Collaborators
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Kevin P. Browne DNP, RN, CNS, CCRN
Associate Executive Director, Chief Nurse
Northwell Health
Kevin Browne has been a nurse for 36 years. He is a member of the executive leadership team of Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and Lenox Health Greenwich Village. Before this position, Browne held the following positions: senior vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive at St. Joseph’s Health and vice president and deputy chief nursing officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). While at MSK he held the following positions: director, critical care and pediatric nursing services, and nurse leader, pre-surgical services. Prior to MSK, Browne worked at Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) as the nurse leader, cardiac surgical services and the cardiothoracic surgical recovery clinical nurse specialist. Prior to MMC, Browne worked as a critical care educator and staff nurse in the Cardiothoracic Surgical Recovery Unit at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center.
Browne achieved a BS with a major in Nursing from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center School of Nursing in 1987, an MS in Nursing from Columbia University School of Nursing in 1992 and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from St. Peter’s University in December 2018. Browne’s doctoral work focused on a new phenomenon known as practice drift. He is an expert in evidence-based practice methods, cultivating a spirit of inquiry internationally.
Browne holds an appointment as a clinical associate professor, State University of New York - Stony Brook University School of Nursing. He is a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine. He holds dual licensure in New Jersey and New York. He is also licensed as a clinical nurse specialist in New York.
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Penelope F. Gorsuch DNP, RN, EBP-C, NEA-BC, FACHE, USAF Col (ret)
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
Summa Health System, Akron, OH
Penelope F. Gorsuch is assistant professor of clinical practice, The Ohio State University College of Nursing, and senior vice president and chief nurse executive, Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. Gorsuch is a retired colonel from the United States Air Force (USAF) with over 28 years of service in numerous clinical and leadership positions. She has also served as the clinical focus area assistant director for the Fuld National Institute for EBP, and the associate director of Patient Care Services/nurse executive for the Dayton Veteran’s Administration (VA) Medical Center in Ohio. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has recognized Gorsuch as a content expert in evidence-based practice (EBP) and she has earned the designation of Evidence-based Practice Certificate Holder from the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification. From 2014-2017, she was adjunct faculty for Wright State University College of Nursing and served on their Academic and Strategic Planning Board. In 2018, Gorsuch achieved Fellow status by attaining her FACHE credential through the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Lori Kennedy PhD, RN, ACNP-BC
Clinical Nurse Scientist and Director, Center for Nursing Science
UC Davis Health, Sacramento, CA
As a nurse scientist and director of the Center for Nursing Science in a large academic medical center, Lori Kennedy works with direct care nurses, clinical nurse specialists, nurse leaders, and other members of the transdisciplinary team to develop research projects and to identify and synthesize evidence to answer pressing clinical questions that have direct implications for patient care. For over 30 years, Kennedy’s career primarily focused on neurotrauma and neurocritical care patient populations across the lifespan. Her clinical inquiry prompted the pursuit of her PhD which was awarded both a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowship from NIH and support from the Moore Foundation. Kennedy obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in nursing science and healthcare leadership with research focused on body temperature in the acute period after moderate and severe TBI and its impact on neurologic outcomes. Kennedy’s studies also addressed outcome prediction modeling and validation of the IMPACT model for neurologic outcomes after TBI. She served as an associate clinical professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF for two decades. She is currently an adjunct clinical assistant professor in the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University and a postdoctoral guest lecturer in the Centre for Research and Innovation in Care at the University of Antwerp. Kennedy has been active in professional organizations including national leadership in the American Association of Neuroscience Nursing, the American Board of Neuroscience Nursing, and the Agnes Marshall Walker Foundation. She has served in committee chair roles for both the Neurocritical Care Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is a Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society. Kennedy is currently the co-chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine update of the Guideline for Reversal of Antithrombotic in Intracranial Hemorrhage and a member of the American Association of Neuroscience Nursing Clinical Science Committee Task Force to assess neuroscience advanced practice provider roles. In her current role since 2017, Kennedy has worked to build and advance the EBP infrastructure at UC Davis Health. Kennedy is an active scientific member of the Institutional Review Board and organization-wide initiatives related to clinical trials and research in patient care settings. She continues her work in interdisciplinary research and evidence implementation in neurocritical care, neurotrauma, and other lines of inquiry at UC Davis Health and with colleagues across the globe.
