1. Karen G. Mellott is a doctoral candidate and a National Institute for Nursing Research pre-doctoral fellow in the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Her research focuses on patient-ventilator dyssynchrony and the patient/technology interface.
2. Mary Jo Grap is a professor in the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an expert nurse researcher in mechanical ventilation and critical care nursing.
3. Cindy L. Munro is a professor in the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University and volunteers as an adult nurse practitioner at Petersburg Health Care Alliance in Virginia. Her research examines the impact of oral health on the general health of patients and the care of patients receiving mechanical ventilation. She is also the coeditor of the American Journal of Critical Care.
4. Curtis N. Sessler is the Orhan Muren Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. His current research interests are sepsis and multiorgan failure, prevention of nosocomial infection, and agitation and sedation in intensive care patients.
5. Paul A. Wetzel is an associate professor in the School of Engineering, department of biomedical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. His primary research emphasis is on development of human-machine interfaces on the basis of eye movement and visual analysis.