Speakers

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, CPNP/PMHNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from West Virginia University, her Master of Science degree with a specialization in nursing care of children and pediatric nurse practitioner from the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in clinical research from the University of Rochester where she also completed her post-master’s certificate as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She is a nationally/internationally recognized expert in evidence-based practice, intervention research, child and adolescent mental health, and health and wellness, and is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences on these topics.

Melnyk has led the EBP movement in nursing for the last two decades and consulted with hundreds of healthcare systems and colleges throughout the nation and globe on how to improve quality of care and patient outcomes through implementing and sustaining evidence-based practice. Her record includes over $33 million of sponsored funding from federal agencies and foundations as principal investigator and over 400 publications. She is co-editor of seven books, including Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice (4th Ed), and Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety, and Outcomes, both American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award winners.

Melnyk is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She served a four-year term on the 16-member United States Preventive Services Task Force and the National Institutes of Health’s National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. She currently serves as a member of the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Behavioral Health Standing Committee. Melnyk is editor of the journal, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, a board member of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience.

Melnyk has received numerous national and international awards, including the Audrey Hepburn Award, Mary Tolle Wright Excellence in Leadership Award, the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame Award from Sigma Theta Tau International, the Jessie Scott Award from the American Nurses Association, the Midwest Nursing Research Society Senior Scientist award, the NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research’s inaugural director’s lectureship award, and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Lifetime Achievement Award. She also has been recognized as an Edge Runner three times by the American Academy of Nursing for founding and directing the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners’ KySS child and adolescent mental health program, her COPE Program for parents of preterm infants and critically ill children, and her COPE programs for decreasing depression/anxiety and improving healthy lifestyle behaviors in children, teens and young adults.

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. 

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 development of a perioperative dashboard driving reduction in variation in the surgical patient with Epic data sets. Rocchio is currently working on a nursing workforce strategy that includes matching patient demand and a “GIG” nursing workforce with a modern-nurse focused company that has the platform to support efficient and effective deployment.

Rocchio holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and an associate degree in business administration from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, in 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 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 in 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. 

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. Since earning his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University in 2006, Garner has served as principal investigator for seven R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health. His research focuses primarily on developing and testing strategies to significantly improve the adoption, implementation, sustainment and scaling of evidence-based interventions within real world practice settings.

Cindy Beckett, PhD, RNC-OB, EBP-C, LCCE, LSS-BB, CHRC, is assistant professor of clinical practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, assistant director of the Academic Core and program director of the EBP Certificate, a transdisciplinary value-based certificate in evidence-based practice. Beckett has been a nurse for over 40 years. During that time, she has worked in many roles from staff nurse, charge nurse, manager, director, educator, faculty and researcher. Her research focus has involved rural and under-served communities and populations using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies: Description of Neonatal Outcomes in Substance Abusing Women; Navajo Children and Families Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE); Collaborative Communication: Integrating SBAR to Improve Quality/Patient Safety Outcomes; The Effects of Massage Therapy on Pain Management in the Acute Care Setting; Comparison of Apnea Detection by Pulse Oximetry Versus Capnography; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Native American Journey to Prevention; Reduction of Hospital Readmissions for Patients with Previously Identified Malnutrition; Flinn Foundation Grant (Paired studies): 1-Precision Population Health Management: Integrated Paired Proposals for Personalized Transitional Medicine for Native American Populations in Northern Arizona, 2-Precision Population Health Management: Integrated Paired Proposals for Personalized Transitional Medicine for Hispanic and Anglo Populations in Northern Arizona, and Cognitive-Communication Screening and Early Rehabilitation for Adults with mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Beckett has mentored and supported students, medical and nursing residents, healthcare providers and researchers across the spectrum of experience in clinical research and EBP for over 18 years. She is an expert mentor for evidence-based practice, teaching graduate students at Arizona State University and at The Ohio State University College of Nursing as well as immersion participants through the former Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice (CTEP), now the Fuld National Institute for EBP, on evidence-based change projects to improve practice and patient outcomes and to demonstrate value added strategies that also produce strong return on investment (ROI). 

