Ashley Stewart, MSN, RPN, SANE-A, SANE-P, is Adjunct Faculty at Duquesne University as well as a Coordinator of a Sexual Assault
and Intimate Partner Violence Program in Winnipeg Canada. Ashley has been a Forensic
Nurse since 2008 and has a background in mental health, women's and transgender health.
Mrs. Stewart is Board Certified as a Adult/Adolescent and Pediatric Sexual Assault
Nurse Examiner through the International Association of Forensic Nurses and is a graduate
of Duquesne University Master of Science in Nursing with a focus in Forensic Nursing.
Jodie Flynn, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, SANE-A, SANE-P, D-ABMDI, is a Curriculum and Instruction Developer on Chamberlain University's national pre-licensure academic team, Forensic Nurse Consultant, and Certified Nurse Educator. She has over 20 years of combined nursing experiences in emergency care, undergraduate and graduate-level nursing education, curriculum and instruction development, forensic nursing, nursing administration, and managing a hospital-based Forensic Nursing Program. A Forensic Nurse Examiner since 2002, Mrs. Flynn is a board certified pediatric and adult/adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) and former medicolegal death investigator. She is a graduate of The University of Akron, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Master of Science in Nursing and PhD with a Forensic Nursing focus from Duquesne University. Her research focuses on health-related quality of life and health outcomes for women who have experienced sexual assault.
L. Kathleen Sekula, PhD, PMHCNS, FAAN, is a professor at Duquesne University School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Sekula has practiced and conducted research in the area of forensic nursing for over 20 years. As an advanced practice psychiatric nurse she sees patients for individual and family therapy. She has been involved in research in the area of violence and women's health. Dr. Sekula developed the graduate programs of forensic nursing at Duquesne University in conjunction with the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University. She was the project director for two program grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration which focused on developing graduate forensic nursing education.