7th ESNO CONGRESS

Fiona Timmins PhD, MSc, MA, FFNRCSI, FAAN, BNS, BSc (Open Health & Social Care), BA (Open), RNT, RGN

Dr Timmins is Professor of Nursing, Dean, and Head of School at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is Editor in Chief of the Public Health Nursing Journal and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Advanced Nursing. She is a competent researcher who has led several interdisciplinary, international research teams over a 25-year period.
As one of the first nurse academics in Ireland to hold an international Editor in Chief position, Dr Timmins has 15 years of high-level editing experience, including representation on several international Editorial Boards. She has published numerous papers, with 255 peer-reviewed papers listed in Scopus. Most of these (70%) represent collaborations with colleagues, from China, Canada, Portugal, Greece and the UK among others. This has meant a meaningful contribution to international debates and policy within nursing and healthcare. Her field weighted citation impact is 2.52. Within the last five years 27.3% of her publications were in the top 10% most cited worldwide. 61.3% were in the top 10% of Journals worldwide and 72% of her peer-reviewed publications were with international colleagues. Her publications have received more than 3000 recorded citations. She has written or co-authored 11 textbooks.
She is currently the top author in the subject of Nursing, within Ireland. Her research lies within two distinct but overlapping themes: teaching and learning and professional nursing issues. She has presented widely on these topics: more than 250 international conferences papers, with research replicated widely across the globe. Her H-index (Scopus) is 31

Wendy Budin, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN

is Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at Rutgers University, School of Nursing, Newark, NJ, USA. Prior to joining Rutgers, she served as Director of Nursing Research at NYU Langone Medical Center and held a faculty appointment at New York University College of Nursing. Dr. Budin is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Perinatal Education (JPE), a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), past president of the Eastern Nursing Research Society and serves on the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research. Dr. Budin brings 50 years of rich academic, administrative and clinical experience. Her accomplishments focus on advocacy in the health policy arena, where she has helped advance standards of care for women, families, and professionals.

Susan Gennaro,RN, PhD, FAAN Professor

Dr. Susan Gennaro is a Professor of the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College.

Dr. Gennaro’s research focuses on the improvement of perinatal health and has been conducted in the U.S., Malawi and Uganda. Most recently, with a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Dean Gennaro is co-leading a study that examines how best to improve health behaviors in pregnant women. She has also completed a study investigating mechanisms underlying preterm birth in minority women at Jacobi Medical Center, New York and in Austin, Texas, also funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research.Dr. Gennaro’s long history of funding from the National Institute of Health (for over 20 years) has also focused on improving nursing education through innovative programs to increase the number of nurse scientists from a minority background trained to work with vulnerable populations.As the founder of the evidence-based practice program at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, her goal is to translate research into clinical practice internationally.Dr. Gennaro has served as a member of the Center for Excellence in Research and National Federation of Nursing Professional Orders (CERSI-FNOPI) International Expert Panel for the national AIDOMUS project since 2022 and before that has served as an international nurse scientist for the Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship in Rome.

Dr. Gennaro is the editor of Sigma Theta Tau’sJournal of Nursing Scholarship, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, was a McClure Scholar at New York University Medical Center, was a member of the National Advisory Council for NINR, is on the National Advisory Committee for the March of Dimes and is a Distinguished Alumna at the UAB School of Nursing and at LeMoyne College. Dr. Gennaro has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to maternal and child health by the Distinguished Service Award of the association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP(H) is Director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland Ohio where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also a Distinguished University Professor at CWRU. She earned a BSN (Georgetown University), an MS in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (The Ohio State University), a PhD in Nursing (New York University), and an MBA (CWRU). In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing, and in 2020 she was appointed a Distinguished University Professor at CWRU.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 400 publications, including more than 85 books. She has received the AJN Book of the Year Award 22 times. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26. She is editor of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its 4^th edition, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Nursing Education. In 2021, with Dr. Mary Beth Modic, she published a children’s book titled Luminaries of the Past: Stories of Fifty Extraordinary Nurses.

From 1997-99 she served as President of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). From 2010-2015 she served as Board Chair of the American Nurses Foundation (ANF), the philanthropic arm of the American Nurses Association.

She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981, Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in 2018. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 20 times; the Midwest Nursing Research Society Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award; The Ohio State University Distinguished Alumna Award; Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Founders Award for Excellence in Nursing Research; and New York University Division of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award. In 1993 she was selected as a participant for Leadership Cleveland. Dr. Fitzpatrick received the ANF Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science Award for sustained commitment and contributions to development of the discipline (2002). Other national awards have included: STTI Lucie Kelly Mentor Award (2003); STTI Founders Award for Leadership (2005); Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork, Cork, Ireland (2007-2008); Midwest Nursing Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2010); INANE Editors Award (2013). In 2014 Dr. Fitzpatrick was inducted into the STTI Research Hall of Fame Award. In 2016 she was named a Living Legend by AAN and in 2018 she received the prestigious ANA Jessie M. Scott award that recognizes leadership in demonstrating the interdependence between nursing education, practice and research. In June 2019 she was awarded the International Council of Nurses and Florence Nightingale Foundation International Achievement Award recognizing her contribution to advancing international nursing education through research, innovative conceptual models and theory development.