Beckett served as the Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) coordinator for THRIVE (Translating Health Research Initiatives for Population Health) collaborations between clinicians and researchers across NAH and Northern Arizona University (NAU) for 5 years. In this role, she matched clinicians with researchers to respond to requests for proposals from intermural and extramural funding sources. She managed research and EBP funds for pilot and preliminary studies focusing on population health and patient outcomes research.

Cindy Zellefrow, DNP, MSEd, RN, EBP-C, CSN, is assistant professor of clinical practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and director of the Academic Core. Zellefrow has traveled the world presenting, teaching, consulting and collaborating with faculty about various aspects of EBP in academia and practice. She is actively engaged in research and publishing about various aspects of EBP, including EBP teaching, integration and competency. In addition to articles on various aspects of EBP, she is a contributing author to several textbooks about EBP, and has created online interactive EBP education resources for several textbooks as well. Zellefrow’s research interests include various aspects of EBP in both academic and clinical settings as well as wellness in newly graduated nurses. As faculty in the OSU College of Nursing, she teaches EBP, mentors faculty around EBP integration and has led re-imagination of the EBP courses and EBP integration across curricula. Her clinical practice background includes 15 years in adult ICU, ED and critical care transport and 15 years in school nursing.

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. She has presented across the country on various topics related to pediatric trauma and emergency/disaster preparedness, and has traveled internationally to assist in the design and implementation of organized trauma systems and to train foreign nurses in the delivery of western models of trauma care.

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.

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. A veteran of the Florida Army National Guard, his first role was focused on veterans’ access to medical care, social services, and gainful employment opportunities. He then transitioned to working with individuals in the community who had experience with substance use disorder, once again using his lived experience to build trusting relationships with the community. In June 2022, he became one of two care coordination supervisors in the growing Care Coordination section of Franklin County Public Health. Abdon’s efforts now focus on leadership, the programmatic aspects of the Care Coordination section, and the advancement of the CHW profession.

Dónal P. O’Mathúna, PhD, MA, BSc (Pharm), is associate professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing; associate director for research, OSU Center for Bioethics; and Cochrane Affiliate program director at the Fuld National Institute for EBP. His degrees are in pharmacy and ethics, with research interests focused on both evidence-based practice (EBP) and healthcare ethics. His EBP activities have focused on systematic reviews with the Cochrane Collaboration and he was director of Cochrane Ireland from 2014 to 2017. O’Mathúna has conducted systematic review training in Ireland, the UK and the USA, and is co-author on a number of systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library. His ethics research has focused on disasters and humanitarian crises, most recently as co-editor of Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Issues (Springer, 2018). O’Mathúna is the principal investigator on funded research projects examining research ethics in the context of disasters and humanitarian crises. He has contributed to ethics initiatives and guidelines with the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the UN agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR). As the director of a new virtual Center for Disaster & Humanitarian Ethics, he is developing practical tools and support strategies to facilitate ethical reflection within evidence-generation activities in humanitarian and disaster settings. He has spoken and published widely, including peer-reviewed articles in The Lancet, Bioethics, BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, and Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing.

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. 

Salas has co-authored over 600 journal articles & book chapters and has co-edited 37 books and handbooks, authored one book on team training and has one on teamwork. His work has been cited over 100,000 times. He is a Past President of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), Association for Psychological Science and HFES.  Salas is also the recipient of the 2012 Society for Human Resource Management Losey Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Interdisciplinary Network of Group Research for his work on teams and team training and the 2016 APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology.

He received his PhD (1984) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University.

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. She has been a clinical nurse specialist for the past 18 years with a focus on critical care nursing, professional development, evidence-based practice and implementation science. During her nursing career, Jang has served as a staff nurse, research coordinator and faculty. She has published articles on patient safety, cardiovascular nursing and evidence-based practice/implementation science, written several chapters in nursing textbooks, and presented nationally on evidence-based practice. Jang’s current role oversees the evidence-based program at UCSF Health, in addition to providing oversight into evidence-based practice programs with UCSF partnering organizations.  She also serves as volunteer faculty teaching EBP at UCSF School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program.

