Dr. Stephen A. Ferrara is an actively practicing Nurse Practitioner, executive, and faculty member. He combines years of clinical experience along with health policy development to increase access to nurse practitioner-partnered care in New York State by serving as executive director of the Nurse Practitioner Association New York State. He is Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor at Columbia University's School of Nursing where he leads the nurse practitioner primary care faculty practice. He is interim executive director of Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice.

Dr. Ferrara holds a passion for health care technology and integrating evidence-based practice into daily practice. His doctoral work examined the impact of group medical visits for patients with type II diabetes and how this intervention led to better health outcomes. He has been nationally recognized for his work in health policy for increasing access to patient care across New York State and is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, National Academies of Practice, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy if Nursing.

Sara D. Hauber, M.A., has been a professional editor responsible for academic, medical, trade, and consumer publications since 1996 and an academic writing tutor since that same year. Since 2009 she has specialized in scientific writing instruction and preparing manuscripts for peer-reviewed journal submission.

Ms. Hauber's academic degrees include a B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, and an M.A. in Health Communication (minor in Research Methods) from Purdue University. A recipient of the prestigious Bilsland Strategic Initiatives Fellowship at Purdue and subsequent research coordinator at Northwestern University Medical Center, she has assisted with and/or led the development of competitive grant proposals, needs assessments, theory-based community programs, randomized controlled trials, and qualitative and quantitative data collection tools. Her involvement in the planning, execution, analysis, and publication of research at both Research One universities and academic medical centers gives her incredible insight into the rigors of the research-publication process.

Since 2011, Ms. Hauber has helped more than 450 DNP students at top-ranked nursing schools around the nation improve their writing. For 7 years, she served as scientific writing instructor at Duke University School of Nursing. In 2018, Ms. Hauber released her own writing-instruction course for DNPs entitled My DNP Manuscript: Six Steps to Writing a Publication-Ready Journal Manuscript (see https://mydnpmanuscript.com).

Dr. Willis helps people who write as part of their work. She provides editing and training
services for businesses, research institutes, government organizations, and anyone who values
high-quality documentation. As an undergraduate, she majored in biology and interned at the
National Institutes of Health before realizing that she was a much better writer than a scientist.
She ultimately earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in English, focusing on scientific writing in
her doctorate. 
With a mix of grammar love, biology basics, and composition-teaching know-how, she launched
Doc’s Editing Shop in 2014 after working as a staff scientific editor at Mayo Clinic and working
several years as a freelance editor. Most of Dr. Willis’s clients are faculty researchers and DNP
students.
 
Currently, she teaches technical communication at Arizona State University in addition to
helping editing clients through Doc’s Editing Shop. She is also a member of the American
Medical Writers Association.