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Susan Bindon, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, CNE-cl Related Seminars and Products

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Susan Bindon is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Director of the Institute for Educators at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She maintains a faculty practice in nursing professional development at the University of Maryland Medical Center and manages a statewide grant to prepare clinical nursing faculty across Maryland.

She is the immediate past-president of the Association for Nursing Professional Development President and served five years as Co-Editor of the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. She won the AACN Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award, and is a newly named fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

She is ANCC certified in nursing professional development, and NLN certified as an academic nurse educator and clinical nursing faculty. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has presented widely.

Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN, The Bill and Joanne Conway Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing Related Seminars and Products

Dean

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Dr. Yolanda Ogbolu was appointed the Bill and Joanne Conway Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing of the University of Maryland School of Nursing on July 17, 2023, succeeding Dr. Jane Kirschling who served as Dean from 2013-2023.  Dr. Ogbolu is also a tenured Professor in the School of Nursing.

Prior to her appointment as Dean, Dr. Ogbolu served as Chair of the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing’s Department of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice. Appointed to the faculty in 2010, she served as Deputy Director of the Office of Global Health (2010-2015) and subsequently as Director (2015-2019).

Dr. Ogbolu’s research and scholarship, teaching, and professional activities have focused on addressing health inequities and disparities in care locally and globally. Projects center on strengthening global health systems and nursing capacity, providing culturally and linguistically appropriate care, and addressing social isolation and social determinants of health in marginalized communities.

Dr. Ogbolu’s activities at the national level include serving as an ongoing member of the National Quality Forum’s Health Disparities Standing Committee; and on projects with the American Association of Nursing, National League of Nursing, and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office. She has consulted internationally with the World Health Organization.

She received her PhD, MSN, and BSN degrees from the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She had previously received her Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Certificate, Entry to APN, from Georgetown University and an Associate of Arts in Nursing, Entry to RN, from Baltimore City Community College. Dr. Ogbolu is an elected  Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice and of the American Academy of Nursing; early in her career she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar.

Laura Herrara Scott, MD, MPH Related Seminars and Products

Secretary of Health

Maryland Department of Health

Dr. Laura Herrera Scott is a national leader in healthcare delivery and financing, integrating value-based care philosophy with clinical and population health strategies. Her work focuses on the creation of progressive programs that optimize patient outcomes, improve the quality of care, and advance health equity. She is honored to serve Maryland under Governor Moore and Lieutenant Governor Miller to ensure that the state builds an equitable, world class health care delivery system that improves the health of all Marylanders.

Dr. Herrera Scott brings a diverse background of public and private sector experiences to the role of Secretary of Health - from direct care, to public health, to health care delivery transformation.

Most recently, prior to her appointment as Secretary of Health, Dr. Herrera Scott drove population health outcomes through improved data analytics and reporting in the clinical care space as the Executive Vice President of Population Health at Summit Health and Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Product at Anthem. She brings data driven decision making to the role as Secretary, applying the lessons learned from her previous roles to ensure that no Marylander is left behind. She also previously served as the Deputy Secretary for Public Health and the Chief Medical Officer for the Department under the O’Malley/Brown Administration.

Dr. Herrera Scott is a Veteran of the United States Army Reserves. She received her Master’s Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University where she also practiced, caring for individuals living with HIV. She received her Doctor of Medicine from SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Jennifer S. Zipp, DNP, MS, RN Related Seminars and Products

Executive Director

Maryland Organization of Nurse Leaders, Inc. Maryland Nurse Residency Collaborative

Dr. Zipp is the Executive Director for the Maryland Organization of Nurse Leaders, Inc./Maryland Nurse Residency Collaborative. Zipp joined the MNRC team in June 2018 as NRP Coordinator and alongside her predecessor, Dr. Joan Warren, helped Maryland become the first in the nation to have all acute care hospitals using a standardized NRP. With more than 23 years of experience, Zipp has demonstrated leadership and expertise in critical care nursing, evidence-based practice (EBP), leadership and transition, mentorship and preceptor programs. Having served as full-time faculty at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, NRP Director at Lifebridge Health and as a Professional Development Specialist for EBP & Research at Medstar Health, she brings a broad and unique perspective to her role.  Dr. Zipp is published in NRP and EBP subject matter, built a statewide preceptor program and created a transition to NRP toolkit that is now distributed nationwide.  Dr. Zipp received her Bachelors in Nursing from UMSON in 2000 and her Master of Science in Health Services, Leadership and Management from UMB in 2012.  She received her doctorate in nursing practice from UMSON in 2018 and her DNP work focused on the building of resident mentorship programs.