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. In her clinical educator role, she promoted evidence-based practice and the Magnet™ accreditation process. Zadvinskis has mentored teams of interprofessional staff conducting evidence-based practice projects and nursing research in hospital settings. Her dissertation work explored contributing factors to patient safety and adverse events in the hospital setting. She has numerous publications related to patient safety, safe patient handling and mobility, and health information technology. Zadvinskis is delighted to be part of the Fuld National Institute for EBP interprofessional team that promotes evidence-based interventions to improve health and quality outcomes.

Jacqueline Hoying, PhD, RN, NBC-HWC, FNAP, is assistant professor of clinical nursing and director of MINDSTRONG™ at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and director of the Consumer Core at the Fuld National Institute for EBP. A behavioral intervention researcher, Hoying studies interventions to promote overall health and well-being, promote mental resilience, and reduce stress, anxiety and depression principally among college-age young adults, health professionals and adults. Her interventions include cognitive behavioral interventions with a focus on cognitive behavioral skills building techniques, which she teaches and studies. Presently serving as co-investigator in a NIH-funded RO1, she is a recognized expert in cognitive behavioral research and trains professionals nationally to deliver the evidence-based program, MINDSTRONG™.

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. Taking his experience in healthcare interpretation with him to Columbus, he co-founded Vocalize with the mission of training medical interpreters and providing their services free of charge to free and charitable clinics.

Karey Dufour is an assistant director of the Clinical Core. She taught and served as a facilitator for the EBP immersion since 2014 and has conducted or mentored several evidence-based practice initiatives during her Air Force career. Previously, she was assigned as a medical inspector, medical operations directorate, Headquarters Air Force Inspection Agency, at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. She led teams that conducted the Medical Component of the Air Force Inspection System. She retired from the United States Air Force as a colonel in June 2021. Dufour has been a nurse for over 26 years. 

Dufour received her BSN from the University of Maine in 1995, a Master of Arts in Management/Business Management from Webster University in 2004, a Master of Science in Nursing from Wright State University in 2012 and a Master of Strategic Studies from the Air War College in 2017. She obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2016 at Wright State University. She is a certified Adult-Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist with a sub-specialization in flight and disaster nursing. Her expertise includes trauma/emergency nursing, relations and human capital management, executive medicine, disaster management, leadership development, team building, academia and curriculum development.

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.

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.

Strait earned her DNP from The Ohio State University College of Nursing in 2018.  Her work focused on transition of care of patients who are discharged home following an inpatient hospitalization. Strait is a board-certified faith community nurse (FCN), and she holds the Evidence-based Practice Certificate and the Evidence-based Practice Certification.

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. As an immigrant and once a limited English proficiency (LEP) individual herself, Vocalize’s mission to improve LEP patient care and experience is a personal one.

Lynn Gallagher-Ford, PhD, RN, EBP-C, DPFNAP, FAAN, is the chief operating officer and clinical core director of the Fuld National Institute for EBP. Gallagher-Ford's clinical background in maternal-child health and nursing administration spans 30 years. She served in a variety of roles ranging from bedside clinician to chief nursing officer, in which she gained extensive experience and expertise in teaching and implementing evidence-based practice in real-world clinical settings. Gallagher-Ford is currently active as a consultant, facilitator and keynote presenter at national and international conferences and education programs.

Gallagher-Ford co-edited the book Implementing the EBP Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety & Outcomes. Her publications include co-authorship of multiple studies that have had a dramatic impact on the current body of knowledge about evidence-based practice and influenced strategic imperatives to address new challenges. She also contributed as a lead author in the American Journal of Nursing EBP Series, which received the Sigma Theta Tau Publication Award for 2011.

She serves as assistant editor of Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing and is the editor of the column “Implementing and Sustaining EBP in Real-World Healthcare Settings,” which features best evidence-based strategies and innovative ideas on how to promote and sustain evidence-based practices and cultures in clinical organizations.

Gallagher-Ford’s research is focused on the science behind evidence-based practice, with particular focus on the influence of nurse leaders and contextual issues. She was inducted into the National Academies of Practice and the Nursing Academy as a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow in 2013 and the American Academy of Nursing as a fellow in 2017.

