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Dianne Francel C. Bautista, MBA, MPH, MSN, BSN, RN-BC, is a beacon of inspiration and catalyst for change in both the healthcare industry and the broader community. Migrating from the Philippines & inspired by the strong inspirational women, Dianne embodies resilience, determination, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. As the youngest president of the Philippine Nurses Association of New Jersey (PNANJ) Somerset County Subchapter, Dianne exemplifies exceptional leadership and an unwavering commitment to service. 

With a diverse background spanning nursing, business administration, and public health, Dianne's journey reflects her resolute dedication to making a positive impact. Graduating with distinction from Ramapo College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she quickly rose through the ranks driven by her passion for improving patient outcomes and fostering inclusivity within the nursing profession. 

Dianne's influence extends far beyond her professional roles. During her tenure as President of PNANJ Somerset County Subchapter, she spearheaded numerous initiatives focused on addressing social determinants of health, inspiring young women, empowering immigrant communities, and amplifying the voices of underrepresented groups. Under her visionary leadership, the subchapter experienced unprecedented growth and recognition, solidifying its position as a force for positive change. 

Under her guidance, PNANJ Somerset successfully organized over 80 events, with nearly half dedicated to community outreach. These efforts resulted in significant contributions, including substantial donations to organizations aiding vulnerable populations, funding for disadvantaged families in the Philippines, completion of thousands of community service hours, provision of free Continuing Education Units (CEUs), and outreach to over 120,000 individuals through various initiatives and events. 

In recognition of her exceptional achievements and impactful community contributions, Dianne was honored as one of NJBiz's 40 under 40, further establishing her as a rising star in the healthcare industry and beyond. Her dedication to service and advocacy for a more equitable society has earned widespread acclaim and admiration. 

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Dianne's philanthropic endeavors and advocacy work have positively impacted countless lives, from organizing community outreach programs to championing social justice causes. Her unwavering commitment to uplifting others and driving meaningful change serves as a beacon of inspiration to all who know her. 

In addition to her professional pursuits, Dianne is recognized for her angelic soprano voice, lending it as a cantor for the Diocese of Metuchen Filipino Apostolate Festival Choir. As a recipient of numerous accolades and awards, including the prestigious 2023 PNANJ Scholarship and the 2023 Philippine Nurses Association of America Rookie of the Year honor, Dianne's contributions have left an indelible mark on her community and the healthcare industry. 

Dianne's journey epitomizes the transformative power of leadership, compassion, and dedication, inspiring others to follow her example and make a positive impact wherever they go. In 2023, Dianne's team emerged victorious in the NurseHack4Health competition, presenting a winning Project Proposal focused on integrating immigrant nurses into the U.S. healthcare system. 

Currently, Dianne is mentored by esteemed figures such as Kristopher Bough, Program Director at the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and Hiyam Nadel, President of Sonsiel. Their guidance is instrumental in furthering Dianne's mission to empower immigrant nurses and drive positive change in the healthcare industry. 

In conclusion, Dianne Francel C. Bautista's journey is a testament to the transformative power of dedication, visionary leadership, and compassionate action. Her legacy inspires individuals to embrace their passions and champion causes that uplift humanity. As we forge ahead, let us draw inspiration from Dianne's remarkable journey and unite in our collective pursuit of a brighter future, where every individual can thrive and contribute to the greater good. 

Rev. Dr. Liberato C. Bautista is the President of CoNGO—The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations. CoNGO is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1948 which relates to the United Nations through its General Consultative Status granted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In the seventy three years of CoNGO, Bautista is one of only two among nineteen CoNGO Presidents who have served two terms in non-consecutive fashion. He was CoNGO President between December 2007 and January 2011.

Bautista concurrently serves as the main representative to the UN for the United Methodist Church—General Board of Church and Society (GBCS), which is the international public policy and social justice agency of The United Methodist Church. He has represented GBCS at the UN for the last 24 years. GBCS is a longstanding full member of CoNGO. As a nongovernmental representative of a faith-based organization at the UN, Bautista served as president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations (CRNGO@UN, 2015-2017). Bautista chaired the Council of Organizations in New York of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA, 2006-2007) and elected in 2018 to serve in its Executive Committee. Bautista’s NGO-related activities date back to 1974, starting with a faith-based youth organization and moving on to work and related with ecumenical organizations, then on to non-governmental work vis-a-vis the UN. His work has afforded him to travel and meet peoples in at least 80 nations around the world.

