National Advisory Council Members

Chair

• Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN
  University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Co-Chair

• Jennie Chin Hansen, MS, RN, FAAN
  California (CA) Health Care for All, CA Department of Health and Human Services, Hirsch & Associates, LLC

Members 

• Kupiri Ackerman-Barger, PhD, RN, FAAN
  University of California Davis, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
• Gale Adcock, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
  North Carolina Legislature
• Gaurdia Banister, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
  Massachusetts General Hospital
• Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
  Columbia University School of Nursing and Washington School of Nursing
• Jo Ivey Boufford, MD (Honorary Fellow)
  New York University School of Global Public Health
• Jackie Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN
  University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing
• Susan Grant, DNP, RN, FAAN
  Beaumont Health
• Janie Heath, PhD, APRN-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN
  University of Kentucky College of Nursing
• Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, FAAN
  Public Health Accreditation Board
• Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, ANP-BC, FGSA, FAAN
  University of Pennslyvania School of Nursing
• Carol Porter, DNP, MPA, BSN, RN, FAAN
  MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Patricia Sengstack, DNP, RN-BC, FAAN
  Vanderbilt University School of Nursing & Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN
  School of Nursing MGH Institute of Health Professions
• Hussein Michael Tahan, PhD, RN, FAAN
  Medstar Health
• Louise Woerner, MBA (Honorary Fellow)
  HCR Home Care

Board Liaison

• Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
  The George Washington University, School of Nursing

Ex-Officio 

• Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN
  New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
• Suzanne Miyamoto, PhD, RN, FAAN
  Chief Executive Officer
  American Academy of Nursing

Staff Liasion

• Lauren Inouye
  Chief Program Officer
  American Academy of Nursing