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Aaron J. Michelfelder, M.D., FAAFP, FAAMA, grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and moved to Illinois to attend Northwestern University. He then attended the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and completed a family medicine residency at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. In 2000, He joined the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Loyola University Medical Center as a faculty member. He later completed a fellowship in medical acupuncture and advanced training in medical hypnosis. Dr. Michelfelder currently serves as Loyola’s chair of family medicine and interim director of primary care, co-director for Loyola’s Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education, and is a professor of family medicine, bioethics & health policy, and medical education. He also serves as the President-Elect for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. His clinical practice includes general family medicine along with integrative medicine. His research interests are in practice transformation and the process of traveling from interprofessional education to collaborative practice. He is also interested in global health and has participated in 25 international medical and educational trips to 10 countries.

Dr. Frances Vlasses’ career spans 40 years in healthcare, academia, and administration. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the NLN Academy of Nursing Education, as well as one of the 100 Ohio State University College of Nursing, Alumni Transformers in Nursing and Healthcare.

Most recently, her focus has been studying innovation in the redesign of healthcare system infrastructure to improve patient outcomes. She has attracted grant money and led the implementation of an integrated, interprofessional, nurse-led team delivery model in Primary Care. In this project, the scope of the registered nurse leadership role was expanded, online education modules related to interdisciplinary and community culture were developed, and electronic documentation was created to capture quality and nursing outcomes and provide evidence for sustainability. This project has been recognized as a Nexus Innovation Network site by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration.

As the inaugural Co-Director of the Loyola Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education, Dr. Vlasses has cultivated the additional interprofessional sphere of influence to develop policy on education and practice for health professional students and faculty on the development of high performing teams to enhance quality and safety. She has been invited to serve as a panelist and respondent to discuss nursing roles, interprofessional education, and teamwork for the AACME, LGME, the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC).

Lynn Nichols has been a nurse educator for nearly 30 years and has taught a wide variety of courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs. She is an advocate for RN-BSN education and serves as the Director of the National RN-BSN Faculty Forum, a professional organization for RN-BSN educators. Her clinical background is in pediatrics and women’s health, and she enjoys being involved with interprofessional education opportunities, such as poverty simulation and ethics activities.

Marilyn O’Mallon serves as Director of the online RN-BS Completion Program at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. She is passionate about hospice and palliative nursing, and works as a Faith Community Nurse in the Treasure Valley.

Jennifer “Kim” Penberthy, PhD, ABPP, is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where she conducts research, teaches, provides clinical care, and promotes clinician and learner wellbeing. Dr. Penberthy is the Associate Director for the UVA Clinician Wellbeing Program as well as a founding member of the Wisdom & Wellbeing Program that addresses both systems and individual occupational challenges in the healthcare setting. She is the Co-Director of the Effective Coping and Communication Skills for Clinicians Program, a national CME approved offering. She is a member of the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center, the UVA Academy of Distinguished Educators, the UVA Leadership in Academic Matters Program, and is a Fellow of Humanism in Medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Penberthy is also a member of the UVA Diversity Consortium and past chair of APA Division 12 Diversity Committee. She is a fellow in the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and currently serving on the advisory committee for the American Psychological Association Continuing Education Committee after being chair. She is an APA Council Representative for the Society of Clinical Psychology, past-president of the International Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) Society and a founding member of the CBASP Training Program. Dr. Penberthy has published extensively on clinician wellbeing and lectures nationally and internationally on psychotherapy with a focus on mindfulness-based interventions, and clinician and learner health and wellbeing.

Alice M. Teall is Director of Graduate Wellness Academic Programming, Director of Innovative Telehealth Services, and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at Ohio State University. She was a founding member of the College of Nursing’s team delivering distance education and served as Director of the online Family Nurse Practitioner program. She has published and presented nationally about innovation in online education, incorporation of health and wellness coaching techniques in clinical practice, and best practices for teaching telehealth competencies. In recognition of her contributions to advanced practice nursing education, Dr. Teall was honored with the Ohio State University Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching.

Alice Teall has received leadership, alumni, and practice awards, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. As a certified Nurse Practitioner and an Integrative Nurse Coach, her areas of clinical practice expertise include adolescent health, primary care of at-risk youth and families, college health, and statewide quality improvement initiatives in primary care. In response to the pandemic and in collaboration with the Ohio State University Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Teall implemented the Wellness Partner Program, which established an emotional support line for nurses working in COVID-19 hotspots, provides wellness assessments for university students across all campuses, and pairs graduate students with clinicians to provide wellness support and partnership.

