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Jennifer Perl<strong>of</strong>f, PhD<br />
Diana Mason, PhD, DHL (Hon),<br />
DSc (Hon), RN, FAAN<br />
Deborah Gross, DNSc, RN,<br />
FAAN<br />
JENNIFER PERLOFF, PHD<br />
Jennifer Perl<strong>of</strong>f has over 15 years <strong>of</strong> experience in study design and quantitative analysis. A large<br />
portion <strong>of</strong> her work involves claims data, including the evaluation <strong>of</strong> a low vision rehabilitation<br />
benefit for CMS, and a study <strong>of</strong> adverse events among chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries. Dr.<br />
Perl<strong>of</strong>f also directs the evaluation <strong>of</strong> an intensive case management program for homeless adults,<br />
and is involved in nursing workforce research. Through these projects she has led or participated<br />
in study design, instrument validation, data analysis using such techniques as random effects<br />
modeling and survival analysis.<br />
DIANA MASON, PHD, DHL (HON), DSC (HON), RN, FAAN<br />
Diana Mason is the Rudin Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> and Co-Founder and Co-Director <strong>of</strong> the Center<br />
for Health, Media, and Policy at Hunter College, City University <strong>of</strong> New York. She is Strategic<br />
Adviser for the Future <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>: Campaign for Action that is focused on implementing the<br />
recommendations in the Institute <strong>of</strong> Medicine’s report on The Future <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>: Leading Change,<br />
Advancing Health. For over 10 years, she served as Editor-in-Chief <strong>of</strong> the <strong>American</strong> Journal<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>, and continues in an emeritus capacity. Under her leadership, the journal received<br />
numerous awards for editorial excellence, editorials, articles, news, and dissemination.<br />
She serves on the National Advisory Committee <strong>of</strong> Kaiser Health News. Since 1985, she has been<br />
a producers and moderator <strong>of</strong> “Healthstyles,” a weekly radio program in NYC.<br />
The author <strong>of</strong> over 200 publications, she is the lead co-editor <strong>of</strong> the award-winning book, Policy and<br />
Politics in <strong>Nursing</strong> and Health Care and <strong>of</strong> The <strong>Nursing</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>ession: Development Challenges, and<br />
Opportunities, part <strong>of</strong> the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Book Series. She blogs<br />
for the Center for Health, Media & Policy and for Disruptive Women in Health Care, and JAMA’s<br />
News Forum.<br />
DEBORAH GROSS, DNSC, RN, FAAN<br />
Deborah Gross is best known for her work in promoting positive parent-child relationships and<br />
preventing behavior problems in preschool children from low-income neighborhoods. At the<br />
Johns Hopkins University, she holds joint appointments at the School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>, the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School <strong>of</strong> Medicine, and the Department <strong>of</strong> Mental<br />
Health in the Bloomberg School <strong>of</strong> Public Health. Previously, as the Associate Dean for Research<br />
and a department chair at Rush University College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>, Dr. Gross and colleagues<br />
developed the Chicago Parent Program, an innovative parenting program that improves parenting<br />
behavior and reduces child behavior problems. The program currently is used in a number <strong>of</strong><br />
settings including Head Start centers in Chicago and New York City. Dr. Gross was a Robert<br />
Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, and among her many recognitions are the Friends <strong>of</strong><br />
the National Institute for <strong>Nursing</strong> Research President’s Award for outstanding research and the<br />
<strong>American</strong> <strong>Academy</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> Edge Runner award honoring developers <strong>of</strong> model programs<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering solutions to health care challenges. She has served on numerous review panels for the<br />
National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health and the Institute <strong>of</strong> Medicine, published more than 100 articles, book<br />
chapters, and abstracts, and currently serves on the editorial board <strong>of</strong> Research in <strong>Nursing</strong> &<br />
Health and <strong>Nursing</strong> Outlook.