Speakers
Dean Pamela Jeffries, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH
Dr. Pamela Jeffries is internationally known for her research and work in nursing, simulation, and health care. She is recognized for her scholarly contributions to executive leadership, the delivery of content using technology, and development of innovative teaching strategies, experiential learning techniques and new pedagogies. As Principal Investigator on grants funded by federal and state agencies and numerous national organizations, Dr. Jeffries has provided leadership and mentorship on ground-breaking projects impacting both nursing practice and education. With the National League for Nursing, Dr. Jeffries developed the major contribution to simulation scholarship, the framework and monograph now known as the NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Society for Simulation in Health care Academy, the Academy of Nurse Educators and inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Research Hall of Fame.
Dean Yolanda Pierce, PhD
Dr. Yolanda Pierce is a scholar, writer, womanist theologian, and accomplished administrator in higher education. Her scholarly research specialties include African American religious history, womanist theology, and race and religion. A widely published author, she has written several books, essays, and articles for academic and trade journals including Time Magazine, Theology Today, and Christianity & Literature. Dr. Pierce served as the Founding Director of the Center for African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Pew Foundation. In addition to her teaching and academic scholarship, Dr. Pierce is a native New Yorker, public theologian, community activist, and ordained minister.
Gloria Littlemouse, PhD, RN, MSN-Ed
Dr. Gloria Littlemouse has distinguished herself as an end-of-life specialist and presenter for the Five Wishes Advanced Directive program. Her expertise encompasses her roles as an end-of-life doula and a nurse executive/regional director of hospice nursing. Dr. Littlemouse serves as an assistant professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, where she has undertaken responsibilities in both clinical and community engagement. She currently spearheads a community-based end-of-life education initiative in collaboration with nursing students at the Fifty Forward Community Center in Madison, Tennessee. She also leads a VUSN team to integrate Dr. Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring and the 10-Caritas processes into the nursing curriculum and to conduct a pilot study. Dr. Littlemouse’ s research and practice are predicated on the conviction that comprehensive preparation is essential for ensuring patients experience a dignified and quality-centered end-of-life journey.
Dr. Graham Reside, PhD, MDiv
Dr. Graham Reside is executive director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions and assistant professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School. His background is in leadership development and academic training in the areas of sociology of religion and morality. His interests include ethics, sociology of culture and religion, sociology of the professions, and the sociology of emotions. Dr. Reside's research and teaching interests are in the role of social institutions as schools of moral formation. Through the shaping of our ideas, values and sentiments, the various professional spheres provide particular moral understandings of the virtuous self and the good society. As the director of the Cal Turner Program, Dr. Reside seeks to facilitate discussions across the various professions about their moral purposes and perspectives and to encourage professionals to consider how they contribute to the common good.
Dr. Candy Wilson, PhD, APRN, WHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Dr. Candy Wilson is a women’s health-focused nurse scientist whose research has significantly impacted military women's health and health care. Her work has focused on three key areas: illness behaviors of deployed military women managing genitourinary symptoms, maintaining healthy iron status for female trainees, and integrative medicine treatments for low back pain. These research initiatives have led to changes in health care practice through policy and education, providing evidence-based support for women in traditionally male-dominated positions. Since 2006, Dr. Wilson has been reporting research results that informed military medic training, updated supply lists for deployed settings, and improved pre-deployment checklists for women. Her contributions were pivotal in preparing for the Secretary of Defense's decision in January 2016 to open all military occupations to women, including combat positions. She also led a Military Women’s Health Research Interest Group, funded by the TriService Nursing Research Program, which contributed to the July 2015 report to Congress, "Deployment Health for Women."
Dr. Wilson honorably served in the active duty U.S. Air Force and retired in 2022. Throughout her career, she provided patient care as a clinical nurse and women’s health nurse practitioner, including delivering women’s health care in Afghanistan villages to more than 3,000 women and children. She has published 57 peer-reviewed papers and three book chapters, and has been awarded over $22 million in research funding. She is associate dean of research and scholarship and a tenured professor at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, where her research goals include collaborating on military and veteran research focusing on sex and gender differences in health and well-being, including alternative therapies.
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