FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH 2022 Board of Directors
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President |
Cathleen Wheatley, DNP, RN, CENP, FAAN (January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) President Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health Winston-Salem, NC
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President- Elect |
Victoria Niederhauser, DrPH, RN, PPCNP-BC, FAAN (2nd term: January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021) Dean & Professor, College of Nursing University of Tennessee Knoxville Knoxville, TN
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Secretary |
Colleen Leners, DNP, APRN, FAAN, FAANP (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Director of Policy AACN Arlington, VA
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Treasurer
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Laura Wood, DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Senior Vice President, Patient Care Operations, Chief Nursing Officer, Sporing Carpenter Chair for Nursing Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, MA
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Cyrus Batheja, EdD, MBA, BSN, PHN, RN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Vice President, Policy and Clinical Solutions United Healthcare Minnetonka, MN
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Jean E. Davis, PhD, RN, FAAN (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) PhD Program Director and Professor University of South Carolina College of Nursing Columbia, SC
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Christina Dempsey, DNP, MBA, RN, CNOR, CENP, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Chief Nursing Officer Emerita Press Ganey Associates, LLC. South Bend, IN
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LCDR Gideon Esuzor, MBA, MSN, RN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Pharmaceutical Quality Investigator FDA Vienna, VA
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Janie Heath PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) Dean and Warwick Professor of Nursing University of Kentucky College of Nursing Lexington, KY
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Ronald Hickman, Jr., PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FNAP, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Nurse Practitioner and Professor Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
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Shela Kaneshiro, CNO MBA, RN, BSN, NEA-BC, CPHQ (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer MemorialCare Shared Services Fountain Valley, CA
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Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Centennial Professor of Nursing; Chief Talent & Global Strategy Officer The Ohio State University College of Nursing Columbus, OH
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Teri Murray, PhD, PHNA-BC, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Professor, Dean Emerita Saint Louis University, Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing St. Louis, MO
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Adey Nyamathi, ANP, PhD, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor School of Nursing University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA
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Carol Porter, DNP, RN, FAAN (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) Chief Nursing Officer Senior Vice President, Nursing Practice University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
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Diane Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Dean and Associate Professor University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Cizik School of Nursing Houston, TX
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Kelli Saucerman-Howard, DNP, RN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Vice President of Patient Care Services/CNO Creighton University Medical Center Elkhorn, NE
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Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Senior Advisor, Informatics HIMSS San Marcos, CA
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Roy L. Simpson, DNP, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, FACMI (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) Clinical Professor, Assistant Dean, Information Technology Management Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University Atlanta, GA
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Board Liaison |
Yvonne Bryan, PhD Senior Advisor to the NINR Director National Institute of Nursing Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
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Executive Director |
Liz Fossett, CAE Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Lexington, KY |
Emeritus Board of Directors
- Faye Glenn Abdellah, EdD, ScD, RN, RAAN
- Roger Bulder, MD
- Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CMN, RN, FAAN
- Gregory Eastwood, MD
- Melissa A. Fitzpatrick, RN, MSN, FAAN
- Maryann F. Fralic, DrPH, RN, FAAN
- Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN, FFNMRCSI
- Nancy Valentine, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
FNINR Founding Members
- Faye Glenn Abdellah, EdD, ScD, RN, FAAN
- Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CMN, RN, FAAN
- Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
- Maryann F. Fralic, DrPH, RN, FAAN
- Diane K. Kjervik, JD, RN, FAA
- Ora Strickland, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Nell Watts,MS, RN, FAAN
- Ruby I. Wilson, EdD, RN, FAAN
- Louise Woerner, MBA
- Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
FNINR Past Presidents
- Connie Delaney
- Karen Drenkard
- Michael Bleich
- Janet Larson
- Nene Peragallo
- Jackie Dunbar-Jacob
- Frank Shaffer
- May Wykle
- Mary Jane England
- Karen Miller
- Maryann F. Fralic
- Ed Benz
- Gregory Eastwood
- Nancy Valentine
- Ada Sue Hinshaw
- Roger Bulger
- Faye Glenn Abdellah
- Colleen Conway-Welch
- Diane McGivern
- Joyce Fitzpatrick
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