Advisory Board

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Ruth Johnson, R.N., Ed.D., FAAN, is Chair of the Department of Nursing at South Carolina State University, holding the rank of full professor. She is also the past director of the Council of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs, National League for Nursing. In addition, Ruth has served as editor of the Journal of Cultural Diversity and is currently an Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Holistic Nursing.

Bette Keltner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, is immediate past President of the National Alaska Native/American Indian Nurses Association. She has been a professor in schools of nursing and public health in Alabama, California, Texas and Wyoming and a scientist for the Civitan International Research Center and Southwestern Medical School. Bette has 75 publications to her credit and has delivered over 100 national and international presentations. Leaving her post as Assistant Vice President for Medical and Health Services at Honda of America Manufacturing recently, she assumed the position of Dean of the School of Nursing at Georgetown University.

Kem Louie, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, currently serves as President of the Asian & Pacific Islander Nurses Association, while also acting as an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at William Paterson University. In addition, she is on the executive board of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurses Association.
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Cornelia Porter, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, is current Director of the Minority Fellowship program at the American Nurses Association. She is also an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, and has conducted extensive research in minority child care and family development. Cornelia received the "Honor-A-Researcher" award from the Ethnicity and Health Research Section of the Midwest Nursing Research Society in 1996, and has contributed to numerous refereed publications.

Carla Serlin King, R.N., Ph.D., is currently a minority health care consultant in Boulder, Colo. She is former director of Minority Fellowships at the American Nurses Association, where she directed five training programs that prepare doctoral leaders in health care with an emphasis on health policy, psychiatric and mental health, substance abuse and research.
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Ruth Ann Terry, R.N., B.S.N., M.P.H., is Executive Director of the California Board of Registered Nursing. Prior to assuming this position, she was the Board's Supervising Nursing Education Consultant, a role in which she reconstructed the regulatory approach to nursing education. Before joining the Board, Ruth Ann was a nursing education consultant with the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians. She has also served as a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, in the graduate and undergraduate program in community health and health planning for many years.

Rosemary Torres, R.N., JD, is Senior Associate for Science Management and Diversity and Outreach Manager at United Information Systems, Inc., in Bethesda, Md. A health law attorney, she is a nationally recognized expert in women's health and the scientific peer review process. Rosemary is currently serving a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, and is a former Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health.

Sandra Barrera Tovar, R.N., M.S.N., works as a pediatric nurse practitioner at the Allergy and Asthma Center in McAllen, Texas. She is also Special Advisor for the Texas Nurses Association's Advanced Practice Nursing Committee and a member of the state's Ad Hoc Committee on Collaborative Practice. Sandy is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Nurses Association Political Action Committee and sits on the ANA-PAC Long Range Planning Taskforce.

Sandra Millon Underwood, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, is the American Cancer Society Oncology Nursing Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing. Also a Northwestern Mutual Life Research Scholar, Sandra applies her knowledge to a number of research projects about survivorship, cancer prevention and cancer control among underserved populations. She recently organized the National Cancer Nursing Research Network, and is the sixth recipient of the M. Elizabeth Carnegie Chair in Nursing Research at Howard University.