NurseTRUST Board of Directors
PRESIDENT / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Maryjoan Ladden, PhD, RN, FAAN Principal MJL Associates Term Expires: June 30, 2025
Maryjoan Ladden is a nurse practitioner and Principal, MJL HealthCare Associates. Most recently, she was a Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) focusing on Leadership for Better Health & Global Ideas for US Solutions. Prior to her work at RWJF, she was Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

PRESIDENT-ELECT / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kathy Davis, DNP, RN, MBA, CPHQ System VP, Quality, Safety, Clinical Integration MultiCare Health System Term Expires: June 30, 2025
SECRETARY / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kate Fiandt, PhD, APRN-NP, FAANP, FAAN Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships University of Nebraska Medical Center Term Expires: June 30, 2025 Kate Fiandt has been a family nurse practitioner for over 40 years. She has spent that time leading nurse-run clinics that serve vulnerable patients and as a NP educator. She has her PhD in nursing and her area of research interest is interventions to improve health and decrease health inequity in vulnerable populations. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and is an alumnus of the RWJF 2004 Cohort.
TREASURER / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Joy Deupree, PhD, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN Professor UAB School of Nursing – Birmingham, AL Term Expires: June 30, 2024
Joy Deupree is a professor at the UAB School of Nursing in Birmingham, Alabama where she is the Director of Health Policy Partnerships in the Office of Clinical and Global Partnerships. For more 30 years she has dedicated her nursing career to education, advocacy, policy, research, and health promotion for poor and underserved populations.
PAST PRESIDENT / EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mary Kay VanDriel, EdD, MSN, MM, RN, FACHE Retired Term Expires: June 30, 2024
DIRECTOR AT LARGE June Altaras, MN, NEA-BC, RN Executive Vice President, Chief Quality, Safety & Nursing Officer Multicare Health System Term Expires: June 30, 2025
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Stephanie Bennett, PhD, MBA, RN Dir, Patient and Family Centered Care and Education; Adjunct Assistant Professor Emory Healthcare and University Term Expires: June 30, 2025
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Ann H. Cary, PhD, MPH, RN, FNAP, FAAN Associate Director for Community Partnerships and Professor Florida Gulf Coast University Term Expires: June 30, 2025
Ann Cary is a 2008 ENF whose career reflects leadership in academia, national nursing organizations, and in research institutes in multiple organizations. She currently works in an interprofessional venue with interprofessional projects.
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Erin Denholm, MSN, RN Chief Nursing Officer Dispatch Health Term Expires: June 30, 2024
Erin Denholm, having spent 3 decades as a senior executive in home-based care with integrated delivery systems, and with a zealous pursuit of innovative models and services that could transform healthcare, currently works for DispatchHealth whose mission is to build the first health care ecosystem around individuals’ homes.
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Warren Hébert, DNP, RN, FAAN Chief Executive Officer HomeCare Association of Louisiana Term Expires: June 30, 2025
Warren Hébert, a home health nurse since 1985, has been CEO of the HomeCare Association of Louisiana since 1998. A diploma nurse at 22, Hébert enrolled in Loyola New Orleans’ RN to BSN program at age 51, and seven years later, he earned his DNP. He then taught for four years at Loyola. Warren is now an adjunct with Loyola and the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Dr. Hébert’s doctoral focus has been the relationship between family caregiving and home health agencies. He is on the Expert Panel on Aging of the American Academy of Nursing and chairs a new home health workgroup of the AAN.
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Casey Shillam, PhD, RN Dean & Professor University of Portland Term Expires: June 30, 2025
Casey Shillam is a Professor of Nursing and Dean of the University of Portland School of Nursing & Health Innovations. She holds clinical practice, health policy and administrative experience in palliative care, innovation, curriculum development, and executive leadership. Under her leadership, the School has created new curriculum approaches to preparing students to serve in primary, ambulatory, and community-based care settings to meet the demands of addressing population health. Other innovations include establishing a Nurse-Managed Clinic serving those who are houseless, developing a new major in Integrative Health and Wellness, establishing new models of clinical education, and developing a simulation center and program that is the first and only simulation program to receive national accreditation in the state of Oregon.
DIRECTOR AT LARGE D’Ann Somerall, DNP, MAEd, CRNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Term Expires: June 30, 2025
D’Ann Somerall retired from the University of Alabama at Birmingham SON after serving as the special track coordinator for the Family Nurse Practitioner program. She continues to practice as a FNP at a SON nurse managed clinic for uninsured patients.
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Jerry Spicer, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CHIE, CPHQ, FACHE Regional Chief Nurse Executive and VP Regional Patient Care Services, Southern California & Hawai’i Markets Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospitals Term Expires: June 30, 2025
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Kelly Stamp, PhD, NP, RN, CHFN, FAHA, FAAN Associate Dean of Academic Programs & Associate Professor University of Colorado Anschutz, College of Nursing Term Expires: June 30, 2025 Kelly is an Associate Professor, Loretta C. Ford Nurse Practitioner Endowed Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Programs. She serves internationally as the Lead Consultant for developing and implementing an Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (AGNP) program at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Stamp is a regional and national leader in heart failure. She is a Past President of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses and now serves as the Chair of the Certification Board.
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Kathleen Sullivan, PhD, RN Vice President, Post Acute Care Dignity Health, California Central Coast Term Expires: June 30, 2025
Kathleen Sullivan is a 2000 ENF whose career has focused predominantly on the development of innovation in home and community-based care within health systems. She continues to serve as the Vice President of Post Acute Care and Cancer Centers for Dignity Health on the central coast of California and remains a Board Member of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC).
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