Carole A. Estabrooks, PhD, RN, FCAHS, FAAN, University of Alberta, Canada
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Carole A. Estabrooks is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Alberta, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation. She is a fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS) and in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She is Scientific Director of the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program (KUSP) and the pan-Canadian Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) research program hosted at the University of Alberta. Dr. Estabrooks’ applied health services research program focuses on knowledge translation in the health sciences. She studies the influence of organizations on the use of knowledge and its effects on quality of care, quality of life/quality of end of life and quality of work life outcomes. Her work is primarily situated in the residential long term care sector and focuses increasingly on quality improvement and the spread and scale-up of innovation. Dr. Estabrooks is a past member and vice-chair of CIHR’s Institute of Aging Advisory Board. She is appointed in the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health and is affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Nursing Health Services Research Unit. She is a co-investigator on numerous national and international research projects. She is the 2014 recipient of the CIHR Institute of Aging’s Betty Havens prize in Knowledge Translation. She teaches in the doctoral program and supervises graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. She has developed and continues to evaluate the Alberta Context Tool (ACT) currently in use in nine countries and six languages.

Li-Chan Lin, PhD, RN, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
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Li-Chan Lin, PhD, RN, is a registered nurse who obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota in 1993. She is professor at the Institute of Clinical Nursing of National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. Professor Lin is best known for her contributions in the area of institutional care of the elderly, and particularly for her work in interventions to improve problem behaviours for patients with dementia, using Montessori-based activities to improve eating difficulties in residents with dementia, and in instrument development. Her current research involves pain management for institutionalized residents with cognitive impairment and interventions to decrease overeating. Many of Li-Chan Lin’s research has been funded by grants from National Science Council, National Health Research Institute, and Department of Health. Her research work has become particularly influential in long-term care clinical practice in Taiwan since her serving as president of the Taiwan Long-term Care Professional Association from 2005-2008.

Anne Marie Rafferty, PhD, CBE, King’s College London
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Anne Marie Rafferty is Professor of Nursing Policy and Dean Emerita, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London. She trained in nursing (BSc Edinburgh University); clinical research MPhil (Surgery) Nottingham University as a historian (DPhil, Modern History) Oxford University and in health policy (Harkness Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania). She was the first nurse to gain a doctorate from Oxford University. She is a policy expert on the nursing workforce and worked with Lord Ara Darzi on the nursing contribution to the reform of the National Health Service in 2007-8. In 2008 was made Commander of the British Empire for services to healthcare by Her Majesty the Queen. She was a member of the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery 2009-10. She was recipient of the Nursing Times Leadership Award in 2014 and Health Services Journal Top 100 Clinical Leaders Award in 2015. She held the Distinguished International Visiting Professorship at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto 2014-15 and is currently leading the Lancet Commission on Nursing in the UK.

David A. Richards, PhD, RN, University of Exeter, UK
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David A. Richards is the Professor of Mental Health Services Research at the University of Exeter Medical School in the United Kingdom. A nurse by professional background, he is a UK National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator, President of the European Academy of Nursing Science and chair of the European Science Foundation REFLECTION Research Network Programme, an interdisciplinary European Faculty of researchers, equipped to design, plan and implement programmatic, mixed methods and complex interventions research. He is prominent in international efforts to improve access to treatment for those suffering from high prevalence mental health problems such as depression. This work has involved developing and testing evidence based treatments, and then translating these into routine clinical environments, particularly low-burden, low-intensity treatments. More recently he has taken a lead in developing evidence based essential nursing care interventions through leadership of the ESSENCE programme in the UK. Professor Richards has written over 190 peer reviewed papers, articles, books and book chapters on nursing, research methods and mental health care. He is an expert in health services research methods including systematic reviews, clinical trials and complex interventions research methods. He is joint editor of the recent seminal international textbook ‘Complex Interventions in Health: An Overview of Research Methods’. David regards the translation of research evidence into skills based educational courses should be a critical activity for all active researchers and research units.

