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Birch is an assistant professor and Director of Digital Scholarship and Distinctive Collections in JMU Libraries. She teaches in partnership with faculty from a wide variety of academic disciplines to support the use of rare and primary source materials in the classroom and encourage digital scholarship methods. 
Birch’s research focuses on participatory archives, post-custodial archives, collections discovery and access, sustainability of digital projects, and the intersection of special collections and digital scholarship. 
Birch earned a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in Journalism at the University of Delaware and dual master's degrees in History and Archives Management at Simmons College (now Simmons University).  

Bahlmann Bollinger teaches undergraduate ELED students in LED 300 and 350, undergraduate ELED BIS students in LED 350, undergraduate ECED BIS students in LED 355 and 456, and graduate students in the LED MEd program. 
Bahlmann Bollinger attends closely to qualitative research methods and engages in work related to technology integration, as well as early and elementary literacy practices. Her research focuses on work with both preservice and in-service teachers. 
Fueled through her own experiences as a former elementary school teacher her purpose for devoting her life to this work is informed by cultural historical activity theory and sociocultural theory as a wider lens. Combining her passion for intentional technology integration, her teaching and research focuses on understanding teachers needs and the contradictions that reveal creative innovations for new ways of structuring and enacting these practices.  
Bahlmann Bollinger earned a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a master's degree in Language and Literacy Education at University of North Carolina Wilmington and a doctorate in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia.

Elizabeth Rula, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute where she oversees a large, diverse portfolio of research that informs health policy and radiology practice. The Institute’s mission is to publish impactful research to promote the effective and efficient use of health care resources to improve patient care. The Neiman Institute is affiliated with the American College of Radiology, where Dr. Rula serves as Vice President of health services and policy research. With over 15 years of experience leading health services and outcomes research, Dr. Rula strives to establish a strong scientific foundation for the value of health care services and health policy that promotes broad and equitable access to high-value care. She has authored over 65 refereed journal articles, numerous white papers and reports, and writes a column on policy research for the ACR Bulletin. Under her leadership, the Neiman Health Policy Institute’s research has grown in recognition, with extensive media coverage, including recent stories by NPR and US 麻豆传媒 and World Report. Dr. Rula earned her doctorate from Vanderbilt University in the field of Pharmacology.

Eric Christensen, Ph.D., is the Director of Economic and Health Services Research for the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI). He has over 20 years of experience as a health economist. Prior to working at the Neiman HPI, he led an interdisciplinary research team at the Center for Naval Analyses conducting research for various government agencies, served as the health economist for Children’s Minnesota hospital system, taught health economics at the University of Minnesota, and engaged in private consulting.
Dr. Christensen’s recent research has focused on the financial viability of the No Surprises Act for clinicians when resolving payment disputes for out-of-network claims, Medicare reimbursement trends, economic drivers of health disparities and the role of reimbursement in disparities, the role of treatment and imaging in cost growth in stroke care, and the association of non-physician practitioners in imaging ordering and interpretation patterns. His research and consulting have covered an array of health care delivery and policy questions from the standpoints of cost of imaging, non-physician practitioners and imaging, accountable care organizations, population health, cost-effectiveness, medical homes, interventions, infrastructure, financial performance under various reimbursement models, demonstrating the value of specific clinical approaches, determining the return on investment, and demonstrating the economic impact of health systems on the local economy.
Dr. Christensen has worked extensively with internal and external stakeholders. In addition to professional conferences, he has presented research and analytic findings to senior government leaders and corporate executives. This includes testimony before U.S. Senate and U.S. House committees, the congressionally appointed Veterans’ Disability Benefits Commission, and the DOD Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care.
Dr. Christensen received his PhD in economics from the University of Illinois. He has a master’s degree in economics from Colorado State University and a bachelor’s degree in business management (finance) from Brigham Young University.

Charee Thompson studies heath communication in interpersonal and patient-provider contexts, focusing on the role communication plays in how people navigate the uncertainties associated with conditions that are chronic, non-visible, not well understood, underfunded, and associated with stigma. Her first line of research theorizes about uncertainty in relationships, often from the perspective of social network members and including those living with chronic illness. For instance, she has studied women’s experiences of “medical gaslighting.” Her second research area involves the development, delivery, and assessment of theoretically grounded communication trainings for social network members and health care providers to overcome the support and care challenges associated with uncertainty. For example, she has developed training to address implicit bias and cultural competence in Black maternal health care using both web-based eLearning platforms and virtual reality.
Thompson received her bachelor's and master's degrees in communication from Arizona State University and her PhD in communication from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Mardia Bishop holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and a B.A. from Thomas More University. She is a Teaching Professor and the Director of Public Speaking Instruction for the Communication Department at the University of Illinois, where she teaches courses in storytelling, listening, and business and professional communication. She also supervises and trains graduate teaching assistants on pedagogy. She consistently is on the Faculty Ranked as Excellent List and has several awards for teaching excellence.
Bishop also serves as a communication consultant to organizations and in that capacity has developed and facilitated numerous interactive workshops that focus on Belonging, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Active Listening; Conflict Management; and Mindfulness Practices for Leaders. Her most recent consulting client includes the Pennsylvania Office of Commonwealth Libraries for whom she developed a six-week workshop series that helps participants identify and manage their implicit biases, use inclusive language and behaviors, listen through discomfort, and address microaggressions.
In 2021, Bishop and her colleagues were one of the ten winners of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Health Make-A-Thon. In 2022, they were awarded a Jump ARCHES grant and Provost’s Call-to-Action grant. All awards funded an innovative virtual reality-based cultural competency training for medical students to reduce healthcare disparities. The prototypes for the training are currently being assessed with the assistance of Carle medical students, Carle and UIC medical residents, and Creighton medical students.
Bishop has presented at multiple conferences on addressing microaggressions, mediational communication, listening, using mindfulness practices in public speaking, and training and mentoring graduate teaching assistants.

