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

Brian P. Cyr, MSN, RN-BC, Massachusetts General Hospital

*Anna Dermenchyan MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CPHQ UCLA Health System

*Theresa Drought PhD, RN Retired, Kaiser Permanente

Kathy DuBois MSN, RN-BC, Children’s National Medical Center

Heather Fitzgerald, DBe, MS, RN, HEC-C, Stanford Children’s Health/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

*Linda Gorman RN, FPCN Retired, Cedars-Sinai

*Karen Jones MS, RNC, HEC-C Children’s Hospital Colorado

Beth Kohlberg, MSHCE, BSN, RN, NEC-C, St Louis Children’s Hospital

Erin T. Marturano, MBE, MSN, RN, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Jason Overby, MS, GNP-BC, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Ellen Robinson RN, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Stacy C. Smith, MA, MLS, BSN, RN, HEC-C, National Center for Ethics in Health Care

Carol Taylor RN, MSN, PhD, Georgetown University

Mary Walton MSN, MBE, RN Retired, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

*Long-standing members of the Ethics of Caring Committee