Donna Guerra, EdD, MSN, RN
Donna Guerra currently serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Guerra holds a Doctorate of Education in Instructional Leadership with a nursing education focus from the University of Alabama. Dr. Guerra has clinical experience in perioperative nursing, wound care nursing, and quality management. She has been a nurse educator for four years and has published on the implementation of health informatics in nursing education curricula. Her research interest is nursing education with a focus on learning outcomes translation to nursing practice.
Jasline Moreno, MSN, RN, CHSE
Jasline Moreno is the faculty lead for the Maryland Clinical Resource Consortium (MCSRC). MCSRC is a statewide funding initiative under the auspices of the Nurse Support Program II and the Maryland Higher Education Commission. The initiative provides simulation education for Maryland’s 25 pre-licensure nursing programs, and hospital educators to increase the quality and quantity of simulation used in nursing education. She serves on the International Nursing Association of Simulation and Learning’s membership committee and is an active member of the Maryland Community and College Simulation Users Network.
Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, FNAP, ANEF, FAAN
Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, FNAP, ANEF, FAAN, was appointed as Chief Nurse Executive- Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Nursing at University of Delaware on August 1, 2020. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Speakman was the Associate Provost for Interprofessional and Tele-health Education and Professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Dr. Speakman also held faculty and administrative appointments at Thomas Jefferson University, as Professor in the Jefferson College of Nursing and Co-Director of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education Center, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Dean of the RN-BSN program in the Jefferson College of Nursing. Dr. Speakman is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education, Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow.
Dr. Speakman work has been widely recognized both nationally and internationally. She authored two books Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care in Nursing Education (recipient of AJN 2nd place Book-of-the-Year Award), and Body Fluids and Electrolytes: and has been a contributing author in numerous books serves as a curriculum expert and consultant with over 150 national and international presentations. Dr. Speakman served two three-year terms as a Board of Governor for the National League for Nursing and was awarded the Louise McManus Medal for Distinguish Service to Nursing Education and inducted into Columbia University Nursing Hall of Fame for her Extraordinary Contribution to Nursing and Health Care. Dr. Speakman received a BS in Nursing from Wagner College, New York and her Master Degree and Doctorate in Nursing from Columbia University and a Certificate in Healthcare Education from the Harvard-Macy Institute at Harvard University.
Amber Young-Brice, PhD, RN, CNE
Dr. Young-Brice is an Assistant Professor in Nursing and program director of the Teaching Certificate for Nurse Educators program at Marquette University. She holds a master’s degree in nursing education and PhD in nursing and is a certified nurse educator. She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels since 2008. In addition to her full-time teaching role, from 2015-2019, Dr. Young-Brice did educational development for the university, performing individual and group consultations, discussions on best practices in higher education, and offered programs specifically for clinical and practicing faculty. She continues this role within her college of nursing working as a new faculty mentor and conducting programming for onboarding all new faculty. Dr. Young-Brice’s program of pedagogical research explores the relationship between the influence of non-cognitive factors and the successful trajectory of students. Additionally, she studies ways to foster these factors through theoretically derived and evidence-informed pedagogical innovations. Her research is grounded in her expertise as an educator and underpinned by theories from nursing, education, and cognitive and social sciences. She is the 2018 NLN Ruth Donnelly Corcoran Research Award recipient.