Barb Nickel, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CRNI® is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at a large health care system in the United States, responsible for staff development and process improvement to optimize outcomes in multiple areas of clinical practice, including critical care, infusion therapy, sepsis, and new graduate transition to practice. Ms Nickel has presented nationally and internationally and published in several peer-review journals on infusion-related topics. She was the chair of the 2024 INS Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice Committee, and is now chair of the 2027 Standards Committee. She also serves as Adjunct Research Fellow for Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Robert Garcia is an infection preventionist/consultant and has been a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) since 1980. In 2016, he was selected as a fellow at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), a designation for experienced IPs who have had significant contributions to the field of infection prevention. He is the certification infection preventionist/director at nine hospitals in New York City and the principal researcher on the effectiveness of silver-hydrogel urinary catheters, chlorhexidine skin antisepsis, and comprehensive oral care. Robert is a current or former member of APIC’s National Strategic Planning Board, Education Committee, and/or CBIC, as well as a trainer for APIC’s EPI Clinical Course. He is a contributor to APIC’s Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology; was a reviewer for the 2005 HICPAC Guidelines on Isolation; and since 2001 has been an editorial board member and/or reviewer for the American Journal of Infection Control, where in 2016 he was ranked among the top 25th percentile of reviewers. He has more than 100 publications and media interviews ranging from institutional costs of infection to prevention of HAIs to environmental contamination to microbiology to reducing occupational exposures.

Britt Meyer, PhD, RN, CRNI®, VA-BC, NE-BC, chair of the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation (INCC), leads the vascular access team at Duke University Hospital and presents nationally and internationally on a variety of infusion and vascular access topics. She is well-published in the specialty and is passionate about empowering clinicians to provide safe and effective care. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member for the East Carolina University School of Nursing and is a member of the INS Standards Committee for the 10th edition.

Julie Ann Marshall, DNP, RN, CCM, CNE, PED-BC, has been a pediatric nurse for over 20 years and is certified in pediatric nursing, case management, and as a certified nurse educator. She is celebrating her 20th year at Children’s Colorado and serves as the Clinical Practice Specialist for MedSurg in Colorado Springs. Her passion is to bridge evidence-based practice and quality improvement work to clinical nurses at the bedside to empower all nurses as change agents to drive improved outcomes. Dr Marshall’s current focuses are pediatric fall prevention, nurse-led rounds, and pediatric needle pain mitigation.

She has many years of clinical nursing experience, teaching practice to nursing students, new graduate nurses in a residency program, online distance learning, hospital-based and academic-based education. Dr Marshall is a member of the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses and the Society of Pediatric Nurses. She has completed many quality improvement and evidence-based practice projects and has disseminated at national conferences and locally in Colorado. 

Dr Marshall’s passion is to bridge evidence-based practice and quality improvement work to clinical nurses at the bedside to empower all nurses as change agents to drive improved outcomes. She strongly believes that all nurses are leaders, with or without a title. Her mission is to continue to mentor, develop, teach, and model the profession of pediatric nursing for future and current nurses, completing this through a dedication to lifelong learning and championing a safe and just culture. Dr Marshall has also served on global medical mission trips and local medical missions, and volunteers at a local hospice agency to provide companionship for the dying. 

Jessica L. Perdue, DNP, MS, RN, NPD-BC, CPN, is a Clinical Practice Specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado with more than 25 years of pediatric nursing experience and focused expertise in infusion therapy-related quality improvement and patient safety. 

Dr Perdue has led organization-wide initiatives to reduce peripheral intravenous infiltration and extravasation (PIVIE) through standardized assessment, workflow redesign, policy revision, and competency-based education across emergency, urgent care, and inpatient settings. Her work emphasizes data-driven quality improvement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and alignment with INS standards.

Amy C. Cole, PhD, MPS, MS, PMP, is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with appointments in the School of Information and Library Science, the Carolina Health Informatics Program, and the Division of Healthcare Engineering in the School of Medicine. She is a human factors and health services researcher whose work spans medical device innovation, digital health, patient‑clinician communication, and values‑driven decision support. Dr Cole focuses on designing and evaluating technologies that improve safety, usability, and overall care experiences for patients, caregivers, and clinicians.

Her portfolio is supported by competitive funding and recognitions across device and digital health innovation, among them a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NIH [NCATS]) pilot award for prototype development and a U.S. National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I‑Corps™) grant for customer discovery. She has received national honors, such as the Oley Foundation’s Top Clinical Research Paper Award, the Society for Medical Decision Making’ (SMDM) Anne Stiggelbout Award, and the Dennis Revicki Memorial Award, and was selected for the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot cohort.

Dr Cole serves nationally as a member of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Rare Disease Advisory Panel and on the SMDM’s Patient Advocacy Council, contributing to national efforts to center patient perspectives in research and innovation.

An experienced speaker, she has presented at leading conferences including International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), SMDM, the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She regularly delivers invited talks and workshops on patient‑centered care, human factors, and digital health. Dr Cole’s research often involves simulation‑based methods, co‑design with diverse stakeholders, and mixed‑methods approaches to evaluate and refine innovative health care technologies. She also directs an internship program in patient‑centered care and systems innovation. Her work is driven by a commitment to advancing innovative, patient‑centered solutions that strengthen health care systems and improve outcomes across diverse clinical settings.