Fulbright Scholar, Tener Goodwin Veenema pays a visit to the School of Nursing today.
Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN, is an internationally recognised subject matter expert in disaster nursing and public health emergency preparedness.
Dr Veenema is currently an Associate Professor and Pediatric Emergency Nurse Practitioner at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Center for Humanitarian Health, Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tener Consulting Group, LLC, Dr Veenema has served as Senior Scientist to the US Government, including the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Administration for Children and Families, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
She is the editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, now in its third edition (AJN Book of the Year Award) and the leading textbook in the field. Dr Veenema has written and produced successful e-learning programs including ReadyRN Disaster and Emergency Preparedness for Nurses, published by Elsevier/MC Strategies and the Coursera massive open online course (MOOC) Disaster Preparedness for the Healthcare Provider that reached over 4,800 healthcare providers and students participating from around the globe (2015). Most recently, Dr Veenema partnered with Unbound Medicine to produce Disaster Nursing, an innovative technology application (app) for the iPhone and iPad.
Dr Veenema is a member of the American Red Cross National Scientific Advisory Board and an elected Fellow in both the National Academies of Practice and the American Academy of Nursing. She currently serves as a member of the National Academies of Medicine Standing Committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Strategic National Stockpile.
Dr Veenema was the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Leadership Award from her alma mater Suffield Academy, the 2012 Certificate of Distinguished Service from the American Red Cross, the Johns Hopkins University Faculty Shining Star (2014), the Association of Community Health Educator’s Award (ACHNE, 2014) and the Johns Hopkins University Global Advising Award (2015). In 2013 Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor from the International Red Crescent (Geneva, Switzerland), the highest international award a nurse can receive.