Catherine L. Grus, PhD is the chief education officer at the American Psychological Association and has been on the staff of the APA since 2005. She was named deputy executive director, Education in 2010. In her role as chief education officer, she leads the association’s efforts to promote psychology in education and education in psychology. Grus has played a lead role in the association’s efforts related to advancing interprofessional education for psychology students, primary care psychology practice, development of models and tools for competency assessment, and supervision. She serves as APA’s representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professions Education, the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative and the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions.

Before coming to APA, Grus was an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine where she served as the director of an APA accredited internship program. Grus is the recipient of many awards including the Paul Nelson Award, the Friend of the Association of Directors of Psychology Training Clinics and the Nova University Distinguished Alumni Achievement award. In 2016 she was inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a distinguished scholar and Fellow. Grus is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics including competency-based education, supervision and professionalism.

Grus completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Nova University, with an internship in pediatric psychology at the University of Miami School of Medicine Mailman Center for Child Development and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk is Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Dean and Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-based Practice, the College of Nursing, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the College of Medicine and Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice at The Ohio State University. Dr. Melnyk is recognized nationally and globally for her clinical knowledge, expertise in evidence-based practice, mental health, and intervention research as well as her innovative approaches to health and wellness. Dr. Melnyk was the first Chief Wellness Officer appointed at a University in the U.S. She founded and is the current president of the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities. Dr. Melnyk is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She is a member of the board of directors for the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. Dr. Melnyk has over $33 million dollars of sponsored funding from federal agencies and foundations as a PI, is an editor of seven books, and has authored over 450 publications. As a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience, she is working to address the national crisis of healthcare provider burnout.

Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she conducts, manages, and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). Dr. Veenema’s program of research focuses upon informing evidence-based policy related to health care systems and public health response for catastrophic events such as pandemics and radiation/nuclear disasters. She has conducted national workforce analyses evaluating emergency healthcare worker readiness and health systems coordination for disaster response in Ireland, Japan and the United States. Dr. Veenema is currently conducting studies addressing the use of personal protective equipment and the mental health burden on emergency healthcare providers during COVID-19. She is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and developer of Disaster Nursing, a digital technology application (“App”) to provide decision support during disasters at the point of care. Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. Dr. Veenema served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence.

Jerry Mansfield, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, is the chief nursing officer for Mount Carmel Health System and associate dean for Leadership and Clinical Practice at the Mount Carmel College of Nursing.

Jerry has worked in healthcare for more than 35 years-from staff nurse roles in orthopedics and critical care to nurse executive roles in ambulatory services and at hospitals in both central Ohio and South Carolina.

He comes to Mount Carmel from Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where he was executive chief nursing officer and chief patient experience officer. He was also an affiliate associate professor at MUSC College of Nursing and a clinical associate professor at the College of Medicine.

Prior to MUSC, Jerry worked as chief nursing officer at Ohio State Hospital East, previously known as University Hospital East, University Hospital and Ross Heart Hospital, for more than 15 years, as well as served as the first CNO of Ambulatory Services. He also worked in various nursing leadership roles at Select Specialty Hospital of Columbus, OrthoExcel, Grant Wound Care Center and OhioHealth Grant Medical Center.

Jerry graduated with a diploma in nursing from Saint Vincent Hospital School of Nursing in Toledo. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Xavier University. He went on to receive a Master of Science degree in nursing administration, along with a doctorate in public health from The Ohio State University. Jerry is a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and board-certified Nurse Executive Advanced from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Jerry serves on two national boards: the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2020 to present) and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (2018 to present).

Jerry and his wife Jane have two adult sons-Erik in Scottsdale, AZ and Evan in Columbus, OH.

As President and Academic Dean of the Mount Carmel College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Williamson provides oversight and leadership to direct, promote and facilitate a culture that promotes student and faculty engagement and encourages collaborations with other health professionals breaking down the educational silos. She remains active in scholarly activities and continues to publish and present her work. As an educator and researcher, she is a role model, a mentor, a consultant & a lecturer. Dr. Williamson continues to work with a variety of interprofessional disciplines in integrating the best evidence in order to influence health policy, patient/provider/system outcomes and disseminating evidence to advance the practice across all healthcare settings. Dr. Williamson continues to bring new knowledge about EBP, innovative ways to use technology, and research to faculty, students, and clinicians nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Editorial Board and Column Editor for Tactics for Teaching Evidence-based Practice in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Practice Journal. Dr. Williamson achieved her PhD from the University of Delaware.

Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she conducts, manages, and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). Dr. Veenema’s program of research focuses upon informing evidence-based policy related to health care systems and public health response for catastrophic events such as pandemics and radiation/nuclear disasters. She has conducted national workforce analyses evaluating emergency healthcare worker readiness and health systems coordination for disaster response in Ireland, Japan and the United States. Dr. Veenema is currently conducting studies addressing the use of personal protective equipment and the mental health burden on emergency healthcare providers during COVID-19. She is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and developer of Disaster Nursing, a digital technology application (“App”) to provide decision support during disasters at the point of care. Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. Dr. Veenema served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence.

