Respiratory Care Principles and Practice with Navigate Course Manager

Dean Hess, PhD, RRT, FAARC'After many years in the position, in 2016 Dean R. Hess retired as Assistant Director of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, but stayed on per diem and continues to be very active professionally. He is a lecturer in the MS in respiratory care leadership program at Northeastern University. Since he first began working as a respiratory therapist in 1972, his experience has included clinical, research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities. For 10 years he was Editor-in-Chief of Respiratory Care, the official science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care, and is currently the Managing Editor of this journal. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery and Simulation in Healthcare. His academic interests include aerosol delivery techniques, adult mechanical ventilation, and critical care monitoring.Dean is a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has published more than 200 papers and several books, and his books have been translated into several foreign languages. He has had a high level of professional activity, including committee appointments with the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American Thoracic Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and two years as president of the National Board for Respiratory Care. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and around the world. Dean has received numerous honors, including the Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award; American Association for Respiratory Care Life Membership; American College of Chest Physicians Simon Rodbard Memorial Honor Lecture; Jimmy A. Young Medal; Robert H. Miller, RRT, Award; Chadwick Medal; Shubin-Weil Master Clinician/Teaching Award; SCCM Presidential Citation; Hector Leon Garza MD Achievement Award; and AARC Legends of Respiratory Care. He has received teaching awards from the medicine residents at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program. Neil MacIntyre, MD FAARCNeil R. MacIntyre is a native of Southern California but received his medical degree and internal medicine training at Cornell University in New York City. After'three years of service as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Lab in Pensacola, Florida, he returned to California for a pulmonary disease fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. He was then recruited to the faculty at Duke University, where he has spent the remainder of his career. At the present time, he is Professor of Medicine (with tenure), Senior Clinical Advisor of the Pulmonary/Critical Care Division, and Medical Director of Respiratory Care Services. His research interests range from clinical pulmonary physiology to large-scale randomized trials in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute respiratory failure.Currently Neil is on the Steering Committee of the large National Institutes of Health (NIH) multicenter COPDgene Network. He was also on the Steering Committee of the NIH Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (ARDSnet) for its duration. To date he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and reviews, is the editor/co-editor of eight books, and is on the editorial boards of five journals. He is the past president of the American Lung Association of North Carolina, and the National Association of Medical Directors of Respiratory Care, and he is the former vice-chair of the American Respiratory Care Foundation. Important honors include Alpha Omega Alpha, the Surgeon General's Award for Aviation Medicine, the Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award, and the Jimmy A. Young Medal from the American Association for Respiratory Care. He is listed in both "Best Doctors in America" and "Who's Who in America." Shelley C. Mishoe, PhD, RRT, FAARCShelley C. Mishoe is Professor at Old Dominion University (ODU), the recent former Dean of the College of Health Sciences, and a tenured professor in the School of Community and Environmental Health. She is also emeritus associate provost, dean, chair, and professor at Augusta University, formerly the Medical College of Georgia. She has many years of experience in respiratory care, including teaching, research, and administration. She recently completed two terms on the Board of Directors for the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions and serves on the Board of Directors for Bon Secours Mercy Health System, and the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC). She is the founder of the ODU Center for Global Health and serves on the advisory board. For her efforts in community and global health, she received a Women of Distinction Award from the YWCA South Hampton Roads. She has held various faculty positions and visiting professorships at Chang Gung University, Capella University, Wofford College, and the Medical College of Georgia, including roles as director of clinical education and program director in respiratory care. She is an inaugural Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care, a Fellow of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, and a Fellow of the American Council on Education Fellowship Program. Among leadership roles, she was the President of CoARC (2009-2011) and gave the second annual Dr. H. Fred Helmholz Distinguished Education Lecture Series. She served for 15 years on the editorial board for Respiratory Care and in the AARC House of Delegates. Other distinctions include honorary Lifetime Member of the AARC, the AARC HOD Delegate of the Year Award, the AARC Education Section Practitioner of the Year Award, the CoARC Bonner Smith Award, the National Honorary Member of Lambda Beta Society, and the Forrest M. Bird Literary Award. She has given many invited presentations and received numerous awards for teaching and research, including three national Telly Awards for educational short films.Shelley has been awarded more than $7 million in external/federal grant funding and authored or edited numerous books and chapters, original research studies, peer-reviewed articles, case reports, editorials, book reviews, and abstracts, and has published papers on asthma, sleep-disordered breathing, rural health, critical thinking, decision making, problem-based learning, and interprofessional education. She earned a PhD from the University of Georgia, an MEd with a minor in health services administration from Augusta University, and bachelor of science and associate degrees in respiratory therapy from SUNY Upstate Medical University. William F. Galvin,'MSEd, RRT, CPFT, AE-C, FAARCWilliam F. Galvin is Assistant Professor in the Frances M. Maguire School of Nursing and Health Professions, Program Director for the Respiratory Care Program, and a member of the teaching and administrative faculty for the Teacher Improvement Project System (TIPS) Program at Gwynedd Mercy University (GMU). He has been a respiratory therapist for more than 45 years and has been on faculty at GMU since December 1981; he first served as Director of Clinical Education for two years before becoming Director of the Respiratory Care Program in 1983. In addition to his teaching and administrative role at TIPS, he teaches in the bachelor of health science degree program.Bill earned his bachelor's degree in political science from La Salle College and his master's degree in education (with a concentration in health) from St. Joseph's University. He is a registered and certified respiratory therapist, certified pulmonary function technologist, and certified asthma educator. He has provided numerous article reviews, abstracts, and contributing chapters for publishing companies such as Springhouse Corporation, Delmar/Cengage Learning, F. A. Davis, C. V. Mosby, Williams and Wilkins, W. B. Saunders/Elsevier, and Jones & Bartlett Learning. He has presented at the local, state, and national levels on topics such as communication skills, wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, patient education, interviewing and assessment skills, programmatic and regional accreditation, outcome assessment, recruitment and retention, testtaking strategies and techniques, and a variety of student survival topics and concepts related to the art of teaching and learning. He has served as a guest presenter for the American Association for Respiratory Care's (AARC's) Educator Academy, the AARC Asthma Educator Certification Course, the AARC COPD Educator Course, the Adult Critical Care Course, and the AARC Registry Prep Course. Bill has served on countless professional and college-level boards and committees and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 1996, the AARC bestowed the honor of life membership on him; in 2005, he was inducted into the AARC Fellowship Program and was the recipient of the Education Section Practitioner of the Year Award. In 2008, he was awarded national honorary life membership in the Lambda Beta National Honor Society for Respiratory Care. In 2012, he provided the H. Fred Helmholz Distinguished Education Lecture on the topic of Excellence in Respiratory Care Education: Creating an Exemplary RC Program. In 2015, he received the Jimmy Young Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the AARC, recognizing individuals who have made lasting and sustained contributions to the profession of respiratory care. In 2016, Bill received the Inaugural Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Care Lifetime Achievement Award; in the following year, he received the A. Gerald Shapiro Award from the New Jersey Society for Respiratory Care for outstanding leadership and contributions to respiratory care. At the 2019 commencement exercises at Gwynedd Mercy University, he received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Lindback Award is the most prestigious award given to full-time facultymembers who over the years have demonstrated the highest achievements in teaching.Bill is an active member of his parish, has coached Little League baseball and high school basketball, and is an avid sports enthusiast. He professes his greatest joy and passion to be in the classroom, teaching and learning from his students, and he thoroughly enjoys'spending time with his eight grandchildren, Rory, Everett, Maeve, Seamus, Clare, Keiran, Alice, and Quinn.