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Ruth Labardee DNP, RN, CNL, NEA-BC
Director of Health System Nursing Quality and EBP
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Ruth Labardee is the director of health system nursing quality and evidence-based practice at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC). Her professional background includes quality improvement, evidence-based practice, nursing policy development, sentinel event facilitation and teaching on-line doctoral level nursing courses. Labardee is committed to ensuring that the best available evidence is used to guide clinical decisions and policy development.
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Kathleen Martinez MSN, RN, CPN
Clinical Manager
Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
Kathleen Martinez is the clinical manager of the Children’s Hospital Colorado Pediatric Call Center. From 2020 through 2023 she served as an infection preventionist and immediately prior was clinical policy oversight manager. She has been a pediatric nurse for over 30 years and is passionate about ensuring that all front-line staff have access to evidence-based policies and procedures. When policies and procedures are easy to find, easy to read and easy to follow, patients get the best possible care. It was during this tenure that she fell in love with evidence informed care and has been on a mission ever since to ensure it is part of the daily vocabulary of healthcare providers.
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Colleen O’Leary DNP, RN, AOCNS, EBP-C, LSSYB
Associate Director, Evidence-based Practice
The Ohio State University James Cancer Center & Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Colleen O’Leary has over 30 years of oncology nursing experience. She graduated from The Ohio State University College of Nursing with her DNP and her BSN and Loyola University Chicago with her MSN. O'Leary is certified as an advanced oncology clinical nurse specialist from the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation. Trained as a clinical nurse specialist, her current position is associate director of nursing evidence-based practice for The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. O’Leary is widely published and has presented on a variety of oncology nursing and evidence-based practice topics locally, nationally and internationally.
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Nancy Powell PhD, MSN, CNM, RNC-OB
Former Director, Professional Development (retired)
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
Nancy Powell is retired and was the former director of professional development at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, a member of Geisinger, located in southern New Jersey. Powell‘s more than 40 years of nursing experience include nurse midwifery, nursing education and professional development. In her role, she strives to infuse, support and sustain a culture of EBP through mentoring staff to increase their EBP knowledge and skills to improve outcomes.
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Cory Ramsey DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Associate Director for Patient Care Svcs. Chief Nurse Executive
VA Long Beach Healthcare System
Cory Ramsey is the associate director, Patient Care Services, chief nurse executive for VA Long Beach Healthcare system (VALBHS). This role includes oversight for Nursing, the Magnet Program Office, Nursing Research, Sterile Processing, Pharmacy, Chaplaincy, Social Work, and Whole Health Integrative Medicine. Ramsey came to VALBHS from VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Denver where he served as the associate director, Patient Care Services, chief nurse executive. Prior to Denver, he was the deputy associate director, Patient Care Services, at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio, Texas.
Ramsey graduated from California State University at Long Beach with a Doctorate in Nursing Practice, a Master in Healthcare Administration from Webster University, and his Bachelor in the Science of Nursing from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. He is a board-certified nurse executive, advanced. He is a DNP postdoctoral fellow at the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare at The Ohio State University. He was the Veterans Health Administration’s inaugural associate director, Patient Care Services, chief nurse executive, to graduate as a Fuld National Institute for EBP fellow. His interests are in leading implementation of evidence-based practices, staff development, and transformational leadership.
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Betty Jo Rocchio DNP, RN, CRNA, CENP, EBP-C
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
Mercy Health Foundation
Betty Jo Rocchio has served as Mercy’s senior vice president and chief nurse executive since October 2020. Previously, she was the chief nursing optimization officer beginning in April 2018. Rocchio joined Mercy in August 2013 as vice president of perioperative services. Prior to joining Mercy, Rocchio held several leadership positions in the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio. These included chief nurse anesthetist, system director of surgical services, and vice president of nursing and chief nursing officer.
Rocchio has a passion and drive toward technology and analytics to assist nursing and clinical teams in patient care to drive optimal outcomes. She understands that collaboration in the industry, often outside of healthcare, produces unrivaled impact. Clinical innovation produces results when applied to solving healthcare’s biggest problems. In her tenure at Mercy, she has worked with a software company to co-develop an automated inventory management system to reduce nurse workload while adopting scanning technology to improve efficiency in an operating room. She has also collaborated to achieve HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 status with the development of a perioperative dashboard driving a reduction in variation in the surgical patient with Epic data sets. Rocchio has launched a nursing workforce strategy that includes matching patient demand and a “GIG” nursing workforce with a modern-focused company that has the platform to support efficient and effective deployment for the flexible needs of a multi-generational workforce. Most recently, she has focused on AI to support the changing needs of the clinical workforce in her top initiatives: workforce, workflows, and work environment.
