Laura E. Riley, M.D, a renowned obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine specialist, currently serving as Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Riley has she has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies to develop practice guidelines for pregnancy care of women with Group B strep, Zika, Ebola, COVID-19, and influenza viruses. With this wealth of knowledge, she will be speaking about lessons learned from past pandemics and highlight future opportunities to manage the next contagion.

Rose Horton, Founder & CEO of NotOnMyWatch Consulting Partners, an LLC she created 3 years after coining the hashtag #notonmywatch. She created the hashtag out of her frustration at the rising rate of maternal & infant morbidity and mortality. She is a Women & Infant healthcare executive leader working as a Specialty Director at Emory Decatur Hospital. There she also leads a DEI Health & Wellness committee. Rose is passionate about safe and equitable care for all women. She speaks on the topic of maternal & infant mortality, resilience, empathy, communication and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) locally, regionally, and nationally. Rose served as the 2012 President of the Association Women’s Health Obstetrics & Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN) and is gratefully embracing her latest career milestone of being inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2022.