Cathleen Wheatley, DNP, RN, CENP
(1st term January 1, 2021-December 31, 2021)
President, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
& Sr. Vice President of Clinical Operations
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Winston-Salem, NC

Connie W. Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP
(January 1, 2021-December 31, 2021) 
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Victoria Niederhauser, DrPH, RN, PPCNP-BC, FAAN
(2nd term January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021)
Dean & Professor, College of Nursing
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

 Treasurer

Cindy L. Munro, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FAAAS
(2nd term January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021)
Dean & Professor, School of Nursing & Health Studies
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

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

Christina Dempsey, DNP, MBA, RN, CNOR, CENP, FAAN
(1^st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022)
Chief Nursing Officer Emerita
Press Ganey Associates, LLC.  
South Bend, IN

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

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

Shela Kaneshiro, CNO MBA, RN, BSN, NEA-BC, CPHQ
(1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022)
V.P. Patient Care Services
MemorialCare - Orange Coast Medical Center
Fountain Valley, CA

Colleen Leners, DNP, APRN, FAAN, FAANP
(1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022)
Director of Policy
AACN
Arlington, VA

Jerry A. Mansfield, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
(2nd term January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021)
Chief Nursing Officer 
Mount Carmel Health System
Columbus, OH

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

Linda D. Norman, DSN, RN, FAAN
(2nd term January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021)
Dean & Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Nashville, TN

Adey Nyamathi, ANP, PhD, FAAN
(1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022)
Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor
School of Nursing University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

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

Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN
(1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022)
Senior Advisor, Informatics
HIMSS
San Marcos, CA

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

Sandra J. Weiss, PhD, DNSc, FAAN
(2nd term January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021)
Professor & Eschbach Endowed Chair
UCSF School of Nursing
Co-Director, UCSF Depression Center
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Laura Wood, DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC
(1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022)
Senior Vice President, Patient Care Operations, Chief Nursing Officer, Sporing Carpenter Chair for Nursing
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA

Yvonne Bryan, PhD
Senior Advisor to the NINR Director 
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD