Amber Derksen is a Certified Nurse Educator with nearly 25 years of nursing experience, received her PhD in Family Nursing from Hampton University.  She’s been invested in teaching baccalaureate nursing for 12 years.  She has 20 years as a hospice/palliative care nurse as well as 5 years in oncology and oncology research.  Her passion for nursing education has taken her all over the world.  Her research into intellectual curiosity has sparked interprofessional discussions of student performance.  She has also presented her research on grief and bereavement throughout the United States.  She continues to investigate issues in student learning as well as strategies to implement hospice and palliative care into nursing curricula.

Shawna LeBouthillier is a Registered Nurse at Guelph General Hospital and a professor with McMaster University. She received a bachelor’s degree in the science of nursing from McMaster University, and a master’s degree in nursing: education focus from Athabasca University. Her current practical experience is in intensive care nursing and interventional radiology. She is passionate about clinical education and assisting students to develop their clinical skills and evidence-based knowledge using an innovative, critical-thinking approach that challenges traditional teaching and learning strategies.

Karen Arca-Contreras’research focuses on student success by exploring the role of the flipped classroom pedagogy in increasing clinical decision making and active learning. The significance of this research is the potential to contribute to enhancing educational outcomes designed to better prepare nurse to provide safe, effective, and competent nursing care.

Cheryl Zauderer has been a registered nurse since 1985.  Her areas of expertise are in maternal newborn health, and psychiatric mental health. Her areas of research are in Postpartum/Perinatal Mood Disorders (PPMD) and Skin-to-Skin Contact. She is currently an Professor Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. Cheryl has also served as a board member for PSI (Postpartum Support International) and has been the Nassau/Suffolk coordinator for PSI since 2009. Cheryl has authored a book entitled Maternity Leave: A New Mothers Guide to the First Six Weeks Postpartum, Praeclarus Press. It is a self-help book for new mothers focusing on the first six weeks postpartum. She has an active social network and maintains a blog on her website containing current evidence based information for new mothers. She maintains a thriving private practice where she treats women for perinatal mood disorders and other women’s health issues by providing psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

Nuriye Buyukkayaci Duman  graduated from Hacettepe University School of Nursing in 2000 as the third in her class.  She completed her master's degree in nursing program of Ghazi University Health Sciences Institute at 2005 and doctorate degree in Erciyes University Institute of Health Sciences in Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing at 2010. In 2013, she was scholar visiting professor in Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, USA.  She became associate professor in 2017.  She worked a deputy director in Hittite University Faculty of Health Sciences at 2017-2018.  She has been working as a vice-dean since 2018.  Also she has been working as head of Nursing Department and Gynecology and Obstetrics Nursing Department. Her interest subjects are gynecology and obstetrics, sexuality and reproductive health. She has many publications and book/book chapters. She has participated in many congresses, workshops and courses related to her academic fields.

Halil Ibrahim Erdim was born in Cyprus. He became a mining engineer in 1974 (Istanbul Technical University). Until 1992 he worked in limestone quarries, brick factories, gypsum factories, foundries, metal working shops. Between 1992- 2002 he published books and magazines in his small offset printing shop. After 2002 he took part in Environmental Impact Assessment reports and quarry management plans. He participated local and international activities such as UN Sustainable development Studies in Newyork  (2008), EU Greenweek studies in Brussels  (2009), XXI International Congress of Occupational Safety and Health in Singapore (2017) . Since 2009 he is Occupational Safety and Health Trainer and lecturer in Cyprus International University since 2016.He has more than 40 published books and 20 of them are about occupational Safety and Health. He has more than 1000 printed newspaper articles. He took part in establishing a lot of NGO’s in North Cyprus. For example:

* Chamber of Mining, Metallurgical and Geological Engineers
* Social İnsurancies association of North Cyprus
* Society of the Authentic Products of Cyprus
* TASOVA (Foundation of Quarries)He is member of a lot of NGO’s.  He used to be a member of EAEG (European Association of Exploration Geophysics) and IOSH.
He is living in North Cyprus.

Kuo-Jui Chang is a clinical nurse in National Taiwan University Hospital. After graduated from college, she worked in a surgical intensive care unit in Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital. During that period, she also found her interest in psychiatry. Therefore, she enrolled in China Medical University and received a master degree in psychiatric nursing. She started to work as a psychiatric nurse in NTUH since then, including psychosis ward, neurosis ward and adult day care center. Her research focus on chronic sorrow and cultural differences.  

