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Kathy Wodicka, RN, BSN - Leadership Programs Manager - Previous positions include: Education Programs Manager at Sigma Theta Tau. Clinical experiences includes: Clinical Manager Cardiac Cath Lab, staff nurse open-heart recovery, coronary care, med-surg. Non nursing positions include computer manual editor and elementary school substitute teacher of students with disabilities. Member since 1970.

Mary Ann Scott, RN, BSN, MSN - Nursing Knowledge International Director – Previous positions include: senior executive positions in pediatrics and maternal child services at a 650-bed tertiary level teaching hospital with a 17-bed pediatric emergency department and level III NICU; led the team that built a $13.8 million family life center that introduced LDR concept, maternal fetal medicine department, computerized charting and innovative pre and post-hospitalization programming.

Mary Rita Hurley, RN, MPA – International Leadership Institute (ILI) Director is responsible for providing strategic and visionary leadership of Sigma Theta Tau International’s International Leadership Institute. Previous employment experience includes managing the oversight of long term care and senior housing facilities in both urban and rural settings throughout the United States. The scope of her expertise includes operations oversight, systems development and implementation, cost control management, budget development, start up of new facilities, development of rehabilitation/restorative services and combining such services with clinical operations. 

Lois S. Marshall, PhD, RN - Leadership Program Consultant Nurse.  A nurse educator for 30 years, she received her PhD from the University of Miami, with a focus on higher education, curriculum design, and outcomes assessment. Dr. Marshall’s research expertise is on test taking strategies, outcomes assessment and evaluation related to the NCLEX-RN Examination, as well as nursing curricula.  She has been preparing graduates for the NCLEX-RN with her own preparation course for 25 years. Dr. Marshall is an expert on curriculum design, program planning, and nursing education as an art and science, guiding and preparing novice faculty members for their numerous roles as nurse educators.  Her clinical area of expertise is pediatrics across all levels of care. She does presentations at national and international conferences promoting research and the development of abstracts for research presentations and grants for STTI, as well as on the leadership programs of STTI. She mentors members in the preparation of abstracts for presentations, as well as the preparation of grant submissions, particularly for the STTI small grants program.  

Geralyn Frandsen, EdD, RN, Professor of Nursing, Maryville University Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Frandsen has been a nurse educator for 22 years, and coordinator of the masters in nursing education and gerontology certificate program.  She has a Doctorate in higher education and leadership experience in the areas of curriculum development, teaching strategies, and measurement and evaluation. Dr. Frandsen also has experience in writing NCLEX-style questions and pharmacology chapters.  Her doctoral project examined the mentor roles of nurse educators in the quest for promotion and tenure.  She has a passionate interest in educating undergraduate and graduate students in the care of the patient and family at the end of life.  She has also engaged in research in the area of team teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level.  Dr. Frandsen currently serves on the Sigma Theta Tau International Governance Committee and is the chair of the Charter Review Task Force.