Meet the Honorary Members
In accordance with ACENDIO’s Constitution, Honorary Membership is offered as a free lifetime individual membership and may be awarded by the Board to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the development of terminology in European nursing. In recognition of their outstanding contributions, honorary membership has been awarded to the following individuals, all of whom are past presidents of ACENDIO and have had a significant impact through their remarkable reach. Our gratitude goes especially to them!
June Clark
RN, PhD, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the Learned Society of Wales, the American Academy of Nursing and University College London |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Founding Secretary, President 1997-2001
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at Swansea University, Wales
Deputy president of the Welsh Nursing Academy
Consultant to the ICN project to develop an International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP)
William Goossen
BSN, PhD |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Researcher & consultant health informatics, director at Results for Care, 2007-onward, International Nursing Minimum Data Set (i-NMDS) pilot (IMIA & ICN) (co-project lead with Connie Delaney, 2000-2018) Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, 2007 –2018. IMIA- NI board member 2009-2012 . Co-chair HL7 WG Patient Care 2005-2013. Chair NEN normalization committee health informatics 2007-2017 and head of Dutch delegation to CEN TC 251 and ISO TC 215
Margareta Ehnfors
RN, PhD |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Board member and President 2003-2007
I would like to emphasize: “It was really a good time in my life to be a member and also President of ACENDIO.
One crucial part at that time was that we found each other in many countries and started to work together within Nursing terminology.”
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Professor Emerita at Orebro University in Sweden;
she is an internationally leader in the medical informatics field and was the Swedish representative to the international standards in nursing work group within the International Standards Organization (ISO), was an active member of IMIA’s nursing concept representation group, and a member of the Evaluation Committee of the International Council of Nurses.
Kaija Saranto
RN, PhD, Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Academy of Nursing and an Inaugural Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Member since 1999, board member since 2001, ACENDIO
Vice-President and President from 2007 to 2011
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Professor Emeritus in Health and Human Services Informatics (HHSI), University of Eastern Finland, President to the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), Honorary member of the Finnish Health Informatics Association, the Greek Biomedical Informatics and Health Informatics Association under IMIA, and the Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth. Honorary Fellow of the Finnish Nurses Association and an Honorary member of the Nursing Informatics Group of the European Federation of Medical Informatics
Walter Sermeus
RN, PhD, Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science, American Academy of Nursing, Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium, Royal Society of Medicine in UK and Academia Europaea |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Member of ACENDIO since the start, Vice-president 2007-2011, Representative of ACENDIO to the European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ESNO) 2007-2015 ACENDIO president 2011-2015
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Emeritus professor of healthcare management, Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, University of Leuven KU Leuven, Belgium European coordinator of the EU-FP7 RN4CAST-project, Nurse Forecasting in Europe 2009-2011 and Horizon 2020 – funded Magnet4Europe project 2020-2024
Fintan Sheerin
RN, PhD, Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, the European Academy of Nursing Sciences, and NANDA-International (FNI) |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Conference Committee (1999), Board Member Secretary, (Webmaster, Secretariat), Vice-President, and ACENDIO President 2015-2019
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Professor of Nursing and Founding Head of School of Nursing at Maynooth University, Ireland. Lead of Irish Universities Association Nursing/ Midwifery Heads (2020) Significant experience in situations of refuge and displacement
Maria Müller Staub
RN PhD, Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS); Fellow of NANDA International (FNI) |
Functions and notable achievements within ACENDIO
Member of ACENDIO (participated in Working Groups and in the Publication Committee) 2001-2023 ACENDIO President 2019-2023
Functions and notable achievements outside ACENDIO
Professor at the Lectoraat for Nursing Diagnostics at the Hanze University Groningen, Netherlands. President of the Swiss Association for Nursing Science (2011 – 2017) Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing: Member Mu Upsilon Chapter (2014 –2024). Swiss Association for Patient Safety: Member of the Board (2012 – 2017) NANDA International: Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of Education and Research Committee (2008 – 2012)