BJ Snell 博士是加州州立大学富勒顿分校护理学院的名誉教授，教授助产士和妇女健康护士执业研究生课程。此外，她还是海滩城市助产和妇女保健中心以及拉古纳山、长滩和科罗纳海滩分娩中心的所有者和临床主任。她在医院和院外环境中都有丰富的经验。她在伯明翰阿拉巴马大学获得护理学学士学位；她在丹佛科罗拉多大学获得护理和妇女健康护士执业教育理学硕士学位；她拥有俄勒冈州波特兰市俄勒冈健康与科学大学的博士学位和护士助产证书。她是全国公认的美国护士助产士学院院士。她是妇女健康问题的坚定倡导者，致力于减少助产士护理的障碍并改善获得安全怀孕和分娩护理的机会。 Snell 博士是 CNMA 卫生政策委员会的成员，也是该协会前任卫生政策主任。她最引以为豪的成就是追随母亲的脚步成为一名护士，与一位出色的丈夫迈克结婚 37 年，生下两个出色的儿子克里斯和杰夫，并见证了 3,300 多个婴儿的出生。

MsGardner is currently Director of Professional Outreach Consultation, a national and international consulting firm established in 1980. Ms Gardner plans, develops, teaches and coordinates workshops on perinatal/neonatal /pediatric topics. Ms Gardner has worked in neonatal/perinatal/pediatric care since 19657 as a clinician (37 years of direct patient care), practitioner, teacher, author and consultant. Ms Gardner was the first Perinatal Outreach Educator in the country funded by the March of Dimes and consulted with numerous March of Dimes grantees to help them establish perinatal outreach education programs. In her role as Perinatal Outreach Educator and Coordinator, she taught nurses and physicians in Colorado and the seven surrounding states how to recognize and stabilize at-risk pregnancies and sick neonates. In 1978 she won the Gerald Hencmann award from the March of Dimes for “outstanding service in the improvement of care to mothers and babies in Colorado” for her work as a Perinatal Outreach Educator. From 1985 to 2006 Ms Gardner co-edited with Gerald B Merenstein, MD six editions of Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care. From 2010 to 2016, Ms Gardner is now the Senior Editor of Merenstein and Gardner’s Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care. The first (1985), fifth (2002), seventh (2010) and the eighth (2016) editions of the Handbook have all won American Journal of Nursing: Book of the Year Awards. Ms Gardner is an active member of the Colorado Nurses Association/ The American Nurses Association, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses and the Academy of Neonatal Nurses.