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Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN: NIGH International Co-Director: Dr. Beck is a nurse, Nightingale scholar, author, multi-media specialist and global ambassador for the worldwide nursing community — who recently represented nurses at the World Health Organization and at a United Nations Conference in Doha, Qatar. On behalf of nursing and health promotion issues, she has also lectured, networked and traveled widely, across the world, including, in Turkey, where she co-sponsored an "International Tribute to Florence Nightingale at Scutari" at the United Nations Habitiat II Summit in Istanbul. As co-author of Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action (2005) and numerous related articles and book chapters, Dr. Beck has contributed new scholarship on Nightingale's extensive international work, recommending how Nightingale's legacy can further inform and strengthen 21st century nursing practice.
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Barbara M. Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN: NIGH International Co-Director and Director, Holistic Nursing Consultants: Dr. Dossey is the world's foremost living nurse biographer of Florence Nightingale and is also internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing movement. She is the recipient of numerous awards and has authored or co-authored 23 books including Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer (2000) and Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action (2005) and numerous related articles and book chapters. The focus of Dr. Dossey's work is holistic nursing, compassionate care of the dying, and the impact of Florence Nightingale’s life and work on contemporary nursing and humankind.
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Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN: NIGH International Co-Director: Dr.Rushton is a frequent national and international speaker and consultant and the recipient of numerous awards, including, in 2006, the prestigious selection as a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellowship. She is widely-published in a variety of nursing and interdisciplinary journals and books. Her expertise encompasses ethical issues in clinical practice, ethical issues unique to nursing, palliative and end-of-life care, ethics consultation, renewal and resilence for clinicans. Rushton is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (Baltimore, MD, USA) and on faculty at the University's Berman Institute of Bioethics. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students in bioethics, Dr. Rushton is also a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Ethics and Program Director of the Harriet Lane Compassionate Care (HLCC) Program at The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
http://www.son.jhmi.edu/aboutus/directory/faculty/faculty_detail.asp?ID=599
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Wayne Kines: NIGH Director, Global Communications: Has as worked and lived across Canada and — for the United Nations — in New York City, Geneva, Switzerland, and Nairobi, Kenya. He has advised and collaborated with many UN Agencies on evolving worldwide communications and “mobilizing global public opinion” strategies. Tapping this background, he is the primary architect of NIGH’s grassroots-to-global Signature Campaign and the related proposed United Nations General Assembly Resolutions, the 2010 International Year of the Nurse and the 2010-2020 UN Decade for a Healthy World. Wayne Kines is co-founder of the World Media Institute (WMI), a network and fellowship of professional communicators devoted to the emergence of global citizenship and has also organized world media seminars on health, heritage, rural development, human settlements, and water and ocean pollution.
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Phalakshi V. Manjrekar, M.Sc.N: currently Nursing Director at P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center in Mumbai, India. She specializes in cardiothoracic nursing. She has planned and implemented effective health policies in various hospital projects and established nursing divisions. Phalakshi Manjrekar is a member for accreditation in hospitals and has presented papers at various national nursing congresses. She is a passionate advocate for issues such as: management of infectious diseases, particularly, AIDS and tuberculosis in hospitals; prevention of infectious diseases in slum children; prevention of needle stick injuries in nurses; primary health care in the tribal communities; disaster management; and emphasising “registered nursing practice” as a national issue.
http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net/nursing-and-armed-conflct/phalakshi
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Jane Sun: Has a Master Degree certified by Beijing University on the subject of Executive Master Business Administration. She works as senior management consultant supporting her clients in the area of overseas business developments, partnering and inwards investment management. In 2005, she initiated partnership cooperation between the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the Chinese Nursing Association and the Beijing Nightingale Consultation of Culture to co-develop a training program, which focused on leadership and management skills to support excellence in clinical practices and create better working lives of nurses in China. She is inspired to share her passion with the Chinese nurses to improve the quality of life for nurses and health for the public. She is currently she was involved in the Health China, Health World project.
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Cyril Ritchie: First Vice President of the Congress of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGO) of the United Nations: has held leadership roles in major international organisations. These include the Conference of Economic and Social Council NGOs, the International Council of Voluntary Agencies, the International Schools Association, the International Year of the Child NGO Committee, and the (then) League of Red Cross Societies, the UNICEF NGO Committee, and NGO Committees for several UN Conferences. He is currently active in the Federation of International Institutions in Geneva, the International John Knox Centre, and the Union of International Associations. He also chairs the International Civil Society Forum for Democracy (ICSFD) and the Environmental Liaison Centre International, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
http://www.elci.org/
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Dionne Sinclair, RN, BScN, D.O.H.S., MScN, CPMHN(c), immigrated to Canada from Jamaica with her family in the 1970s. As a teen, she rose to the rank of Lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps and used the training and discipline she learned to start her nursing and leadership career. With over 23 years of clinical nursing, Dionne has worked across the Canadian health care continuum — from an Acute Care Teaching hospital to establishing and administering an all-services health facility at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre. She is currently the (acting) Manager of Quality Improvement at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. Dionne has accepted to participate in a Graduate Internship with the World Health Organization. She is keen to set up a project to turn “child solders” to become nurses and medical assistants.
http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net/news/sinclair
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Eleanor Kibrick, MSc: NIGH Director, Program Development: Ms. Kibrick has been an educator, conference organizer and workshop leader for over 35 years. She has lived and worked around the world, across the United States and Canada, and in Europe, India, South East Asia and Japan. With a team of colleagues, she worked in Brussels and New Delhi to help produce the International Exposition of Rural Development in India in 1984. As an educator, Eleanor has taught physiology to undergraduate and graduate nurses and other health professionals. With her colleague, Deva-Marie Beck, she created a “Care for the Caregivers” series of workshops, designed to “promote a culture of caring” for health professionals.
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Betsy Lehrfeld, JD: NIGH Legal Council: Ms. Lehrfeld is a partner in Swankin & Turner, a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in health issues and consumer standards. Since 1990, she has been Executive Director of the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy, a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization that conducts research, publishing and demonstration programs in food and health policy and sustainable agriculture.
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William Rolph, MLS: NIGH Director, Information Management: Mr. Rolph has a long history of volunteer work with local and international organizations, emphasizing inter-racial and inter-faith relations and local development. He has worked in Ontario, Canada, in the Greater Washington, DC area, and abroad in Belgium and India. He has participated in service projects in Europe and India with the Institute of Cultural Affairs International and The Vanguard for Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India). His career spans 35 years of managing, coordinating, and organizing information environments in business, and for government agencies, and non-profit organizations.
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