Global Conversation on the Future of Care

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Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is an occupational therapist and an international dementia care educator. She is the founder of Positive Approach® to Care, which equips family care partners and professionals with practical skills to understand changing abilities in dementia and to respond with respect. A Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association, she teaches clinicians, care teams, and families around the world. At the Global Conversation she brings that experience to what clinicians need to understand before they prescribe.

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Warren A. Katz, MD, is a board-certified rheumatologist and clinical educator. His teaching centers on helping clinicians build a systematic diagnostic framework for patients with musculoskeletal complaints and on recognizing the patterns that separate one cause of musculoskeletal disease from another. At the Global Conversation he presents “Thinking Like a Rheumatologist.”

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Rebecca Walker, MSN, CNM, WHNP-BC, IBCLC, PMH-C, is a certified nurse-midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner who is also an international board certified lactation consultant with certification in perinatal mental health. She is the founder of Beckie On Call. Her work centers on closing the gaps in women’s health care and education across the reproductive lifespan.

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Chanel McCord is the CEO and Clinical Director of Oasis Wellness Group. She is an award-winning Therapist and Mental Health Advocate. Chanel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Nursing Preceptor, Doctoral Candidate, and Professor of clinical mental health counseling. Chanel also serves as an advisory member for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NJ AACT-NOW African-American Cultural Program. She specializes in empowering minority communities to heal from trauma and live more fulfilled lives. As an ordained Minister (Elder), Chanel integrates faith-based Christian spirituality into her therapeutic work while blending storytelling, strength identification, and emotional processing. She is a sought-after speaker having presented for national organizations, universities, hospital systems, and government agencies. She is the author of 2 published books, “Jumpstart Your Journey to Mental Wellness: Strategies and Tools to Living Your Well Life” and “Girl, Be Self-ish: Learning to Embrace Your Rhythm of Self-Care,” both focused on mental health empowerment, self-care, and resilience. Chanel is passionate about breaking stigma, spreading mental health awareness, and fostering transformative healing.

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Stacey Woodson, MS, RDN, LDN, is a registered dietitian, author, speaker, and media spokesperson known as The Earth-Centered Dietitian. She blends nutrition science with botanical wisdom, urban agriculture, herbalism, and ethnobotany to help individuals, organizations, and communities reconnect with nature and bring joy back to the table. Her food as medicine philosophy has been featured in EatingWell, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Real Simple, Glamour, Fox News, and PHL17. Stacey holds a biology degree from Hampton University and an MS in Clinical Nutrition from New York University, teaches as an adjunct nutrition professor, and is the author of the Delicious and Nutritious children’s picture book series.

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Dr. Mike Chua, PT, DPT, is a physical therapist and the CEO of GeriHab Physical Therapy and Wellness. His work centers on helping older adults stay active, independent, and well through movement, rehabilitation, and wellness. At the Global Conversation he presents “Movement as Medicine.”

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Dr. Prophet Elmore Martin leads Clouds of Glory Ministries in Antigua and Barbuda, where faith, community, and service meet. He joins the Faith, Meaning, and Care panel to speak to how spiritual life and community relationships shape the experience of care.

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The Rev. Christine Vaughan Davies, MDiv, MSW, is a writer, hospital chaplain, and spiritual director with expertise in chaplaincy, spirituality, grief and loss, and self-care. She writes a Substack newsletter drawing on her chaplaincy and spiritual direction work, speaks on listening and self-care, and offers spiritual direction, retreats, workshops, and consultation. She moderates the Faith, Meaning, and Care panel.

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Rabbi David Levin is the founder and manager of Jewish Relationships Initiative, a 501c3, dedicated to helping seekers of meaning through Jewish wisdom, focusing on relationships and end-of-life challenges. To share his work with others, he teaches nationally on these topics and maintains the websites RabbiDavidLevin.com and EthicalLegacy.com. Rabbi David runs the Death Café of Greater Philadelphia. His book, Jewish End of Life Care in a Virtual Age: Our Traditions Reimagined, is available through Amazon. Rabbi David served as the Red Cross Regional Leader for the Disaster Spiritual Care team and as a member of Neshama’s COVID-19 Task Force, the Association of Jewish Chaplains. He currently serves on the JCRC Board and is an inaugural member of the New Golden Age, which creates partnerships in the interfaith and interracial space. He also partners with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to nurture community relationships in the inner city. Rabbi David is President of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia and serves on the Regional Board of the New Israel Fund.

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Karen P. Williams, CDS, is a minister, caregiver coach, and certified dementia specialist. Through faith-anchored caregiver coaching and advocacy, she works with adult children, spouses, and faith communities, offering clear guidance, practical advice, and spiritual support to people caring for someone they love.

