Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk Editor & Author

Alice M. Teall, DNP, APRN-CNP, FAANP, is Director of Graduate Wellness Academic Programming, Director of Innovative Telehealth Services, and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University. She was a founding member of the College of Nursing's team delivering distance education and served as Director of the online Family Nurse Practitioner program. Dr. Teall has published and presented nationally about innovation in online education, the incorporation of wellness coaching techniques in clinical practice, and the use of telehealth as an evaluation strategy for distance students. She has received leadership, alumni, teaching, and practice awards, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. As a certified nurse practitioner and an integrative nurse coach, her areas of clinical practice expertise include adolescent health, primary care of at-risk youth and families, college health, and recovery from substance use disorder. Her favorite quote is from BrenÉ Brown, "You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot have both." Dr. Teall is co-editor and author of Evidence-Based Physical Examination: Best Practices for Health and Well-Being Assessment and Evidence-Based Physical Examination Handbook and is a former item-writer for the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Kate Sustersic Gawlik, DNP, APRN-CNP, FAANP, graduated with her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from The Ohio State University and is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a family nurse practitioner. She also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Health and Wellness Academic Programming, the Co-Director of Health and Wellness Innovation in Healthcare program, and the project manager for the Million Hearts initiatives at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. She has experience in family practice, college health, urgent care, and reproductive care with clinical interests in population health, preventive medicine, clinician well-being, education of health professionals, wellness, parental burnout, and cardiovascular disease prevention. Dr. Gawlik is an assistant professor of clinical nursing at The Ohio State University. She has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate nursing courses and serves as a clinical preceptor for advanced practice nursing students. Dr. Gawlik was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and the Outstanding Leadership Award in 2017. In 2018 she received the American Association of Nurse Practitioners State Award for Excellence for Ohio and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioner. She is co-editor and author of Evidence-Based Physical Examination: Best Practices for Health and Well-Being Assessment and Evidence-Based Physical Examination Handbook. She enjoys chasing after her four children, summer, being outdoors, yoga, making s'mores, and helping nursing students to realize their amazing abilities and true potential.

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAA, is the Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, and Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-Based Practice and Dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. She also is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the College of Medicine and Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare. Dr. Melnyk is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in evidence-based practice, intervention research, child and adolescent mental health, and health and wellness. She is both a pediatric nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and co-editor of eight books, including Evidence-Based Physical Examination: Best Practices for Health and Well-Being Assessment; Evidence-Based Physical Examination Handbook; Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety, and Outcomes; Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice (4th Edition); Implementing EBP: Real World Success Stories; A Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Early Intervention and Health Promotion (3rd Edition); Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding (2nd Edition); and Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare. Dr. Melnyk has over 33 million dollars of sponsored funding from federal agencies and foundations and has authored over 450 publications. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and serves as Editor of the journal Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing. Dr. Melnyk served a 4-year term on the United States Preventive Services Task Force and recently served on the mental health standing committee of the National Quality Forum. She is a currently a member of the board of directors for the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience. She has received numerous national and international awards, including being named an edge-runner three times by the American Academy of Nursing.