Mo-Kyung Sin is a Dr. Lester and Mary Ann Sauvage Endowed Professor at Seattle University College of Nursing (SU CON). She is an experienced educator and a leader, as well as a NIH-funded researcher. Mo has been working at SU CON since 2004. She enjoys interacting with her students and feels privileged to be a part of her students' career development. Mo is currently serving as a chair of the Gerontological Society of America Health Sciences Section, which she enjoys very much and feels grateful for the opportunity. My research focus includes ADRD, biomarkers for cerebral amyloid angiopathy, chronic diseases, and neuropathologies. Mo collaborates with great researchers across the U.S. (and feels blessed). In her spare time, she enjoys movies, spending time with friends, cooking, and walking.

Dr. Elizabeth Vásquez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University at Albany School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. Dr. Vásquez's research examines the individual-level indicators and the ecological impact of social context, which contributes to differential health outcomes in older racial and ethnically diverse populations, in particular, Latinos. Dr. Vásquez is a fellow with the Sustained Training in Aging and HIV Research (STAHR) program and an affiliated investigator with the Study of Latinos (SOL). She is an alumna of Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE), the National Institute of Aging Butler-Williams Scholars Program, and the Hispanic Leadership Institute (HLI).

Katie Trainum, PhD, RN, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research in the School of Nursing. Dr. Trainum’s research explores how policy, financing, and workforce factors shape access to and quality of long-term care, particularly for older adults and Veterans. She is also interested in emerging models of care and their implications for nurse workflow, staffing, and well-being. For her dissertation, she collected primary data from nursing staff in Texas long-term care facilities to understand their attitudes and preferences related to care robots. Originally from northern Virginia, Dr. Trainum earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia. She worked as a bedside RN for five years before completing her PhD in Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mark Yim is the Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. For more than three decades, he has led pioneering research in modular robotics, with projects ranging from a humanoid robot featured at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the world’s smallest self-powered flying robot. His research interests span product design, robotic performance art, novel locomotion, and steerable needles, with applications in areas such as urban search and rescue and healthcare. At Penn, Dr. Yim serves as Faculty Director of the Integrated Product Design Program and Co-Director of Penn4C, a nursing–engineering–community collaboratory. Before joining academia, he spent a decade in industry, including roles as Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC) and at Virtual Technologies, a virtual reality startup. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Cacchione is the Ralston House Term Chair in Gerontological Nursing, Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and Nurse Scientist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. She is a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner who has practiced for over 30 years across the care continuum. She is a nurse innovator. Her research focuses on social robotics for older adults. She is the CEO and Founder of AgingSense, a startup technology company to improve the lives of older adults. Dr Cacchione received her BSN from Villanova University, MSN from Marymount University, and PhD from Saint Louis University. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Iowa. Dr. Cacchione has over 100 publications and is the Past Editor in Chief of Clinical Nursing Research and International Journal. Dr. Cacchione is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Nursing.