Speakers

Mr. Howard Catton, RN, BSc, MA, Director, Nursing and Health Policy, International Council of Nurses. He has worked in the United Kingdom and the United States and has studied social policy and industrial relations. He held various posts at the Royal College of Nursing UK, including national policy adviser for workforce research and health policy, and spent a year working for the New Zealand Nurses Organization. He was RCN Head of Policy & International Affairs from 2005-15, working with a wide range of stakeholders on the development and implementation of nursing and health policy in the UK and overseas. He was named one of the Health Service Journal top 100 Clinical Leaders, 2015. HejoinedICNin 2016.

Джудит Шэмиан, RN , PhD, FAAN, President Emerita of the International Consulate of Nurses, Professor of the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Shamian is also the former president and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) and past president of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). She is also a co-investigator with the Nursing Health Services Research Unit, and was the Executive Director of the Canadian federal government’s Office of Nursing Policy for five years. In addition to her extensive international work, she was vice president of Nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto for 10 years and has held various academic positions since 1989.Scope of interests: Nursing Education, Health Promotion, Fundraising, and Critical Care. Strong track record in global health and nursing policy. Serve on multiple UN agency commissions, work groups. International Speaker on Health, Nursing and Global policies

David Benton, RGN, PhD, FFNF, FRCN, FAAN,CEO National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), Chicago, USA.He took up post as Chief Executive Officer of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) on the 1st of October 2015, prior to this he worked at the International Council of Nurses in Geneva Switzerland for the previous ten years; firstly as their consultant on nursing and health policy specializing in regulation, licensing and education and then as CEO. David is the recipient of several awards and honors. He is particularly proud of being awarded the inaugural Nursing Standard Leadership award in 1993. He was presented with Fellowship of the Florence Nightingale Foundation in 2001, awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2003 for his contribution to health and nursing policy and most recently became a Fellow of the American Academy of nursing in 2015. David has held several visiting appointments and is currently a visiting professor of nursing policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

Robert Nieves, JD, MBA, MPA, BSN, RN,vice president of health informatics for Elsevier Clinical Solutions.He is responsible for leading the strategic direction for the EMR integration strategy, build, and optimization of Elsevier solutions within various EHR solutions. He has over 25 years of clinical experience working in critical care, community case management, long-term care and home care. He has over 14 years of clinical informatics experience in the design and integration of evidence-based content within various electronic health records.

Johanna Heikkila, PhD, RN, Senior Advisor of JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland.International accreditations in the area of health care education (evaluation of the quality and efficiency of educational processes of HE-institutions). Consultant work in the area of health care professions academic educational program (curricula) development and quality assurance of education, Research on innovation management in social and health care. Membership in Professional Associations: Cross of Merit of the Order of White Rose of Finland Finnish Heart Foundation, Board member 2011-2016,Central Finland Heart District, Chairman of the Board, April 2008 onwards,Nurse Fellow of European CardiologicalSociety,Finnish Cardiac Nurses Societymember, Excellence Finlandmember , Nursing Science Society in Finlandmember, Society of Social Medicine in Finland member, International Council of Nursesmember. Project manager of the World bank Project Social Health insurance projectSHIP-journey to the better healthcare, Modernization of education system for nurses and European Union project «ProInCa».

Dr.Phil Dickison, PhD, RN, NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing), Chicago, USA. His role is in overseeing programs and services related to the operations of the organization including the Examinations, Marketing and Communications, Performance Measurement and Standards Setting, Member Relations, and Human Resources departments.He is active in the certification and licensure community for more than 30 years, prior to joining NCSBN in 2010,Dickison was director of health professions testing at Elsevier, Inc. and associate director at the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. He also served 11 years in the United States Air Force as a medical service specialist (medic). He received his BBA from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Ohio, and his PhD in Quantitative Research in Evaluation and Measurement in Education from the Ohio State University. The author of numerous papers and articles, he is a member of the Psychometric Society and the Association of Test Publishers.

Diana Hankey Underwood, MS, WHNP-BC, CRNP, Alabama, USA, Director & Motivational/Educational Speaker, Grace Anatomy Inc. – a non-profit organization. Is board certified and licensed as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. Diana treats patients with bladder and bowel problems and speaks to audiences across the nation, with humor and dignity on this difficult subject. She is active in international missions and has been honored with two National awards: The Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health and the Bayer HealthCare 2007 Inspiration in Women's Health Award and the National Association for Continence 2007 Continence Care Champion Award.

Ashlee Oikarainen, MSc, RN, Finnish Nursing Research Foundation, University of Oulu, Helsinki, Finland.Clinical experience:Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, US, Haartman Hospital, Helsinki, FI, part-time teaching position as an English teacher for nursing students, permanent position as a Registered Nurse on the acute care unit of Kuusamo Health Centre, Kuusamo, FI;PhD student in Health Science,Scope of interest: clinical nursing, evidence-based nursing.