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NAHN 50th Annual Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Antonia Villarruel
PhD, RN, FAAN
Attendees at the NAHN 50th Annual Conference will have the opportunity to hear from Opening Keynote Speaker Dr. Antonia Villarruel on Wednesday, July 16.
Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, served as President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses from 1996-1998. She is currently the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership.
A bilingual, bicultural nurse researcher, Dr. Villarruel has extensive experience working with Latino and Mexican communities, focusing on health disparities, youth risk reduction, and community-based participatory research. She developed Cuídate!, a program nationally disseminated by the CDC that reduces sexual risk behavior among Latino youth. Dr. Villarruel holds leadership roles with the National Academy of Medicine and the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action, and has been recognized with numerous honors, including induction into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and election as a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She earned her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in nursing from Wayne State University.
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz
PhD, RN, FAAN
NAHN is pleased to announce our next Keynote Speaker at the NAHN 50th Annual Conference: Dr. Mary Lou de Leon Siantz! Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Dr. de Leon Siantz on Thursday, July 17.
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a former president and founding member of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. She is a professor emeritus at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis and founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS). A nationally and internationally recognized nurse leader, Dr. de Leon Siantz is known for her groundbreaking work in population health, health policy, and advancing diversity in STEM and nursing leadership. Her interdisciplinary research has focused on the health and development of Hispanic migrant and immigrant children and families, with current studies exploring the mental and reproductive health of rural Mexican migrant adolescent girls and the impacts of climate change on farmworker women in California and Mexico.
Dr. de Leon Siantz has held leadership roles at UC Davis and the University of Pennsylvania, where she developed innovative programs in leadership education and global health. Her contributions have earned her fellowships with the American Academy of Nursing and the Western Academy of Nursing, along with honors such as the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Fellowship in Bioethics and the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship. Her work continues to shape the future of nursing, health equity, and culturally responsive care.
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