John Nelson, PhD, MS, RN has 33 years of experience in the profession of nursing, including 11 as a critical care bedside nurse and the last 22 years leading a company in data management around the world. He has also formed and/or led several international research organizations. His specialties in research include assessment of the nurse work environment, job satisfaction, caring, outcomes management, and predictive analytics. His master’s degree is in statistics and PhD in Nursing. He has worked in 46 countries, in over 400 organizations. Books he has published include Measuring Caring (2012, Springer Publishing) and Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes (2021, Wiley Publishing). His new book received the 2021 book of the year award within the informatics category by American Journal of Nursing (AJN). He is the Founder and President of both the Caring Science International Collaborative and Healthcare Environment.
Marija Spevan, BsN, MsN, RN, PhD student, currently works as a lecturer in the field of nursing at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Health Studies, where she has been for 4 years. Before that, she worked for over 9 years in Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka as an operating room nurse. In 2021, she completed the Advanced Practice Program, Evidence Based Practice, at the University of Iowa, Health Care.
In addition to her teaching activities, Marija actively participates in congresses and scientific research, including publishing to journals and publications. She is the author and co-author of 9 scientific papers and a member of the scientific development project "UNIRI INOVA".
Marija participated in several workshops on preparation and implementation of projects and is part of the winning team of the Innovation Camp dedicated to digital and modern solutions for a gender equitable society within the regional partnership of the EU project "EQUALS - EU ".
Marija is the institutional Erasmus+ coordinator, as well as the chair, of the Internationalization Board of the Faculty of Health Studies. In 2023, she recived recognition from STTI-European region for excellence in early career research.
Professor Michal Itzhaki is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Faculty
of
Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
She is the first registered nurse in Israel to have completed a direct Ph.D. track, which she obtained at the Department
of Nursing Department at Tel Aviv University. Previously, she worked as a registered nurse and clinical instructor at
the Sheba Medical Center Department of Surgery and as a teacher at the Sheba Academic School of Nursing. She completed
her post-doctoral training at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on
the emotion management of patients and caregivers in complex, challenging, and demanding health and illness situations.
She explores the gaps between experienced versus expected emotions in diverse stressful care situations: emergencies and
disasters, violence in the health care system, life-threatening situations, multicultural dilemmas, and mental,
terminal, and chronic illnesses (such as fibromyalgia). Examining emotion management includes strengthening the personal
and team-group resilience of patients, their families, and the healthcare staff.
https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/itzhakim
Dr. Palmieri is a healthcare leader, nurse scholar, and translation scientist with 20 years experience in leading domestic and international health care organizations, consulting in insurance operations, conducting translation and implementation science research, and serving as a university professor. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the International Society for Quality in Health Care, and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Palmieri also maintains board certifications in quality improvement, risk management, patient safety, and health care administration. Dr. Palmieri was recently, appointed the interim Dean of the School of Nursing at the Universidad Norbert Wiener.
Dr. Palmieri is a seasoned international educator with experience at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, online and in classroom. His research interests include organizational behavior and management, vertically integrated health systems, evidence-based health care, enterprise risk management, and nursing issues such as education, outcomes, and work environment. Dr. Palmieri has authored numerous publications, including books, book chapters and scientific articles. He frequently presents his work at international conferences.
Dr. Palmieri is dedicated to creating social change in Peru through his service and family philanthropic contributions to education, youth mentoring, and nursing projects.
Theresa Williamson, MBA, BSC(hons), RN works as an Associate Nurse Director at NHS Golden Jubilee. With over 40 years experience working as registered Nurse in the United Kingdom, the majority of clinical experience in critical care, and the last 15 years in nurse management. Optimising the experience of care both from the patients perspective and from the care providers experience has informed and shaped Theresa`s career. The Golden Jubilee National University Hospital in the West of Scotland has been working with Healthcare Environment and CSIC to operationalise principles supported through the academic work of both organisations. Experience derived from this work is detailed in the recently published Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Health Outcomes.