Bautista studied political science, history, and international studies at the University of the Philippines in Manila which in 2000 awarded him the “Most Outstanding Alumnus in the Social Sciences.” His doctoral studies at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey focused on religion and social and political ethics. He was awarded the Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, by Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines in 2016. Bautista is an ordained United Methodist minister.

Kaley Cook is the Program Coordinator for the Alliance for Ethical International Recruitment Practices and the International Centre on Nurse Migration. She works with recruitment firms that are committed to ethical practices and participates in research on issues facing internationally-educated nurses, as well as migratory trends in healthcare. As a previous CGFNS credentials analyst, Kaley worked to develop new credentialing training and provided guidance to nurses seeking to work in the US.

Kaley completed a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014 and was awarded a Fulbright teaching assistantship in Holešov, Czech Republic from 2014-2015. She also completed a Master of Science in International and Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University in Denmark in 2018.

Dr. Joseph is an Afro-Latina nurse scientist, educator, and philanthropist who was born and raised in Venezuela, South America. As an international expert in chemosensation and metabolic diseases, she bridges the intersections of nursing, science, nutrition, public health, policy, and health disparities. She is a 2019 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Lasker Scholar and 2018 Distinguished Scholar. She is Chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism in the Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with a dual appointment at the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). She is the 2022-24 America Academy of Nursing Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Joseph leads a multidimensional translational research program combining research and clinical practice focused on chemosensation (taste and smell). Dr. Joseph and her group are conducting pre-clinical, clinical and translational studies that aims to improve the diagnosis, prevention, and management of chemosensory disorders and symptoms. Her program of research aims to understand neurological and molecular mechanisms underlying chemosensation (taste, smell & chemesthesis) and motivational pathways of ingestive behaviors in individuals with obesity and alcohol and substance use disorders. Since 2020, Dr. Joseph and her team began investigating the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the chemical senses and its post-acute sequelaeDr. Joseph is one of the co-founders of the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) aim to foster the advancement of chemosensory science at large, allowing the possibility to test larger samples of participants cross-culturally, strengthening the reliability and validity of chemosensory science across many domains. During COVID-19 pandemic, the GCCR led studies in 35 different languages around the world and showed that COVID-19 was associated with severe impairment of smell, taste, and chemesthesis. To date, she has served as Principal Investigator or Associate Investigator on approximately 20 research projects and has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, as well as several book chapters and one textbook. Her research has been covered by several media outlets nationally and internationally, including the New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Hippo Hive Latin-American among others. Dr. Joseph has received numerous awards and is recognized among the top emerging nurse scientists in the United States.

Dr. Joseph is a leader of national and global nonprofit organizations dedicated to decreasing health disparities and improving healthcare access in vulnerable communities. Her background as a nurse scientist and a woman of color has influenced her commitment to increase diversity in STEM-related fields. Dr. Joseph is a co-founder of the Latino Nurses Network, which focuses on building a strong network of support for Latino nurse leaders to effect change in health care policy, education, and practice. Dr. Joseph is actively engaged in developing outreach and training initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in biomedical research and training programs at NIH and internationally through her leadership of national and global non-profits. She is the past Vice-President of the Amazing Grace Children’s Foundation based in Ghana and serves on the advisory board for the organization. Within the organization, she has led initiatives to decrease health disparities and to develop training opportunities for local students and clinicians. Additionally, she serves as the Director of Mentorship for the African Research Academy for Women based in Ghana and USA.  She is a Founding Strategic Advisor of the Smell and Taste Association of North America.

Dr. Joseph received an Associate Degree in Applied Sciences in Nursing at Hostos Community College, a BSN from the College of New Rochelle, and an MS with a specialty as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Pace University. She completed a PhD in nursing with a focus in genomics at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted her PhD work at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. She then completed a Clinical and Translational Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on genomics, nutrition, and gastrointestinal diseases at the NINR, which was supported by the Office of Workforce Diversity. Dr. Joseph is a certified nurse practitioner with clinical privileges at the NIH Clinical Center and outside NIH. Dr. Joseph is the second nurse in the country to receive the Lasker Clinical Scholars Award, a prestigious grant given by NIH and the Lasker Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Transcultural Nursing Society.

Dr. Ogiehor-Enoma is the winner of the “2019 Yankees Nurse Hero,” An Adjunct Associate Professor at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, A Nurse Administrator at New York Presbyterian Queens,  Founder, Nigerian Nurses Association of USA (NNAUSA), Founding Member/Chair of the Board, National Association of Nigerian Nurses in North America (NANNNA), A Certified Nurse Executive, A Fellow and Mentor of NYU Leadership Institute for Black Nurses, A fellow of the Carnegie African Diaspora fellowship. 

