KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Sally Armstrong has the gift of touching the emotions of her audience through her stories based on her travel to many remote parts of the globe. She is an Amnesty International award winner, a member of the Order of Canada, journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, human rights’ activist and presently a contributing editor at Maclean’s magazine.
She is author of Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan and The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: First Woman Settler on the Miramichi. Her most recent book Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots, The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women will be published in 2008. Sally’s documentary work includes “They Fell From the Sky” and “The Daughters of Afghanistan.”
Sally Armstrong has covered stories in conflict zones all over the world: from Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda and Afghanistan. Her eyewitness reports have earned her awards, including the Gold Award from the National Magazine Awards foundation, the Author’s Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters, and The International Athena Award — Chicago (for Women in Leadership) and the UNIFEM Canada Award (United Nations Development Fund for Women).
PRESENTERS
Katrin Schultheiss, PhD, is an associate professor in the History Department and Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in history from Harvard University in 1994. Her first book, Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880–1922, was published in 2001 by Harvard University Press. She is currently writing a biography of the Charcot family of France, whose members included a world renowned neurologist, a polar explorer and several professional artists. Dr. Schultheiss also directs a program entitled “Local Knowledge, Global Vision: A Model World Conference on Women’s and Girls’ Rights,” a role-playing project that brings high school and college students together to debate and discuss the challenges faced by women and girls throughout the world. She teaches courses in Women’s history, European history and the history of medicine.
Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing, and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies in the Institute for Medicine and Public Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to becoming the center director in January 2007, Dr. Buerhaus served as the senior associate dean for research at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (2000–2006) Before coming to Vanderbilt University, Dr. Buerhaus was assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health (1992–2000) where he developed the Harvard Nursing Research Institute and its post-doctoral program in nursing health services research. During the 1980s he served as assistant to the chief executive officer of The University of Michigan Medical Center’s seven teaching hospitals (1983–1986) and assistant to the vice provost for Medical Affairs, the chief executive of the medical center (1987–1990).
Dr. Buerhaus maintains an active research program involving studies on the economics of the nursing workforce, health workforce forecasting, developing measures of quality of care and determining public and provider opinions on issues involving the delivery of health care. Professor Buerhaus has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and recently coauthored the most widely accessed article published in 2006 in the health policy journal, Health Affairs. Dr. Buerhaus, along with Douglas Staiger and David Auerbach, is the author of the 2008 book The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends, and Implications. He has editorial responsibilities with many peer-reviewed health services research and nursing journals, and has advised policy makers and legislators on a wide variety of nursing health policy issues. Dr. Buerhaus was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 1994, and elected into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2003. He is currently a member of the Joint Commission’s Nursing Advisory Committee, and recently served on the Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research (2001–2006), National Quality Forum Steering Committee on Nursing Quality Performance Measures (2004–2005) and as a board of director of Sigma Theta Tau International (2001–2005).
Dr. Buerhaus earned his baccalaureate degree in nursing from Mankato State University (1976), a master’s degree in nursing health services administration from The University of Michigan (1981), a doctoral degree from at Wayne State University (1990) and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation faculty fellow in health care finance at The Johns Hopkins University (1991–1992).
DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP
AWARD RECIPIENT
Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN, FRCN is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, professor of nursing and sociology and director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. Prior to coming to Penn, she was a professor on the faculty of nursing at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California San Francisco.
She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the UK, the American Academy of Nursing and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Committee on Transforming the Case for American Commitment to Global Health, as well as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar National Advisory Committee; a trustee of the National Health Museum; and a board member of CARE, the Global Health Council, Nurses Education Funds, Inc., and Life Science Career Alliance. She is council general of ICOWHI, the International Council on Women’s Health Issues. She is also a global ambassador for the Girl Child Initiative of the International Council of Nurses.
Dr. Meleis’s scholarship is focused on global health, immigrant and international health, women’s health and on the theoretical development of the nursing discipline.
Diana J Mason, RN, PhD, FAAN, DHL (Hon.) is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing, the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world. She served as the project director for a print and video series on nursing care of older adults (funded by Atlantic Philanthropies), print series on palliative nursing (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) and chronic kidney disease (National Kidney Foundation) and is a co-principal investigator for a series of articles and videos on assessing older adults, funded in part by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation. Under her leadership, the journal has received numerous awards from the Association for Healthcare Journalists, the Association for Women in Communications (Publications Management), the American Academy of Nursing, Folio and Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society.
Dr. Mason is the co-editor of the award-winning book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, now in its fifth edition. Since 1986, she has been one of the producers and moderators of “Healthstyles”, a weekly, live radio program in New York City that has received media awards from the State of New York, Public Health Association of New York City, American Academy of Nursing and the National Association of Childbirthing Centers. She was project director for the WBAI-Global Kids’ Sound Partners for Community Health Initiative (funded by the Benton and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations) to train New York City youth in producing radio programs on preventing teen substance abuse.
Dr. Mason is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Long Island University; fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing, the New York Academy of Medicine and the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni; and the Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She is a graduate of West Virginia University School of Nursing (BSN, 1970), St. Louis University (MSN, 1977), and New York University (PhD, 1987).
Deborah Washington, RN, MSN is the director of Diversity Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital. The recipient of numerous nursing and leadership awards, Ms. Washington identifies herself chiefly as a teacher of diversity issues in a patient care setting. She has been affiliated with the New England Regional Black Nurses Association, the Health Summit Coalition, the National Council of Negro Women, the Transcultural Nursing Society, E-Vitro Inc., Reliance Training Networks, Inc. and the Roxbury Community College Advisory Board. Ms. Washington is a member of the board and faculty for the Center for Nursing Leadership, funded by Hill-Rom Corp. She has a Masters of Science in Nursing and a Bachelor of Science in nursing, both from Boston University in Boston, Massachussets.
Laura J. Lederer received her BA magna cum laude in comparative religions from the University of Michigan. After 10 years in philanthropy as director of community and social concerns at a private foundation, she continued her education at the University of San Francisco Law School and DePaul College of Law and received her juris doctorate in June 1994. In 1997, she received the Gustavus Meyers Center for Study of Human Rights Annual Award for Outstanding Work on Human Rights for her work on harmful speech issues. She is the editor of Take Back the Night, published in 1980 by William and Morrow (hardcover) and Bantam Books (paperback), and The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1995, and the author of numerous articles on trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children.
Lederer founded and directed The Protection Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. In 2000, she moved The Protection Project to Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, where she has taught for six years, including the first full course on international trafficking in persons offered at a law school. For five years she served as Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paula J. Dobriansky. Currently she is senior director of Global Projects on Trafficking in Persons in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State. In addition she has served as executive director of the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons, a high-level interagency policy group that staffs the President’s Inter-agency Task Force on Trafficking in Persons.
