Nicole is a knowledge junkie, a mentor, and a born coach. She is an entrepreneur who has run her own business since 2003. Nicole is the author of five books, and the mother of two phenomenal children. She is also a world traveler, a philanthropist, and an accomplished public speaker. As a speaker Nicole shares a real-life perspective on life and happiness with audiences across the country. Her primary goal is to inspire others to make real change in their lives by taking complicated things and making them easy to understand and giving actionable items to make change. As a domestic violence survivor, Nicole continues to trudge through the male dominated financial services industry. Nicole completely understands the feelings of intimidation, control, and empowerment

Dr. Yonca Bulut is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She attended medical school at the University of Ankara, Turkey, completed her pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Ohio, and fellowship in pediatric critical care at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Prior to joining the PCCM division at UCLA, Dr. Bulut was a faculty member at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, later she served as the Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center. Dr. Bulut’s research interests include the role of iron and the iron-regulatory hormone Hepcidin in bacterial infections. Her translational work focused on the utilization of Hepcidin as a biomarker and a therapeutic agent. Her research accomplishments have been recognized by national and private institutions, including the National Institutes of Health, the Today’s and Tomorrow's Children's Fund and the Oppenheimer Foundation. Dr. Bulut’s work on iron metabolism in infection has been published in several prestigious scientific journals, including Blood, Cell Host and Microbe, Journal of Immunology, Infection and Immunity. Dr. Bulut’s clinical interests include Anemia and Iron Deficiency, Transfusion practices in ICU settings, Pediatric Acute Liver Failure and Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness. Dr. Bulut is one of the Educators for Excellence faculty at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the recipient of the UCLA Pediatric Residency Faculty Teaching Honor Roll for Academic Year 2022-2023 and Robert C. Neerhout Faculty Award for Academic Year 2020-2021 in appreciation for excellence in teaching. Dr. Bulut is the PICU elective chair for the 4th year medical students at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA since 2014.

Dr Sujan Babu Marahatta is currently the Professor of Public Health at Nepal Open University (NOU).He is the Chair of Subject Committee of Masters of Sciences in Environment and Occupational health Course. He is also the program led of Master of Public Health course at MMIHS. Dr Marahatta is playing led role to develop international links with universities and institutions to strengthen research and teaching profile of NOU.He is also visiting faculty at Liverpool John Moores University UK. He has received postdoctoral research grants from WHO-TDR and research grants from different agencies.He has published 67 original and review articles in peer reviewed journal and one book chapter.

The University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS) is pleased to announce Brian Uridge as the new Michigan Medicine security director. “Brian has more than 28 years of experience and leadership in healthcare security services and law enforcement, which makes him uniquely qualified for this role,” said Eddie Washington, Jr., DPSS executive director. Uridge served for three years as the director of Security Services at Spectrum Health, where he was responsible for more than 200 safety and security professionals. While at Spectrum, he implemented the first four-member security police explosive K-9 unit, who were cross-trained in pet therapy, as well as the first ever Taser and firearm programs. He also was instrumental in the development of a clinical safety program, which used police-based scenario to train more than 3,500 nurses in one year.

Karen Andrea Pesse Sorensen specializes in health services and system organization, management of health professionals' education, social determinants of health, quality assessment in chronic disease management, participatory action research, reproductive health rights, and curriculum development and accreditation of public health programs.

Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science. He is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lisbon - ISEG, Invited Professor at the University of Calabria, Honorary Professor at the Amity University, researcher at the ADVANCE (the ISEG Centre for Advanced Research in Management), and a collaborator researcher at the CINTESIS (Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems). His main research interests are maturity models, information systems quality, online service quality, requirements engineering, intelligent information systems, e-Government, e-Health, and information technology in education. He is also Vice-Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two Scopus and SCIMago journals: JISEM - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management; and RISTI - RevistaIbérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação / Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies. Additionally, he is the Scientific Manager of the Information Systems Engineering & Management book series at Springer-Nature, the world's leading publisher of publications in Science, Technology and Health. Moreover, he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Program, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre, at the Government of Cyprus's Research and Innovation Foundation, and at the Government of Slovak's Research Agency Álvaro Rocha is World’s 1% Top Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier, World’s Top 0.05% Scientist by ScholarGPS, and World’s Top 1% Scientist by ResearchGate.