The brain is composed of billions of neurons forming a complex network. Improper connections of these neurons have severe consequences on the sensory, motor, and cognitive functions of the nervous system. During embryonic development, neuronal axons are guided to their target by attractive and repulsive axonal guidance molecules. We have recently demonstrated that Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) acts as a chemoattractive molecule for the axons of certain neurons in the spinal cord.
One of the objectives of Dr. Frédéric Charron's team is to identify and characterize the components of the Shh signaling pathway in axonal guidance. In addition to helping better understand the immense complexity underlying the formation of nervous system circuits, this research will aid in identifying new strategies to promote the guidance and reconnection of axons damaged by neurodegenerative diseases and brain or spinal cord injuries.

Jonathan is a scientific advisor at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, Space for Life, and is an associate professor at the University of Montreal.
Previously, he was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal. His research focuses on the kinematics of stars in the solar neighborhood, young star associations, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets.
Recently, he has worked with data from the Gaia mission, which provided direct distance measurements for a billion stars with unprecedented precision. This data represents a true revolution in astrophysics. With this data, Jonathan’s team identified new groups of stars that share the same age and chemical composition, and they found many low-luminosity and low-mass members in already known star groups.
He is also working on identifying cold, isolated planetary-mass objects in space that are not in orbit around a star. These objects are faint and can be located anywhere in the sky, making them difficult to detect, but they are interesting analogs for understanding the atmospheres of giant exoplanets because their physical properties (temperature, clouds, surface gravity, and atmospheric pressure) are similar. The absence of a bright host star also makes it easier to study these isolated objects once their position is pinpointed.

Dr. Mehmood Khan’s distinguished career has included several senior corporate roles, including Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of Global Research and Development at PepsiCo, and President of Global R&D at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Before moving into the private sector Dr. Khan was a faculty member in endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic and Medical School, where he served as Director of the Diabetes, Endocrine and Nutritional Trials Unit. He also led programs in diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, and nutrition in Minneapolis.
Dr. Khan is a member of the Board of Directors of Reckitt Benckiser and of the Saudi Research, Development, and Innovation Authority (RDIA), Executive Chairman of Life Biosciences, a member of the Saudi National Biotechnology Strategy Steering Committee, and Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology of the United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Dr. Khan earned his medical degree from the University of Liverpool School of Medicine, England, and completed a fellowship in clinical endocrinology and nutrition in the Department of Medicine and Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, and an Elected Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology at University of Oxford.

HRH Princess Dr. Al Saud’s distinguished career includes roles at the King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST), both as Director of the Saudi National Center for Genomics Technology, and as Director of the Saudi National Pre-Marital Screening Program. She also served as a scientist at the King Faisal Specialized Hospital and Research Center, where she carried out a range of research projects focusing on population genetics.
HRH Princess Dr. Al Saud has served as a member of the National Biotech Strategy Advisory Committee at the Strategic Management Office, and as a member of the National Nutrition Committee at the Saudi Food & Drug Authority, as well as being a past and present member of a number of other notable national and international committees. These include serving as a member of the Project Oversight Executive team for the Saudi Genome Project 2.0 at KACST; the S20 Future of Health Taskforce at the G20 Summit; and a committee member for the Princess Noura Award for Women’s Excellence.
HRH Princess Dr. Al Saud holds a PhD in Genomics of Common Diseases from Imperial College London and a Master’s degree in Genetics and Toxicology from McGill University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from King Saud University, Riyadh.

Dr. Sierra’s career has spanned academia, industry and government, including his role as Director of the Division of Aging Biology at the NIA/NIH, from 2006 to 2019, where he was an important contributor to the development of the concept of Geroscience, including the creation and leadership of the trans-NIH Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG). Before joining Hevolution in 2022, he was Director of Geroscience for Inspire.
Dr. Sierra holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Florida and was an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and an Associate Professor at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research in Pennsylvania.

