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As an RN for nearly 20 years, and a nurse practitioner for nearly nine, I bring to my doctoral studies many years of practice in urban healthcare settings. As a new doctoral student, my area of interest is cancer symptomatology; more specifically, I am interested in investigating neutraceuticals and their effect on the symptoms associated with cancer and cancer treatment. I would like to begin with the well-known spice ginger and it’s potential as an adjunct for chemotherapy-related nausea. If this rhizome can accrue the positive data behind it, it would provide a low-cost adjunct to the worldwide problem of chemotherapy-induced nausea. My research training has involved working with Dr Jean Davis in 2005 on her research, “Exercise and Sleep: A Clinical Trial in Menopausal Women” and I am currently working with Dr Maher El-Masri at the University of Windsor on a study evaluating cancer screening avoidance behaviors.

Lt Col Jacqueline Killian was commissioned in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, August 1991, and was assigned to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Brook Army Medical Center. She served as staff nurse, charge nurse, grief counselor and transport team member. Upon completing her first tour, she left the Army and worked five years in the civilian sector as a NICU staff nurse, a disability case manager, and an outpatient clinic staff nurse at Malmstrom Air Force Base. In December 2000, she entered the Air Force Nurse Corps and served at Lajes Air Base, Azores, Portugal, as clinical staff nurse in the Flight Medicine/Family Practice clinics. In August 2003, Lt Col Killian transferred to the Multi-Care Ward, Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi, where she worked as a staff nurse and assistant nurse manager before being assigned as the nurse manager for the Flight Medicine clinic, which evacuated 192 patients immediately following Hurricane Katrina. Lt Col Killian was then selected to obtain a Master’s in Nursing Education, was transferred to Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, VA, attended Hampton University and obtained her MSN. She was then assigned as Education & Training flight commander at the Mike O’Callaghan Federal Hospital, Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada. She is presently pursuing a PhD in Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Senator Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing. Lt Col Killian is married to Matthew, and they have three wonderful children, Jacob, Stephanie and Nicholas.

I have 14+ years of nursing experience includes critical care, diabetes and hemodialysis patients’ care in civilian nursing include military nursing. I earned my BSN at University of New York and currently I am taking DNP/FNP in Uniformed Services University as Army active personnel. I am a member of the American Nurses Association-Military, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and 38th Parallel Nurse Society. Through my bedside nursing role, I have been taking care of patients that affected by their sexual abuses through their life. I believe that nursing is a holistic care that considers not only the physical aspects of a patient’s illness, but the emotional and spiritual aspects as well. Based on my clinical experiences, I am ready for future research in Sexual Trauma in the military involved in community health.

My name is Susan Kioko. I was born in Nairobi, Kenya and mothered by a registered nurse. Trained as a nurse in Kenya, my mother left the hospital wards soon after graduation and went into the community with her practice. She opened two donation-based clinics in poor, underserved communities, recruiting the financial support for basic health supplies and medication. I had my first nursing job at the age of seven, assisting my mother with community immunizations. These early training days are responsible for my involvement with community health initiatives during my secondary school and college years. Using a reconstructed medical van, we traveled to underserved communities throughout Kenya, providing immunizations, basic care, and health education. During this time I was also teaching at an HIV/AIDS children’s orphanage. I currently work as a charge nurse on a surgical unit. In this role I have developed and led initiatives to improve central line management and depression screening post-MI. I am a member of the hospital outcomes committee, through which I review specific patient cases and identify areas of improvement. I am pursuing a doctorate in nursing science having realized that my passion extends beyond clinical practice and into health care systems development in Kenya. My research interest is in the development of advanced practice nursing in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Kenya. I believe that the World Health Organization task shifting model for the management of HIV/AIDS in this region can be a catalyst for the development of advanced practice nursing.

I am enrolled in the PhD Nursing Program at Seton Hall University. My dissertation topic is Spiritual Care in Acute Care Nursing, and concerns preparing nurses to provide spiritual care. I plan to continue conducting research in the area of spiritual care as it applies to community health and various populations such as the elderly, healthcare providers, and nursing students. My interests include exploring effects of prayer and spiritual well-being in the healing process, and facilitating the integration of evidence-based teaching strategies to enhance the quality of nursing education. With over 20 years of experience as a Critical Care Registered Nurse and 5 years as a nurse manager, I am really passionate about excellence in nursing education and practice. Currently, as a lecturer, clinical instructor, and coordinator for clinical placement at SUNY Downstate College of Nursing, my goal is to be on the cutting edge in my delivery of nursing education in preparing future nursing leaders, educators, and clinicians. My service commitments include membership on Centerwide Faculty Development Committee, the Nursing Research Council, the CON Curriculum Committee, and Chairperson for CON Program Evaluation and Faculty Development Committee. I have previously served on the Education Policy Committee, the CON Technology Committee, Admission & Recruitment Committee, and have been a project mentor in the NYU Leadership Institute for Black Nurses. Other leadership roles include: spearheaded Faith Based Food Pantry and Feeding Program in undeserved community, Facilitator of ENY Children Music Education Program and Director for Family Ministries.