Debby Chain, MAT, BA-Management, CCHW, is a community health program specialist with Hocking Athens Perry Community Action (HAPCAP). She implements a program called Bringing Health Home which provides nutritious food, education, and case management to pregnant and postpartum individuals and their families.
Shaunta Stanford, EdD, APRN-CNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN, is the director of the Community Health Worker (CHW) Training Program and assistant professor of clinical practice in the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialty track at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. She has been a nurse for 22 years and trauma nurse practitioner for the past 13 years. She currently practices at Grant Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center.
Joe Ziegler, BS, CMI, is president and co-founder of Vocalize, as well as a first-year medical student at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. Growing up in Barcelona, Spain, he regularly faced difficulties with the language barrier in medicine. Becoming a certified medical interpreter, Ziegler began training and organizing interpretation services in 2017 for Michigan State-based temporary clinics in Peru.
Lia Gomez-Perez, BS, is chief executive officer and co-founder of Vocalize. She is also a Biomedical Engineering PhD student specializing in medical imaging and machine learning. By combining these fields, Gomez-Perez aims to develop low-cost diagnostic technologies accessible on a global scale. She is originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, and immigrated to Shaker Heights, Ohio, when she was 6 years old.
Devon Abdon, C-CHW, PRS, is a care coordination supervisor at Franklin County Public Health. He has been a certified Community Health Worker since September 2019, and a certified Peer Recovery Supporter since September 2020. He is a member of the National Association of Community Health Workers Policy Committee with a mission to analyze, respond to, and help shape public policy at the national, state and local level related to the Community Health Worker profession. Abdon’s career at Franklin County Public Health started as a Community Health Worker in October 2019.
Kelly Casler, DNP, APRN-CNP, CHSE, EBP-C, is an associate clinical professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing where she has taught in the Family Nurse Practitioner program for nearly 5 years. Prior to joining Ohio State, she taught in other Family Nurse Practitioner programs in Missouri and Kansas. Casler has been a Family Nurse Practitioner for 17 years and maintains a clinical practice at The HealthCare Connection in Cincinnati where she takes care of families and patients from the ages of 2 days old to over 90 years old.
Elisa Jang, DNP, MS, RN, CNS, EBP-C, is the clinical nurse specialist/professional development specialist for EBP at University of California, San Francisco Health’s Leadership Institute.
Lee Ann Strait, DNP, RN-BC, EBP-C, is a clinical assistant professor of practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing teaching evidence-based practice (DNP level), nursing quality and informatics (master’s level) and community nursing (RN to BSN level). Strait was selected as a Fuld National Institute for EBP DNP postdoctoral fellow (2021-22). Additionally, she is co-author of the “Process and Practice Improvement: An Evidence-based Quality Model” and supports the Fuld National Institute for EBP certification program as a reviewer and advisory board member.
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.
Inga Zadvinskis, PhD, RN, EBP-C, is assistant director of the Community Core at the Fuld National Institute for EBP. Zadvinskis earned her PhD in Nursing Science from The Ohio State University after receiving her MSN, Nurse Practitioner with a focus on adult health, primary care from Wayne State University and BSN from Michigan State. Her nursing career began with serving patients in the surgical step-down and surgical ICU settings. Zadvinskis has worked as a nurse practitioner in primary care and pre-admission testing.