Dr. William Greene’s leadership positions have included founder, biotechnology executive, investor, and clinician. As CEO, he built Iconic Therapeutics through discovery, clinical development and venture financing, leading to a successful sale of the company. He later helmed longevity biotech company Fountain Therapeutics and co-founded digital therapeutics startup Pear Therapeutics. 
Dr. Greene spent 12 years at MPM Capital where he was a Managing Director and member of its Investment Committee, responsible for biotechnology and medical technology investments worldwide. He was also founding Chairman and head of the Investment Committee at the Global Health Investment Fund, a groundbreaking impact-oriented venture fund in collaboration with the Gates Foundation, which successfully scaled both investment returns and health impact simultaneously. 
Earlier in his career, Dr. Greene was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and led clinical trials and strategy for a variety of therapeutic areas at Genentech. 
Dr. Greene earned his BA from Wesleyan University and his MD from UCSF. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Sophia Pathai, MD, PhD, MSc is a physician with over 20 years of clinical and professional experience, including as an ophthalmologist in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), as a clinician scientist and faculty member at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and as a Staff Ophthalmologist on the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. She later transitioned to the corporate sector, serving in global leadership roles in clinical development and medical affairs at Roche, AbbVie, and Johnson & Johnson.
Dr. Pathai holds an MBBS (medical degree) and BSc in Tumor Biology from University College London Medical School, and a Masters in Epidemiology and PhD from LSHTM. Her PhD, which was funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellowship, investigated clinical aspects of accelerated biological aging. She is a Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (London), a Member of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She was a mentor for the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program and is a board member of Orbis UK.

Coates teaches in the area of adult education/human resource development. Her research focuses on using phenomenology to understand the meaning of work among individuals in the workplace across a variation of industries, jobs and organizations. The purpose of this research is to understand people's perception of work including: why they work, their experiences of work, what work means to them and what they intend on accomplishing by working. This level of understanding can help us improve both the experience of the workplace for employees and performance at the individual, group, process and organizational levels. Coates has developed an organizational development tool based on approaching the meaning of work phenomenon from a system's perspective. This tool can be utilized at a strategic level to help inform decision-making within an organization. Coates's most recent research was conducted with Generation Y employees for the purpose of hearing their voices in understanding their perceptions of work. 
Coates earned her bachelor's in psychology from Virginia Tech, master's in industrial organizational psychology from Baruch College (CUNY), and a doctorate in organization performance and change from Colorado State University. 

McNaught teaches:
EXED 615: Transition of Learners with Disabilities into New Environments and Functions
EXED 416: Overview and Assessment of Autism Disorders
EXED 417: Communication, Language, and Sensory Issues of Learners w/ ASD and/or on the Adapted Curriculum
EXED 418: Challenging Behaviors, Positive Behavioral Supports, Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans
McNaught’s research focuses on self-determination of students with disabilities, inclusive practices, special education service delivery, postsecondary education for students with disabilities and access/equity issues in special education.
McNaught earned a bachelor's degree in business administration (finance concentration) at the University of Richmond, a master's degree in special education at James Madison University and a doctorate in school improvement at the University of West Georgia.

Riden teaches Individualized Behavior Interventions for Young Children, Inclusive Practices in Special Education, Foundations of Exceptional Education, Practicum in Behavior Intervention Methods, Single Case Experimentation, Systematic Behavioral Interventions
Riden’s research interests include using the principles of applied behavior analysis to support students with challenging behavior, preparing teachers to effectively manage their classrooms, and single case research design. 
Riden earned a bachelor's degree in history at Shippensburg University, a master's degree in special education at University of Utah and a doctorate in special education at the Pennsylvania State University.

With expertise in the science of learning, Almarode studies what science says about how the brain absorbs information and translates that into teaching strategies. He travels across the country giving presentations to educators about false assumptions about teaching to increase student engagement and how to improve learning outcomes.
Almarode earned his bachelor's in physics and mathematics from Bridgewater College, master's in exceptional education from Mary Baldwin University, and a doctorate in science education from the University of Virginia.

Smita's research interests are varied and multifaceted. Her main focus is in play research and advocacy that has led her to develop the concept of play diplomacy. She has edited two issues of Play Policy & Practice Connections on Play Diplomacy. Smita is the president-elect of The Association for the Study of Play in 2018-19 and brought the 45th annual international conference to JMU and now serves as the president of TASP. She is also interested in cultural influences on children's play, teacher effectiveness and preparation among socially, economically, and linguistically vulnerable early childhood educators. 
Smita earned her bachelor's in home economics at Rajasthan University, Ajmer, India; master's in child development at Maharaja Sayaji Rao University Valdodara, India; and doctorate in child and family studies at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. 

Dr. Snyder researches how to train teachers to promote positive behaviors in children. As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, she focuses on helping children learn the behaviors they need to be successful at school. Her other research interests include how to improve quality of instruction for students with developmental disabilities, including students with autism spectrum disorder and students with intellectual disability.
Snyder earned her bachelor's and master's in special education at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She earned her doctorate in special education from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, doctoral level (BCBA-D). 

With expertise and interest in diversity and access in higher education, Dean serves as the special assistant to the president for diversity. He currently serves on the board of the National Association of Diversity Officials in Higher Education and can speak to issues regarding social identity including race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. Dean also possesses expertise in the areas of college access and student success, especially with particular groups e.g., women in STEM.
He received his master's and bachelor's degrees from James Madison University.