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Tener Goodwin Veenema

Tener Goodwin Veenema PHD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN

Nursing, Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN, is a Professor of Nursing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. A nationally recognized expert in disaster nursing and public health emergency preparedness and CEO of the Tener Consulting Group, LLC, Dr. Veenema has served as Senior Scientist to numerous federal agencies. An accomplished researcher, Dr. Veenema is a member of the American Red Cross National Scientific Advisory Board and an elected Fellow in the National Academies of Practice, American Academy of Nursing and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Veenema is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and and Disaster Nursing, an innovative technology application (“App”) for the I-phone and I-pad.
She was a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow (2004-2007)and Senior Fellow in Nursing Policy & Philanthropy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and at the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University (2008-2009). Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing. She received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (2017) and currently serves as the 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Veenema currently serves on two consensus studies for the National Academy of Medicine and on the International Council of Nurses review committee for disaster competencies.
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