25^th World Nursing and Nurse Practitioner Conference October 22-23, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Dr. Armstrong has worked in the health care industry for over 2 decades and eleven years in nursing education. Her education background consists of San Antonio College Medical Assistant, Baptist School of Vocational Nursing, Associate’s Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of the Incarnate Word, Master of Science in Nursing in Nursing Education from Drexel University 2013, and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Chatham University 2014. She has received the National Institute of Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD) for Excellence Award in Teaching. She is also the recipient of the Friends of Texas Award 2013 from Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for her endless community service dedication and contributions.

Nursing Education

Associate Professor, Chair of Family Nurse Partitionner Program in Master of Nursing Science, Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. For family nursing practice and researh have been focused on family health promotion ; family with adolescent health promotion, family with unintended adolescent pregnancy, family with chronic illness, palliative care and end of life. For nursing education, she emphacise on transformative education for developing nursing students’ learing outcomes, and competency.

Family Nursing

Joseph Tan, PhD, formerly Wayne C Fox Chair of eBusiness Innovation, and currently, Professor of eHealth Informatics, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, is the founding and ongoing Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics with a professional background that spans a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research area. A lead investigator in redefining the frontiers of multidisciplinary Business and Health IT knowledge development, management and expansion, including active involvement in collaborative research and multidisciplinary joint-grant submissions, Dr. Tan has demonstrated skills and ability to serve in both academia and industry. He has achieved recognized scholarship in teaching and learning with students nominations for teaching excellence awards.

Medical Science, Healthcare

Tamera (Tami) Pearson is a professor and the director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Western Carolina School of Nursing. She has 20 years of involvements in nursing education, teaching undergraduate and graduate level students both in the classroom and online. She has published more than 15 articles on clinical and education topics in reputable journals. Additionally, she brings many years of practical nursing experience and maintains clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in conjunction with her faculty role.

Nursing, Family Nursing

Mr. Nizar is an astute physical therapist and sagacious rehab science researcher currently working as Head of Department of Physical therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, at University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. His commitment to teaching excellence has earned him accolades. His research interest spans a variety of topics in physical activity, multi-sensory reweighting, sedentary behavior and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. He presented his research findings at international conferences, published articles in prolific journals, and was awarded with scholarships and research grants. A few of his academic articles have been translated to other languages. He serves as associate editor and reviewer for high end academic journals from United States. Mr. Nizar served as Head of Department of Physical therapy at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He has been invited as keynote speaker at international health care conferences. He writes health care articles for periodicals and national dailies. Mr. Nizar obtained his post graduate degree in Physical therapy from prestigious Mahatma Gandhi University, India.

Physiotherapy

Gaganpreet Khaira is a Nurse Practitioner in Mental health working across 2 community mental health teams at Monash Health (largest metropolitan Public health service in Victoria). She also does education sessions and evaluations for Nurse Practitioner Students at Monash University and Nursing students at the Hospital. She has been working with the mental health programme at her organization developing a framework and clinical practice guidelines for managing physical health comorbidities of mental health consumers.

Mental Health Nursing