Marcia Hills, RN, PHD, is the Director and President of the Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research, and a Professor of Nursing at University Victoria, Canada. She has been actively engaged in research and evaluation for over 20 years, is the Principal Investigator on two federally funded (Canadian Institutes for Health Research) multi-year research initiatives, and the Co-Investigator on five additional projects. She presents at numerous conferences in Canada, the US, and abroad.

Dr. Hills is an elected member of the Board of Trustees for the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) and a member of the North American Regional Office (NARO). As part of her work with these organizations, she was a member of the Steering Committee for the IUHPE Global Program on Effectiveness, co-chaired the NARO Effectiveness Working Group, and was VP for the Organization of the World Conference, and Co-Chair of the 2007 World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, as held in Vancouver in 2007. Recently, Dr. Hills was invited to join a World Health Organization working group led by Erio Ziglio to develop an international project on evaluating health assets in partnership with Health Canada, the Health Development Agency (UK), and the Centre for Disease Control (US, Atlanta).

Jean Watson, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN, is Distinguished Professor of Nursing, former Dean of the School of Nursing, and sits in the nation's first endowed chair in Caring Science, all at the University of Colorado. She is founder of the Center for Human Caring and the Watson Science Caring Institute in Colorado, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, past-president of the National League for Nursing, and acclaimed author of leading works in nursing education and Caritas (the philosophy, science and theory of caring). She lectures worldwide with upwards of 50 presentations yearly.