Works as Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor Faculty of Health Sciences. She has served in a leadership role within CSIC in other international research collaboratives and institutions but has served as a leader in CSIC since forming in 2019. She has helped mentor and support several countries to participate within CSIC. She was a visiting teaching assistant at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, a visiting PhD Student at Waterford Institute of Technology and a visiting higher education teacher at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Health Studies. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honour Society of Nursing, the European Academy of Nursing Science and the International Association of Human Caring. Her research interests include caring, safety and quality in nurse education and practice. In addition to several bilateral projects, she has experience with international projects related to pedagogical approaches in nursing and technology in nursing education. Dominika is an editorial member in the Slovenian Nursing Review and Frontiers in Medicine and an editorial advisory member in the Journal of Public Health Nursing and the International Journal of Human Caring.
Professor Sebahat Gözüm is a Professor at the Department of Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing at Akdeniz University, Türkiye. She is the founder and first Dean of Faculty of Nursing at Akdeniz University. Previously, she worked as a professor and manager at the School of Nursing, Atatürk University in Eastern Türkiye. Her research focuses on preventive care, health screenings, randomized controlled research methodology in nursing, integrative nursing, elderly population care, and family caregivers care. She is an active member of several projects of European Cooperation in Science and Technology with international and multidisciplinary related emphasis for disadvantaged groups in the community. Sebahat is Chief Editor in Türkiye for the Journal of Public Health Nursing.
Professor Gözüm has provided important leadership in Caring Science International Collaborative (CSIC) since 2019 as well as within the international collaborative that preceeded CSIC called the Caring International Collaborative (CIRC) back to the year 2008. She led the annual international scientific meeting for CSIC in 2019 at Akdeniz University. She has published several articles of research conducted within CIRC and more recently CSIS in both English and Turkish language.
Professor Gozum’s individual website that reviews her publications, citations, and H-Index can be found at: https://avesis.akdeniz.edu.tr/sgozum
Dr. Tricia Thomas is Dean & Professor in the Kirkhof College of Nursing at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For 25 years she has created innovative interprofessional teams and academic-practice partnerships to transform care through consensus and shared purpose to improve workforce, clinical, and financial outcomes. She engages nurses to understand their nursing identity through the lens of caring theory and leadership to embrace professional role enactment for actionable focus.
Dr. Thomas's impact has been recognized by ANA Michigan with the Dorothea Milbrandt Nurse Leader award and by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing with the Nurse Educator Vanguard Award. She has authored recognized textbooks in nursing leadership, quality and safety, implementation science, and project management and has contributed to the profession through presentations, publications, and national and international consultation.
Dr. Thomas holds national board certification in Advanced Nursing Administration, Adult Health, Healthcare Management, and as a Clinical Nurse Leader. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice. She also serves as an American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet appraiser, as a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education visitor, and as the Chair of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) Nursing Academy.
Dr. Schwartz is the CEO of Healthcare Environment and brings her passionate expertise in professional healthcare practice and healthy work environments to her role as the CEO. Her mission is to aid each care provider to be their best and each healthcare organization to be the best place in which care is received. Over her 30 years of practice, she has actively collaborated and partnered with a 300+ hospital consortium across the U.S. and Canada to improve interdisciplinary practice and care environments through shared governance, clinical ladders, and clinical documentation systems as well as quality improvement, communication, and implementation of scientific methods.
She has served in the roles of clinician, nurse educator, clinical nurse specialist, adjunct faculty, administrator, research associate, CNO, as well as SVP at Elsevier. She is a Helene Fuld Fund Fellow in Partnerships for Leadership in Nursing Education and Practice.
Dr. Schwartz’s research areas include model and instrument construction, professional nurse role, value of nursing work, nursing classification systems, data mining of electronic health records, intervention effectiveness, and use of Latent Class Analysis methods. She was selected as a University of Iowa’s Dare to Discover 2021 distinguished researcher. Dr. Schwartz volunteers her time to serve on the national Context of Care and Nursing Value Workgroup sponsored by the Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Initiative and as the President of the Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.