SPEAKERS
OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Rear Admiral Susan Orsega, MSN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Director of Commissioned Corps Headquarters
U.S. Public Health Service
As Director of Commissioned Corps Headquarters, Rear Adm. Susan M. Orsega oversees the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, composed of approximately 6,000 uniformed health officers who serve in nearly 800 locations around the world, promoting, protecting, and advancing the health and safety of our nation. This includes the activation of the USPHS Commissioned Corps to support national COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
Appointed to this position in March 2019, she is responsible for directing all functions regarding personnel, operations, readiness, deployment, and policy for the USPHS and development of the Reserve Corps. She is the principal advisor to the assistant secretary for health on activities and policies related to USPHS training, deployment, and total force fitness. Rear Adm. Orsega served as Acting Surgeon General from January 26, 2021 – March 25, 2021 pending the Senate confirmation of Dr. Vivek H. Murthy as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States.
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Shawna Butler, RN MBA
Host of SEE YOU NOW podcast
There is a small community of clinicians at the vanguard of digital technologies in health. Shawna is among those pioneers and one of the few nurses. A nurse economist, health tech specialist, and the builder of the global EntrepreNURSE movement, Shawna aims to better position nurses in our health innovation agendas as discovery engines, solution designers, and scale agents. Several years ago, she initiated a global conversation highlighting the rarity of nurses in boardrooms, product design, innovation teams, policy development, tech conferences, and health media. She’s on a mission to change that.
As the host of SEE YOU NOW podcast, Shawna highlights the innovative and human-centered solutions driven by nurses addressing today’s most challenging healthcare problems. She’s also the managing director of the Exponential Medicine conference working with the pioneers in the thick of integrating robotics, 3D printing, drones, AI, blended reality, voice recognition, digital humans, big data and sensors into our health solutions and lifestyles to improve health, access, experience and outcomes.
Her various roles have taken her across the world and given her an unusually broad understanding of health systems and a population’s health outcomes and the impact technology and policy have on these dimensions. Shawna understands instinctively the need to work cross-sector and upstream to improve health outcomes and has done so throughout her career by working with city planners, musicians, arts organizations, chefs, farmers, food systems, schools, home builders, philanthropists, investors, inventors, rebels, legends, and anyone with a conviction to improve health and our shared human experience.
MODERATOR
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Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN
Visiting Professor
University of Texas, Austin
Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN, is visiting professor at the University of Texas Austin School of Nursing. In addition, she holds a Distinguished Professorship at Georgetown University. In late 2020, she was tapped by the incoming Biden-Harris administration to join its transition team. In 2015, President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Wakefield the acting Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that, she was Associate Dean for Rural Health and Director of the Center for Rural Health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks. Dr. Wakefield is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She received her BSN from the University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, and her MS and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
SESSION SPEAKERS
Name/Title | Organization | Session |
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Beaudet, Oriana, DNP, RN; VP of Nursing Innovation | American Nurses Association Enterprise | ANA’s Focus on Policy, Innovation, and Advocacy |
Begley, Robin, DNP, RN, NEA-BC; Chief Executive Officer | American Organization for Nursing Leadership | Charting the Nursing Path Forward: A Listening Tour to Inform the Future of the Profession. |
Benton, David, RGN, PhD, FFNF, FRCN, FAAN; Chief Executive Officer | National Council of State Boards of Nursing | Nurses on the Front Lines: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Benton, Lynda, Senior Director, Global Corporate Equity & Partnership | Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. | Charting the Nursing Path Forward: A Listening Tour to Inform the Future of the Profession. |
Carrico, Ruth, PhD, DNP, APRN, CIC; Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases | University of Louisville | Nurses on the Front Lines: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Dale, Karen, MSN ; CEO & Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer | AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies | Health Equity, Innovation, and Delivery Across Medicaid |