Daan A.J. Dohmen, PhD, FocusCura, NetherlandsDaan Dohmen close 8B klein

Entrepreneur and Scientist, passionate about helping the elderly and chronically ill remain independent for as long as possible.Tell me what you feel when you see elderly people get lonelier every day, while our care is increasingly becoming a luxury product. Don’t you feel the immediate urge to do something about this? I do. When it comes to health care, I feel we should change the way we think and act. Only in this way we can help elderly and chronically ill people stay independent in their own homes for as long as possible, with the personal care and attention they deserve. My passion to make this happen arose when I worked in an elderly care facility, years ago. I saw the loneliness and helplessness of our residents with my own eyes and it moved me deeply. Inspired by this feeling I founded FocusCura, after having finished my studies on Business Administration and Medical Technology at the University of Twente. Since that time, for 8 years in a row FocusCura has been listed as one of the fastest growing Dutch companies and was awarded prizes like ‘Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year’ and ‘Most Innovative Company of the Netherlands’, multiple times.Because I believe we should all cooperate in fulfilling our important mission, I decided to share my insights in 10 years of innovation in health care and by initiating the Futurelab for Care: a (virtual) network for knowledge- and idea-sharing. In 2015 I was appointed a councillor in the Council for Health and Society (RVS). This Council, consisting of eight people, provides our Cabinet and Parliament with solicited and unsolicited advice on trends, topics and developments in the domain of Health and Society. I am honored with this appointment and highly motivated to use this role to contribute to society. When I see vulnerable patients who use our innovative technologies actually become more independent, healthier and less lonely… this really makes me tick! Will you join me in realizing this dream?

Gabriele Meyer, PhD , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germanygabriele_meyer

Since 03/2013 Professor for health and nursing sciences Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; 2008-2013 Professor for clinical nursing research Witten/Herdecke University; 2006-2008 Professor for nursing science with the focus on theoretical fundamentals and clinical nursing research, University of Bremen; 1999-2006 research fellow and senior fellow, University of Hamburg; 1987-1998 full time and part-time job, municipal hospital Lüneburg, community nursing in Lüneburg and Hamburg. Major research topics: Efficacy/effectiveness research in nursing; Development and evaluation of complex interventions; Epidemiology of nursing problems, particularly dementia-related care needs in nursing homes and community nursing; mobility, joint contractures, falls and fall-related fractures, use of physical and chemical restraints in nursing homes; Methods of evidence-based nursing/medicine/ patient information.Selected academic voluntary contributions: Member of the Official Expert Panel of the German Health Care System (Sachverständigenrat im Gesundheitswesen); Vice President of the German Network of Evidence-based Medicine (DNEbM); Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS); Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Quality and Efficacy in Health Care (IQWiG); Editor PFLEGE (Huber) and ZEFQ (Elsevier), Associate Editor BioMed Central Geriatrics (BMC Series) Publications

Crystal Oldman, PhD, The Queen’s Nursing Institute, London

Dr Crystal Oldman WEBCrystal Oldman is Chief Executive of the Queen’s Nursing Institute. Crystal started her career in the NHS in 1975 as a ward orderly, working shifts at weekends in Kent and Sussex Hospital whilst studying for ‘A’ levels. She qualified as a nurse in 1980 at University College Hospital (UCH) in London, and worked in clinical practice at UCH, then at the Middlesex Hospital Intensive Care Unit and then she moved into the community. Her career in the community was mostly located within the west London, but also included a year working as a clinical research Health Visitor in the respiratory unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1994 Crystal moved into a university to teach research methods and to develop the post-qualifying community nursing programmes. She spent 18 years in Higher Education, teaching, researching and supporting the development of skills in the workplace with a variety of employers, including healthcare, social care, public health, early years and the police service. Her role included the development of partnerships to promote evidence-based practice within the community and primary care nursing workforce. During her career in the university, Crystal completed a postgraduate diploma in teaching, a postgraduate diploma in public health and a masters degree in Management and Leadership of Higher Education. She completed her academic career as a Dean, moving to the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) in 2012, the year in which the QNI celebrated its 125th anniversary. In 2013, Crystal completed her doctorate in education, which focused on leadership and middle management in Higher Education, providing an insight into the knowledge, skills and attributes required in middle managers working in academia. In 2014 and in 2015 Crystal was given a Nursing Times Nurse Leader award in recognition of her work at the QNI. Crystal is also the Governing Body Nurse of Aylesbury Clinical Commissioning Group, with a particular interest in quality assurance and the transformation of primary and community services to meet the national agenda of care being delivered closer to home. The QNI is a charity founded in 1887 and originally trained District Nurses to treat patients in their own homes. Today it offers a wide range of support to all nurses who work in the community, through financial assistance and scholarships, policy, campaigns, events and publications. The QNI believes that high quality nursing should be available for everyone, where and when they need it: www.qni.org.uk

