VNTW Leadership Team and Planning Group

Members of the Leadership team focus on the ongoing development and long-term planning for the conference.

2026 Planning Team Leader
Program Director/Lecturer for the Diabetes Education and Management (DEDM) Masters Program at Teachers College Columbia University
Research focuses on the impact of language on health in general, and diabetes specifically.
Contributor for NurseManifest.com and Nursology.net

Lead planner for VNTW from 2020 – 2024
Nursology.net management team; co-web manager.
President and Owner, Maine Desk LLC, Portland, ME (since 2001)
Editor-in-Chief Emerita, CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing and Nurse Author & Editor
Editor, Perspectives on Nursing Theory, editions 1 through 4, 1986-2002
Author, with Peggy Chinn, Writing in the Digital Age: Savvy Publishing for Healthcare Professionals
Author, Margaret Freda (editions 1 and 2) and Peggy Chinn (edition 3), The Editors Handbook
Active research program related to scholarly publication in nursing; predatory publications and their impact on the scholarly literature;
Chief Executive Volunteer for the International Academy of Nursing Editors

VNTW planning and leadership 2020-present
Facilitator, Nursology.net management team
Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Boston
Teaches undergraduate nursing research courses emphasizing conceptual-theoretical-empirical structures
Teaches a PhD program nursing course addressing contemporary disciplinary knowledge.
Member of the planning/management team for the Nursing Theory Conference project
Provides consultation about use of nursing conceptual models
Author, with Susan DeSanto-Madeya, of the 3^rd edition of Contemporary Nursing Knowledge
Author or co-author of numerous Essays in Nursing Science, published in Nursing Science Quarterly since 2012.
Author, with Gail Russell, of the Conceptual Model of Nursing and Health Policy
Author, with Carol Hall Ellenbecker, of the Conceptual Model of Nursing and Population Health
Author of the Conceptual Model for Equity and Quality: Population Health and Health Policy.
Has taught undergraduate nursing research courses emphasizing conceptual-theoretical-empirical structures
Teaches PhD program nursing courses addressing contemporary disciplinary knowledge and health policy for populations.

VNTW planning and leadership 2020- present
Principal web manager of Nursology.net
Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut.
Editor Emerita, Advances in Nursing Science
Co-author, with Lucinda Canty and Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, of Knowledge Development in Nursing: Theory and Practice, 12th edition in press.
Author, with Adeline Falk-Rafael, of “Peace and power: a theory of emancipatory group process.” Journal of Nursing Scholarship 47(1), 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12101. (also see Peace and Power website)
Member, leadership team, NurseManifest activist project and co-organizer of the “Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing” project
Positionality – feminist, lesbian mom, grandmother, anti-racism activist. I grew up in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii with undergraduate nursing degree in nursing from the University of Hawaii.

All members of the Leadership Team, with the following:

All members of the Leadership Team, with the following:

Marie Gill, Deb Lindell, Jacqui Fawcett, Rosemary Eustice, Marlaine Smith, Cathy Quay, Michelle Wiliams, Peggy Chinn, Leslie Nicoll