Speakers

Fara Bowler, DNP, APRN
Associate Professor, Assistant Dean of Clinical Simulation Science Sr. Director of Clinical Partnerships and Placements
University of Colorado Anschutz 

Dr. Fara Bowler is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, where she serves as Assistant Dean of Clinical Simulation Science and Senior Director of Clinical Partnership and Placements. A recognized leader in clinical and simulation-based education, she has advanced academic-clinical integration through her dual leadership roles. She is serving her second elected term on the INACSL Board of Directors, where she champions international member engagement through the International Community of Practice, and was an author of the 2021 INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation?. Dr. Bowler has also contributed as a member of the Standards Committee, served as liaison to the Governance and Financial Oversight Committees, and was an early collaborator in developing INACSL’s innovative Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice Endorsement™.

Ashley Franklin, PhD, RN
Polly & Tex Rankin Endowed Professor of Nursing  
Texas Christian University

Dr. Ashley Franklin serves INACSL as the Immediate Past President and liaison to the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice Endorsement™ Committee. Her experience as a simulation leader at Texas Christian University includes curriculum, faculty development, program evaluation, and competency assessment in formative simulation. Dr. Franklin is a past author of the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice®.

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Rachel Minahan, MA
Chief Government Affairs and Policy Officer
American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Rachel Minahan joined the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in June 2018, where she leads the Association’s advocacy and policy portfolio. In this role, she works closely with Members of Congress, the Administration, national coalitions, and AACN member institutions to advance health and health care through a nursing lens. She also serves as Executive Director of the Nursing Community Coalition, a 64-member organization representing a broad spectrum of nursing education, practice, research, and regulation.

Prior to AACN, Rachel spent more than a decade in government relations and policy, including eight years as a Legislative Director and Senior Legislative Assistant at Polsinelli and Wheat Government Relations. She began her career on Capitol Hill and as a field organizer in Iowa, experiences that grounded her deep commitment to public service and advocacy.

Rachel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government from American University, and a Master of Arts in Global Security Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She has also served as an assistant adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, where she taught courses on the foundations of health systems and policy.
 

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Ann Kurth, PhD, RN, CNM, MPH
President
New York Academy of Medicine

Dr. Ann Kurth is an experienced scientist, educator, and administrator with a career marked by contributions to health research, training, and practice in the US and globally. As President of New York Academy of Medicine, she is the first epidemiologist leader in its 177-year history of advancing longer and healthier lives for all. Dr. Kurth previously served as Dean, Yale School of Nursing and Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health; was associate dean for research at the New York University College of Global Public Health; and inaugural faculty at the University of Washington Department of Global Health. As someone who is trained in multiple disciplines, she has always approached population health work including training and education, with a cross-sectoral perspective.

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Regina G. Russell, PhD, MA, MEd 
Vanderbilt University 
School of Nursing (VUSN) 
Director for Assessment and Evaluation, Associate Professor 

Dr. Regina G. Russell is the director for assessment and evaluation at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and associate professor in the Health Promotion, Populations, and Health Systems faculty community. As a social scientist, she works at the intersection of organizing and learning in health sciences education, with a focus on measuring individual and organizational performance to help drive learning and educational quality improvement. Dr. Russell brings three decades of experience in higher and professional education. She holds graduate degrees in higher education, sociology, and public administration, and is part of the VUSN Center for Research Development and Scholarship and the Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute.

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Michael Clark, MPA
Policy Director
Convenient Care Association

Michael (Mike) Clark serves in multiple roles in state and federal policy arenas, spanning several legislative disciplines advocating for the future of health and human services. He is currently the Policy Director for the Convenient Care Association, the international trade association of companies and healthcare systems that provides consumers with accessible, affordable, quality healthcare in retail-based locations. He also serves as Policy Director for the Reference Based Healthcare Association and holds a Policy Fellowship at Woods Services. He holds several consulting and advisory roles with regional collective impact initiatives, international and domestic impact investing funds, human service non-profit agencies, and K-12 schools. Mr. Clark holds an MPA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Scranton’s Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program.

Nicholas Torres, MEd
President
The Network Toward Unity for Health

Nicholas Torres is a seasoned and successful Business, Healthcare and Human Services Executive with over 25 years of experience in C-suite executive leadership, serving in CEO and C-Suite Consulting roles throughout his career in startup, small, and large social sector organizations. Nicholas works at the cross-section between the private sector, government, and not-for-profits, aligning them toward action on mutually agreed upon strategies and goals. He has designed, founded, led and managed multiple for-profit, not-for-profit, and cross-organization/system social ventures that are driven by social impact, financial sustainability, and systems change. Nicholas serves as President of The Network: To wards Unity for Health, a non-state actor in official relations with the World Health Organization; CEO of Social Innovations Partners, which publishes the Social Innovations Journal and oversees the regional Social Innovations Awards process to drive financial capital to community changemakers; and teaches at The Fels Institute of Government, Social Policy, and Nursing School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, FCPP, FAAN
President and CEO
Woods System of Care and Woods Services

Tine Hansen-Turton serves as President and CEO of Woods System of Care. Woods System of Care is a population health management organization that, through its network of providers and partners in PA and NJ and 8,000 staff, provides life-cycle care to meet the lifelong needs of children and adults with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A), acquired brain injuries, and /or mental health challenges who may also have complex medical and genetic conditions.

She is a seasoned and successful Healthcare and Human Services Executive with 30 years of experience in C-suite executive leadership, serving in CEO, CSO, and COO roles throughout her career in Nonprofit, Private and Government Organizations. She has founded and led several nationally recognized health, human services, and related trade associations and has secured multi-billion dollars in new business. She is a founder and publisher/facilitator of a social impact/innovation journal and incubator lab, and continues to serve as the founding Executive Director for the Convenient Care Association, the national trade association of the over 3,000 private-sector retail clinic industry, serving 50 million people with basic health care services nationwide.

Nancy L. Rothman, EdD, RN, FCPP
Professor Emerita
Temple University

Nancy L. Rothman is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Nursing, College of Public Health, Temple University. She taught in the BSN and DNP programs and represented the Department of Nursing on the Temple University Health System Executive Nurse Committee toward building a recognized Academic Practice Partnership. Over her 25 years at Temple University, as the Independence Foundation Professor of Urban Community Nursing, she worked toward reducing environmental exposures related to lead poisoning, asthma and safe and healthy homes and the establishment of nurse-managed models of care under the original National Nursing Center Consortium, including nurse-managed primary care, the Nurse Family Partnership and placing nurse practitioners in schools. She is a consultant on policy and quality for RL Health at Wood Services, Inc., as they have initiated a patient-centered medical home primary care practice to serve adults and children with disabilities in residential care and met the outcomes needed to be recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.