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Marie O. Etienne, ATNP, MSN, FNP, PNP, PLNC, maintains a private family primary care health practice in Plantation, Fla., and is an associate professor, senior of nursing at Miami Dade College. Marie is the Chairwoman of the Haitian-American Professionals Coalition (HAPC) and past President of the Haitian American Nurses Association of Florida (HANA). She has declared no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity.

Marlene Cesar, RN, MSN, ARNP, PMHNP, DNP, graduated from Miami Dade College with an associate degree in nursing and earned a master of science degree as a family nurse practitioner from Barry University and a post-master certificate in psychiatry from the University of Miami. She is an adjunct at the University of Miami, School of Nursing, the owner and director of Alternative Integrated Health Options, Inc., and an independent contractor for family practice and psychiatry. Marlene also has a background in business administration with a BS in business administration, accounting from the University of Illinois at Circle Campus, Chicago, Illinois.

Donna Tassos, RN, MSN, MS, is an Education Specialist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Clarksburg, WV where she has been employed since 1987. Her 34 year nursing career has included critical care, camp nursing, hospice, psychiatric-mental health, management, staff development and medical missions in Haiti. She holds a BSN from WV Wesleyan College, an MS degree in Psychology from Capella University and an MSN from Walden University. She has been traveling to Fort Liberte, Haiti since the year 2000 to provide nursing care in a clinic setting. In her travels to Haiti, she has grown to love the people and their culture and experienced the paradox that less is truly more. In her spare time she enjoys writing, traveling, Zumba and photography.

Pierre Minn, MA, PhD(c), has been doing in research in Haiti since 1997, focusing on health, medicine, and society. Minn recently returned from spending fourteen months in the city of Cap-Haitien, where he carried out his doctoral research on international medical aid and humanitarian assistance. He studied the social processes that accompany and emerge from international medical interventions, focusing on relationships between foreign and Haitian medical staff. Minn also conducted research on traditional medicine in Haiti, namely the use of medicinal plants and non-biomedical perspectives on health. While in Haiti, Minn lived with a Catholic congregation, and also maintained close ties with communities of Voudouisants both in Haiti and its diaspora. Minn worked in Protestant hospitals in Haiti as well as with Protestant mission groups. Minn's training in cultural and medical anthropology has given him extensive experience with the literature on faith and healing in Haiti, and he recently co-authored a paper for the World Health Organization on mental health services and healthcare utilization in Haiti, which involved a substantial section on faith, religion and healing.

Dr. Gaffney is on the faculty of the International Trauma Studies Program at New York University. Prior to her position at NYU she was a member of the graduate faculty and Director of The Center for Women and Children at Risk at Columbia University. She holds an undergraduate degree from Hunter College and Masters degrees from both Teachers College and Rutgers University. Dr. Gaffney earned her doctorate in child cognitive development at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997 she was awarded the Prudential Fellowship for Children and The News at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. As a member of the Advisory Committee for the Children's Health-A-Thon for Channel Thirteen, she was part of the first public television broadcast on children's health issues. Dr. Gaffney has long addressed the issues of trauma in children's lives. After the Challenger explosion she worked with schools on how best to help grieving children. She has also worked with families following the Pan Am 103 crash in Scotland. Dr. Gaffney developed and appeared in public service announcements for children by WOR during the Gulf War. She is currently working with families affected by the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks through the New Jersey Family Assistance Center. As a consultant to the NJ Department of Mental Health, the University of Medicine and Dentistry, and Atlantic Health Systems, Dr. Gaffney is also providing training for schools, communities and professionals in the aftermath of the events of September 11th. In September she collaborated with one of the first responders to the terrorist attack, Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, providing staff and administrative support and helping to create "The Science Center as Sanctuary." In addition to numerous academic publications, Dr. Gaffney is the author of The Seasons of Grief, Helping Children Grow Through Loss. Dr. Gaffney consults with schools and communities on issues related to children, trauma and interpersonal violence.

Carol Roye, RN, CPNP, EdD, is a well-known researcher in reproductive health who specializes in issues pertinent to adolescents, including teen pregnancy prevention and working with mothers of pregnant and parenting teens to improve outcomes for their daughters. She was also awarded a prestigious research grant from the National Institutes of Health to study HIV/AIDS prevention. Her work is featured by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and appears in the National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth. She has appeared on radio and television to talk about adolescent and women's health issues and has spoken at numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Roye is a Professor of Nursing at Hunter College in New York City and a practicing pediatric nurse practitioner. She splits her professional time between research, teaching and her clinical practice providing reproductive health care to adolescent girls in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York. She is the author of many publications on a range of topics in adolescent reproductive health, including Adolescent Sexual Development and Sexuality: Assessment and Interventions, a popular book for professionals who work with teenagers around issues of sexuality.