Murna Downs, PhD, University of Bradford, UKMyrna Downs-jan-2012

Professor Murna Downs is Chair in Dementia Studies and Head of the School of Dementia Studies at the University of Bradford, a leading centre of excellence in research, education, training and consultancy in dementia care. She has published on a range of topics from early diagnosis through to end of life care, most recently on transitions in dementia care, emphasising the importance of attending to the perspective of people living with dementia and their families. Murna’s research is currently focused on developing and testing interventions to improve care in care homes. She co-directs the University’s Alzheimer’s Society funded Doctoral Training Centre on dementia care and services research, ‘Transitions in dementia care’. She is co-editor of the highly commended textbook Excellence in dementia care: Research into practice and is series editor of the Jessica Kingsley Good Practice Guides on Dementia Care. Murna is on the editorial board of several journals, a member of the Dementia Expert Advisory Group for Health Education England, the National Institute for Health Research Portfolio Development Group for Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Research Strategy Council of the Alzheimer’s Society. She is an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society, social care adviser to Alzheimer Europe and is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. http://www.bradford.ac.uk/health/dementia/

Cees Smit, dr. h.c., Netherlands

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Cees Smit (1951) studied business economics at the Free University in Amsterdam. From 1978 till now, he has been member of the research project ‘Haemophilia in The Netherlands’ at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). From 1987 till 1998 he was co-ordinator of the Netherlands Haemophilia Society, from 1998 till 2002, he worked in the mental health area. In January, 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the college of deans of the University of Amsterdam in recognition for his work on patient participation, haemophilia and medical biotechnology. In recent years, he wrote several books on ageing with chronic diseases, like haemophilia and hiv. ‘Ageing with haemophilia’, was published in English in 2007. The book ‘Ageing with hiv’ is written in Dutch and was published on December 1, 2009 during World Aids Day. In September 2015, he published together with Annemarie de Knecht – van Eekelen the book ‘De macht van de patiënt, baas over je eigen ziekte’. The book is so far only available in Dutch, but the English title would be ‘The power of the patient, boss of your own disease’. One of the issues discussed in this book is the increasing cooperation between patients, researchers and industry in the drug development process (Patient 3.0). For further information: info@smitvisch.nl,  www.smitvisch.nl

Helena Leino-Kilpi, PhD, RN, Turku University, Finland

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Helena Leino-Kilpi is professor and chair, Head of the Department, University of Turku, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing Science and Nurse director (part-time), Turku University Hospital. She is a registered nurse, master in educational sciences and PhD in nursing science. Her clinical expertise has been in intensive care nursing. Since 1990s, she has been working in the University. Her main teaching area is health care and nursing ethics, as well as research methods and supervision of PhD-students. She has supervised more than 50 graduated PhDs in nursing science and has been chairing the Finnish National Doctoral Network in Nursing Science since 2007. Her research is in three main areas: 1) health care ethics, 2) clinical nursing, especially patient education and quality of care, and 3) health care and nursing education, especially in competence of professionals. She has participated and chaired many international research projects, also funded by European Commission. In health care ethics, her interest has been in empirical and clinical ethics. She has produced knowledge in the field of patients’ rights, ethical competence of professionals and ethics education. and She has published around 450 scientific, referee-based publications. She has had/has many international academic duties, like research evaluations in different universities, memberships in advisory boards, tasks in research associations and memberships in editorial boards.

