Dr. Kathy Ruble is the Director of the Survivorship Program, Division of Pediatric Oncology at Johns Hopkins University. She has been an oncology nurse for 34 years and has worked exclusively with childhood cancer survivors for the last 20 years. Her research interests include health promotion for survivors with emphasis on sleep and exercise.

Pediatric Oncology

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

Pat Wills Bagnato has been a pediatric oncology nurse since 1985, and provided front line care to hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients and survivors for eighteen years as a nurse practitioner. Pat facilitated the dedication of a clinic team to the care of pediatric survivors of transplant within the HSCT clinic. She has presented and served in leadership positions in the local and national pediatric oncology nursing organization. Mrs. Wills Bagnato is Director of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in the Cancer and Hematology Centers at her institution. Mrs. Wills Bagnato facilitates an annual educational symposium for the APPs, provides a quarterly general pediatric oncology lecture to nursing students at one of the local schools in the medical center, and facilitated the first pediatric hematology oncology nursing conference at her institution in 2016. Mrs. Wills Bagnato will begin pursuit of her doctoral nurse practitioner degree in the fall 2017.

Cancer and Hematology

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.

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Stress Management,Leadership and Communication

1. Expert in Communication, Motivation, Empowerment, Leadership Skills, Goal Setting, Stress Management, and Humor Infusion. Master at infusing quick and useful content with a lot of humor. 2 Independent business owner with a multifaceted career that has included university professor, professional actress, personal assistant to Nell Carter, fashion designer and book illustrator. 3. Respected member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Actor’s Equity Association (AEA), and the Association for Television and Radio Actors (AFTRA), and former president of the New York City Chapter of the National Speakers Association (2015-2016). Awarded one of the top five new speakers of 2012 by the National Speakers Association 4. Author of “Half Full Of It: Activating Optimism and Other Hard Core Soft Skills”, named one of the top motivational books of 2014 by the Indie Book Awards.

Stress Management,Leadership and Communication

Dr. Shereen Hamadneh has completed her PhD from School of Nursing and Midwifery, at Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia. She also worked as adjunct research fellow in Nursing and Midwifery Research centre at ECU, Western Australia. Currently, Dr. Hamadneh working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Maternal Child Health, Faculty of Nursing, Al-albayt University, Jordan. Dr. Shereen developed education package to improving infant care practice in Jordan and reduce risk of sudden unexpected infant death, this project was the first of its kind in Jordan addressing SIDS. She has published number of papers in reputed journals and presented in many international conferences in regard developing infant care practices. Dr. Hamadneh run number of voluntary activities and charities in Jordan helps improve infant care practice and enhance health care awareness. In 2016 she won the first place of Arab award on pediatric medical research. Main area of interest is about mother and infant health care, quality assurance, air pollution and environmental health.

Child Health