Elizabeth (Beth) Sloand, CRNP, PhD, has been dedicated to nursing and health care, primarily for underserved and low-income children, throughout her career. Her work as a nurse educator, researcher and community care provider focuses on uninsured and underinsured children and youth both in east Baltimore and in Haiti and other Caribbean nations. Her medical missions in rural southwest Haiti have enabled SON students to provide episodic direct primary and preventive health care to impoverished families as part of their training in community health nursing. In recognition of her work in the poverty-stricken village of Leon, Haiti, she received the 2005 Maryland Volunteer Health Care Hero Award from the Maryland Daily Record. Closer to home, Dr. Sloand has worked and led teams of nursing students at the Wald Community Nursing Centers, providing direct primary care services to uninsured/underinsured children and their families. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate nursing students, and coordinates the School's Pediatric Nurse Practitioner track. In addition to teaching, she actively practices as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the community, caring for children from birth through adolescence. Her publications appear in scholarly nursing and public health journals.

Alicia Hernandez, RN, BSN, is a registered nurse in the Johns Hopkins Emergency Department where she has worked since October 2008. While in nursing school at Emory University in Atlanta, Alicia took advantage of several opportunities to provide healthcare in resource-poor settings. She worked with a migrant farm-worker health program in rural southern Georgia and in community clinics on a family island of the Bahamas. Prior to entering the nursing profession, Alicia worked as a health educator with the Peace Corps in Tanzania. In Ecuador, she provided nursing care in a community hospital. Most recently, Alicia spent two weeks with the International Medical Corps in Haiti serving at the University Hospital in Port au Prince, and at mobile clinics in Petit Goave.

Sue A. Behrens, RN, MSN, ACNS-BC is the Director over Emergency/ECU/Trauma Services at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. She is an advanced practice nurse who also is licensed as a pre-hospital RN and Trauma Nurse Specialist in the state of Illinois. Other certifications and organizations she belongs to include: TNCC Instructor, ENPC Instructor, BLS Instructor, member of the State of Illinois Region 2 Medical Response Team (RMERT) and ENA. Sue has been involved with Friends of the Children of Haiti (FOTCOH) since 1998 and has made over 20 trips to Haiti; including being the Team Leader for two of the six medical missions FOTCOH provides annually. FOTCOH has a freestanding clinic in Cyvadier, Haiti and has been providing health care to the community for over 25 years. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for FOTCOH, as well as serves on the FOTCOH Medical Committee.

William Gossman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska. He graduated from Southern Illinois University Medical school in 1992 and the University of Illinois Residency in Emergency Medicine in Peoria Illinois in 1995. He has written numerous books and article and has lectured through the United States and world on topics in Emergency medicine. He has a passion for practicing medicine in developing countries and recently returned from a trip to Haiti.

Mark L. Plaster, MD, JD is the founder of ML Plaster Publishing Company which publishes Emergency Physicians Monthly, the largest publication in Emergency Medicine. He is also a Commander in the US Navy Reserves (Medical Corps) and has served two combat tours in Iraq. Dr. Plaster has also participated in multiple medical missions in South America, Africa, Asia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Haiti. He is also a practicing Emergency and Trauma physician.

Barbara DeBaun, RN, MSN, CIC, has worked in the field of Infection Control for the past 27 years. She received her BSN in 1976 from Pace University in New York and an MSN from San Francisco State University in San Francisco in 2004. She has been certified by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology since 1990. Barbara is a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and served as a Board Member of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter for eleven years. She is a member of the 2007 APIC Annual Conference Task Force. She has lectured nationally and internationally on many Infection Control issues, particularly on topics related to needlestick prevention, healthcare worker and patient safety. Barbara has published over a dozen articles in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Infection Control Today, and The Nursing Clinics of North America.

Elizabeth Petruzzella, RN, BSN, PHN, graduated from St. Marys/Samuel Merritt Intercollegiate nursing program. She has worked at California Pacific Medical Center in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit for the past six years, caring for post transplant, open-heart surgical and medical patients. She has just returned from a week in Haiti with a surgical team providing nursing care.

