Valerie Cotter holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Associate Director of the Adult Health and Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Programs at the School of Nursing and is also Nurse Practitioner in the Memory Disorders Clinic and Education Director at Penn's Alzheimer's Disease Center. She has over fifteen years experience as a Nurse Practitioner in gerontologic nursing and graduate nursing education and was received the University of Pennsylvania's Provost Award for Distinguished Teaching. Her book, Advanced Practice Nursing With Older Adults: Clinical Guidelines (co-authored with Neville Strumpf) has received a #1 ranking as an AJN "Book of the Year" for advanced nursing practice.

Cecelia Galeota received her BSN from Boston College College in 2000 and subsequently chose to work as RN in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. Two years later she moved to Philadelphia to pursue her graduate studies at Penn. Cecelia is now a full time student in the Adult-Gero Nurse Practitioner Program at Penn Nursing and she works as an RN at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in General Medicine. One of her long term goals involves influencing quality of life issues in nursing homes.