Fatma Elhabib is basicly, a senior nurse in Hedi Chaker University Hospital Center Tunisia, before she studied in Higher Institute of Accounting and Business Administration. Practicing in many departments such as psychiatry, cardiology, emergency, pediatrics. Defying her limits to be a recognized nurse in her native country, she conducted outdoor experiments like France, the UAE. Her modest career has gone from executive to coordinator and now to safety and management.

Sharon Vasuthevan holds the following qualifications PHD in Nursing achieved in 2005 from university of Pretoria, Master of Science degree from Texas Woman’s University achieved through a Fullbright Scholarship in 1995, B Cur and B Cur Honours degrees from UNISA. She is a Registered Nurse, Midwife, and Psychiatric nurse and a Professional Executive Coach. She joined the Life Healthcare Group in 2001 as National Training and Development Manager and in 2010 she was appointed as Nursing and Quality Executive to date. Her responsibilities include managing nursing practice, nursing education, infection prevention and Quality outcomes, safety, patient experience and legal compliance. She served on various Committees and Societies and is the past chairperson of the Nursing Education Association (NEA), and past Chairperson of the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) Nursing Committee, and a Member of the Advisory Council for Monash University (School of Health Sciences). Life College of Learning Council Chairperson, Life Nursing Education Trust Trustee, International Council for Nurses Education Committee Member and Africa Honour Society Member. She also served on the South African Nursing Council (SANC), for two terms until she resigned in 2016. She held the positons of Vice Chairperson, and Chairperson of Education & Accreditation Committee. She is the author and editor of number of articles and books which are currently used by both Post graduates and Undergraduate Nurses in South Afric

Sharon Vasuthevan holds the following qualifications PHD in Nursing achieved in 2005 from university of Pretoria, Master of Science degree from Texas Woman’s University achieved through a Fullbright Scholarship in 1995, B Cur and B Cur Honours degrees from UNISA. She is a Registered Nurse, Midwife, and Psychiatric nurse and a Professional Executive Coach. She joined the Life Healthcare Group in 2001 as National Training and Development Manager and in 2010 she was appointed as Nursing and Quality Executive to date. Her responsibilities include managing nursing practice, nursing education, infection prevention and Quality outcomes, safety, patient experience and legal compliance. She served on various Committees and Societies and is the past chairperson of the Nursing Education Association (NEA), and past Chairperson of the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) Nursing Committee, and a Member of the Advisory Council for Monash University (School of Health Sciences). Life College of Learning Council Chairperson, Life Nursing Education Trust Trustee, International Council for Nurses Education Committee Member and Africa Honour Society Member. She also served on the South African Nursing Council (SANC), for two terms until she resigned in 2016. She held the positons of Vice Chairperson, and Chairperson of Education & Accreditation Committee. She is the author and editor of number of articles and books which are currently used by both Post graduates and Undergraduate Nurses in South Africa.

Hubertus Franke is professor for Logistics and Information Management at the Ostfalia –University of Applied Sciences. Before that, he had professorships in the federal states Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt and worked as Senior Manager in several industrial companies. He is operating as Head of the Institute for Logistics Optimization at the Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences, since 2013. Furthermore, he teaches in various courses and study programs of logistics and computer sciences in Salzgitter/Germany. Since 2017, he is leading research projects of “Information Technology in Hospital Networks“. He focused his research and publication activities in Information Technology, Logistics and decentralized Supply Chain Management. Especially the sustainable development of logistics in healthcare and nursing is one of his favorite research areas.

Boukeroucha Lahouari born August 11, 1980, born and grew up in Oran in Algeria study at the Institute National de training superior paramedic of Oran holder of a diploma of public orderly with mention very well the author of a memory of end of study careful nursing relationship member in the Association medical aid for the elderly at home

Ruqayya Sayed Zeilani is a  Associate professor working at the University of Jordan/Faculty of Nursing. Her specialty in adult health nursing. She was graduated from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2008. She had post-doctoral fellowship from Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)  in 2012. Her main research interests are in critical care, palliative care nursing and issues related to patients’ care.  She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) 

Andrew Menyonga and his route to nursing might be a little weird. Before getting into the nursing profession, he was an engineer with a master degree in mechanical engineering, a profession he practiced and loved for about 20 years. His journey into nursing started at the very bottom by obtaining his Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN) certificate in 2000 from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Miami, then moved onto an Associate’s degree in nursing ( RN) from Miami Dade College Florida, in 2004 and then proceeded straight to his MSN from University of Phoenix in 2010. After working for a little while he advanced to Chamberlain College of Nursing (one of the oldest nursing colleges in the USA), where he obtained his Doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) degree in 2016. Experience wise, he have experience in Med-Surg, ICU and long term care. He is currently an assistant Professor of nursing at St. Thomas University, a Catholic institution in Miami Florida (USA).