Sue A. Behrens, RN, MSN, ACNS-BC is the Director over Emergency/ECU/Trauma Services at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. She is an advanced practice nurse who also is licensed as a pre-hospital RN and Trauma Nurse Specialist in the state of Illinois. Other certifications and organizations she belongs to include: TNCC Instructor, ENPC Instructor, BLS Instructor, member of the State of Illinois Region 2 Medical Response Team (RMERT) and ENA. Sue has been involved with Friends of the Children of Haiti (FOTCOH) since 1998 and has made over 20 trips to Haiti; including being the Team Leader for two of the six medical missions FOTCOH provides annually. FOTCOH has a freestanding clinic in Cyvadier, Haiti and has been providing health care to the community for over 25 years. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for FOTCOH, as well as serves on the FOTCOH Medical Committee.

Sue A. Behrens, RN, MSN, ACNS-BC is the Director over Emergency/ECU/Trauma Services at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. She is an advanced practice nurse who also is licensed as a pre-hospital RN and Trauma Nurse Specialist in the state of Illinois. Other certifications and organizations she belongs to include: TNCC Instructor, ENPC Instructor, BLS Instructor, member of the State of Illinois Region 2 Medical Response Team (RMERT) and ENA. Sue has been involved with Friends of the Children of Haiti (FOTCOH) since 1998 and has made over 20 trips to Haiti; including being the Team Leader for two of the six medical missions FOTCOH provides annually. FOTCOH has a freestanding clinic in Cyvadier, Haiti and has been providing health care to the community for over 25 years. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for FOTCOH, as well as serves on the FOTCOH Medical Committee.

William Gossman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska. He graduated from Southern Illinois University Medical school in 1992 and the University of Illinois Residency in Emergency Medicine in Peoria Illinois in 1995. He has written numerous books and article and has lectured through the United States and world on topics in Emergency medicine. He has a passion for practicing medicine in developing countries and recently returned from a trip to Haiti.

Mark L. Plaster, MD, JD is the founder of ML Plaster Publishing Company which publishes Emergency Physicians Monthly, the largest publication in Emergency Medicine. He is also a Commander in the US Navy Reserves (Medical Corps) and has served two combat tours in Iraq. Dr. Plaster has also participated in multiple medical missions in South America, Africa, Asia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Haiti. He is also a practicing Emergency and Trauma physician.

Curtis H. Audin, RN, BSN, MBA, works in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a master of business administration from Boston College, a bachelor of science in nursing from Georgetown University, and a bachelor of science in biology from Hobart College. Audin has extensive experience and deployments, including experience with the Haiti Earthquake disaster.

Carri-Ann M. Gibson, MD, DAAPM, is the Chief of Special Programs (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Program, Trauma Recovery Program and the Suicide Prevention Team) at James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, Florida. She is a board certified psychiatrist and has additional certification in pain management. Dr. Gibson also completed the prolonged exposure therapy certification process. Dr. Gibson's career interests include the comprehensive treatment of chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder. Dr. Gibson graduated from Lehigh University—Phi Beta Kappa—with a major in Behavioral Neuroscience and attended the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. Her intern year was completed at University of South Florida and with her husband's active duty military status she transferred to Eastern Virginia Medical School for further training. She completed her residency training at The George Washington University and developed a specific interest in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder through her work as a chief resident at a DC urban trauma center. As a chief resident she developed the first comprehensive mental health trauma recovery program enveloped in primary care to help the underserved recover from the impact of severe urban trauma.

Joan Pierre-Louis, 1LT, RN, MSN, MPH, MPA, MHPR was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She finished High School in Haiti at Institution du Sacre Coeur de Turgeau, a private catholic school. She started Universite Quisqueya then she left Haiti during the 1994 turmoil to further her studies in the United States. She received her first bachelor in 2000 from Florida State University in Rehabilitation Services. She received an Associate Science in Nursing from Tallahassee Community College in 2002. She received another Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Florida State University in 2005. She received a Master of Science in Health Policy Research and a Master of Public Administration from Florida State University in 2007. She received a Master of Public Health from Florida International University in 2007. Additionally, she completed a Master of Science in Nursing, as an Adult Nurse Practitioner from Florida International University in 2008. In 2009, she earned a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from University of Miami. Pierre-Louis is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is a member of American Society for Public Administration, American Public Health Association and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She joined the Army National Guard in September 2007. She is a graduate of the AMEDD Basic Course. She is presently serving as the Platoon Leader for the Florida Medical Detachment. Pierre-Louis’s awards and decorations include National Defense Service Medal (with Bronze Service Star) and Army Service Ribbon.

