BJ Snell 博士是加州州立大學富勒頓分校護理學院的名譽教授，教授助產和女性健康護士研究生課程。 此外，她還是海濱城市助產和婦女保健以及拉古納山、長灘和科羅納的海濱分娩中心的所有者和臨床主任。 她在醫院和院外都有經驗。 她在阿拉巴馬大學伯明翰分校獲得護理學學士學位； 她在科羅拉多大學丹佛分校獲得護理學和女性健康執業護士教育的理學碩士學位； 以及她在俄勒岡州波特蘭的俄勒岡健康與科學大學獲得的博士學位和助產護士證書。 她是全國公認的美國護士助產士學院院士。 她是婦女健康問題的堅定倡導者，並致力於減少助產護理的障礙並改善獲得安全懷孕和分娩護理的機會。 Snell 博士是 CNMA 健康政策委員會的成員，並且是該協會剛剛過去的健康政策主任。 她最引以為豪的成就是追隨母親的腳步成為一名護士，與出色的丈夫邁克結婚 37 年，擁有兩個出色的兒子克里斯和傑夫，並見證了 3,300 多個嬰兒的誕生。

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.