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Michelle Snow is the founder and CEO of Grow With Snow, which provides affordable coaching services in under-served communities and corporate settings. A consultant, motivational speaker, and therapist, she is passionate about entering environments in need of definition, empowerment, and coaching. She moderates the Business & the Intersection of Care panel.

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Terri Brown Taylor is a real estate acquisition, renovation, and investment advisor whose work is built around creating properties and spaces that last. At the Global Conversation she speaks to the infrastructure of care, the facilities and physical spaces where care is delivered, as an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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Esther C. Lawrence, Ed.D., is a higher education leader, organizational strategist, scholar, author, and community leader with extensive experience advancing enrollment, student success, academic operations, inclusive excellence, and institutional partnerships. As an Assistant Dean in a School of Business, she works at the intersection of strategy, people, and student success, and her experience includes enrollment management, academic planning, student engagement, faculty and staff leadership, budget administration, accreditation, and initiatives that strengthen the student experience and institutional effectiveness. Her work in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging reflects her commitment to building organizational cultures that value diverse perspectives, amplify underrepresented voices, and create meaningful opportunities for success. As a scholar and author, she explores leadership, identity, culture, and the experiences of people of African descent, and she is the author of Afro-Caribbean Love Tales: Inspiring Stories of Marriage, Faith and Family, a collection celebrating love, commitment, faith, and family through Afro-Caribbean narratives. Her areas of expertise include higher education leadership, organizational strategy, enrollment and student success, academic administration, DEIB and inclusive excellence, institutional partnerships, leadership development, community engagement, scholarship and thought leadership, and authoring and storytelling. She is driven by one central belief: meaningful leadership is about creating pathways for people and institutions to grow, thrive, and make an impact.

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Myettia Peck, MS, is a millennial thought leader and innovator who brings a next-generation perspective to the future of care. At the Global Conversation she asks what the future of care looks like and what the next generation expects from it.

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Christina “Tina” Hart, RN, is a nurse with 20 years of experience spanning emergency nursing and surgical services. She currently works as a charge nurse in Same Day Surgery while completing her BSN at William Paterson University. Tina is passionate about patient education and about the perspective bedside nurses bring to improving care. She is a recipient of the Here for Good President’s Award, recognizing her contribution to compassionate, patient-centered care.

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With nearly ten years of ER and critical care nursing experience across the full spectrum of healthcare, from inner-city Level 1 trauma centers to local community emergency departments, Paul G. Stewart, BSN, RN, also brings specialty practice in pediatric procedural care and vascular access. His focus always is, and always will be, patient advocacy. In his words: “It is not our jobs as nurses to know everything; it’s to know our patients as people, and provide for them the care we would want for our own family.”

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Dr. Jacob Melnick, DO, is an emergency medicine physician practicing in Voorhees, New Jersey. He earned his medical degree from Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and has been in practice for more than a decade. Working on the front line of care, he navigates every day the question of what constitutes an emergency and how to reconcile urgency with true emergency, helping patients and families reach the right level of care at the right time. At the Global Conversation he presents “Emergency, Urgency, and the Right Care,” examining how those distinctions shape decisions for patients, for families, and for the clinicians who serve them.

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Lauren Price, PA-C, brings a perspective shaped by trauma, general surgery, emergency medicine, and observation care—settings where clinical judgment, communication, and timely decisions can change a patient’s trajectory. Her work connects the realities of acute care with the broader challenge of building more responsive, coordinated healthcare.

Lauren earned her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Virginia Tech and her Master of Physician Assistant Studies at Drexel University’s Hahnemann campus. Alongside her clinical experience, she serves in a leadership role as a franchise administrator with GameDay Men’s Health, bridging patient care and practice operations.

An MBA candidate at Texas A&M University with a focus in healthcare leadership, Lauren brings both a bedside and a business perspective to the future of care: how clinicians and organizations can strengthen collaboration, set clearer expectations, and create a better experience for the people they serve.

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Dr. David M. Grosiak, DO, is a board-certified physician and a proud franchise owner and Medical Director of GameDay Men’s Health in Atco, NJ. After more than a decade as a provider, Dr. Grosiak saw the need for a better, more approachable way for men to take charge of their health and decided to help bring that vision to life. At GameDay, he combines medical expertise with a down-to-earth approach to help men feel their best, whether through hormone optimization, wellness support, or honest conversations about health. When he is not in the clinic, you will likely find him spending time with family, taking his dog for a walk, catching a game, or working on ways to help men live stronger, better lives.

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Dr. Michelle Odita, MD, specializes in obstetrics and gynecology, providing comprehensive care for women throughout all stages of life. At the Global Conversation she presents “The Future of Women’s Health,” offering key updates in the field, including a look back at current American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) guidelines and practical ways clinicians can help each patient understand her own risk and make informed decisions about her care.

