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Board of Directors FY 2007 (June 2007 - May 2008)

Chair  

Andrea Brassard, RN, DNSc, MPH, ANP, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Education, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, biography, e-mail

Chair-elect  



Mary Dominiak
, RN, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor and Director, Undergraduate Health Systems Management Program, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago, e-mail

 

Immediate Past-Chair
Bernice Buresh, Journalist and co-author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, more info, e-mail, biography
Treasurer  



Will Doyle
, MPH, MBA, Project Coordinator for Organizational Effectiveness, Lutheran World Relief, e-mail

 

Secretary  


Kathleen McCarthy
, RN, BSN, Quality Specialist, Metrohealth Medical Center, Ohio, e-mail

 

Directors  


Jillian Aldebron
, JD, Senior Advisor to the Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, e-mail

 

Anita Bamford photo Anita Bamford-Wade, RN, DNurs, MA, Dip Bus, Joint Head of Nursing, Division of Health Care Practice, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, bio, more info, e-mail

Anita Bamford photo

 

 

Edie Brous, RN, MSN, MPH, JD, e-mail

 

Mary Chaffee, ScD(h), MS, RN, CNAA, FAAN, doctoral student, University of Maryland, biography, e-mail

 



Elayne DeSimone
, RN, PhD, NPc, Clinical Associate Professor, Stony Brook University School of Nursing, State University of New York, e-mail, biography

 



Art Engler
, DNSc, RNC, APRN, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, School of Nursing, e-mail

 

 

I. Alan Fein, MD, MPH, Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Management & Policy, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, biography, e-mail

 

Suzanne Gordon, author, Nursing Against the Odds, co-author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, more info, e-mail
 



Marty Lanus,
former Public Relations Consultant, Sigma Theta Tau International, e-mail

 

 

Morris Magnan
, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Oakland University School of Nursing (Michigan), e-mail


Lucille McCarthy
, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, biography, e-mail

 

Georgia Peirce, BA, Director of Communications, Patient Care Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, e-mail
 



Mitra Rangarajan
, BSN, MPH, MS, BSc, DBA, e-mail




Anne-Marie Scully
, RN, MSN, Senior Project Officer eRostering Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health, e-mail

 



Karen J. Stanley
, RN, MSN, AOCN, FAAN, Immediate Past President, Oncology Nursing Society; Consultant, end-of-life and cancer care issues, e-mail

 



Cynthia Stock
, RN, MSN, CCRN, Adjunct Faculty, Texas Woman's University; Cardiovascular ICU Staff Nurse, Medical City Hospital, e-mail

 



Pierre-André Wagner
, RN, LLM, BA, Head of Legal Affairs, Swiss Nurses Association, e-mail

 

Pat Woods, RN, MScN, Faculty,  Langara College Department of Nursing, British Columbia, Canada, e-mail


Also see our Advisory Panel

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Former Boards of Directors:

FY 2006 (June 2006-May 2007)

FY 2005 (June 2005-May 2006)

FY 2002-2004 (December 2002-May 2005)

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