András Tivadar Kulja 

András Tivadar Kulja is a Hungarian surgeon, accomplished digital health expert, and politician of the Tisza Party, elected as member of the European Parliament on June 2024. His social media posts and videos on health education in several platforms, especially on TikTok, with over 100 million views, prevailed during the Covid-19 pandemic, in an attempt to fight disinformation. Former Lecturer of Health and Science Communication at Semmelweis University, András is now serving as the Vice-Chair in the Committee of Environment, Health and Food Safety (ENVI) of the European Parliament, and Vice-Coordinatoor for the biggest political group, European People’s Party (EPP), in the Public Health Committee (SANT). He is also a substitute member in the Committee of the European Parliament on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL).

JUDITH SHAMIAN, RN, PhD, LLD (hon), D.Sci (hon), FAAN,FCAN

JUDITH SHAMIAN, RN, PhD, LLD (hon), D.Sci (hon), FAAN,FCAN, was the 27thPresident of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), also is past president and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) the largest home care organization in Canada. Dr. Shamian is pastpresident of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). She is also a professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, Advisory Board member at the Marian K. Shaughnessy nurse leadership academyat Case Western Reserve, Cleveland Ohio, andthe founding executive director of the Office of Nursing Policy at Health Canada and recipient of four Honorary Doctorates among numerous other awards. Dr. Shamian is known for her mentoring many nurse leaders globally.
Dr. Shamian served as a Commissioner on the UN High level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
Dr. Shamian is a strong voice for the role and impact of nurses and nursing can make on global health. Global Health will only be attained by including governments, civil society, private and public sectors and professional voices in the planning and implementing of global agendas like UHC, NCDs, SDGs and others

Jackie Rowles, DNP, MBA, MA, CRNA, ANP-BC, NSPM-C, FNAP, FAANA, FAAN

Dr. Jackie Rowles is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and Board-Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner who is also board certified as a Non-Surgical Pain Management specialist. She is well-known leader and educator within the USand at the international level for her expertise in pain management and her dedication and advocacy efforts to increase recognition of Nurse Anesthetists as a means toward bringing surgical access to the 5 billion people in the world who currently cannot access timely essential or emergent surgical care.  Dr. Rowles is a sought-out speaker both for nursing and interdisciplinary events.   

Dr. Rowles is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Advanced Pain Management Fellowship in the Texas Christian University School of Nurse Anesthesia.  She was instrumental in starting, and strengthening, pain management specialty training for CRNAs, including foundingand directing the first CRNA interventional pain management cadaver course, co-founding the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists advanced pain management seminar series and an academicpost master’s certificate in advanced pain management which became the first accredited Fellowship for CRNAs.  Dr. Rowles served as an item writer for theCRNA specialty board certification examination in Non-Surgical Pain Management instituted in 2015. 

Currently serving in her fourth term as President of the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists (IFNA), Dr. Rowles is a former president, and interim CEO, of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) and served on the American Academy of Pain Management’s (AAPM) Board of Directors for eight years,  and was a Nursing Organizations Alliance (NOA) Board Member for 3 years.  She is Vice-Chair of the United Nations SURGhub content committee. Rowles was elected to the first permanent G4 AllianceBoard Member for a 3-year term, then elected treasurer. She is a member of the World Federation of Societies for Anaesthesiologists Global Workforce Committee, which published an updated global anesthesia workforce article in April 2024.  Shehas served as an accreditation team member for theIFNA‘s Anesthesia Program Approval Process and for the Council on Accreditation Nurse Anesthesia Program’s Fellowship Program Review.  Shecurrently serves on the AANA Non Surgical Pain Management task force.  Dr. Rowles is a member of the Ball State University College of Health Advisory Council (Muncie, Indiana, USA).  She was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2013 and selected for induction into the inaugural class of AANA Fellows.

Dr. Rowles is the recipient of numerous leadership and service awards including the Ball State University Outstanding Nursing Alumni award, 2005 AANA Alice Magaw Outstanding Clinical Practitioner award, 2009 Outstanding Hoosier Gubernatorial award, 2012 AANA Agatha Hodgins award for Outstanding Accomplishment, the 2018 International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists Hermi Lohnert award for Outstanding Global Leadership and Education, inducted into the inaugural class of AANA Fellows in 2021, and received the AANA Foundation Rita L LeBlanc Philanthropist of the Year award in 2022.

Dr. Rowles was the lead researcher for the history of nurse anesthetists in IFNA member countries, a multiple chapter author, and a co-editor for the IFNA’s history book:A Global Voice for Nurse Anesthesia:  The International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists (1989-2021).  She was a member of the IFNA-ICN Task Force for development of the ICN Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing: Nurse Anesthetist which were released on Global Surgery Day, May 25^th, 2021. Dr. Rowles was a co-editor of the ICN APN series book Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Anesthetists: Evolution of the Global Role published in 2023.