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Lana Wilhelm, the founder of Stroke Caregiver Connection and host of the Both Sides of the Bed Podcast, experienced a pivotal year in 2021 following her husband’s stroke. This event spurred her dedication to addressing the inadequacies in caregiver education and support structures. Her extensive experience as a nurse and caregiver has enabled her to author two books, establish a foundation, launch a podcast, deliver many presentations, and provide one-on-one caregiver education and support to several hundred individuals.

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Maiko Todoroki is the president and CEO of Poppins Corporation in Japan. She brings a Japanese perspective on one of the world’s fastest-aging societies to the Global Conversation, sharing lessons from Japan on the aging population and what other countries can learn from it.

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Dr. Fayron Epps, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN, is a professor, nurse scientist, and the founder of the Alter™ Program. Her work explores how nursing science, faith communities, community partnerships, and culturally responsive care can improve brain health, dementia support, caregiver engagement, and health equity across diverse populations.

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Debra Hallisey is a caregiver knowledge expert and an advocate for older adults and their families. She has more than twenty-five years of experience as a consultant building and enhancing corporate training programs with Ernst & Young, Huron Consulting Group, and smaller boutique firms, and her clients include Fortune 500 companies across the US and Canada. Constant travel for her work made it a challenge to stay involved in her parents’ health and living situation as they aged. In 2015, everything changed when she became responsible for her disabled mother after her father’s death, and she found herself asking “what do I do?” and “where do I start?” as her mother’s caregiver, financial adviser, and daughter. Finding the answers drove home the need every family has to be an effective advocate for aging parents. That experience led to her website, Advocate for Mom and Dad, which offers practical advice for those two questions. Visitors learn from the experience of others who handled challenges in legal, financial, insurance, and caregiving matters, and each story links to resources the family found helpful. The mission of Advocate for Mom and Dad is to build a community that helps families determine their best answers to “what do I do?” and “where do I start?”

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Sheronda N. Mike Fernandez earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry, from The College of New Jersey. She then attended the Drexel University School of Public Health, where she earned a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in Public Policy.

Following her selection for a prestigious public policy fellowship in Washington, D.C., she returned to New Jersey, where she played an instrumental role in the development, implementation, and leadership of a statewide youth-focused public health initiative. The initiative achieved significant success, ultimately serving as a model for public health programs and policy development in other states. Her work in public health advocacy and policy development also contributed to the efforts that led to the enactment of the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act, a landmark piece of legislation advancing public health protections throughout the state.

Building on her background in public health and public policy, she pursued her legal education at Rutgers University School of Law–Newark, where she earned her Juris Doctor degree. She has extensive experience in the practice of law, including a decade devoted to criminal law, nine years of which she served as an Assistant Prosecutor in New Jersey. Her legal career reflects a commitment to public service, advocacy, and the administration of justice.

Currently, she practices family law, representing children in matters before the New Jersey Family Court. In addition to her legal practice, she serves as an Adjunct Professor at Rowan University, where she teaches courses in criminal justice, drawing on her multidisciplinary background in law, public health, and public policy to bring practical experience and real-world perspectives into the classroom.

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Toni Moore is one of eight girls who dreamt of living beyond the shadow of her possibility. From a traumatized child, Toni pushed herself to play a bigger game in life and business. From taking a leap of faith to attend the University of Pennsylvania as a first-generation college student who was on academic probation twice, to flexing her legal brilliance in classrooms and courtrooms, Toni navigated blindly in an effort to live the life she dreamed and desired. When she reached a certain level of professional success after law school, she began showing up on television to discuss legal matters and in boardrooms to assist her celebrity clients.

Through the power of persuasion and strategy, Toni Moore, Esquire, has created an unparalleled connection with people worldwide. She is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, intellectual property lawyer, and estate attorney. With more than 20 years of experience in business development, intellectual property protection, and estate planning, Toni has become known for her “keeping it bossy” mantra, geared to help women and men live their dreams and manifest their desires in life and business. She is the founder and CEO of The Moore Legal Firm and WealthiHer Consulting, and she empowers women to build and protect wealth through entrepreneurship.

As a speaker, Toni has shared platforms with award-winning and bestselling authors and coaches such as Lisa Nichols, Iyanla Vanzant, Tianna Von Johnson, Jamal Bryant, Willie Jolly, Cheryl Wood, Trevor Otts, and Simon Bailey, to name a few. She has also contributed to the literary world as the author of four books and co-author of more than ten book anthologies.

