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.

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.

Meg Zomorodi is Assistant Provost for Interprofessional Education and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Professor in the School of Nursing. Dr. Zomorodi received her BSN and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, and in 2014 was selected as a Josiah Macy Faculty Scholar. She currently serves as the Director of the Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI), in which interprofessional teams of students work together with rural and underserved communities to give back using a quality improvement methodology.

Dr. Zomorodi was named the Well Care Home Health Faculty Scholar in June 2016; establishing a partnership between the School of Nursing and Well Care Home Health to engage students in interprofessional activities and establish a program to promote home health nursing to graduate students. Previously, she served as the Faculty Lead for Graduate Programs in Health Care Systems for the School of Nursing, and was Chair for the Master’s Executive Committee. She recently completed a two-year program with Sigma Theta Tau International as a Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Scholar, and returns annually to teach at the Harvard-Macy Institute: A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions.

Dr. Zomorodi teaches across the graduate and undergraduate nursing programs and has a passion for developing collaborations and innovations in teaching.

Marcia Nahikian-Nelms is currently a professor of clinical health and rehabilitation sciences and the Director of Academic Affairs in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences-College of Medicine at The Ohio State University.

She has practiced as a dietitian and public health nutritionist for over 35 years. She is the lead author for several textbooks and is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters for other texts. Her clinical expertise focuses on development and practice of evidence based nutrition therapy for both pediatric and adult populations as well as the development of alternative teaching environments for students within their clinical training. Her current research focuses on developing pedagogy for clinical education with a primary objective to develop experiential education that will bridge classroom to practice. Dr. Nahikian-Nelms’ case study textbook (Medical Nutrition Therapy: A Case Study Approach) is now in its fifth edition.

Dr. Nahikian-Nelms serves as one of the leads for Interprofessional Education (IPE) and has contributed to the design of multiple simulations and IPE experiences within the seven health science colleges at Ohio State University.

Dr. Nahikian-Nelms has received the Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching for the State of Missouri, Outstanding Dietetic Educator in Missouri and Ohio, Outstanding Teacher in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and received the PRIDE award from Southeast Missouri State University in recognition of her teaching.

Dr. Haden is President and CEO of the Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL). Since AAL's founding in 2005, Dr. Haden and AAL have worked with more than 150 U.S. and international higher education institutions, associations, and businesses and over 5,000 individuals through professional development programs, consulting, and executive coaching services. Dr. Haden oversees ongoing leadership development initiatives in collaboration with numerous associations in the health professions as well as university partners.

In 2017, Dr. Haden led AAL’s efforts to launch leadership development on behalf of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). The 2020 Interprofessional Leaders Development Program is the third IPEC leadership program he has helped to organize and facilitate.

His areas of expertise include leadership, organizational change, team building, and strategic planning. Dr. Haden has authored more than 80 articles and monographs and is the co-author, with Rob Jenkins, of The 9 Virtues of Exceptional Leaders (Deeds, 2015) and 31 Days with the Virtues (Deeds, 2020).

Dr. Haden is a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Great Ideas, an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Dentists, and the 2017 recipient of the ADEAGies Foundation Award for Achievement-Public or Private Partner. In 2019, he received the Ethics and Professionalism Award from the American College of Dentists.

Dr. Cobb earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy degree in 2015 from Hampton University School of Pharmacy in Hampton, VA. She completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA and PGY2 Pharmacotherapy Residency at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in conjunction with Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ. After completion of her residency training, she accepted a clinical faculty position in 2017 at the University of the Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy with the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and teaches in a multitude of courses across the PharmD curriculum. She maintains an active practice site in an adult internal medicine clinic and interprofessional student-run free clinic at Cooper University Healthcare.

In addition, she serves as a primary pharmacy preceptor for students annually on an interprofessional medical mission trip and rotation experience to Jamaica. Her practice and research interests include chronic disease state management, interprofessional education, care for underserved communities, and LGBTQ health education. Dr. Cobb is also a member of several local, state, and national pharmacy organizations including the Mid-Atlantic College of Clinical Pharmacy, Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

John Patro Jr., OTD, OTR/L, earned a Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) from Chatham University and a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from The University of Scranton. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Education from Lesley University, with a concentration in Adult Learning and Development.

Dr. Patro has extensive experience both as program director and teaching faculty of OT programs in New York and Philadelphia, in addition to clinical experience working in the rehab setting and rehab administration. Dr. Patro’s work in occupational engagement and leadership in occupational therapy has been presented at numerus national and international conferences, including the American Occupational Therapy Association and World Federation of Occupational Therapists.

Paula Anderson-Worts, DO, MPH, is a board-certified family physician, associate professor, and Assistant Dean of Faculty & Alumni Affairs at Nova Southeastern University - Kiran C Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU/KPCOM). As a member of the NSU/KPCOM Department of Family Medicine, she has dedicated her career to educate and mentor students and residents for the past 23 years. She severed as program director for the Family Medicine Residency and Traditional Rotating Internship programs, at Broward Health Medical Center from 2007-2016.

During her undergraduate training at the University of Miami, she majored in biology and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 1988. She completed her medical training in 1994, at NSU/KPCOM.

Dr. Anderson-Worts is a prolific contributor to community service. She is committed to educate and empower people to take an active role in their own health. She has participated in numerous local health fairs and international medical mission trips. In 2000, Dr. Anderson-Worts participated in medical mission trips with students and volunteers to serve people in Guatemala and Haiti. She has also organized twenty-nine medical mission trips to Jamaica, serving over 75,000 patients since 2001.

Dr. Novak is a professor teaching online courses for the Aspen University’s School of Nursing programs. She teaches classes for all three of the program offerings: DNP, MSN, and RN-BSN. Dr. Novak is board certified in Nursing Professional Development and is a Fellow in the Academy of Emergency Nursing. She has over 30 years of experience in adult education and continuing professional development for healthcare professionals. Dr. Novak is also the President and CEO of AEN Services, LLC, which provides consultation, continuing professional development, and conference management services. She is also a Peer Reviewer for NCNA/ANCC. Her doctorate is in Public Health: Community Health & Education, she holds 2 masters degrees, 2 bachelors degrees, and 1 associate degree (and a Partridge in a pear tree!). She is the poster child for lifelong learning.