Dr. Beth Furlong is an associate professor at Creighton University's School of Nursing and a faculty associate in the university's Center for Health Policy and Ethics. In 2003, she received the Omicron Delta Kappa Teaching for Tomorrow Award from her students, and she was recognized with the Mary Lucretia Award for supporting women at the university and with two dean's awards for excellence. Dr. Furlong has four decades of experience in community health nursing. She has taught health ethics and related subjects to nurses and physicians in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, and Armenia. Her international experience includes working as a Peace Corps volunteer in India and Fulbright Fellowships in Jordan and Hungary.

Mr. Brent Jaquet is a senior vice president at Cavarocchi-Ruscio-Dennis (CRD) Associates in Washington, D.C., managing programs in government relations, strategic planning, and public policy. Prior to his current position, he served as senior appropriations aide to Representative C.W. Bill Young of Florida. While working for Representative Young, Mr. Jaquet specialized in health and biomedicine across a wide spectrum of health policy and appropriations issues. His work on behalf of Rep.Young contributed to the enactment of the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, which reauthorized and expanded the nation's bone marrow registry program to include umbilical cord blood units.

Mr. Matthew Margo is the senior vice president of Program Practices, New York, for the CBS Television Network. As a representative of the media and entertainment industry, Mr. Margo's responsibilities include leading the department that determines and applies CBS Television Network's broadcast policies and guidelines for East Coast entertainment programming and all advertising and public service announcements (PSAs). He supervises the "CBS Cares" campaigns, which have won various media/entertainment industry and health industry awards, including the Paul Rogers Leadership Award. He executive produces the PSAs for CBS, featuring CBS stars discussing a wide variety of causes, including many health issues, such as HIV/AIDS, cancers, heart disease, and mental health.

Ms. Anne Munoz-Furlong is the chief executive officer of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), which she founded 15 years ago after her daughter was diagnosed with food allergies. FAAN currently has 30,000 members who work to increase public awareness, provide education, advocate, and advance research on behalf of the 12 million Americans with food allergies. Ms. Munoz-Furlong also founded the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Alliance, made up of lay organizations in nine countries, which works to implement public policy changes on universal issues, such as food labeling and the availability of epinephrine.

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