Ray Kleposki is a pediatric orthopedic nurse practitioner at Scottish Rite for Children in Frisco, Texas. He runs a nurse practitioner-managed pediatric fracture clinic that focuses on treating acute and subacute pediatric fractures and sports injuries. Ray has been an NP for 25 years, giving more than 90 presentations on orthopedics and sports medicine. He previously served as president of the Pediatric Orthopedic Practitioners Society and was a previous member-at-large on the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses (NAON) executive board. He is also an adjunct instructor and clinical resource for Baylor University and the University of Texas, Arlington.

Ashlyn Smith is a board-certified Physician Associate, Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of PAs, and a certified Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach with 14 years of clinical expertise and over a decade of commitment to medical education. Ashlyn is the owner, educator, and clinician at ELM Endocrinology & Lifestyle Medicine, PLLC, a telehealth-based specialty practice focused on expanding access to high-quality, endocrine care and education with the whole-health approach embodied by the specialty principles of lifestyle medicine. She also co-launched the Independent PA Collective, supporting PAs in starting and scaling innovative, independent healthcare and other PA-led ventures.

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Randee L. Masciola, a nationally certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, is an associate clinical professor at The Ohio State University (OSU) and the Director of DNP Education. With more than 28 years of clinical experience, Dr. Masciola is an alumnus of OSU where she received a BSN and MS prior to receiving her DNP from Case. She servers on the Board of Directors of The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and is past board member of the National Association of Women’s Health Nurse Practitioners.  Dr. Masciola received the 2024 Outstanding Service to NONPF award and was awarded the Ohio March of Dimes 2020 Nurse of the Year Award for Academic Education. She is a fellow in American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the National Academies of Practice (Nursing).  Her scholarship focuses on the role and scope of practice Nurse Practitioners and the DNP in healthcare, APRN education and evidence based sexual and reproductive healthcare. She has written manuscripts and textbook chapters and speaks nationally as a clinical expert on male sexual and reproductive health, global health and evidence based clinical management on multiple female sexual and reproductive health issues.