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