Marieke Schuurmans, PhD, University  Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Marieke J. Schuurmans professor and chair in Nursing Science UMC Utrecht and professor of Care for older people University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht.  She worked over ten years as a clinical nurse specialist in geriatric medicine and is expert in complex nursing care for older people. In her  PhDstudy she developed the Delirium Observation Screening (DOS) Scale which is nowadays part of regular nursing care in Dutch hospitals and which is translated in numerous languages. Her current research focuses on daily functioning of older people with multimorbidity. Some of her recent grants (combined funding 4000 K€):  the TASTE programme, research on selfmanagement in multmorbid patients; the HELP study, a multicenter study to evaluate cost-effectiveness of a nurse-led inhospital program to prevent delirium;   the  U PROFIT study, a clinical trial in 90 primary care practices to evaluate comprehensive geriatric care and the PROFIEL study, an epidemiological longitudinal cohort study in 550 older people targeting bio, psycho, social determinants of functional decline. Marieke Schuurmans is responsible for the Nursing Science Master Program of the University Utrecht (annual graduation forty five students) and supervises twenty PhD students.  She is a member of the Dutch Health Council, chair of the research committee of the National Association of Nurses and a fellow of the European Association of Nursing Scientists. She has published over sixty peer-reviewed papers, over forty practice publications and contributed to more than twenty books. In the last fifteen years she gave over a hundred lectures on national and international conferences. Since 2013 she is Chief Nursing Officer.

Theo van Achterberg, PhD,  University of Leuven, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Belgiumtheo_van_achterberg

Theo van Achterberg is a health scientist, nurse and epidemiologist. He is Professor of Quality of Care, and head of the Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, at KU Leuven, Belgium. Patient Safety and Health Promotion & Disease Adjustment are main themes in his scientific work. Theo van Achterberg is a fellow and board member of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS) and a community leader within Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (STTI).

 

Marit Kirkevold, EdD, Head of Department of Nursing Science, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway

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”A major thrust of my research has been on personal experiences of stress and coping among persons with acute and chronic conditions, in particular persons with stroke. In recent years, I have moved into intervention research with the goal of translating the knowledge gained through qualitative studies into improved care. Another major research area has been directed towards caring for old people, particularly in long term care. An important interest has been quality improvement and I am proud to have been involved in the establishment of the Norwegian Teaching Nursing Home Movement, of which there are currently 20 across Norway (and another 20 Teaching Home Care Service Units as well). I have been involved in a number of studies aimed at practice/quality improvement in hospitals and in community care, including IKT developmental studies. The last five years, I have directed the multiprofessional and interdisciplinary Research Centre for Habilitation and Rehabilitation Models & Services (CHARM), focusing on rehabilitation services research across different user groups.”

Martin van Rijn, State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport, Netherlands

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Martin van Rijn joined the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning in 1980. He held a number of policy and managerial positions within the Directorate-General for Housing, including head of the advisory section, head of the Inspectorate of Housing Associations and director of Finance, Strategy and Control. In 1995 he was appointed Deputy Director-General, with responsibility for developing urban policy and policy on the subsidised rental sector.  In 2000 he was appointed Director-General for Management and Personnel Policy at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, with responsibility for conditions of employment policy for the public sector and modernising the civil service. From 2003 to 2008 he was Director-General for Health Care at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, where he was responsible for reforming the healthcare system. On 1 January 2008, Mr Van Rijn was appointed chairman of the management board of PGGM, an organisation which administers pensions for the care and welfare sector. On 5 November 2012 Mr Van Rijn was appointed State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport in the Rutte-Asscher government.