1. Deborah Chapa is an assistant professor and coordinator of bachelor of nursing science to doctor of nursing practice at George Washington University, School of Nursing, Washington, DC. She is also an acute care nurse practitioner.
2. Bimbola Akintade is an assistant professor in the trauma, critical care, emergency department and clinical nurse specialist nurse practitioner program at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing, and an acute care nurse practitioner at Washington Hospital Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
3. Heesook Son is an assistant professor at Chung-Ang University School of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea.
4. Patricia Woltz is director of nursing research at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
5. Dennis Hunt is an assistant professor, physical therapy and human performance, and director of the exercise science program at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Meyers, Florida.
6. Erika Friedmann is a professor at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing.
7. Mary Kay Hartung was a health sciences librarian at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is now retired.
8. Sue Ann Thomas is a professor emeritus of nursing at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.