Saliha Ziam is a professor at school of business administration at the TÉLUQ University of Québec. She completed her doctorate in business administration from Laval University (2010). Ziam had two master's degrees, one in public health from Laval University in Québec (2004) and second in health and social sciences from the Paris-Nord University in France (1995). Her research interests focus on knowledge transfer in health sector, health assessment tools for decision support. Her recent works on knowledge transfer have been published in Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Journal and Evidence & Policy.

Jeffrey Frey Peter Seagrove-Nelson, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC is a board certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center and an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse licensed with the State of Utah. He earned his Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Utah in 2014. He is currently teaching in the Department of Nursing at Utah Valley University as an assistant professor and working as an outpatient psychiatric clinical provider. He has been specializing in providing service to the LGBTQ+/queer community for more than a decade.

Nzeyimana Céléus was born on April 08, 1986. He finished his studies of nurses, secondary and university. He worked in many of the health facilities and vertical programs of the Ministry of Public Health and AIDS, he worked with many local associations that are working to improve the health of the population and social wellbeing. This pushed him to create an association that deals with young people in the fight against drug addiction who, after seeing in the field, the number of young people who have been accompanied by their parents and who are growing from day to day in the hospital environment, becomes a major obstacle in the development of the country. So, He is an experienced nurse, visionary, manager and incarnate of 'leadership.

Shereen Gaber Mohamed Elassal is a licensed Bachelor Nurse with a ministry of health and Egyptian Nursing Council (from 2007). she completed her Bachelor degree in Nursing Science (Cairo University) 2006, Master degree in Nursing administration (Cairo University) 2013, PhD in Nursing Science (Nursing administration, Cairo University) 2017.Her main activities and responsibilities are Supervising the internship students (Clinical teaching & evaluation beside the managerial aspects in different areas of specialties), Upgrading the leadership and management curriculum for undergraduate students with team of professors. She has a 9 years of teaching experience in teaching practice for undergraduate nursing courses,  Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing (Electronic course), Graduation project, Nursing Administration (Theory & Clinical), Human rights course (English, Arabic), Supervising three different undergraduate research programs.  Research skills: Several international publications (Articles & books). Quality Management of Academic Institution: Participated actively in accreditation process of the faculty (Leadership and Governance accreditation & organizational structure domains).

Keiko MIYAMOTO is a student of Medical Communication in Kyoto University, Japan. She is interested in Ageism, Social Capital, Public Understanding of Science, and so on. She has a lot of fields to study from nutrition to plant ecology.

Sanda Cali obtained her medical degree at the University of Ankara, Faculty of Medicine in 1974 and completed her public health medicine specialisation in 1978 at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine. She received associate professor and professor titles in 1984 and 1992 respectively. She worked at Hacettepe, Ege, Akdeniz and Marmara Universities. She has been working at Near East University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health as the head of the department since 2014.  Her studies include various subjects of    public health and, specifically women’s health, family planning, occupational health medical education and epidemiology.

William Stuart Pope has extensive experience in nursing, healthcare and animal-assisted therapy (AAT). He has conducted AAT for 14 years and 7 years ago founded Canines Assisting in Rehabilitation and Education (CAREing Paws), an AAT group affiliated with Auburn University School of Nursing. His research embraces AAT in various setting and populations. Because of previous experiences, he understands the priority of human and animal bond in successful research. The present project expanded my previous AAT work. His reseach proposes to improves student attitudes towards older adults with cognitive disorders, enhances social engagement of the cognitively impaired older adults without pharmacotherapy, and builds community relations by assisting caregivers and volunteers with communication strategies to employ with this population

Marcelo Felipe Moreira Persegona is PhD Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Brasília (2010). He is currently professor at the SENAC Faculty, researcher at the University of Brasilia and the American Association for Advancement of Science in Science and Technology and Sustainable Development. In the Federal Nursing Council (Cofen), he holds the position of Planning Advisor. Author of "The Google Secrets: How to do smart Internet Research" and co-author of "The Great Environmental Transformation: A Chronology of Man-Nature Dialectics". He has experience in the Computer Science and Environment area, working mainly in the following subjects: Knowledge Management, Information Management, Information and Communication Technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Strategic Planning, Policy and Management of Science and Technology.