Dr. Ogiehor-Enoma education includes: 

Basic Nursing from State School of Nursing, Edo State, Nigeria, Basic Midwifery from St. Philomena’s School of Midwifery, Edo State, Nigeria, BSN from Pace University, New York Master’s degree, Public Health (MPH) from CUNY/Hunter College, New York, Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from CUNY/Hunter College, New York and Doctorate in Health Administration (DHA) from University of Phoenix.

Through her leadership, the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria in collaboration with NANNNA created action plan on public awareness and campaign against domestic violence in Nigeria, established “Nurses Technical Committee” (NTC) that focuses on developing a blueprint for strengthening nursing through coordinated multi-system policies and programs. 

Dr. Ogiehor-Enoma also mentor Nurses to advance in their career resulting in many nurses obtaining PhD and DNP in nursing. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals. 

Her significant contributions to the African Immigrant community, the nursing profession and healthcare in general, have made her a role model to other nurses, women, and African Immigrants. 

Above all, she is a wife and a mother, a family-oriented person

Peter Preziosi is a leader in the global effort to strengthen health systems by improving career development and mobility for health workers. Recently appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of CGFNS International, the world’s largest credentials evaluation organization for the nursing and allied health professions, he is working to revitalize its leadership in developing and implementing credentialing solutions for a globalizing health workforce.

Prior to joining CGFNS in January 2023, Dr. Preziosi led quality, standards development and credentialing at the World Health Organization’s initiative to build a technology-driven global learning center, the WHO Academy, with a goal of upskilling millions of health workers worldwide.

After beginning his career as a registered nurse, Dr. Preziosi has spent nearly three decades in high-profile positions at corporations, government agencies and nonprofits. His work has included leading strategic innovation, partnership-building and healthcare reform initiatives for national and international organizations including Verizon’s healthcare innovation incubator, Concentrix Corporation, the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National League for Nursing and the AMDEC Foundation, a New York-based biomedical research consortium. He also worked for the City of New York’s Health and Hospital Corporation and he directed the Mayor’s Office of Medicaid Managed Care.

Dr. Preziosi holds a PhD in health policy and a master’s degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s in education from Columbia University’s Teachers College. His bachelor’s degree in nursing is from Florida State University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of SONSIEL, a society of nurse scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs, and is a member of the American Society of Association Executives, where he is a Certified Association Executive.

Holly K Shaw, Ph.D., RN, is an expert in health and healing with a focus on crisis, trauma, and bereavement. Dr. Shaw, a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric/mental health nursing, is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School Masters Certificate Program in Global Mental Health and earned degrees at Boston University and Adelphi University, College of Nursing and Public Health where she is an Adjunct Professor. She earned a Ph.D. in 1998 focusing on the extended impact of the death of a peer during adolescence and served as Senior Consultant to the Chancellor's Office of the City of New York in developing the initial city-wide Board of Education Crisis Response System. In that capacity, she developed an award-winning program on adolescent bereavement and worked with many communities throughout the US including the community of Concord, New Hampshire recovering from the Death of Teacher in Space, Christa McAuliffe.

Dr. Shaw is active in the United Nations NGO community where she facilitated the affiliation between the UN and Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing. She currently represents the International Council of Nurses (ICN), a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations, representing the more than 16 million nurses worldwide and the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health. Dr. Shaw contributes to the American Journal of Nursing and is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters. She is an invited lecturer at universities, medical centers, and community-based organizations in the US, and many global settings, including the People’s Republic of China, Uganda, Israel, Jordan, India, and Cambodia, where she is consulting on several projects with the Ministry of Health and Education.

Secretary,  Indian American Nurses Association, Albany (IANA) 

Member, American Nurse’s Association (ANA) 

Member, American Society of Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN) 

Life Member, Alpha Chi National Honor Society 

Recipient and member of Sigma Theta Tau 

Highly dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse with 23 years of nursing experience in various departments like cardiac intervention prep and recovery unit, EP Lab, Telemetry and Stroke unit, COVID unit, Critical care Unit, Neurology wards, Psychiatry wards and De-addiction units. Proven record of leading nursing teams to provide high quality care and in generating positive unit changes. Exceptional skills with a passion for mentorship. Leading the team of Indian nurses as the Secretary of Indian American Nurses’ Association of Albany. Presently working as the team leader of the Cath and EP Lab in St Peter’s Health Partners, Albany, NY. f