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Introduction of Symposium Presenters
 Sally Y. Tsuda (Professor Emeritus of Nursing, University of Guam) |
Professor Emeritus Tsuda holds various titles both as a scholar and provider in the field of nursing. To introduce a few among many of her academic accomplishments, she received the Master of Science and Nursing (MSN) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was granted the title of Professor Emeritus of Nursing from the University of Guam. As a nursing provider, she has been titled as a director, consultant, project director, board member, and founder. She has been involved in various funded projects which have aimed to develop nursing practices in the Pacific islands. Two of her remarkable contributions to nursing are the foundation of the American Pacific Nursing Leaders Council (APNLC) over thirty years ago and the “Sally Tsuda TakeCare Resource Center for Nursing Education, Research and Service” at the University of Guam in 2004. The center was established in order to provide a communication mechanism for nursing leaders to examine solutions to problems or resolutions to issues in the American Pacific Basin. Her active engagement in nursing as a scholar and medical provider has contributed and will contribute to the development of nursing practice in Pacific islands. |
| In 2000, Mrs Long was Certified as a Women health care Nurse Practitioner, and in 2003 Certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of California Los Angeles. Mrs. Long is also Nationally Certified. She has been a Registered Nurse for 17 years and has over 10 years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner serving the Pacific Island communities diagnosing, treating and prescribing medications for a broad spectrum of Patients. Her interests are providing medical training, and health presentations in the outer Islands. She is credited with bringing awareness of the Nurse Practitioner role and in 2009 Legislative Nurse Practitioner Autonomy with full prescriptive privileges in the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In recent years, her commitment and contribution have been focused on Public health development on the Island of Tinian. As a result of her practical commitment and contribution in the local community, Mrs. Long has received various honours and awards related to medical practices, public health awareness on Tinian. |  Arley G. Long (A family Nurse Practitioner and Public health administrator at Tinian Helath Center, Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) |
 Isabelle Ellis (Chair in Rural and Regional Nursing & Head of Department of Nursing and Midwifery at LaTrobe University School of Rural Health) |
Professor Ellis started her career as a nurse and midwife, soon to be involved in community based medical practice in remote areas in Australia. In the course of her career in rural nursing and midwifery, she began to be engaged in training, educational and research fields of nursing and midwifery wherein she continues to play a leading role. She has made a remarkable contribution to medical academia through numerous publications, conference presentations, and funded researches in a wide range of rural health issues. She has multiple graduate degrees including PhD from the LaTrobe university. Meanwhile, her interest and engagement do not remain purely academic. Her initial experience as a nurse and midwife in the rural and remote areas is deeply concerned with her current academic and educational activities. In particular, she specializes in the development and evaluation of eLearning techniques and technologies through which she tries to encourage people in rural and remote areas to learn about and be interested in careers in health. The combination of her nursing and midwifery experience and continuous academic motivation is a valuable input for interactive development of medical knowledge and practice in rural areas. |
| Professor Ishigaki received a doctorate in medicine from Tokyo University. She is currently a professor as well as a dean of Health Science at Chiba Prefectural University of Health and Science. Before her career as a university instructor, she worked in the field of public health for fifteen years including ten years at Miyakejima, a remote island in the Izu group. As a public health nurse at Miyakejima, she acquired not only practical knowledge of public health, but also life experience of nursing in a remote setting. From the earliest stage of her life in Miyakejima, she was willing to learn from and be flexible to ideas and practices in the remote community. After her career at the island, she taught at the Tokyo University and Hamamatsu University School of Medicine. She was offered a tenured position at the Department of Nursing, Chiba University; soon to be a dean. Professor Ishigaki – as a vice director of Japan Society of Rural and Remote Area Nursing – has supported Dr. Miwako Noguchi (a board director of the society as well as a president of the Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing). At the Chiba University, she contributed to the Center of Excellence program, “the Center for the Creation and Dissemination of a New Japanese Nursing Sciences Incorporating Culturally Appropriate Care” funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) as a project leader. Following this accomplishment, she established the Society of Cultural Nursing Studies and works as a board director. |  Kazuko Ishigaki (Dean of Health Science, Chiba Prefectural University of Health and Science) |