Associate Professor dr. mult.  Aleksandar Racz

Associate Professor dr. mult.  Aleksandar Racz is a physician specialized in Environmental health, as well as in the field of Forest medicine in Japan. He has completed four postgraduate doctoral studies and obtained four PhDs from four different Universities in three different countries in the fields of law and social sciences, economics, sociology and biomedical sciences (public health).

He is currently engaged at both professional and academic levels in various scientific fields—within the domain of biomedicine and public health, addressing issues of sustainable development as part of global public health; within sociology, focusing on aspects of social work theory related to promoting strategies  against discrimination and stigmatization of marginalized and particularly vulnerable social groups especially the  implementation of  the integration of Roma into society through advocating for positive discrimination in access to higher education. Additionally, he is involved in the field of environmental ethics and integrative bioethics, and more recently, he has been promoting the re-evaluation of nature and forests by integrating the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku as part of forest therapy and forest medicine, as a component of integrative public health activities aimed at improving quality of life.

Throughout his academic career, he served as Dean of the College of Health Sciences in Zagreb (2013 – 2016), as well as Vice Dean for Science and Publishing for two terms  (2016 – 2022). He has published five academic textbooks on environmental protection and more than 70 indexed scientific papers, and he has been a plenary / key not /  invited or active speaker at more than 50 international conferences and congresses worldwide.

He currently serves as the Dean’s Advisor for Science and Projects at the College of Health Sciences and is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal JAHS.

Professor Sylvia Yuk Kuen FUNG, BBS

President, The Hong Kong Academy of Nursing & Midwifery.
RN, RM, FHKCHSE, FACHSE, FAAN, F HKANM
Post-reg. Dip(Health Care Education), MBA, MSc(Hospital & Health Mgt), Hon Doctor (Health Sciences)

Professor Fung has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and management of nursing. She has been the Chief Manager (Nursing) of Hospital Authority (HA) taking charge of more than 20,000 nurses and pioneered the new clinical nursing career pathway of nurse consultant.

She was elected as the Asia Pacific Board Member of the International Confederation of Midwives and was invited to be the International Trustee of the Commission for Foreign Nursing School. She is currently appointed by the Department of Health of Hong Kong as a member of the Complaint Committee of the Private Healthcare Facilities and also appointed by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority as a member of the Public Complaint Committee and a member of the Hospital Governance Committee of Shatin Cheshire Home.

She received the Best Staff Award and Best Contributor Award from the Hong Kong Hospital Authority; the prestigious Florence Nightingale Medal in 2005 by the International Red Cross for her commitment and contribution to nursing services and mankind; and the Bronze Bauhinia Star Aware by the Government of Hong Kong SAR for her exemplary contribution to nursing and population health in Hong Kong.

Anders Kottorp, PhD, OT reg

Anders Kottorp, PhD, OT reg, is Dean for the Faculty of Health and society at Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden since 2017. Previous to this position/role, he has worked at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States. He has in addition to his experiences in academic leadership pursued academic activities both in education and research. He is since 2009 also an affiliated professor at Zutich University of Applied Sciences where he is teaching in an European Master program for occupational therapists. He has also been the chair for the National research school in Care sciences, hosted by Karolinska Institutet, in Sweden.

He has published more than 200 original research articles and has received more than 10 M Euros in research funding as PI or co-PI, many times for interdisciplinary research targeting complex health challenges in society, and supervised more than 20 PhD students and postdocs. He has been involved in community-based research for people with various disabilities and chronic health conditions for more than two decades. His research has focused on developing new and innovative evaluations and interventions supporting independence and efficiency in home and community living for various client groups. His research involves several international collaborations and all of his research projects were conducted in close collaboration with clinical partners and community service providers as well as citizens themselves, many times using a community-based participatory approach.

Dr. Dianne Morrison – Beedy

Dr. Morrison-Beedy serves as the Chief Global Strategy Officer and holds the endowed Centennial Professor of Nursing at The Ohio State University. Internationally recognized as a scholar, leader, and educator, she has received four prestigious Fulbright awards and holds international distinguished visiting professorial appointments at nine international universities. She has served as Dean of the University of South Florida College, Senior Associate Vice President of USF Health, on the Board of Directors for the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research and as Journal Editor-in-Chief of Building Healthy Academic Communities. Dr. Morrison-Beedy is an elected nursing fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Academies of Practice, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. She has over 350 publications and been awarded over $12 million in research funding. In recognition of her contributions, she has received numerous international awards for her work including election into the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame. Her sexual health intervention, The Health Improvement Project for Teens (HIPTeens), is used globally and is recognized by the CDC and US Dept. of HHS as an exemplary evidence-based intervention for HIV/STI and teen pregnancy prevention.