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Advisory Board

Teresita Bushey, MA, APRN-BC, RN, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., where she mentors first-generation freshman nursing students through the college's Project WISE (Wal-Mart Initiative for Success in Education). Her current research projects include investigating the role of professional socialization behaviors in predicting academic success in nursing education, and assessing the use of academic electronic health records (AEHRs) in nursing education. Tessie recently co-presented a poster session on AEHR use at the 2009 Nursing Informatics Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

Wallena Gould, CRNA, MSN, is the founder and chair of the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping nurses and students from underrepresented minority populations prepare for advanced practice careers as certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). Lena has mentored literally thousands of minority students in nurse anesthesia programs across the country--an achievement that earned her 2009 Top National Winner recognition in the prestigious Cherokee Inspired Comfort Awards. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in education at Wilmington University.

Constance Smith Hendricks, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a professor of community health and gerontology nursing at Auburn University School of Nursing in Auburn, Alabama. Selected as an Emerging Nursing Star in Health Disparities Research at Howard University Division of Nursing's 2004 M. Elizabeth Carnegie Research Conference, Constance has conducted more than 30 grant-funded research studies and published more than 60 articles. She is associate editor of The Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health and was recently inducted into the American Academy of Nursing.

Sandra Millon Underwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing, which recently honored her with its Faculty Distinguished Public Service Award. She has conducted many funded research projects focusing on cancer education, prevention and early detection in at-risk, underserved minority populations, including the Cancer Control Collaborative for Congregational Nurses and the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Program for Nurse Educators at Historically Black and Minority-Serving Institutions. Sandra received the National Black Nurses Association's Trailblazer Award in 2006 and was inducted into the NBNA's Institute of Excellence in 2009.