Susan Corbridge, PhD, APRN, FAANP, FCCP, FAAN Related Seminars and Products

Chief Essentials Program Officer

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Susan Corbridge, Ph.D., APRN, FAANP, FCCP, FAAN, is the Chief Essentials Program Officer at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), where she leads the national implementation of the new Essentials and nursing's transition to competency-based education. Dr. Corbridge is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing, with over 25 years of experience as a nurse educator, scholar, and acute care nurse practitioner in pulmonary medicine. Her scholarship focuses on innovative team-based, nurse-led practice and educational strategies centered on social determinants of health. Dr. Corbridge's teaching, practice, and educational leadership have been recognized by the American College of Chest Physicians, the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the American Academy of Nursing. 

Kristen Brown, DNP, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CHSE-A, FAAN Related Seminars and Products

Associate Professor Interim Associate Dean for Simulation and Immersive Learning

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Kristen Brown DNP, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CHSE-A, FAAN is an Associate Professor and the Interim Associate Dean for Simulation & Immersive Learning at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and the Simulation Strategic Projects Lead for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. In her faculty role, Dr. Brown develops simulation curriculum, plans innovative, immersive training events, and studies simulation as a teaching method. Her passion for simulation education stems from her years in clinical practice as a pediatric critical care nurse practitioner. She has had a 20-year nursing career devoted to the care of critically ill children, and she has worked in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a nurse practitioner for 15 years. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator-Advanced® (CHSE-A) by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. In her faculty role, she has incorporated simulation into advanced practice nursing programs, and she has also led the efforts to implement and study new technology to provide innovative solutions for distance learning, including telepresence robots and virtual simulation, including screen-based and virtual reality platforms (VR) across all programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN Related Seminars and Products

Associate Professor

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Suzan (Suzie) Kardong-Edgren is an internationally known speaker and educational researcher with over 140 publications. Dr. Edgren was a consultant on the landmark US National Council of State Boards of Nursing National Simulation Study that determined that up to 50% of traditional clinical could be replaced with high quality simulation. She was the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing for 10 years. She is a past presenter of the Michael Gordon Lectureship in Simulation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Edgren is a past chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and recent past President of the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation in Nursing (INACSL). She is a Fellow in the Society of Simulation in Healthcare, the Academy of Nursing Education Fellows, and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Edgren is an Associate Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston.   

Michael R. Bleich, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN Related Seminars and Products

Chief Executive Officer

NursDynamics, LLC

Dr. Michael Bleich is a Wisconsin native who has held clinical, consultative, service, academic, and association leadership positions.  Dr. Bleich, a recognized scholar and thought leader, addresses national and international audiences, including nurses, executives, governance bodies, associations, and the media.  Four contributions are significant to the advancement of the discipline – his engagement as one of the five nurses on the committee that wrote the original seminal report, The Future of Nursing, Leading Change, Advancing Health, issued through the Institute of Medicine, Wisdom at Work: the Importance of the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace published through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Men in Nursing: Understanding the Challenges Men Face in this Predominantly Female Profession, and Analysis of the Nursing Workforce Crisis: a Call to Action, both published in the American Journal of Nursing. 

Dr. Bleich has a diploma, BSN, MPH, and Ph.D. from Midwestern Schools.  He completed Fellowships with the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the WK Kellogg Foundation.  An inductee of the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academies of Practice, he proudly served as the President of CGFNS, International, and FNINR, both advancing science and ensuring workforce mobility, quality, and safety.