Atlas Lift Tech, Established in 2009

Dr. Joyce Black is a Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She has taught undergraduate students basic concepts, medical surgical nursing and ICU nursing. She teaches senior level nursing students in intensive care nursing, teaches advanced pathophysiology and supervises research activities of graduate students.

Dr. Black has received awards from UNMC and the College for her teaching. Her research areas of interest are in wound healing, specifically in pressure injuries. Dr. Black's dissertation examined the patient and wound factors that contributed to the healing or non-healing of diabetics with pressure injuries. She is certified in wound healing, plastic surgical nursing and is a Fellow in the American Professional Wound Care Association. Dr. Black is a past President and the current President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and chairman of the NPIAP's task force to redefine pressure ulcer staging. Dr. Black has received many awards for her work in pressure injury, from UNMC and the College for her teaching and most recently the Kosiak award from NPIAP for her work in deep tissue pressure injury.

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Kathleen has been a critical care nurse for over 40 years and a Clinical Nurse Specialist for 30 of those years. She assists nurses and organizations in achieving patient driven outcomes through knowledge, process change and skill development. She designs creative strategies and practical frameworks for integrating evidence-based practices into nurses' and multidisciplinary teams’ workflow to innovate care and impact patient outcomes.

Kathleen is the inventor of the Vollman Prone Positioner that was on the market from 1997-2011, making it easy and safe for turning critically ill patients prone. Kathleen’s knowledge base is expansive. She has presented, published and consulted nationally and international on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prone positioning, sepsis early recognition and management, early mobility, reducing health care acquired infections and pressure injuries, nursing professional development, patient safety and work culture.

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Dr. Giuliano is currently Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, and an Associate Professor (Joint), the Institute for Applied Life Sciences and College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst. With a clinical background in critical care and 25+ years of global experience in the development of new medical products, Karen has a passion for improving healthcare through innovation. Her expertise includes human-centered design and clinical outcomes research.

She actively contributes to many professional organizations and works with small, medium and large companies on medical product development and innovation. In addition, her own interdisciplinary program of research is focused in two main areas: non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia and IV infusion safety using IV Smart Pumps.

Dr. Giuliano is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), a six-sigma green belt, and holds a BSN and PhD in nursing from Boston College, nurse practitioner from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA (Global Management Concentration) from Babson College and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship on IV infusion device safety at Yale University.

Susan Lennon Salsbury BS, OTR/L, CDMS, CSPHP is a 1980 graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Allied Medical Professions. She is a licensed Occupational Therapist, a Certified Disability Management Specialist and a Certified Safe Patient Handling Professional.

She has over 40 years’ experience in clinical and employer-based environments and has developed and implemented occupational rehabilitation programs in both settings. Susan has presented programs locally, statewide, and nationally on Transitional Work, Ergonomics, and Safe Patient Handling to health professional groups.

She is currently employed with OhioHealth in Columbus, OH where she was instrumental in the development of a transitional work program and is responsible for ongoing growth and implementation of services. She has been involved with the safe patient handling and movement initiative with OhioHealth since 2004. She currently works as a Quality Specialist in Nursing Research and Excellence at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital.

Susan completed a nursing research project studying the effects of a multifaceted minimal lift environment on nursing staff, which was published in the February 2010 issue of the Western Journal of Nursing Research. She is also published in peer-reviewed publications, including the American Journal of Safe Patient Handling and Movement, The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing and Critical Care Nurse Q. Susan presented a short course at the American Occupational Therapy Association National Conference in April 2014 for the Work and Industry Specialty Interest Group about establishing occupational therapy services for onsite occupational rehabilitation. Susan participated in a consensus panel of subject matter experts on patient handling injuries sponsored by Sage, with submission of a manuscript to American Nurse Today January 2016. She was a contributing author to the ANA Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Interprofessional National Standards Across the Care Continuum second edition 2021.

She is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association, and the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals. Susan serves on the board of the Central District Chapter of the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association. She is a Board member for the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals, co-chairing the Education Committee. She was awarded the Advocacy Award for Safe Patient Handling at the 2018 National Safe Patient Handling Conference.

Natalie Correll-Yoder is the clinical nurse specialist for critical care services at NorthBay Healthcare. She obtained her Associates Degree and BSN from Mount. St. Mary’s College and her Master's in Nursing with an emphasis in cardiopulmonary nursing from UCLA.

Natalie has extensive experience in the field of critical care nursing, which includes expertise in Hemodynamic Monitoring, Cardiac Surgery, CRRT, Therapeutic Temperature Management, Ethics and Moral Distress, and Healthy Work Environment. She works closely with Atlas Lift Tech Mobility Technicians at NorthBay to improve patient and caregiver outcomes.

She has published original articles in AACN news and presented numerous topics at AACN’s National Teaching Institute. She is nationally certified as a CCRN and CCN. Has served on the AACN National Board of Directors and is the co-founder of the Napa Valley AACN Chapter.