The AHNA Leadership Council
 Glenda Christiaens PhD, RN, AHN-BC
President
president@ahna.org
Glenda Christiaens is currently the Director of Nursing at Fortis College in Salt Lake City. Prior to her position at Fortis, Glenda was an associate professor of nursing at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah for 10 years. While there she developed a holistic nursing course and several community health nursing courses. As part of her holistic nursing course she brings student to the AHNA Annual Conference. During her ten years as an AHNA member Ms. Christiaens has been the 2007 Conference chairperson, the 2007 Education Provider Committee Chair and a representative of AHNA to the National Student Nurses Association annual conventions. She believes that education is a key to growth for AHNA and plans to use her experience and expertise in this area to her Leadership Council role. Ms. Christiaens envisions AHNA moving forward as the leading source for holistic nursing education. Ms. Christiaens lives in West Jordan, Utah with her husband Steve.
 Peggy A. Burkhardt PhD, ARNP, BC, HNC
President-Elect
 Carla H. Mariano EdD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAIM
Membership & Network Coordinator
Carla Mariano developed and is immediate past Coordinator of the Advanced Practice Adult Holistic Nurse Practitioner Program in the College of Nursing at New York University, the first and only Holistic Nurse Practitioner Program in the country. At NYU, she taught courses on Theoretical Foundations of Holistic Nursing; The Nurse as Facilitator of Healing, Complementary/Alternative/Integrative Modalities; Qualitative Inquiry, Nursing Research; Critical Thinking; Therapeutic Interactions; and Crisis Theory and Intervention. She has conducted qualitative research on the Nature of Natural Healing and Clients’ Responses to Alternative/Complementary modalities and also in the fields of gerontology and interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition to her co-authored book, Research in Nursing and Health: Understanding and Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Carla has numerous publications on the qualitative research process; interdisciplinary collaboration; aging; and holistic nursing including Nursing and Holistic Ethics, Issues and Trends, Research in Holistic Nursing, Holistic Healing and the Advanced Practice Nurse, Complementary/ Alternative Therapies in End of Life Care, and Self-Care,
Carla is Past-President of AHNA and was integrally involved in developing the Scope and Standards of Practice for Holistic Nurses. She spearheaded the initiative which gave Holistic Nursing official recognition by the ANA as a Specialty within the discipline of nursing. She chaired the Values and Competencies Task Force of the National Education Dialogue, the White House Commission on Integrative Health Care. Carla has received the AHNA Holistic Nurse of the Year Award, the distinguished Achievement in Nursing Education Award from Teachers College, Columbia University, the Sri Chinmoy Humanitarian award and was inducted into the Teachers College Columbia University Hall of Fame.
Carla believes AHNA has a crucial leadership role to play in nursing, and to interface with other disciplines in influencing education, research, clinical practice and policy in the holistic field. Holistic Nursing allows one to vision new possibilities for the healing, wholeness and wellbeing of all people, our health care system, and our planet.
 Deborah Shields PhD, RN, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC
Education Coordinator
 Marie Shanahan MA, BSN, RN, HN-BC
Financial Coordinator
 Rothlyn (Rorry) Zahourek PhD, APRN, BC, AHN-BC
Research Coordinator
Rothlyn (Rorry) Zahourek PhD, PMHCNS-BC AHN-BC is a certified clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing and a certified advanced practice Holistic Nurse. She recently reshaped her work life and closed her private holistic psychotherapy practice in Amherst, MA. She continues as adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts, School of Nursing and is also a consultant, speaker and educator. She received her Bachelors in Nursing from Skidmore College, her Masters in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from the University of Colorado and her Doctorate from New York University. She has presented and conducted workshops at national and international conferences on such topics as imagery, hypnosis, the use of collage to understand healing and intentionality, integrative-complementary approaches in psychiatric nursing, and dual diagnosis and addictions. She has over 50 publications on those topics and has edited and coauthored three books. One book, Imagery & Relaxation: Tools for Therapeutic Communication and Intervention won an AJN Book of the Year Award. She continues to research intentionality and healing and her book Intentionality: The Matrix of Healing was published July 2009 by VDM Verlag. Her research over the years has encompassed depression after stillborn loss and mental health consultation for nurses in a general hospital. She has been an active AHNA member and has served since 2005 as the coordinator for research on the AHNA Leadership Council. She believes that there are numerous ways to view, study and understand the person and the environmental whole and that holistic nursing research is grounded in a belief in unitary wholeness that is not limited to or dictated by a modality. Ms. Zahourek is grateful to live on a wonderful lake in western Massachusetts with her husband Jay Holtzman.
 Carole Ann Drick PhD, RN, TNS, CPNS
Practice Coordinator
Carole Ann’s love has been maternity nursing where she spent 12 years before she entered academia for 10 ½ years only to return to a hands-on practice as Director of Conscious Awareness Inc., in Austintown, OH. She has authored or co-authored three books and numerous professional publications as well as four meditation CDs. Her international presentations have been numerous. Carole Ann with co-author, Lynn Keegan, recently published a new book, End of Life: Nursing Solutions for Death with Dignity (October, 2010). She smiles as she reflects on her holistic work at the “bookends of life.”
Carole Ann studied with the International Fellowship of Introspection for more than 10 years receiving Teacher of Natural Science certification plus a Teacher of Natural Science Certifying Practitioner certification, of which there are presently only two in the world. She served the American Holistic Nurses Association as chair of the Education Approver Committee in the early 1980s and resumed the position in 2006 to 2010. In 2010 she was elected to the position of Practice Coordinator. Carole Ann has been on the graduate faculty of two large universities plus she developed and implemented a new baccalaureate nursing program based on holistic principles and adult teaching/learning strategies that received full initial NLN accreditation. She was on the American Holistic Nurses Association’s referred journal board for many years.
Her consciousness bloomed in 1989 with her opening to non-dual wisdom. Quietly answering this sacred call, she spent the next 15 years gently traveling internationally, teaching and growing in understanding, integration and deepening her present moment awareness. Her continual question, “Is it possible to live in this moment?” has a simple yet profound message.
Her current focus is on assisting in the fundamental shift in consciousness beginning with inner peace and expanding to world peace. She views holistic health as a vital component of this shift, valuing and assisting both professionals and clients using many natural therapies and innovative stress coping methods. Her website: www.livingthepresence.org
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