Kate Gawlik is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing and serves as the Director of Undergraduate Health and Wellness Academic Programming and the Co-Director the Health and Wellness Innovation in Healthcare program at The Ohio State University. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a family nurse practitioner and has experience in family practice, urgent care, and reproductive care with clinical interests in population health, preventive medicine, wellness, health professionals’ education, and cardiovascular disease prevention. She has also served as the Project Manager for the Million Hearts® initiatives at The Ohio State’s College of Nursing since 2013. Kate was awarded the 2018 Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence and was inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ the same year.

Bernadette Melnyk is Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-Based Practice and Dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University (OSU), Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at OSU’s College of Medicine, and Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for EBP. She is a pediatric and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, an entrepreneur, and is nationally/internationally recognized as a leader, innovator and expert in EBP, intervention research, child and adolescent mental health, and health and wellness. Her funding includes over 33 million from federal agencies and foundations as a PI. Dr. Melnyk has edited seven books and has over 430 publications. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Melnyk serves as editor of the journal Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Promoting Emotional Well-Being and Resilience Expert Panel, is an invited member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience and is a board member of the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention.

Dr. Melnyk founded the National Interprofessional Education and Practice Collaborative to advance DHHS’s Million Hearts® initiative, which has over 150 participating organizations and universities. She founded the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities, a collaborative organization to improve population health in the nation’s institutions of higher learning, and serves as its current president.

Dr. Godzik is a practicing psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and postdoctoral research fellow in the Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), Centers for Aging at Dartmouth, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Her long-term research focus is the impact of the home sleep environment on older adult health outcomes (both psychological and physical aspects of health).

During her undergraduate education, Dr. Godzik worked alongside psychological researcher, Dr. Jamie Abaied in her family development laboratory at the University of Vermont (UVM). This laboratory experience fueled her interest to pursue a research-focused career. During this time, she also worked as an emergency medical technician, responding to 911 calls in the community, which often involved psychiatric emergencies, providing valuable insights into patients' home environments.

As a predoctoral research fellow, Dr. Godzik worked with Dr. Jacqueline Sperling in the anxiety disorders clinical laboratory where she learned to generate quantitative research hypotheses, plan and conduct data analyses, and present to a lay audience at McLean Hospital and also to professional audiences at the national American Psychiatric Nurses Association Conference.

During her doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Godzik’s work focused on telehealth services, where she published her first, first-authored paper entitled Gateless communication: A concept analysis. Throughout her education and research endeavors, she practiced as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in older adult psychiatric units at McLean Hospital where she was mentored by Miles Cunningham, MD, PhD, to develop treatment plans for older adult patients that included psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions.

These experiences as an undergraduate research assistant, predoctoral research fellow, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner have provided her with clinical insights into the challenges patients experience, particularly in older adulthood when there are significant changes in psychological and physical health including sleep (most often, insomnia or difficulty falling and staying asleep). For her postdoctoral research fellowship training, she is continuing to build on her nursing experiences to better understand the home sleep environments in older adults with insomnia. This will allow her to build a knowledge base so that she can eventually identify modifiable factors within the environment that she can intervene on in future research studies.

Dr. Varilek is an Assistant Professor with the South Dakota State University College of Nursing. He graduated in May 2020 with a PhD in Nursing and currently serves as the Chair of the GNSA Leadership Council.

He began the BSN to PhD program at South Dakota State University in August 2014 while working full time as a Transplant Coordinator. In that role, he worked primarily with post kidney and pancreas transplant recipients as well as worked to coordinate transplant surgery. During this time, Dr. Varilek participated in research exploring transplant outcomes of the center’s Indigenous population to see if there are areas where they can improve care delivery.

Dr. Varilek’s passion for research began as an undergraduate student where he co-authored his first peer-reviewed publication entitled Insights from Health Care Professionals Regarding Palliative Care Options on South Dakota Reservations. During his doctoral education, he worked with faculty mentors and other students to publish his second peer-review publication entitled A Willingness to Go There: Nurses and Spiritual Care. This research with palliative and hospice care nurses fostered a desire to pursue improving access to palliative and hospice care in rural settings. Since graduation, Dr. Varilek has had two more publications accepted for publication. He is in the process of securing grant funding to research in palliative and hospice care in rural settings.

Lois Privor-Dumm is Senior Advisor, Policy, Advocacy & Communications and Director, Adult Vaccines, at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). She is an expert on immunization across the life-course. She is currently advising a variety of institutions including the Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore City Health Department, and the World Health Organizations on decision making and implementation around influenza and COVID-19 vaccination. She works with a variety of stakeholders including governments, healthcare professionals, organizations working on health and social justice issues as well as with a network of pastors in Baltimore to help address hesitancy issues around healthcare and vaccines. She worked with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to contribute to the Interim Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution in the United States and report on the Public’s role in COVID-19 Vaccination.

