Global Forum On Nursing Care and Advanced Nursing

Gabriela Topa completed her PhD Psychology in 2004 from UNED. She is a psychology professor at UNED Gutierrez Mellado Institute. she has done her research Activities include: Psychosocial factors affecting retirement age, Personal and Psychosocial Consequences of Pre-retirement ,Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Core Self-Evaluations Scale (CSES-SP), Psychosocial study of entrepreneurial intention: The role of university, entrepreneurial environment and perceived risk.

Aging & Work Psychological Contract Mobbing at work

Vedrana Vejzovic has completed her PhD from Malmö University. She is a Registered Nurse (RN), a Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN) and a Senior Lecturer (PhD in Care Science) at the Department of Care Science. Her research focuses on child and the child’s perspective of pediatric care.

Pediatric Nursing

Christiana Nicolaou joined the Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology in 2007 as Senior Lecturer. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Nursing (since 2011), elected member of the CUT Senate and elected member of the Council of the Department of Nursing (CUT). She worked as Staff Nurse in Pediatric Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Archbishop Makarios Hospital, Nicosia, 1987 - 1994) and in a Gynecological and Midwifery Clinic, Nicosia (1986-1987). She has received her Diploma in General Nursing from School of Nursing, Cyprus (1985), a BSc (Honors) in Professional Studies (Nurse Education) from Anglia Polytechnic University, UK (1997), a Certificate in Teaching and Learning Methodology (Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus, 2001) and her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Cyprus University of Technology (2015). Her area of clinical practice and research is pediatric nursing care and social epidemiology.

Pediatric Nursing

Chizu Matsumoto worked as a Regular Nurse for 20 years from 1989. In 2007, she completed her Master’s degree in Nursing Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kochi University. Since 2008 she has been involved in basic nursing education as an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing at the university. She became a Lecture in 2010 and works as a Lecture at Sanyo Gakuen University, which is an incumbent post since 2014. In, 2017 she entered Doctoral School of Nursing Studies, Human Environment University.

Pediatric Nursing

Dr. Metcalfe is Interim Director and Associate Professor at Western Carolina University in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Previous academic appointments have been as a Dean of Nursing for a private college. She has been an educational grants researcher with colleges and hospitals. Currently, she is serving on the Board of the North Carolina Nursing Association Foundation. Her research agenda is on global leadership development and mentoring transformational nurse leaders with pediatric nursing students. She has been serving as the Program Director of the NN-CAT Program (Nursing Network-Careers and Technology), a national program that provides scholarships, stipends, and personal mentors to underrepresented ethnic minority students. She strives to help students to learn on an international level and gain knowledge of differences and similarities in pediatric nursing.

Pediatric Nursing

Heather MacDonald completed her MScN at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been a Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada, since 1990. In addition to having authored a number of publications, she has presented papers at various local, national, and international conferences. In addition to working at the University of New Brunswick, she has a Parish Nursing Practice.

Nursing & Healthcare

Dr. David Clark specializes in treating critically ill newborns and premature babies. His areas of focus include treating infections, perinatal difficulties, congenital anomalies, and consultation of high-risk fetuses.

Neonatology and Pediatrics

John Christian V. Villanueva, Ph. D. finished his Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology at the age of 24 in Dr. Gloria D. Lacson Foundation College, Inc. He is also a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the College of the Immaculate Conception, Master of Arts in Nursing in Nursing Management and Administration in The Good Samaritan Colleges, Master of Arts in Education Management in Araullo University, and completed his Certificate of Professional Education in Divina Pastora College. He is currently working as Nurse II in the Department of Education and Professor in one of his alma mater, Dr. Gloria D. Lacson Foundation College, Inc. - Graduate School Department. He is a registered nurse, both in the Philippines and in Abu Dhabi, UAE, an authorized specimen collector in the conduct of Department of Education drug testing in schools and in workplaces, co-authored 9 books in Aliswag Review Series, and a reviewer in international journals.

Qualitative research, Palliative care, Nursing education, Psychology

Dr. FRANCISCO JAVIER IRUZUBIETA-BARRAGÁN is currently working as a Professor, University of La Rioja (Spain); Researcher at Nursing and Healthcare Research Unit (Investén-isciii), Madrid (Spain) and Health Care Research Coordinator, Center for Biomedical Research of La Rioja (CIBIR) (Spain). His Education includes PhD by the University of Alicante, Diploma in nursing by the University of Zaragoza, Licentiate Degree in Humanities and Master in Health Promotion in the Community by the National Distance Education University (Spain). His extensive training also includes: Train the Trainer Comprehensive Systematic Review Training of The Joanna Briggs Institute by the University of Adelaide (Australia), and University Diploma in Public Health by the National School of Public Health of Institute of Health Carlos III (Spain).Most of his professional activity has been developed as lecturer and coordinator of the Area of Community Nursing in the University School of Nursing of the University of La Rioja, Spain. He is a member of the Nursing and Healthcare Research Unit of Institute of Health Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) from 2007 and, in January 2014, he became the Head of the Research and Innovation Area of this unit. Since January 2018 he is responsible for the research on Variability of Care at the Biomedical Research Centre of La Rioja-CIBIR (Logrono-Spain). He is a member of the Network of Research in Health Services in Chronic Diseases, (REDISSEC), of the CIBER NETWORK, from January 2014 to the present, and head of a transversal research group in this network —Group of Nursing Research in Health Services in Chronic Diseases (GREISSEC)—. He is also a researcher in the Social Sciences Area of the Riojanos Studies Institute (Logrono-Spain). He has been Chief Editor of the journal of the Spanish Society of Oncology Nursing. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (Australia) and Millenium - Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health (Portugal) and Spanish journals NURE Research, ROL Nursing and RQR Community Nursing. And, he is currently the Principal Investigator of the funded project Map of Clinical Variability of the Records of SNS Care Management Programs on the Assessment and Management of Pain, Falls, Urinary Incontinence, and Pressure Ulcers. (Spain). He is also a collaborating researcher of the funded project Supervision and tutoring in Higher Education: Dynamics of Success. (Portugal)

His Research Interests include Evidence-Based Healthcare and Variability of care management (pressure ulcer, pain, falls and urinary incontinence) and research interest in the area of care management of pressure ulcer

Sung Won Yoon is currently working as a professor in Chungwoon University Nursing school, department of Nursing. She worked as Investigator of Joint Commission Accreditation in Korea from March 2010 to 2012. She is a Clinical Professor, Graduate School, Clinical Science & Infection Control in Ulsan University, Asan Medical Center (AMC) from March 2002 to August 2012. She worked as Infection Control Manager & Hospital Epidemiologist, Infection Control Office, Sam sung Medical Centre (SMC) from May 1996 to Aug 2012. She also worked as Vice President of Korean Organization of Society for Nosocomial Infection Control from February 1998 to 2000 and from Feb 2004–2006. She is also a Ex-President & Senior Consultant of Korean Association of Infection Control Nurses from February 1998 to August 2018. She was certified in Infection Control (C.I.C) at U.S.A. She was Ambassador for SHEA (Society of Healthcare Epidemiology in America) in 2012. She has done her PhD in Public Health & Nursing, Han Yang University (Seoul, Korea) in August 2001. Concentrations: CRBSI, SSI, MRSA, VRE, CRGNB infection control & prevention Thesis: Efficacy of Infection Control Strategies for Vancomycin- Resistant Enterococci in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Korea: A 4- year follow up study, Infection control and hospital epidemiology She has completed her M.A. in Public health & epidemiology, Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) February 1983 and also B.A in Nursing, Han yang University (Seoul, Korea).

Infection Control and Hospital epidemiology