Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP
Director

• Promotes EBP with nurses and other healthcare professionals in acute care, the community, and education through teaching EBP, educational assistance to faculty, publishing and presenting evidence
• 20 years combined experience as critical care nurse, advanced practice nurse, researcher and educator
• Refined the ARCC model, an EBP mentorship model for Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) and systems
• Co-editor: recurring column, Teaching EBP, in Sigma Theta Tau International’s Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing
• Co-editor: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Kathleen Williamson, PhD, MSN
Associate Director

• Promotes EBP with healthcare professionals and educators through community partnerships, mentoring workshops, conferences, and educational coursework
• Over 25 years combined clinical and educational experience as a critical care nurse, home health care nurse, educator and researcher
• Develops EBP initiatives to strengthen community partnership and advance EBP
• Advances EBP through innovations in technology
• Develops EBP mentors to foster sustained EBP in systems, organizations and educational agencies

Susan Stillwell, MSN, RN, CNE
Coordinator, Nurse Educator EBP Mentorship Programs

• Expert EBP Mentor
• Certified Nurse Educator
• 35 years combined experience as critical care nurse and nurse educator.
• Promotes EBP with healthcare professionals and integration of EBP in nursing curricula through workshops,  conferences, and consultation

Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/NPP, FAAN, FNAP
Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing

• Promotes EBP with nurses and other healthcare professionals across the US and globally with a focus on generating evidence about preventive interventions for children, teens, and parents experiencing stressful life events and transitions
• Co-developed and refined the ARCC (Advancing Research and Clinical practice through close Collaboration) model, an EBP mentorship model for APNs and systems
• Founder and Chair of KySS (Keep your children/yourself Safe and Secure), a national mental health promotion campaign for children and teens
• Editor: recurring columns, Evidence-based Practice in Pediatric Nursing Journal & Evidence Digest in Worldviews in Evidence-based Nursing
• Associate Editor Worldviews in Evidence-based Nursing
• Co-editor: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Alyce Schultz, RN, PhD, FAAN
Clinical Professor

• Developed and refined the Clinical Scholar Model, an EBP mentorship model for point of care providers
• Mentor and educator of staff nurses in the utilization and conduct of research
• Authored or co-authored more than 20 articles published in peer-reviewed journals
• Recipient, either individually or with colleagues at Maine Medical Center, of 8 research awards from multiple nursing societies
• Appraiser for ANA Magnet Recognition Program
• Editorial Panelist for the Journal of Med-Surg Nursing, Research in Nursing & Health, and Journal of Emergency Nursing
• Vice President, Sigma Theta Tau International
• American Academy of Nursing Fellow in recognition of her work in evidence-based practice with staff nurses