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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH
2022 Board of Directors

	President	Cathleen Wheatley, DNP, RN, CENP, FAAN (January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) President Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Winston-Salem, NC
	President-Elect	Victoria Niederhauser, DrPH, RN, PPCNP-BC, FAAN (January 1, 2022-December 31, 2022) Dean & Professor, College of Nursing University of Tennessee Knoxville Knoxville, TN
	Secretary	Colleen Leners, DNP, APRN, FAAN, FAANP (January 1, 2022-December 31, 2023) Director of Policy AACN Arlington, VA
	Treasurer	Laura Wood, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN (January 1, 2022-December 31, 2023) EVP Patient Care Operations & System CNO Sporing Carpenter Chair for Nursing Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, MA
	Board of Directors	Cyrus Batheja, EdD, MBA, BSN, PHN, RN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Vice President, Policy and Clinical Solutions United Healthcare Minnetonka, MN
	Board of Directors	Jean E. Davis, PhD, RN, FAAN (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) PhD Program Director and Professor University of South Carolina College of Nursing Columbia, SC
	Board of Directors	Christina Dempsey, DNP, MBA, RN, CNOR, CENP, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) South Bend, IN
	Board of Directors	LCDR Gideon Esuzor, MBA, MSN, RN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Program Manager Defense Health Agency Vienna, VA
	Board of Directors	Janie Heath PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) Dean and Warwick Professor of Nursing University of Kentucky College of Nursing Lexington, KY
	Board of Directors	Ronald Hickman, Jr., PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FNAP, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Nurse Practitioner and Professor Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
	Board of Directors	Shela Kaneshiro, MBA, RN, BSN, FACHE, NEA-BC (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer MemorialCare Shared Services Fountain Valley, CA
	Board of Directors	Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Centennial Professor of Nursing; Chief Talent & Global Strategy Officer The Ohio State University College of Nursing Columbus, OH
	Board of Directors	Teri Murray, PhD, PHNA-BC, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Professor, Dean Emerita Saint Louis University Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing St. Louis, MO
	Board of Directors	Adey Nyamathi, ANP, PhD, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Distinguished Professor and Founding Dean Emeritus School of Nursing University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA
	Board of Directors	Carol Porter, DNP, RN, FAAN (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) Chief Nursing Officer Senior Vice President, Nursing Practice University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
	Board of Directors	Diane Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Dean and Associate Professor University of Texas Health Science Center Houston Cizik School of Nursing Houston, TX
	Board of Directors	Kelli Saucerman-Howard, DNP, RN (1st term: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023) Vice President of Patient Care Services/CNO Creighton University Medical Center Elkhorn, NE
	Board of Directors	Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN (1st term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) President Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise USA San Marcos, CA
	Board of Directors	Roy L. Simpson, DNP, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, FACMI (2nd term: January 1, 2021-December 31, 2022) Clinical Professor, Assistant Dean, Information Technology Management Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University Atlanta, GA
	Board Liaison	Yvonne Bryan, PhD Senior Advisor to the NINR Director National Institute of Nursing Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
	Executive Director	Laura Singler, CAE Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Lexington, KY