

Peggy L. Chinn听is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Connecticut, now living in Oakland, CA near her amazing grandchildren. She is the founding Editor of听Advances in Nursing Science听and authors books and journal articles on nursing theory, feminism and nursing, the art of nursing, and nursing education. She is co-founder and web manager of the Nurse Manifest Project, a project (www.nursemanifest.com) to inspire and empower grass-roots action by nurses to shape the future of nursing and health care based on nursing鈥檚 fundamental values. She is a co-founder and web manager of听, established in September 2018. Her book and web site focused on cooperative group process,听Peace and Power, is grounded in critical feminist theory and nursing philosophy, and is recognized as a model for critical research methods, teaching and learning, community-based practice, and political activism.听 Her most recent activist project, ongoing, is 鈥淥verdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing鈥, bringing together nurses of color and white nurses to engage in 鈥渢ruth and reconciliation鈥 as a path to meaningful systemic change.听
Peggy听L. Chinn, RN, PhD, DSc(Hon), FAAN
Connie White Delaney is Professor & Dean, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota. She also served as Associate Director of the Clinical Translational Science Institute 鈥揃iomedical Informatics, and Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) in the Academic Health Center from 2010-2015. Delaney is the first Fellow in the College of Medical Informatics to serve as a Dean of Nursing. Delaney was an inaugural appointee to the USA Health Information Technology Policy Committee, Office of the National Coordinator, Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is an active researcher and writer in the areas of national data and information technology standards development for essential nursing and health care, outcomes/safety, data science, and translational science. She serves on numerous health, business/industry and policy boards/advisory committees. She holds a BSN with majors in nursing and mathematics, MA in Nursing, Ph.D. Educational Administration and Computer Applications, and completed postdoctoral study in nursing & medical informatics.
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP
Laura Rossi is committed to the development use and evaluation of nursing diagnosis globally. She first became interested in the concept of nursing diagnosis very early in her professional development. She was mentored by Dr. Marjory Gordon and other nurse leaders from the Massachusetts Conference Group for the Classification of Nursing Diagnosis established shortly after the first St Louis Conference. Over the many years since that time, she has been involved in various NANDA and NANDA-I activities. Most recently, Dr. Rossi has served as the NANDA-I Secretary-Treasurer and was honored as a NANDA-I Fellow at the 2018 Conference.
Dr. Rossi is certified by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health; her clinical practice has focused on care of cardiac patients. She practiced for 24 years at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital in Boston where she was instrumental in developing many innovative programs to support the use of nursing diagnosis and theory-based practice. During this time, she consulted and lectured extensively on the use of nursing diagnosis for different populations in various venues of the US. As a clinician, she established a collaborative practice with cardiologists using functional health patterns and nursing diagnosis to guide patient care. She has continued to integrate standardized terminology in her work as an administrator, educator and researcher.听In recent years, she has shifted her focus to quality and patient safety issues with particular attention to the electronic health record鈥檚 impact on nursing documentation and diagnostic accuracy.听听
Dr. Rossi received a BSN from Northeastern University, an MS in Nursing from Boston University and an MS in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in Health Services Research at the Boston University School of Public Health. In 1994, she was elected as a Fellow in the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. Dr. Rossi is currently an Assistant Professor at听Simmons University听and holds adjunct appointments at Northeastern University and the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions.