Collaborators
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Wendy Bowles PhD, APRN-CNP, CNE
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, Associate Dean for Baccalaureate Programs
The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Columbus, OH
Wendy Bowles serves in the role of the assistant dean for Baccalaureate Programs at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. She has embraced evidence-based practice since her early days as a nurse over twenty years ago and subsequently as a nurse practitioner. Bowles began her journey in nursing education in 2005 and realized the importance of educating future nurses for current practice environments relying on the most current evidence for decision making. She is committed to advancing the science of evidence-based pedagogies of teaching and learning in nursing education. Her research includes work with alternative pedagogies, curricular development and student engagement. Bowles has presented her work both nationally and internationally in the form of podium and poster presentations and engages on a regular basis with the Fuld National Institute for EBP to assist educators and practitioners through learning the evidence-based practice process.
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Kevin P. Browne DNP, RN, CNS, CCRN
Senior Vice President Patient Care Services and Chief Nurse Executive
St. Joseph’s Health, Paterson, NJ
Kevin P. Browne has been a nurse for 34 years. A member of the senior executive leadership team at St. Joseph’s Health in Paterson, New Jersey, Browne is the senior vice president patient care services and chief nurse executive. Browne is responsible for Nursing Services, Respiratory Care Services and Infection Control across the enterprise. Before this position Browne was the vice president, deputy chief nursing officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) where he helped ensure the organizational culture was one that is evidence-based. Browne holds appointments as a Clinical Associate Professor, State University of New York - Stony Brook University School of Nursing, and Clinical Professor/Research Associate, Lienhard School of Nursing, College of Health Professions at Pace University. Browne is a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine.
Browne achieved 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.
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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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Nancy G. Houlihan MA, RN, AOCN
President
Oncology Nursing Society
Nancy G. Houlihan is the president of the Oncology Nursing Society, the premier oncology nursing organization representing oncology nurses in the US and globally and dedicated to the evidence-based care standards for oncology nursing practice. She has been a certified oncology nurse for over thirty years, with particular expertise in evidence-based management of cancer treatment and disease-related side effects and care of cancer survivors. In her former role as director of nursing, EBP at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York she partnered with the Fuld National Institute for EBP in implementation of an extensive program at MSK to ensure the delivery of evidence-based care across the organization. Houlihan has lectured internationally and published extensively about the evidence-based care standards for people with cancer and organizational system design for best practices in care of survivors.
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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 Policy Oversight Manager
Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
Kathleen Martinez is the Clinical Policy Oversight Manager at Children’s Hospital Colorado. 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.
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Kerry Milner DNSc, RN | Evidence-based Practice (CH)
Professor in the Davis & Henley College of Nursing
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Kerry Milner is a professor in the Davis & Henley College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut where she teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner Program. She has had several principal investigator and co-principal investigator grants from Sacred Heart University to conduct research to improve the care of patients with cardiovascular disease and explore evidence-based practices in nursing and health professions faculty. Milner has received funding for research on national visiting practices in adult intensive care units from the Helen Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare, and a multi-million-dollar grant from HRSA to address the opioid crisis in Connecticut. She is a reviewer for the EBP certificate program. These diverse activities are unified by an appreciation for the power of interdisciplinary EBP, QI, and research teams to advance patient and family care. Milner has published her results from numerous research studies and EBP-QI in nursing and other healthcare journals.
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Cathleen Opperman DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, CPN
Professional Development Nurse Specialist
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Cathleen Opperman has worked in professional development for 34 years and held faculty positions for over 20 years. Certified in professional development, advance nurse executive and pediatric nursing, she coaches interprofessional teams through evidence-based practice changes, incorporating her expertise as change agent to foster sustainability in the practice change. Opperman teaches and mentors others as the EBP coordinator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in addition to her other professional development responsibilities. A part of CTEP and now the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare immersion team since the beginning, Opperman enjoys facilitating and mentoring all things EBP.
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Colleen O’Leary DNP, RN, AOCNS | Evidence-based Practice (CH)
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
Director, Professional Development
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
Nancy Powell is the 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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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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Colleen Walsh-Irwin DNP, RN, ANP-BC, AACC, FAANP
National Program Manager for EBP
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
Dean and Professor
Tarleton State University School of Nursing, Stephenville, TX
Kathleen Williamson is the dean and a professor at Tarleton State University School of Nursing in Stephenville, Texas. Williamson is the chief academic officer of the College. Her primary responsibilities are for the 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.