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Don de Silva, Director, Changeways International: Don de Silva is an internationally-renowned information technology and multi-media specialist, environmentalist, author and journalist. Experienced in creating, managing and implementing exciting multi-media, information communication and technology programmes, in well over 80 countries. He took part in the environmental campaign, which led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). First journalist to write on the relevance of environmental issues for the developing countries. With UNEP, he initiated global campaigns to create awareness about environment and sustainable development. He has created award-winning internet websites, particularly on human rights and also business enterprise. Articles published in over 450 blue-chip papers throughout the world. Publications include: "Conservation Measures in China"; "Against All Odds" (grassroot environmental action); and "Banking the Unbankable" (micro-credit schemes). [http://www.changeways.net]
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Larry Dossey, MD: Dr. Dossey is the Executive Editor of EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, which addresses the scientific principles behind, and applications of, evidence-based healing practices from a wide variety of sources, including conventional, alternative, and cross-cultural medicine. He lectures widely in the United States and abroad and is an eloquent spokesperson to anchor the "holistic health movement" in a model that both scientifically respectable and at the same time, answers to human inner spiritual needs. He has published numerous articles and is the author of ten books, including Reinventing Medicine (1999), Healing Beyond the Body (2001), and The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things (2006). [http://www.explorejournal.com]
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Cyril Richie, Chairman, International Civil Society Forum for Democracy (ICSFD): Cyril Ritchie 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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Doris Grinspun, Executive Director, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO): Doris Grinspun is a native of Chile and also an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto; an adjunct professor at the School of Nursing, York University; an associate member of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto; an affiliate member of the Centre for Health Studies at York University; and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CERLAC) at York University. She has worked extensively on many international projects in Latin and Central America, China and most recently India. She is a forceful advocate of the Canadian health-care system and of the contribution of registered nurses to its success. In 2003, Grinspun was invested with the Order of Ontario. The award was created by the Government of Ontario to recognize the highest level of individual excellence and achievement in any field.
[http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=682]
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Dr. Yinong Chong: As Director of the Traditional Chinese International Institute (TCCII) based in Beijing and in Washington, Dr. Yinong Chong provides strategic advise to NIGH regarding the establishment of major initiatives in China and Asia. She is co-author of the guided meditation CD Touched by the Tao: Classical Chinese Meditation for Health and Healing, and an author of the book and DVD set: Dancing in the Tao: Connecting to Universal Energy to Transform Your Health and Life. Dr. Chong has more than 10 years of professional experience as a health scientist with the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Chong earned her PhD in Sociology from the Arizona State University and her MA in Journalism from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has a BS in English Literature from Beijing University.
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Rabia Mathai, Dr. PH, MPH, MS, PhD: Dr. Mathai is Senior Vice President for Global Program Policy and Planning of the Catholic Medical Missions Board, focusing exclusively on international health care, particularly the well-being of women and children. She works collaboratively, without discrimination, to deliver solutions to the HIV/AIDS pandemic from Africa to Asia, treat tuberculosis in Zambia, and provide primary health care in Latin America and the Caribbean. The global initiatives she has overseen include recruitment and placement of medical volunteers, medicine and medical supply shipments, emergency relief, and training grants for in-country primary health-care workers. [http://www.cmmb.org ]
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Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN: Dr. Watson is a widely-published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia and a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden. Throughout the world, clinical and academic nursing programs use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing. She is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center.[http://www2.uchsc.edu/son/caring/content/ ]
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Reverend Professor Stephen G. Wright. RN RCNT RNT DipN DANS RPTT MSc FRCN MBE Faculty of Health and Social Care, St. Martin’s College, Lancaster: Prof Wright is the Founding Editor: “Spirituality and Health International” and the Chairman of The Sacred Space Foundation. He has a long and distinguished history in British nursing. In the 1980’s, he emerged as one of the UK’s leaders in a movement which became known as “new nursing.” He was the first consultant nurse in the NHS in the UK, a prolific author, journalist and conference and course speaker. He received the highest honours from the RCN and the Queen for his work, which latterly included developing nursing services in eastern and central Europe. Prof Wright currently works as a journalist and editorial adviser to Nursing Standard, the UK’s biggest circulation professional nursing journal. [http://www.sacredspace.org.uk ]
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Louise Selanders, EdD, RN, FAAN: Dr. Selanders is an internationally recognized nurse historian who passionately believes that the history of nursing offers answers to current and future issues of nursing education, practice and research. She has co-authored the award winning volume Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action (2005) which details how solutions identified and implemented by Nightingale can be effective in resolving issues such as global health, managed care and the nursing shortage. She is a Professor in the College of Nursing at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Each summer, she offers a challenging study-tour abroad in London to focus on the origins of modern nursing and to further understand the current status of nursing in the United Kingdom and the United States. [http://www.louiseselanders.com ]
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Sharon Weinstein, MS, RN, CRNI, FAAN: Ms. Weinstein specializes in workforce-related issues impacting healthcare delivery, globalization, nurse-physician collaboration, safety and wellness. She is the former Executive Director of The Premier Foundation where she directed Premier’s international efforts for 9 years in over 24 countries. Since 1980, she has led exchange programs to the People’s Republic of China, the former Soviet Union, Hungary, Germany, France, Austria, Japan and Egypt. A recipient of the Dr. Thomas Frist Humanitarian Award, she is the author of 6 textbooks, has also published over 150 manuscripts in peer-review journals and is a well-known national and international speaker. [http://www.corelimited.com ]
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Jo Ellen Koerner, PhD, RN, FAAN: Jo Ellen Koerner received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) Institute for Patient Care Research & Education. She is the author of 60 articles and Mother, Heal My Self (Crestport Press) a memoir about her daughter’s near-death experience and connecting with a Native American Healer. She is a founder of the Healing Web, a collaborative education-service model that facilitates service learning in the community. Recently, she has been working in the private sector developing health programs for congregate living communities. JoEllen is a Principal of Makoce: Whole Earth Health, an interdisciplinary, transcultural-healing community focused on integration of body, mind, spirit and environment. [http://www.nurseweek.com/5min/JoEllenKoerner.asp]
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