BOARD MEMBERS
Unifying Neonatal Nurses Globally
PRESIDENT
Karen Walker, PhD, MN, BAPPSC, RGN, RSCN, MACN
Karen is a Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Sydney and is the Neonatal Clinical Nurse Consultant at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia...
VICE PRESIDENT
Leilani Kupahu-Marino Kahoano, RN
Leilani (Kūpahu-Marino) Kahoʻāno is currently developing the Hawaiian cultural Neonatal/Pediatric Hospice program under Hospice Hawaiʻi and in collaboration with Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children...
TREASURER
Debbie O’Donoghue, MS, RN
Debbie is the Nurse Manager of the NICU at Christchurch Women’s Hospital New Zealand. She has been working within New Zealand in a senior neonatal nursing role for the past 24 years...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Andre Ndayambaje, MS, RN
Andre is the founder and commissioner of funds in board of Rwanda Association of Midwives(RAM) since 2011. The Founder and president of Rwanda Association of Neonatal Nurses (RANN) since 2015...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Linda Ng, PhD
Linda is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland and a practicing clinician at the NICU, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland Australia.
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Tanya Bishop, BSCN, RN, MHM, CHE
Tanya is the Manager of the Neonatal Care Team at IWK Health in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Prior to this she led the NICU’s redevelopment to single-family rooms, which was completed in January 2020...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Marina Boykova, PhD, RN, PNAP
Marina received her nursing diploma from the School of Nursing #3, Leningrad, in 1989 and worked as a NICU nurse for 19 years at Children’s Hospital #1, Saint Petersburg, Russia...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Wakako Eklund, DNP, APRN, NNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP
Dr. Wakako Minamoto Eklund has been clinically active as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) with Pediatrix Medical Group of TN in Nashville, TN, USA since 2003...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Miki Konishi, RN, PHN, PhD
Dr. Miki Konishi serves as a Professor at Dokkyo Medical University School of Nursing. As a professor, her responsibilities include teaching not only undergraduate nursing students but also master’s and doctoral students, and midwifery students...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Patrick Too, RN
Mr. Patrick Kimutai Too is a specialized neonatal nurse practicing in newborn unit Kenyatta national hospital. He is a mentor and a trainer on Emergency Triage assessment and treatment including admission of sick neonates (ETAT+).
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Shela Hirani, PhD, RN, IBCLC
Dr Hirani was recognized by World Health Organization as one of 100 outstanding women nurse leader. In 2022, she received “YWCA Nutrien Women of Distinction Award” recognizing her research and scientific pursuit for the vulnerable population...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Julia Petty, PhD, MSc, PGCE, RGN/RGN, PFHEA
Julia Petty is an Associate Professor (learning & teaching) and a Senior Lecturer in Children's Nursing at the University of Hertfordshire, UK where she has worked since April 2013...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Tracey Jones, RN CHILD, BSC, HONS, MSC, ENNP
Tracey is a senior lecturer in neonatal nursing at The University of Manchester and a senior fellow of the higher education academy. She has been involved in neonatal education since 1999 when she started her first education post...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Marsha Campbell-Yeo, RN, MN, NNP-BC, PhD, FANN
Dr. Marsha Campbell-Yeo, a neonatal nurse practitioner, is a Professor, Clinician Scientist and Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) funded New Investigator at the School of Nursing...
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Judy Hitchcock, RN
Judy Hitchcock, Registered Nurse specialising in maternal, infant and child health. I have both a professional and personal interest in neonatal care, as my own son was 34/40, a long time ago now, when management was vastly different...
CEO
Carole Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF, IDFCOINN, CEO COINN
Carole has over 35 years’ neonatal/perinatal/pediatric experience. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Indiana University (USA) with the degrees in neonatal/perinatal nursing and nursing education..
DIRECTOR OF NURSING EDUCATION
Sue Prullage, DNP, APN, NNP-BC, RN, Director of Nursing Education
Sue has been a nurse since 1981 and a neonatal/pediatric nurse since 1984. In 1994 I became a neonatal nurse practitioner and in 1996 I obtained my pediatric nurse practitioner...
SECRETARIAT
Cyndie Fidanze, Secretariat
Information coming soon.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Mary Blankenship Pointer, Chief Financial Officer
Mary is a native of Oklahoma City (USA) and has over 38 years of banking/finance. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her philanthropic activities and active community service that are combined with extensive experience in financing, business development, and banking.
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ADVISORS TO COINN BOArd & coinn research committee
Unifying Neonatal Nurses Globally
ADVISOR TO COINN BOARD
Juliana Marcatto
Information coming soon.
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Agnes Van Den Hoogen, PhD, RN, Chair
Agnes is an A Professor and postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Centre of Utrecht (UMCU), Neonatology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital and senior, academic lecturer in Clinical Health Science at Utrecht University (UU), The Netherlands...
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Deanne August, PhD, Member
Dr August is a Registered Nurse, a post-doctoral Research Fellow at University Queensland, and the Nurse Research Co-ordinator for the Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital...