National Planning Committee

• Co-chair – *Katherine Brown-Saltzman MA, RN, UCLA School of Nursing, Ethics Center, UCLA Health System (Retired)
• Co-chair – Angela (Angie) Knackstedt,BSN,RN,NPD-BC, Children’s Mercy Kansas City
• *Brenda Barnum, MA(Bioethics), BSN, RNC-NIC, HEC-C, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 
• *Elissa Brown MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, Retired, Greater Los Angeles VA
• Nancy Jo Bush, DNP, MA, RN, AOCN, FAAN, UCLA School of Nursing 
• Brian P. Cyr, MSN, RN-BC, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Sarah Delgado, DNP, RN, ACNP, American Association of Critical Care Nurses
• *Anna Dermenchyan, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CPHQ, UCLA Department of Medicine
• *Theresa Drought PhD, RN, Retired, Kaiser Permanente
• Kathy DuBois MSN, RN, NPD-C. HEC-C, Children’s National Hospital
• Heather Fitzgerald, DBe, RN, HEC-C, Stanford Children’s Health/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• *Linda Gorman MN, RN, PMHCNS-BC. FPCN, Retired, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Karen Jones MS, RNC, HEC-C, Children’s Hospital Colorado
• Beth Kohlberg, MSHCE, BSN, RN, HEC-C, St Louis Children’s Hospital
• Erin Marturano, MBE, MSN, RN, HEC-C, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Jason Overby, MS, RN, NP, GNP-BC, HEC-C, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
• Ellen Robinson  PhD, RN, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Stacy C. Smith, MA, MLS, BSN, RN, HEC-C, National Center for Ethics in Health Care
• Carol Taylor, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, Georgetown University
• Mary Walton MSN, MBE, RN, HEC-C, FAAN, University of Pennsylvania
• Ian Wolfe, PhD, MA, RN, HEC-C, Children’s Minnesota
• *Long-standing members of the Ethics of Caring Committee