Dr. Gaffney is on the faculty of the International Trauma Studies Program at New York University. Prior to her position at NYU she was a member of the graduate faculty and Director of The Center for Women and Children at Risk at Columbia University. She holds an undergraduate degree from Hunter College and Masters degrees from both Teachers College and Rutgers University. Dr. Gaffney earned her doctorate in child cognitive development at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997 she was awarded the Prudential Fellowship for Children and The News at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. As a member of the Advisory Committee for the Children's Health-A-Thon for Channel Thirteen, she was part of the first public television broadcast on children's health issues. Dr. Gaffney has long addressed the issues of trauma in children's lives. After the Challenger explosion she worked with schools on how best to help grieving children. She has also worked with families following the Pan Am 103 crash in Scotland. Dr. Gaffney developed and appeared in public service announcements for children by WOR during the Gulf War. She is currently working with families affected by the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks through the New Jersey Family Assistance Center. As a consultant to the NJ Department of Mental Health, the University of Medicine and Dentistry, and Atlantic Health Systems, Dr. Gaffney is also providing training for schools, communities and professionals in the aftermath of the events of September 11th. In September she collaborated with one of the first responders to the terrorist attack, Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, providing staff and administrative support and helping to create "The Science Center as Sanctuary." In addition to numerous academic publications, Dr. Gaffney is the author of The Seasons of Grief, Helping Children Grow Through Loss. Dr. Gaffney consults with schools and communities on issues related to children, trauma and interpersonal violence.

Judith A. Vessey, CRNP, MBA, PhD, FAAN, is the Lelia Holden Carroll Chair in Nursing at Boston College. Dr. Vessey is a developmental pediatric nurse practitioner and a leading nurse researcher in the field of developmental pediatrics with a specialty in school health. Dr. Vessey received her BSN from Goshen College, a certificate as a Developmental Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from the University of Miami, her MSN and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. More recently, she received her MBA from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Vessey's current research focuses on teasing and bullying. Her interest in this area of inquiry began when she witnessed the difficulties that children with chronic conditions faced on being included in school. This work has led to a new avenue of study - bullying, harassment, and horizontal violence in the workplace. Dr. Vessey has authored over 100 articles, chapters, and books and has presented widely. Dr. Vessey is actively involved in the American Academy of Nurses and serves as co-chair of the Child and Family Expert Panel.

Janet Sprehe has worked at the Veterans Health Administration for over 20 years in many different capacities. She is a certified medical surgical nurse, cardiovascular nurse and Adult Nurse Practitioner. She currently works at the Tampa VA in nursing education department. In her many roles and duties, she is one of the Palliative Care/End of Life Trainers and ACLS/BLS instructor trainers. Working with the VA-University of South Florida Partnership, she provides clinical instruction to undergraduate nursing students in medical-surgical and polytrauma areas. She is active in the American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association and American Red Cross. Ms. Sprehe has served on the hospital Ethics Committee, Employee Wellness Committee, Patient Education and other various college and hospital committees. Ms. Sprehe received her BSN in 1987 and MSN in 1994 from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She serves on the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Michelle Marchant, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education at Brigham Young University where she trains teachers in emotional and behavior strategies. She also supervises student teachers and interns. She has worked as a resource teacher in public schools serving students with mild and moderate disabilities. Recently appointed coordinator of the Brigham Young University Special Education licensure program, Michelle provides leadership to the undergraduate and licensure special education program. Her primary research interest is in the prevention and treatment of children and youth who are at risk for/or experience emotional and behavioral disorders.

Melissa Heath, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education at Brigham Young University. Her primary research interest is crisis prevention and intervention in the school setting. She is a licensed psychologist and a nationally and state-certified school psychologist. In addition to serving on school crisis teams, district crisis teams, and community crisis teams, she also received crisis training through Red Cross Disaster Mental Health and Community Emergency Preparedness Training (CERT). Over the past 10 years, she has worked with schools and communities in developing basic training materials for crisis intervention.

Elizabeth Keller, RN, MSN, is a clinical instructor in psychiatric nursing at the University of Florida School of Nursing. Her experience in psychiatric nursing, primarily in the inpatient setting, has focused on adults, adolescents, and substance abusers. Keller also has clinical experience in many other areas of nursing and administration. She received her bachelor of science in nursing from West Virginia University in 1977 and her master of science in nursing from the University of Maryland in 1982.

Russell P. Friedman is Executive Director of The Grief Recovery Institute Educational Foundation, Inc., and co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition): The Action Program For Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses, including Health, Career, and Faith (HarperCollins, 2009). He is also co-author of When Children Grieve: For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses (HarperCollins, 2001); and Moving On: Dump Your Relationship Baggage and Make Room For the Love of Your Life (M. Evans, September, 2006).