Rocchio holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and an associate's degree in business administration from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio. She started her career in direct patient care as a registered nurse (RN) in the intensive care unit; returned to school to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) and at the same time earned her master’s degree in health sciences at LaRoche College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rocchio holds certifications in executive nurse practice (CENP) from the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and in evidence-based practice (EBP-C) from the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute of Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare at The Ohio State University. Most currently, she obtained a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in the nurse executive track at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Rocchio is an accomplished speaker and has written publications in support of nursing practice and operations, technology, supply chain, and analytics.
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Amanda Shrout MSN, RN, CCNS, CEN
Director of Clinical Excellence
Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Amanda Shrout is the director of clinical excellence at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She leads and empowers a team of master’s degree-prepared registered nurses focusing on the implementation of evidence-based practice to improve clinical and organizational outcomes. Shrout is also responsible for clinical education, professional development and the Nurse Residency Program. She is a certified Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist and certified Emergency Nurse with over 12 years of nursing experience ranging from bedside clinician to nursing administration. Shrout is an expert in the dissemination of evidence-based practice across care continuums and has worked with the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare since 2015.
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Ashley Waddell PhD, RN, FAAN
Senior Director Leadership Development & Government Affairs, ACNO
Organization of Nurse Leaders MA, RI, CT, NH, VT
Ashley Waddell is the senior director of leadership development and government affairs and associate chief nursing officer for the Organization of Nurse Leaders MA, RI, CT, NH, & VT (ONL). She is recognized nationally for her contributions to nurses' health policy participation, influence, and leadership development. Waddell provides strategic leadership to leverage nurses' deep clinical and operational knowledge, as well as communication and relationship-building skills, to make it comfortable and efficient to impact timely policy decisions and lead practice using the best available evidence. She develops and facilitates over 30 annual leadership development programs for nurse leaders in New England, from around the country, and internationally.
Waddell's scholarship addresses nurse leader policy influence and nurses' policy participation, as well as policy content in nursing education. She developed the first valid and reliable nursing conceptual model and theory-based instrument to assess nurses' health policy participation. She serves on the System Board Quality of Care Committee for Tufts Medicine, and she teaches health policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Fairfield University.
Waddell is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Boston, MS from Northeastern University, and BSN from the University of New Hampshire. She was a postdoctoral senior fellow at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University, a Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar, and she spent the first 15 years of her career caring for children and their families at Boston Children's Hospital.
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Colleen Walsh-Irwin DNP, RN, ANP-BC, AACC, EBP-C, FAANP
Associate Director, Evidence-Based Practice
Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Nursing
Colleen Walsh-Irwin is the national program manager for evidence-based practice for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Nursing Services in Washington, DC. She is responsible for assisting facilities to improve their evidence-based practice programs and practices as a nurse practitioner. She has been an adult nurse practitioner in cardiology for the VA for over 26 years. She has developed cardiac guidelines for the VA that have been implemented nationally across the healthcare system. Walsh-Irwin serves on multiple committees for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American College of Cardiology. She holds a Certificate of Specialization in Leadership and Management from Harvard Business School Online, is an Associate of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Walsh-Irwin is an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Stony Brook University School of Nursing. In addition to being a speaker locally, regionally and nationally, she is well published in nursing textbooks and peer reviewed journals. Walsh-Irwin has been the recipient of numerous awards including Nurse Practitioner of the Year for the New York State NP Association of Long Island, the VA Secretary’s Award for Nursing Excellence and the 2021 AANP State Award for Excellence.
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Kathleen M. Williamson PhD, MSN, RN
Associate Dean and Professor
Indiana University School of Nursing - Fort Wayne
Kathleen Williamson is the associate dean and a professor at Indiana University School of Nursing - Fort Wayne. She previously held a position at Tarleton State University School of Nursing in Stephenville, Texas. Williamson was the chief academic officer of the school. Her primary responsibilities were for overall leadership, including developing innovative academic programming, supporting student learning through academic support structures, and creating and engaging student life that prepares students for a professional nursing career. She provides oversight and guidance to direct and facilitate a culture that encourages student and faculty engagement that breaks down educational silos. Williamson is resourceful in finding inventive ways to integrate technology and evidence-based practice (EBP) with healthcare professionals and educators through community partnerships, workshops, and coursework. She is enthusiastic, creative, energetic, and passionate about teaching and researching topics such as technology in nursing education and the integration of EBP in academic and clinical settings. Williamson continues to work with a variety of healthcare disciplines in incorporating the best evidence to influence health policy, improve patient outcomes, and disseminate evidence to advance the practice across all healthcare settings.