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

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Hometown

Voorhees, New Jersey

Current Job

Executive Vice President, Global Programming, Gannett Education, Gannett Healthcare Group; Founder, The Forum for Shared Governance

Education

BA, Temple University; Diploma of Nursing, Frankford Hospital; MSN, Seton Hall University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania

First job in nursing

Staff nurse, Pennsylvania Hospital

Being in a leadership position gives me the opportunity to Impact quality patient care on a global scale by influencing nurses

Most people don't know that I

Dance ballroom with my wife

Best advice to aspiring leaders

If you want to be a leader, find good leaders to hang out with.

One thing I want to learn

How to write better fiction

One word to summarize me

Tenacious