John Kenerson M.D. FACC is an Interventional and Nuclear Cardiologist from Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Beyond an extensive four-decade expertise in clinical cardiology, Dr. Kenerson has more than 25-year experience as Medical Director of a Cardiology Division and founding director of a Cardiovascular Institute.  His broad program building experience includes all aspects of strategic management, public healthcare planning standards, performance and process improvement, quality and value assessment, disease management, safety, and financial modeling.  He has been on the founding boards of HMOs and Physician Organizations.

Robert L. St. Thomas is a Servant of God, led to working with Academia, Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) and the United Nations since 2014 employing information and communications technologies to improve economic growth, health and resilience of underserved communities to natural disasters and societal displacements.  Robert helped create the World Hypertension Action Group (WHAG) Research site at Harrisburg University (HU), PA in 2015, where he also teaches graduate courses in Smarter Cities and Strategic Intelligence.  Since then, he has been working with Colleagues in Care, WHAG and other FBOs to build field-level solutions to assess and address the global incidence/impact of hypertension on underserved regions to reduce its burden among the world’s most vulnerable peoples.

Carole J. Valentine, D.Ed. Carole began her career as a senior high school teacher of the Gifted, in Honors Literature and Writing for the College Bound, becoming a “benevolent instigator” to Gifted and Talented high school Juniors and Seniors. Later, while raising a family, she enjoyed being a part-time Adjunct Writing Instructor at the University of New Hampshire’s Continuing Studies, on the main campus. Subsequently, this position led to her becoming a private instructor to one of her students. Carole became the private writing instructor and mentor to an adult who was writing her first novel. After a year-long writing instruction program, Carole became the Editor of this woman’s fledgling novel, which was published.

Always the inquisitive research student, Carole later earned two Master’s Degrees, one in Reading, the other in Educational Administration, as a Change Agent. Finally, she earned her Educational Doctorate, ABD (all but the dissertation) in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment as Change Agent in Reading and Writing Instruction. During her educational odyssey, one of her monographs on being the Change Agent in Writing, and two on being the Change Agent in Reading, were published in professional educational journals.

The next 20 years, Carole functioned as a combination Reading/Writing Supervisor, Literacy Cognitive Coach, and Mentor for Teachers, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Change Agent Teaching Methods.

Retirement has brought to Carole the added satisfaction of functioning as the editing specialist for WHAG’s Hypertension Compendium, designed to reach the medically-underserved populations throughout the world.

Dr. Deborah Gray completed her Doctorate in Nursing as well as Post-Graduate work in Global Health and Nursing Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Director Graduate Nursing Programs.   She was selected as a U.S. Fulbright Core Scholar in Africa for 2018-2019, with a Fulbright project focused on Expanding Global Nursing Education, Collaboration, and Access to Care.   Deb has worked with CIC/WHAG on Hypertension Projects in both Haiti and Botswana.  Dr. Gray also is Deputy Director of the Global Academy for Research and Enterprise for the International Council of Nurses based in Geneva and is actively involved in the United Nations Foundation and other Global initiatives. She has practiced clinically as a Primary Care Provider in Virginia for the last 30 years, and represents the more than 8000 Nurse Practitioners in Virginia as the current State Representative to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Gray was also inducted in June 2018 as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for outstanding national and global contributions to clinical practice, research, education, and policy.

Always the inquisitive research student, Carole later earned two Master’s Degrees, one in Reading, the other in Educational Administration, as a Change Agent. Finally, she earned her Educational Doctorate, ABD (all but the dissertation) in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment as Change Agent in Reading and Writing Instruction. During her educational odyssey, one of her monographs on being the Change Agent in Writing, and two on being the Change Agent in Reading, were published in professional educational journals.

The next 20 years, Carole functioned as a combination Reading/Writing Supervisor, Literacy Cognitive Coach, and Mentor for Teachers, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Change Agent Teaching Methods.

Retirement has brought to Carole the added satisfaction of functioning as the editing specialist for WHAG’s Hypertension Compendium, designed to reach the medically-underserved populations throughout the world.

To learn more about WHO’s WHO in the world of hypertension, visit Module III. WHO’s the next WHO, is it YOU?