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Roberta Lavin, is Professor and Executive Associate Dean of Academic Programs at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, College of Nursing. She spent twenty years as U.S. Public Health Service officer. She began her career at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC on an acute psychiatric admission unit for those who were homeless. In her work she has coordinated mass migrations in Guatemala, managed health care in an immigration detention center in Batavia, New York before becoming the Chief of Field Operations of the Division of Immigration Health Services, worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Tucson, Arizona, and spent a few months “tooling around” the South Pacific on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel.

Dr. Lavin has served as the as the President and Secretary of the Federal Nurses Association, Director of the Society for the Advancement of Disaster Nursing, and the designated federal officer for the National Commission on Children and Disasters. She has received fun ding for her work in disaster research and program development from ANCC and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FEMA, and OPRE. She has been funded by HRSA and FIPSE for DNP program development and the inclusion of cultural competency.

Dr. Langan’s clinical expertise is in Adult Medical/Surgical and Community-based nursing. Her research and interests involve disaster preparedness, response and recovery and qualitative methods.

Professor Jason Farley is a nurse practitioner for the Division of Infectious Diseases AIDS Service within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His portfolio of research includes the development of multi-component interventions designed to improve HIV treatment and prevention across the cascade of care. Through innovative technological solutions, improvements and advancement of task-sharing approaches, or nurse and/or peer case management interventions, Dr. Farley’s work has a large clinical impact on care and prevention of HIV and tuberculosis.

Learn more on the Johns Hopkins University Website.

Carol F. Durham, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, FSSH
Professor
Director, Interprofessional Education & Practice
Director, Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing

Dr. Fowler Durham, seamlessly integrates excellence in teaching with long experience in practice and scholarship to improve the ways faculties prepare the future nursing workforce. As a member of the RWJFs Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project, she developed simulation-based educational experiences that reflect cutting-edge pedagogy. Dr. Durham has made significant and sustained contributions in IPE and is a leader in preparing faculty to integrate quality and safety into their curriculum and their teaching.

Learn more on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill website.

KT Waxman DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, CENP, CHSE, FSSH, FAONL, FAAN
Director of the California Simulation Alliance
Immediate Past President for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Dr. KT Waxman is a nurse leader with over 30 years of experience in health care and corporate settings. She is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco, and is the Director of the Executive Leadership DNP program. She is the Director of the California Simulation Alliance (CSA) at HealthImpact. An internationally known speaker and author, Waxman is also a past president of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL) and past board member, serving as Treasurer, for the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). She is active in numerous committees for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and serves on the Finance Committee for the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL).

Learn more on the University of San Francisco website.

The new dean of the Michigan State University College of Nursing. He is a fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and a distinguished scholar in the National Academies of Practice. He also holds several other distinctions including being the first African-American male to graduate in the nursing program at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich., as well as the first African-American male to earn a Ph.D. in nursing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Learn more on the Michigan State University Website.

Dr. Dan Weberg is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation and human-centered patient design with extensive clinical experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings and academia. He currently serves as the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health, the staffing platform for the healthcare industry, where he helps drive product strategy and works to change the conversation around innovation in the healthcare workforce.

Prior to joining Trusted, Dan spent seven years at Kaiser Permanente, where he held executive roles in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, 60,000 nurses. He was also part of the founding faculty for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.

Dan is on the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and multiple innovation fellowship programs. He previously taught on nursing innovation and leadership at Arizona State University. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen pee r-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Evidence Based Innovation Leadership for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice.

Dan earned his Bachelors in Nursing, and was in the first cohort to graduate from the Masters in Healthcare Innovation program at ASU, as well as the first-ever graduate of the PhD in Healthcare Innovation Leadership program at ASU. His clinical background is in Emergency and Trauma nursing at level 1 trauma centers in California and Arizona.

Joni began her career as an operating room nurse and now assists nursing faculty with instructional design and integration of technology into learning environments. She came to Ohio State as the Education Lead in the Digital Union where she created and coordinated professional development opportunities focused on integrating technology into teaching and learning.

Joni is a Quality Matters Master Reviewer and trainer. She has taught in the online and face-to-face environments for over 10 years, including undergraduate courses in human biology, interprofessional healthcare practice, and academic learning strategies, as well as a gr aduate-level course that leads students through the process of designing a high-quality online course using evidence-based quality standards. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a master's degree in Higher Education Administration. She earned her PhD in Learning Technologies at The Ohio State University in December 2019.

John joined the College of Nursing in June of 2014. He works with faculty, staff, and students to support instruction through the use of technology-enhanced learning and equipment. John previously served as Distance Learning Coordinator for the Supreme Court of Ohio and Web Communications Specialist for the OSU College of Education and Human Ecology. He holds a BS in Visual Communication Technology from Bowling Green State University.