Connie Clemmons-Brown, DNP, MBA, RN, CENP, is a system senior vice president of patient care services for CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems with more than 1,000 care sites and 140 hospitals in 21 states. She has also held executive level positions as facility chief nurse executive and president/chief executive officer. Her clinical background is grounded in prehospital care, emergency/trauma services, and critical care in both community-based hospitals and academic medical centers.

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 core 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.

Betty Jo Rocchio has served as Mercy’s senior vice president and chief nursing officer 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. 

Robyn Begley is chief executive officer of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and senior vice president, chief nursing officer of the American Hospital Association (AHA). In her role at AONL, she leads a membership organization of more than 11,000 nurse leaders whose strategic focus is excellence in nursing leadership. She oversees a number of key initiatives involving workforce, quality and safety, and future care delivery models.

Bryan Garner, PhD, joined The Ohio State University (OSU) in May of 2022. He is a professor and director of Dissemination and Implementation Science for OSU’s division of general internal medicine, as well as director of Dissemination and Implementation Research for CATALYST, OSU’s Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science.

Eduardo Salas, PhD, is the Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Chair Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University. His expertise includes assisting organizations, including oil and gas, aviation, law enforcement and healthcare industries, in how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, how to create a safety culture and minimize errors, facilitate learning and training effectiveness, optimize simulation-based training, manage decision making under stress, and develop performance measurement tools. 

Sharon Tucker is director of the Implementation Science Core at the Fuld National Institute for EBP and holder of the Grayce Sills Endowed Professor in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. She is also associate dean for Health Promotion and Wellbeing and director for the Center for Wellness and Prevention at the College of Nursing.