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Board of Directors FY 2008 (June 2008 - May 2009)

Chair  



Mary Dominiak
, RN, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor and Director, Undergraduate Health Systems Management Program, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago

 

Chair-elect  
Anita Bamford photo Anita Bamford-Wade, RN, DNurs, MA, Dip Bus, Joint Head of Nursing, Division of Health Care Practice, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, bio, more info
Immediate Past-Chair

Andrea Brassard, RN, DNSc, MPH, ANP, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Education, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, biography

Treasurer  



Will Doyle
, MPH, MBA, Project Coordinator for Organizational Effectiveness, Lutheran World Relief

 

Directors  


Jillian Aldebron
, JD, Chief of Staff, University of Maryland School of Nursing

 



Colleen Bowers
, RN, BS, PhD student, Occupational Health Nurse Coordinator, Social Security Administration

 

 

Anita Bamford photo

 

 

Edie Brous, RN, MSN, MPH, JD



Joan Bufalino
, RN, MSN, MS, Creative Director, Visual Impact Health Communications

 

Bernice Buresh, Journalist and co-author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, more info biography

 

Mary Chaffee, RN, PhD, ScD(h), FAAN, University of Maryland, biography

 



Elayne DeSimone
, RN, PhD, NPc, Clinical Associate Professor, Stony Brook University School of Nursing, State University of New York, biography

 

Suzanne Gordon, author, Nursing Against the Odds, co-author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, more info


Kathleen McCarthy
, RN, BSN, Quality Specialist, Metrohealth Medical Center, Ohio

 


Lucille McCarthy
, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, biography

 



Anne-Marie Scully
, RN, MSN, Senior Project Officer eRostering Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health

 



Karen J. Stanley
, RN, MSN, AOCN, FAAN, Immediate Past President, Oncology Nursing Society; Consultant, end-of-life and cancer care issues

 



Nancy Valentine
, RN, PhD, MSN, MPH, FAAN, FNAP, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Main Line Health, Bryn Mawr, PA, biography

 



Pierre-André Wagner
, RN, LLM, BA, Head of Legal Affairs, Swiss Nurses Association

 

Pat Woods, RN, MScN, Faculty,  Langara College Department of Nursing, British Columbia, Canada


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