quality improvement as well as research methodologies. She was the editor and major contributor of the joint AHRQ and RWJF book, "Patient Safety & Quality: an Evidence-based Handbook for Nurses,"which is targeted to nurses across settings and is being utilized by schools of nursing and hospitals nationally and internationally. This book has received numerous awards for its importance to clinicians, administrators and managers, policy makers and educators. Dr. Hughes works with national policy makers, leaders and researchers in various ways, improving the quality and safety of care throughout the nation.
Dr. Hughes received a B.S. in nursing from Boston University, a M.H.S. in health policy with a minor in biomedical ethics from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Health Services Research from Johns Hopkins University. |
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Pat Ebright, DNS, MS, BS
Associate Professor, Department of Adult Health
Indiana University
Indianapolis IN USA
Dr. Ebright's healthcare experience includes 39 years as a registered nurse, with the first 28 years as staff nurse, nurse manager, and clinical nurse specialist in acute care hospital settings. Since finishing a nursing doctorate in 1998 at Indiana University, she has been teaching in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Her research focus is on work complexity for healthcare providers and the link between complexity and care delivery systems, implementation of change in systems and patient safety. She was a member of the first Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship class sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation and collaborates with Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis, on patient safety. |
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Wendy Nicklin
Wendy Nicklin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Accreditation Canada, formerly known as the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA). Prior to joining the organization, she was the Vice President Nursing, Allied Health, Clinical Programs and Patient Safety at The Ottawa Hospital.
Her background includes experience in all levels of patient care, from bedside through to senior management. In addition, Wendy has been an Accreditation Canada Surveyor and Board member (1996 - 2002) including Board Chair. She demonstrates her commitment to improving the quality of health care for Canadians through her involvement in a number of provincial and national boards such as the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Wendy is Chair of the Accreditation Council of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) and Chair of the Accreditation Council Research Working Group. Wendy has academic appointments to both Queen's University and the University of Ottawa.
Her education qualifications include a Baccalaureate and Master's Degree from McGill University, certification as a healthcare executive (CHE) with the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE) and a Fellow (FACHE) of the American College of Healthcare Executives . |
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Andre Picard
Andre Picard is the public health reporter at The Globe and Mail and one of Canada's top public policy writers.
He is the author of the best-selling books Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak For Change and The Gift of Death: Confronting Canada's Tainted Blood Tragedy. He is also the author of A Call to Alms: The New Face of Charity in Canada. Andre has received much acclaim for his writing, including the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism, the Canadian Policy Research Award, and the Atkinson Fellowship for Public Policy Research. In 2002, he received the Centennial Prize of the Pan-American Health Organization as the top public health reporter in the Americas. In 2005, the Canadian Public Health Association named him Canada's first Public Health Hero.
He is also a four-time finalist for the National Newspaper Awards - Canada's Pulitzer Prize. Andre has been the recipient of the Canadian Nurses' Association Award of Excellence for Health Care Reporting, the Nursing in the Media Award of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the International Media Prize of Sigma Theta Tau (Nursing Honor Society), and the Science and Society Book Prize.
His advocacy work has been honoured by a number of consumer health groups, including the Safe Kids Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and the Canadian Hearing Society. Andre has also participated in a number of academic endeavours, notably as a participant in the Governor-General's Canadian Leadership Conference and as a guest lecturer at a number of universities.
In addition to his writing and speaking, Andre has participated in a number of professional organizations and non-profit groups. He is a former member of the advisory committees of the Canadian Institute for Child Health, Active Healthy Kids Canada, Centraide/United Way Montreal, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. |
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Dr. Dennis Rittenmeyer
Dr. Dennis Rittenmeyer received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Western Michigan University and his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He began his career as a Resident Director at Michigan State, and aside from a two year stint as Captain in the U.S. Army, he has spent over 40 years in higher education.
He is the first lay President of Calumet College of St. Joseph and is currently serving his 23rd year in this capacity. During this time enrollment has increased 44% and total credit hours have increased 49%. The College now offers 19 bachelor and four master's degree programs, an athletic program with 270 participating students, and enrollment continues to climb. In September of 2009, the College opened the Student Activity/Community Center, the first new building in its history. Dr. Rittenmeyer is currently the longest serving college president in the State of Indiana.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Northwest Quality of Life Council and has previously served as President of the Regional Bus Authority and President of the Tri-City Mental Health Board of Directors. He also serves on the Shared Ethics Advisory Commission and the Lake County Advisory Committee.
Dr. Rittenmeyer was named "Distinguished Hoosier" by Governor Mitch Daniels for his "tireless work to improve transportation in Northwest Indiana." |
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Susan B. Hassmiller
Sr. Advisor for Nursing
Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing and the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine.
Hassmiller, who joined RWJF in 1997, has been a volunteer for the American Red Cross since college, having served a six-year term as a member of the National Board of Governors, Chair of the 9/11 recovery program and now serving on the Red Cross national nursing advisory committee, and the board of the Central New Jersey Red Cross.
Previously, Hassmiller was with the Health Resources and Services Administration, where she was the executive director of the U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship and worked on other national and international primary care initiatives. She also has worked in public health settings at the local and state level and taught public health nursing at the University of Nebraska and George Mason University in Virginia.
Hassmiller is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a member of The Joint Commission Nursing Advisory Council and the New York Academy of Medicine. She is distinguished alum from 3 schools of nursing; the 2008 John P. McGovern Award recipient from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; 2009 recipient of the Florida Association of Community Colleges Lifetime Achievement Award and is currently a Welling Professor at George Washington University. Sue is also the 2009 recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international honor given to a nurse by the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
