Elaine Tagliareni is a Professor and Independence Foundation Chair in Community Health Nursing Education at the Community College of Philadelphia . After earning her bachelor's degree in Nursing from Georgetown University , Tagliareni pursued her master's degree in Mental Health and Community Nursing from the University of California at San Francisco and obtained a doctorate from Columbia University 's Teacher's College. Her doctoral work focused on the role of the nurse educator in community colleges.
She has been involved with associate degree programs for her entire career. Elaine
has led a major national effort to integrate gerontology into curricula and to assist
faculty to re-conceptualize student-teacher partnerships.

Dr. Bartels has been serving as the Chair of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro , Georgia since 1999.  Her practice and research experiences have focused on community-based nursing practice and education as well as the health care needs of individuals responding to chronic illnesses including those experiencing acute neurological, cardiovascular, and respiratory impairments.  Most recently, her scholarship has focused on teaching, learning, critical thinking and outcome assessment in nursing education.  She has served on the educational policies committees, discipline deans committees, curriculum committees, strategic planning councils, and research and assessment councils at Alverno College and Georgia Southern University.  She has taught theory and clinical practice in all areas of the nursing curriculum.