Robert G. Hess, Jr., PhD, RN, FAAN

First row: Diane J. Mancino, RN, EdD, CAE, Executive Director, National Student Nurses' Association, Inc; Kathy Apple, RN, MS, Executive Director, National Council of State Boards of Nursing; Norma Martinez Rogers, RN, PhD, FAAN, President, National Association of Hispanic Nurses; Peter I. Buerhaus, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Institute for Medicine and Public Health

Second row: Steve Hauber, Publisher & CEO, Gannett Healthcare Group (GHG); Millicent Gorham, MBA, Executive Director, National Black Nurses Association, Inc; Janice Beuhler, MBA, CHCR, President, National Association of Health Care Recruiters

Third row: Judith Mitiguy, RN, MS, Executive VP, Nursing Communications & Initiatives, GHG; Patricia E. Thompson, RN, EdD, FAAN, CEO, Sigma Theta Tau; Robert Hess, RN, PhD, FAAN, Executive VP, Global Programming, GHG; Wanda L. Johanson, RN, MN, CEO, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Michael Goodman, Jessica Acampora, Robert Hess, Clarence Seegars