Dhillon-Chattha, Pritma, DNP, MHA, RN; Co-Founder | Lavender | ANA + HIMSS NursePitch™ – Nurse Innovation Showcase |
Fields, Sheldon, PhD, RN, CRNP, FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN; Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion | Penn State University | How Diversity Will Improve Nursing and Health Policy |
Fowler, Elizabeth, PhD, JD; Deputy Administrator and Director | Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation | Advancing Innovation in Health Care: Partnerships to Achieve Shared Goals |
Gannon, Brighid, DNP, PMHNP-BC; Co-Founder | Lavender | ANA + HIMSS NursePitch™ – Nurse Innovation Showcase |
Grant, Ernest, PhD, RN, FAAN; President | American Nurses Association | ANA’s Focus on Policy, Innovation, and Advocacy |
Hardin, Lauran, MSN, CNL, FNAP, FAAN; Senior Advisor | National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs | ANA + HIMSS NursePitch™ – Nurse Innovation Showcase |
Hatmaker, Debbie, PhD, RN, FAAN; Chief Nursing Officer | American Nurses Association Enterprise | Charting the Nursing Path Forward: A Listening Tour to Inform the Future of the Profession. |
Henderson, Kristi, DNP, NP-C, FAAN, FAEN; Senior Vice President – Innovation & Telehealth | Optum Health at United Health Group | Transformation Across Virtual Care & Telehealth |
Jones, Faith, MSN, RN, NEA-BC; Director of Care Coordination and Lean Consulting | HealthTechS3 | Nursing Advocacy— Policy Impacts to Nursing Profession |
Koeppen, Erik, Assistant Director, Political Engagement | American Nurses Association | Nursing Advocacy— Policy Impacts to Nursing Profession |
Lewis, Corinne, MSW; Program Officer – Delivery System Reform | Commonwealth Fund | Delivery & Payment System Reform: Complex Care |
Loughlin, Bre, MS, RN; Co- Founder | Nurse Disrupted | ANA + HIMSS NursePitch™ – Nurse Innovation Showcase |
Lusis, Ingrid, VP of Policy and Government Affairs | American Nurses Association | ANA’s Focus on Policy, Innovation, and Advocacy |
McCarthy, Chris, MBA, MPH; VP of Strategy & Design | Hope Lab | Innovation 101: Design Thinking — Back to the Future |
Miyamoto, Suzanne, PhD, RN, FAAN | American Academy of Nursing | Nursing Advocacy – Policy Impacts to Nursing Profession |
Montalvo, Antonette, MSN, PNP-BC, RN, BA ; Owner, Antonette Montalvo Consulting and Coaching Services; Founder/ Author, Visionary Nurse™; Co- Founder Montalvo International Community Health Initiative | Montalvo International Community Health Initiative | Transformation Across Virtual Care & Telehealth |
Moody-Williams, Jean, RN, MPP; Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Policy 101 – Medicare & Medicaid |
Murphy, Erin, MA, RN, FAAN | Minnesota State Senate | Advancing Innovation in Healthcare: Partnership to Achieve Shared Goals |
Naylor, Mary, PhD, RN, FAAN | University of Pennsylvania | Delivery & Payment System Reform: Complex Care |
Persichilli, Judith, RN, BSN, MA; Commissioner | State of New Jersey Department of Health | Nurses on the Front Lines: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Persily, Cynthia, PhD, RN, FAAN; Senior Director of Health Sciences | West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission | Nurses on the Front Lines: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Quinn, Winifred, PhD; Director, Advocacy and Consumer Affairs, Center to Champion Nursing in America | American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) | Policy 101 – Medicare & Medicaid |
Russell, CAPT Sophia, DM, MBA, RN, NE-BC; Director, Division of Nursing and Public Health | Health Resources & Services Administration | Nurses on the Front Lines: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Schwab, Andrew | United States of Care | Advancing Innovation in Healthcare: Partnership to Achieve Shared Goals |
Skinner, Lori, RN, DNP | Medica | Advancing Innovation in Healthcare: Partnership to Achieve Shared Goals |
Tinker, Beth, PhD, MN/MPH, RN; Clinical Nurse Advisor/ MCH Consultant | Washington State Health Care Authority | Health Equity, Innovation, and Delivery Across Medicaid |
Whelan, Ellen Marie, NP, PhD, FAAN; Chief Population Health Officer | Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services | Health Equity, Innovation, and Delivery Across Medicaid |
Zuber, Christi, PhD, RN; Founder & Managing Director | Aspen Labs | Innovation 101: Design Thinking — Back to the Future |
Nurse Disrupted | ANA + HIMSS NursePitch™ – Nurse Innovation Showcase |
SESSION MODERATORS
Name/Title | Organization |
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Gontscharow, Zina, MPP; Senior Policy Advisor American Nurses Association | American Nurses Association |
Miyamoto, Suzanne PhD, RN, FAAN, Chief Executive Officer American Academy of Nursing | American Academy of Nursing |
Moore, Jennifer, PhD, RN, FAAN, Founding Executive Director Institute for Medicaid Innovation | Institute for Medicaid Innovation |
Trainum, Brooke, Assistant Director – Policy and Regulatory Advocacy American Nurses Association | American Nurses Association |
Wakefield, Mary, PhD, RN, FAAN; Visiting Professor University of Texas, Austin | University of Texas, Austin |