MPH, CIC, VA-BC
MPH, CIC, VA-BC
Chellie DeVries has been involved in infection prevention and hospital epidemiology for more than 25 years spanning community, university and federal healthcare facilities. She is passionate about raising awareness around peripheral vascular access devices and devotes her time to education on this topic throughout the United States but has also lectured through Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. She was a reviewer for the 2016 and 2021 INS Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, authored the Infection Prevention chapter for the next edition of their Infusion Nursing: an Evidence Based Approach text book and has also authored the Vascular Access associated Infections Chapter for the International Federation of Infection Control text book as well as numerous peer reviewed journal articles. She is an Adjunct Research Fellow with AVATAR — the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research and serves AVA both on the national board of directors as well as co-president of her local network (HoosierVAN), the board liaison to the ConSIG (Contiuum of Care Specialist Interest Group) and as a member of various task forces and work groups.
DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE
DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE
Dr. Bonnie Clipper is a top nurse influencer, innovation evangelist, accomplished health care executive, coach, and international speaker. She is a former chief nurse executive with 20 years of expertise in building cultures of innovation, improving employee engagement, and improving the patient experience. She was the first Vice President of Innovation at the American Nurses Association, where she created the innovation framework, and is currently the chief clinical officer at Wambi, a health tech company.
As an internationally recognized expert in the future of nursing and nursing innovation, she is sought out as a speaker and advisor. Her work on the publication The Innovation Roadmap: A Nurse Leader’s Guide was translated into Spanish and has been used in multiple countries. She was the lead author of the Amazon International Best-Selling book, The Nurse's Guide to Innovation. She publishes and blogs regularly on technologies impacting nursing such as; artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics, and has authored The Nurse Manager’s Guide to an Intergenerational Workforce. She is also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow alumna and ASU/AONL Executive Fellow in Innovative Health Leadership alumna.
Dr. Clipper works with health-tech companies where she imports the voice of the nurse and patient into the design, development, and workflows to ensure that the solutions meet the “true” needs and solve the “right” problems. Bonnie’s unique experience as a healthcare executive, innovation leader, and nurse in the technology space has shaped her ability to ask thought-provoking questions that challenge the status quo to transform health for all and build partnerships that find creative solutions to complex problems.
