About FNINR

FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH
2021 Board of Directors

	President	Cathleen Wheatley, DNP, RN, CENP (1st term January 1, 2021-December 31, 2021) President, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center WFBH System Chief Nurse Executive, Sr. Vice President of Clinical Operations Wake Forest Baptist Health Winston-Salem, NC
	Past President	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
	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
	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 (1^st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Chief Nursing Officer Emerita Press Ganey Associates, LLC. South Bend, IN
	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, 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
	Board of Directors	Colleen Leners, DNP, APRN, FAAN, FAANP (1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Director of Policy AACN Arlington, VA
	Board of Directors	Jerry A. Mansfield, PhD, RN, NEA-BC (2nd term January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021) Chief Nursing Officer Mount Carmel Health System 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	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
	Board of Directors	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
	Board of Directors	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
	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	Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN (1st term January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022) Senior Advisor, Informatics HIMSS 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 of Directors	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
	Board of Directors	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
	Board Liaison	Yvonne Bryan, PhD Senior Advisor to the NINR Director National Institute of Nursing Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
	Executive Director	Liz Fossett, CAE Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Lexington, KY