Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, teaches in Southern California, United States, where she is a professor of Ethics and Spirituality. She is a past chairperson of both the California Nurses Association and American Nurses Association ethics committees and was a member of the Task Force for the Revision of the Code of Ethics for the American Nurses Association. She has numerous publications: peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books on ethics, bioethics, religion, and spirituality in nursing. Her educational background includes a PhD in Religion & Social Ethics, a Master of Divinity degree, a Master of Science degree (Nursing), and a diploma in Spiritual Direction. She has been a Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Fellow in Bioethics at Harvard University and a WK Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow. In 1992, she received the American Nurses Association Honorary Human Rights Award. In 1996, she was the recipient of the Friends World Committee for Consultation Bogert Fund Award for the Study and Practice of Christian Mysticism. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and currently serves as the Chair of the Academy’s Expert Panel on Global Nursing and Health. She is a clergy member of the Presbyterian Church (USA). She has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, including Russia, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Colombia, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Her areas of research include ethics in nursing, suffering, religion in nursing, health disparities, and health policy in global health.

Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, PhD, RN, is a professor in the School of Nursing at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada. She is the Director of the graduate nursing (MSN) program and teaches Health Care Ethics, Health Policy, and Qualitative Research. Her research program focuses on social justice and pluralism in health care and nursing education. A current funded research project examines religion, spirituality, culture, gender, and place in home health care. She is a founding member of Trinity Western University’s Religion in Canada Institute and Institute of Gender Studies, and the Critical Research in Health and Health Inequities Unit at the University of British Columbia. She has recently been awarded a 2010 Award of Excellence in Nursing Research by the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia.

Richard Sawatzky, PhD, RN, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Trinity Western University, Canada. His research focuses on methods of patient-reported outcomes and quality of life measurement, and the intersections of spirituality, religion, culture, and other sources of diversity in various health care contexts. He has a particular methodological interest in the use of latent variable mixture modeling for examining sample heterogeneity with respect to individuals’ self-reports about their health status and quality of life. He is a member of the International Society for Quality of Life Research and the International Society for Quality of Life Studies.

Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RN, is an associate professor, Loma Linda University School of Nursing, Loma Linda, California, United States. Her experiences as an oncology nurse led to an interest in the relationship between illness and spirituality. She pursued this interest in her doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania, and a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA. She has also completed two units of Clinical Pastoral Education and Training in spiritual direction. She has received funding for her research and training from several sources, including the National Cancer Institute, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, and John Templeton Foundation. She has numerous publications on nursing spiritual care and patient spiritual and religious responses to illness. Her books include Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice (Prentice Hall, 2002) and What DoI Say? Talking with Patients about Spirituality (Templeton Press, 2007). She is authoring the clinical companion book Religion: A Clinical Guide for Nurses (Springer Publishing Company, 2012).