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Dr. Swider is a Professor in the Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing at Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Swider has practiced in acute care, home health care and public health settings over the past thirty years. Her research has focused on program development and evaluation of community health workers, engaging urban communities in health promotion, and health policy to support health promotion efforts. She has taught public health nursing at the pre-licensure and graduate/specialty levels at several universities and co-directed 10 years of HRSA-supported work to develop an online doctoral program in Advanced Public Health Nursing, ensuring that it met the Quad Council competencies for Public Health Nursing practice. She is a member of a number of public health and public health nursing organizations and is a past president of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE). In her r ole with ACHNE, she served on the Quad Council for Public Health Nursing organizations and was a member of the Task Force that revised the Competencies for Public Health Nursing (2010-2012). In 2011, Dr. Swider was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health, a group designed to advise on the development and implementation of the National Prevention Strategy. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. In 2016, she was appointed to serve on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kate Gawlik is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of the Health and Wellness Innovation in Healthcare program, and Project Manager for the Million Hearts® initiative at The Ohio State University. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical interests are cardiovascular population health, preventive medicine, clinician well-being, evidence-based physical assessment, and online nursing education. She has taught advanced assessment for over 10 years and has been teaching it all online for five of those years. She was awarded the 2018 American Association of Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence for Ohio. She was inducted as a Fellow into the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June 2018.

Alice M. Teall is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of Telehealth Services, and Director of Academic Wellness Programming at the Ohio State University College of Nursing. While serving as director of the online Family Nurse Practitioner program, she was honored with the Ohio State University Provost Award for Distinguished Teaching. An experienced educator, Alice Teall has taught assessment online and on campus for students across nursing programs including traditional undergraduate, RN-BSN completion, accelerated graduate entry, graduate, and doctoral programs. Dr. Teall is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; her contributions to advanced practice education include innovative use of synchronous web-conferencing, incorporation of wellness coaching techniques in clinical practice, and use of telehealth as an evaluation strategy for distance students.

Dr. Sullivan-Marx is Dean of NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing. She is a renowned nursing leader, educator, and clinician known for her work on innovative approaches to primary care and payment methods for nurses, particularly through Medicaid and Medicare. She is also known for her work on developing healthcare policies in community-based settings.

Dr. Sullivan-Marx holds fellowships in the Gerontology Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine. From 2010-12, she was an American Political Science Congressional Fellow and Senior Advisor to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Medicaid and Medicare Coordination where she worked to bring models of care to scale.

Dr. Sullivan-Marx was the first nurse to serve as the American Nurses Association representative to the American Medical Association’s Resource Based Relative Value Update Committee, where she was able to demonstrate that the work of nurse practitioners and physicians can be valued equally through various payment structures. She received the Hippensteel Founders Award for Excellence in Practice Award (2011), and the Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award (2013). She is recipient of the Distinguished Alumni of the University of Rochester School of Nursing and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Dr. Sullivan-Marx assumed the presidency of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2019 where she is both a fellow (1997) and Edge Runner.

Dr. Bakewell-Sachs is Vice President for Nursing Affairs, Professor, and Dean at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing. Dr. Bakewell-Sachs has a clinical background as a pediatric nurse practitioner and is a nationally recognized scholar and clinical expert in the care of prematurely born infants, as well as a recognized expert in nursing education.

Dr. Bakewell-Sachs was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellow, Cohor t 2007, where her leadership development focused on strategic effectiveness and nursing education. Prior to joining OHSU, Dr. Bakewell-Sachs served as Dean and Interim Provost at The College of New Jersey, and also served as the Program Director for the New Jersey Nursing Initiative, an RWJF program aimed at addressing the nurse faculty shortage through new curriculum models, faculty development, and academic-practice partnerships.