Molly McNett, PhD, RN, CNRN, FNCS, FAAN, is professor of clinical nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and assistant director of the Implementation Science Core, Fuld National Institute for EBP. McNett’s research centers on care of critically ill patients after neurological injury. In her work, she has led funded, multi-site, national trials and routinely participates in international trials with diverse research teams. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, has authored several evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and presents nationally on research and evidence-based care for patients after devastating neurological injuries. 

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. 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.

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. In addition, she works collaboratively with the AHA to ensure the perspective and needs of nurse leaders are heard and addressed in public policy issues related to nursing and patient care and leads the AHA Workforce initiative.
Begley previously served as vice president of nursing and chief nursing officer at AtlantiCare in Atlantic City, N.J. During her 35 year tenure, she led AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center to achieve the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet designation four times and was part of the executive team that led the organization to achieve the 2009 Baldrige National Quality Award for innovation and performance excellence. She also worked with NAACP, Hispanic Alliance and Pan Asian leaders to promote diversity in the nursing workforce by establishing nursing fellowship and scholarship programs, as well as a mentoring program for students.
Begley serves on many boards, most recently as a member of the AONL Board of Directors, chair of AONL Foundation Board of Directors, and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare Board of Directors. Begley earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers), New Brunswick, New Jersey; master’s degree from Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania; and bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She is board certified as an advanced nurse executive with the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Begley was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing class of 2020.

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. A board (ANCC) certified adult psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist, licensed APRN-CNS in Ohio and behavioral researcher, Tucker focuses on behavioral interventions to promote health and wellness, prevent disease, and reduce stress and risks among families, particularly among working mothers and children. Her interventions include environmental strategies, cognitive behavioral interventions, and motivational interviewing, which she teaches, studies and practices.
In addition to being recognized as an expert in health and wellness interventions and strategies, Tucker is a known leader in evidence-based practice (EBP), implementation science, and quality improvement. She served as director of research, EBP and quality for two Magnet-designated, large hospitals in academic medical centers (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and Mayo Clinic) for 15 years prior to joining OSU in 2017. Research and EBP outcomes were recognized by the Magnet surveyors as exemplary for both hospitals. Dr. Tucker led her team at the University of Iowa (UI) Hospitals and Clinics in the writing of a successful competitive application for the prestigious Magnet Prize, which was awarded in 2014 for their legacy work in EBP. In partnership with the UI College of Nursing, they were also awarded recognitions for collaborative partnerships by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in 2014 and the Midwest Nursing Research Society in 2017.
Tucker developed and published the Evidence-Based Practice Self-Efficacy Scale in 2009, and since tracking its use beginning in 2013, the scale has been requested over 1340 times coming from 40 countries. She is co-author of two books on EBP, one published in 2008 titled Evidence-based nursing care guidelines: Medical-surgical interventions (St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier) and one published in 2018 titled Evidence-based practice in action: Comprehensive strategies, tools and tips from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Indianapolis: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing). She has written multiple papers and chapters on EBP and implementation aimed to advance safe, high quality clinical nursing care.
Tucker earned her BSN from the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota, a MSN from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and her PhD in Nursing from Rush University in Chicago. She is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program (2007 Cohort) and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2014 and as a fellow to the National Academies of Practice in 2019. In addition, T5:06 PMucker has been on the Board of Directors for the Midwest Nursing Research Society since 2015, currently serving as treasurer, and is the Chair of the Health Behavior Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing. She is the associate editor of Worldviews in Evidence-based Nursing, a member of the Advisory Board for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare 4th Edition (Melynk & Fineout-Overholt), and appointed member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of School Nursing. She regularly reviews conference abstracts, grants, and manuscripts for several interdisciplinary and nursing journals.

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.  

 As the director of the CHW Training Program, Stanford is responsible for facilitating trainings for individuals to become certified Community Health Workers. She works closely with community organizations to foster partnerships and develop collaborations that address health conditions that disproportionately impact historically disadvantaged communities, to reduce health disparities and improve healthcare and quality of life.  She currently serves on the Ohio Board of Nursing CHW Advisory Board. Stanford received her BSN from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2001 and Master of Science in Nursing from Wright State University in 2009. She obtained her Doctor of Educational Leadership in 2022 from Northern Kentucky University.