Meet our Keynote Presenters
The IFNC16 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce our three Keynote Speakers.
Annette Kennedy, RN, MSc is a Registered Nurse and Midwife with a BA in Nursing Studies, an MSc in Public Sector Analysis, and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Annette was the Director of Professional Development for the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation for 19 years and established the INMO’s very successful Education, Research and Resource Centre. Kennedy was President of the European Federation of Nurses. She was elected Vice President of the ICN and held the position for four years before going on to become the 28th President of the International Council of Nurses in 2017. Kennedy also worked as a Commissioner for the WHO Independent High–Level Commission on non-communicable diseases for two years. She is also a board member of the Nursing Now Campaign Board. Annette is a Ministerial appointment to Slaintecare Advisory Implementation Committee, 2018-2021 (Irish Health & Social Care 10-year Strategy). Previously, she held the position of President of the European Federation of Nurses and was active in lobbying the European Parliament, Commission and Council.
Professor Deborah Gross, DNSc, RN, FAAN is the Leonard and Helen Stulman Endowed Professor in Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is best known for her work in strengthening parenting skills and confidence and promoting young children’s behavioral health, particularly among families living in underserved communities. At Johns Hopkins, she holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine, and the Department of Mental Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has received several recognitions including the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research President’s Award for outstanding research, the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice Award, induction into the Sigma Theta Tau Researchers Hall of Fame, and the American Academy of Nursing Edge Runner award honoring developers of model programs offering solutions to health care challenges. She has served on numerous review and advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, PhD, RN is a professor in the Department of Gerontological Home Care & Longterm Care Nursing, Graduate School of Health Sciences & Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan. She holds a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of California,San Francisco (USA) and a master’s and bachelor’s degree of health sciences from the University of Tokyo (Japan). Her clinical, teaching, and research expertise includes nursing care for older persons with dementia and their family and development of a case study research method for practice disciplines. She served as a founding member of the Japanese Journal of Research in Family Nursing (1995–2000) and as the editor-inchief of the Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science (2015–2017). Her recent publications have included care of the elderly and their family in the community: “A Purposeful Yet Nonimposing Approach: How Japanese Home Care Nurses Establish Relationships With Older Clients and Their Families” in the Journal of Family Nursing (2017, with Iwasaki, Sato, Yumoto, Noguchi-Watanabe, & Ogata) and “Caring for Clients and Families With Anxiety: HomeC Nurses’ Practice Narratives” in Global Qualitative Nursing Research (2016, with Noguchi-Watanabe & Fukahori).
