Dr. Alicia Gill Rossiter Lt Col USAFR NC (retired) is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing and serves as the Director of the Veteran to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program and the Military Liaison. She retired in June 2015 after 28 years combined active duty service in the Army Nurse Corps and reserve duty in the Air Force Nurse Corps. Dr. Rossiter was instrumental in the development of a first of its kind “Introduction to Military and Veteran Health” course. She received her Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) from USF where she was a Bob Woodward Jonas Veteran Healthcare Scholar and an American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholar. Her DNP grant funded (Jonas Center) project focused on Women Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder secondary to Military Sexual Trauma. Additional areas of research/scholarship include the effects of parental military service on military connected children, and transitioning needs of medics and corpsmen into the professional role of nursing.

Dr. Konstance C. Mackie, Lieutenant Commander, Nurse Corps, United States Navy is an active duty Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune.  She has nursing experience is primary Mother Baby with additional human lactation training. She received her Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) from the University of South Florida where she focused her doctoral project on the identification of military connected children by school nurses in public schools.

Ms. Catherine J. Hernandez is a graduate student in the Bachelor of Science-Doctorate in Nursing Practice (BS-DNP) program at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing with a concentration in pediatric health. She completed the master’s portion of her DNP degree in December 2018. She served for six years in the active duty Air Force from September 2001 through September 2007, which included a deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In October 2011, she obtained her certification as an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), a passion of hers that stemmed from the need for improved breastfeeding support for new mothers, especially for those whose births required surgical intervention or who had prenatal complications. She is currently collecting data for a quality improvement project that entails implementing an EMR identifier for military-connected children in a primary care practice to improve their health care outcomes by helping to address the unique needs of these children.