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Tony Wittock is a cybersecurity consultant with Cyber Security Consulting Ops, a risk-management cybersecurity consulting firm focused on helping organizations prevent data loss and system lock-ups before a cyber breach. The firm provides remote workforce social engineering training for employees, penetration testing (PenTest), and external and internal assessments, and it is a CompTIA training partner. On the Law, Ethics, Autonomy & the Future of Care panel, he speaks to how information protection and cybersecurity shape consent, accountability, and trust in modern care.

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Daniel Liga, NP, is a nurse practitioner whose clinical focus includes men’s metabolic health. At the Global Conversation he presents “Men’s Metabolic Health.”

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Rowena Tarzona, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist and the founder and administrator of Partners in HomeCare Services LLC. At the Global Conversation she speaks to the future of home care and what it will take to support people where they live.

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Sharon Simon is an Antiguan-born journalist and media staff writer with the Antigua Observer and Antigua Radio. Holding higher education degrees, she now devotes her work to shaping the narrative around the unique stories found throughout the island, bringing to each one the care of a writer who knows its people and places from the inside. She joins the Global Conversation with an international perspective on how stories are told, whose voices are heard, and how the media frames what care means. On the Business & the Intersection of Care panel she presents “How Media Shapes the Narrative of Care.”

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Trung Nguyễn works with leaders in complex, people-first organizations who are navigating AI adoption and modern search responsibly. His role is to guide decision-makers through AI and search decisions with clarity before systems, spend, or credibility are put at risk: no hype, no shortcuts, strategy first. A core part of his work is Adaptive SEO, WSI World’s trademarked approach that integrates AI SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), designed to help organizations remain visible, credible, and discoverable as search behavior, platforms, and AI-driven answers evolve. With more than 20 years of leadership experience, including in manufacturing environments where decisions carry real consequences, he brings a practical, human-centered lens to AI and digital growth. He helps organizations adopt AI responsibly with leadership alignment and governance, apply Adaptive SEO in ways that protect brand trust, and build digital systems that serve people, not just algorithms. His work is human-led and backed by WSI World’s global platforms, data, and execution systems: WSI provides the scale and systems, and he provides the judgment, stewardship, and accountability. Adaptive SEO is not about gaming search; it is about staying trustworthy and discoverable as AI changes how people find answers.

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Sophia Ruis serves as the Executive Director of The Tender, bringing nearly a decade of dedicated experience in serving vulnerable populations and working within the senior care industry. Throughout her career, Sophia has demonstrated a profound commitment to improving the lives of those she serves, focusing on the unique needs of individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Her passion for empowering caregivers and enriching the lives of seniors has driven her to implement innovative programs and support systems that foster community, dignity, and enhanced quality of life. Under her leadership, The Tender has become a beacon of hope and support for families and caregivers, reflecting her unwavering dedication to making a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

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Karen Moffitt is the founder of Little Miss Moffitt, a WBENC-certified woman-owned artisan baking business built on a simple idea: baking kindness into every bite. A single mom of four, Karen turned her love of making people feel special into a business that brings people closer, one cookie at a time. Somewhere along the way, baking became her love language, and it’s been amazing to see how something so little can mean so much. Known for ridiculously delicious cookies, bars, and Hugs Disguised as Cookies™, Karen believes a cookie can be more than a treat. It can be a thank-you, a pick-me-up, a celebration, or a reminder that someone cares. Through corporate gifting, she helps companies strengthen relationships with clients, referral sources, and team members through the simple act of making someone feel appreciated. After nearly a decade of building her business with creativity, grit, and plenty of stubborn determination, Karen knows a little cookie can go a long way.

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Anne Weisbord, president of Career Services Unlimited, has a solid background in training, coaching, and public speaking. For over 20 years she has conducted programs on professional development and leadership for all levels of employees in national and multinational corporations. Her workshops are highly interactive and tailored to the needs of her clients, and she frequently serves as a private coach to help business leaders improve their presentations and communication skills. She teaches in the Communication Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and in the Wharton Executive MBA Program. Her clients include manufacturing companies, international technology corporations, not-for-profit associations, major accounting firms, national law firms, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, health care agencies, and call centers. Anne holds an M.Ed. from Duquesne University and a BA from Ithaca College, and volunteers as an English as a Second Language instructor in her community.

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Kelli Biggans has been medically focused since 1995, beginning as a clinical assistant on a telemetry and heart failure floor and earning the pre-med internship at Abington Memorial Hospital. After graduating from Villanova University with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Biology, she completed the physician assistant program at Drexel University (formerly Hahnemann University Hospital) in 2003. She became board certified through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants in 2004 and is an active member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants. Since joining Abington Medical Specialists, she has been involved in research, including serving as a sub-investigator in the Aristotle Trial.