SVP Nursing Practice, Advancement and Wellbeing, Jefferson Health System

Dr. Amy Funderburk, DNP, RN, NE-BC, is a seasoned nurse executive with 28 years of experience, including 23 in leadership across all levels. She specializes in strategic planning, operational excellence, employee engagement, and innovative care delivery. As the author of Claim Your Seat: Mastering the 7 Keys to the Business of Healthcare, she empowers emerging leaders with practical tools and bold conversations. Dr. Funderburk is passionate about building high-performing teams and mentoring leaders who drive meaningful change. Her mission is to enrich lives, inspire action, and elevate performance through authentic connection.

Director and Outreach Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health 

Lisa Davis, MHA, ensures that the office exceeds its mission of technical assistance, networking, and coordination to advance rural health care. She serves on a wide range of boards of directors, advisory committees, and task forces focused on rural health policy, rural health research, economic development, outreach and education, health disparities, and vulnerable populations. Her areas of focus are rural health transformation, maternal health, and national and state rural health advocacy. She is a recipient of state and national awards for rural service, rural health leadership, and health equity and the office is ranked #1 in the nation for Medicare quality reporting.

Quality Improvement Coordinator, Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health 

Lannette Fetzer DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC, MSN, MS, CHC is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Quality Improvement Coordinator at the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health. With 30+ years of nursing experience in ICU, emergency care, chronic disease, patient advocacy, and rural health, she brings clinical and leadership expertise to advancing healthcare quality. She helped Pennsylvania earn the nation’s top Medicare rural health ranking in 2019, 2024, and 2025 and received the MBQIP Spirit Award in 2019. Dr. Fetzer has co-authored research and national briefs, most recently Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare (AHRQ, 2024), and provides unique perspective as both a clinician and caregiver.

Associate Dean of Academic Practice Integration, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson College of Nursing

Jen Bellot, PhD, RN, MHSA, CNE is the Associate Dean of Academic Practice Integration at Jefferson College of Nursing, overseeing clinical education, joint clinical-academic initiatives and community outreach. Dr. Bellot thoroughly enjoys her work, focusing on integrating nursing into the greater community of advocacy, population health and vulnerable populations. Dr. Bellot has led the pilot of Clinical Faculty Preceptor Academy (CFPA) 101 curriculum at Jefferson College of Nursing.

Senior Foundation Program Specialist, Independence Blue Cross Foundation

Marlene Harmon-Perkins is the Senior Foundation Program Specialist at the Independence Blue Cross Foundation.

Chief Operating Officer, Convenient Care Association

Nate Bronstein, MSEd, MPA, MSSP, is a former teacher from North Philadelphia; he earned his Masters in Education, Public Administration and the Science of Social Policy respectively, from the University of Pennsylvania.  Nate has extensive experience as a consultant on state-wide policy initiatives as well as political initiatives as well as political campaign strategy and management.  He has spent the last three years working as both the Co-Founder and CEO of one DC-based startup and one Philadelphia-based startup working to solve inefficiencies in how people connect, organize and manage their resources.  Nate has extensive experience in the social good company from a for-profit, non-profit and governmental perspective.

He has successfully launched two companies and consulted on many others, as well as having actively participated in 19 unique leadership and business development incubators and accelerators.  Nate has written for the chronicle of social change and is currently serving on the board of Philadelphia's oldest and largest music school.  He is a Philadelphia native and has a long history of youth civic engagement having become a Truman Finalist, the campaign manager of a political campaign and the student body president of American University in 2011.

Senior Vice President (SVP) & System Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Assistant Vice President and Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Middleman Family Pavilion in King of Prussia

Associate Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean for Outreach and Professional Development, Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing | Member-at-Large, PA-NWC Executive Committee

Kelly Wolgast, DNP, RN, FACHE, FAAN COL (R), US Army is an  Associate Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean for Outreach and Professional Development at Penn State University's Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing. Prior to arriving at Penn State in August 2016, Dr. Wolgast was Assistant Professor and Specialty Director for the Healthcare Leadership program at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Dr. Wolgast is also an Army Veteran. She served over 26 years on Active Duty in the United States Army as an Army Nurse and retired as a Colonel.  Her experiences include earning the Bronze Star for combat experience as Deputy Commander and Chief Nurse in Afghanistan, a deployment in support of Hurricane Katrina relief operations in New Orleans, serving as a Hospital Commander, and serving as the Senior Nurse Executive of the U.S. Army Medical Command.  Dr. Wolgast has many years of executive nursing and healthcare leadership experience and has a strong background in Medical-Surgical Nursing. 

​Dr. Wolgast earned her Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from Penn State University, a Master of Science in Nursing (Administration and Education) from Vanderbilt University, a Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice (Executive Nurse Leadership) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Dr. Wolgast is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).

Advanced Practice Provider Manager, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Tracy A. Walker, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC/AC is the Advanced Practice Provider Manager for Interventional Radiology, Sedation, and Wound Ostomy at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.