She joined JHSPH in 2005 and supported vaccine programs in more than 70 countries. Previously she worked in the pharmaceutical industry where introduced of a variety of vaccines including the first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. She holds a master of International Business Studies (University of South Carolina) and executive certificates in Innovation and Human-Centered Design and Business Communication from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.

Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she conducts, manages, and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). Dr. Veenema’s program of research focuses upon informing evidence-based policy related to health care systems and public health response for catastrophic events such as pandemics and radiation/nuclear disasters. She has conducted national workforce analyses evaluating emergency healthcare worker readiness and health systems coordination for disaster response in Ireland, Japan and the United States. Dr. Veenema is currently conducting studies addressing the use of personal protective equipment and the mental health burden on emergency healthcare providers during COVID-19. She is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and developer of Disaster Nursing, a digital technology application (“App”) to provide decision support during disasters at the point of care. Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. Dr. Veenema served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence.

Colleen Leners is the Director of Policy at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Washington, D.C. AACN serves as the voice of academic nursing, encompassing education, research, and practice. Dr. Leners was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator John Thune (R-SD) of the Senate Finance Committee. Colleen serves on the Case Western Reserve Alumni Board and many committees for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). She has maintained an active family nurse practitioner practice for over 26 years and has served our country in the United States Army Nurse Corps. She has many notable achievements both civilian and military and was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and in American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Leners was awarded the Bronze Star for her service overseas.

She received her DNP in Leadership from Case Western Reserve University, MSN FNP from University of San Diego and her BSN from California State University Dominguez Hills.

As Government Affairs and Policy Assistant for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Emily assists in policy and legislative initiatives pertaining to health policy and higher education issues that impact nursing schools. Prior to AACN, Emily was a United States Senate staffer, and focused on health care strategies and policy in fellowships with think tank and lobbying organizations.

Emily earned dual BA degrees in Public Relations and Policy with a focus on Economic Systems from Drake University.

Dan Hanfling is a Vice President, Technical Staff at In-Q-Tel, focused broadly on exploring the national security implications of epidemics and outbreak events. He previously served as a special advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), focused chiefly on the National Healthcare Preparedness Program. He spent 18 years as principal consultant to the Inova Health System (Falls Church, VA) on matters related to emergency preparedness and response and was instrumental in founding one of the nation's first healthcare coalitions, the Northern Virginia Hospital Alliance, in October 2002. He also served as a contributing scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security,

He is the co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. During the COVID-19 response, he was appointed as a member to the National Academies Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats, for which he co-authored two rapid emergency consultations on the topic of crisis standards of care.

He is a medical team manager for the Fairfax County-based FEMA and USAID-sanctioned international urban search and rescue team (VATF-1, USA-1) and has responded to catastrophic disaster events across the globe. He is clinical professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University, and a Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia. He has been board certified in emergency medicine since 1997 and remains on staff in the Emergency Department of Inova Fairfax Hospital.

John L. Hick is a faculty emergency physician at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He serves as the Associate Medical Director for Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services and Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at HCMC. He is also Assistant Medical Director and Vice Chair of the Clinical Council for LifeLink III.

He served the Minnesota Department of Health as the Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness from 2002-2014 and currently works part-time for US Health and Human Services (HHS/ASPR) as an Advisor to the Director of the Office of Emergency Management.

He is an expert on hospital preparedness and crisis medical care issues and has published over fifty peer-reviewed papers dealing with hospital preparedness for contaminated casualties, disaster standards of care, and surge capacity.

John also has a strong interest in rotor-wing and fixed wing medical care and worked in 1998 for the Royal Flying Doctors Service in rural Queensland, Australia performing fixed-wing retrievals across a large area of outback Australia from the Mt. Isa base. He returned to Australia for six months in 2012 to work as a retrieval physician for the New South Wales helicopter service performing rescue and inter-facility responses.

In his spare time, he practices disaster mitigation, response, and recovery at home with his two daughters ages 14 and 17.

Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she conducts, manages, and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). Dr. Veenema’s program of research focuses upon informing evidence-based policy related to health care systems and public health response for catastrophic events such as pandemics and radiation/nuclear disasters. She has conducted national workforce analyses evaluating emergency healthcare worker readiness and health systems coordination for disaster response in Ireland, Japan and the United States. Dr. Veenema is currently conducting studies addressing the use of personal protective equipment and the mental health burden on emergency healthcare providers during COVID-19. She is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and developer of Disaster Nursing, a digital technology application (“App”) to provide decision support during disasters at the point of care. Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. Dr. Veenema served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence.