Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Armstrong has worked in the health care industry for over 2 decades and eleven years in nursing education. Her education background consists of San Antonio College Medical Assistant, Baptist School of Vocational Nursing, Associate’s Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of the Incarnate Word, Master of Science in Nursing in Nursing Education from Drexel University 2013, and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Chatham University 2014. She has received the National Institute of Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD) for Excellence Award in Teaching. She is also the recipient of the Friends of Texas Award 2013 from Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for her endless community service dedication and contributions.

Nursing Education

Tamera (Tami) Pearson is a professor and the director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Western Carolina School of Nursing. She has 20 years of involvements in nursing education, teaching undergraduate and graduate level students both in the classroom and online. She has published more than 15 articles on clinical and education topics in reputable journals. Additionally, she brings many years of practical nursing experience and maintains clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in conjunction with her faculty role.

Nursing, Family Nursing

Gaganpreet Khaira is a Nurse Practitioner in Mental health working across 2 community mental health teams at Monash Health (largest metropolitan Public health service in Victoria). She also does education sessions and evaluations for Nurse Practitioner Students at Monash University and Nursing students at the Hospital. She has been working with the mental health programme at her organization developing a framework and clinical practice guidelines for managing physical health comorbidities of mental health consumers.

Mental Health Nursing

Joseph Tan, PhD, formerly Wayne C Fox Chair of eBusiness Innovation, and currently, Professor of eHealth Informatics, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, is the founding and ongoing Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics with a professional background that spans a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research area. A lead investigator in redefining the frontiers of multidisciplinary Business and Health IT knowledge development, management and expansion, including active involvement in collaborative research and multidisciplinary joint-grant submissions, Dr. Tan has demonstrated skills and ability to serve in both academia and industry. He has achieved recognized scholarship in teaching and learning with students nominations for teaching excellence awards.

Medical Science, Healthcare

Emily trained at the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’ Hospital and has been a nurse for over 25 years. Before joining the team at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, she was the Clinical Director of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance. Emily has a PhD in ward leadership and has undertaken a management course at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. She has a role as a senior research fellow at both the University of Surrey and the University of Brighton. Her research interests centre around the patients experience of trauma care and hospital ward leadership. Emily lives in Hove and is an enthusiastic sea swimmer.

Nursing, Healthcare Management

Jean Du Plessis is the Head of Service of Neonatology at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame, Fremantle. In addition to long standing clinical career, he also possesses excellent administrative and diplomatic skills and has track record of successful delivery of high quality patient care to the population of South Perth. He has been closely involved with University of Western Australia. He is currently an Investigator of various clinical trials running in the Neonatal Unit. His research interests include innovations to improve Neonatal Health Car

Neonatology, Nursing, Health care management