Marilyn R McFarland

Marilyn R. McFarland, PhD, RN, CTN-A, FNP-BC is a Professor in the Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint. As a Certified Transcultural Nurse and as a Transcultural Nursing Authorand Scholar, Dr. McFarland has been nationally and internationally recognized for her contributions to transcultural nursing by the Transcultural Nursing Society, has co-authored two texts with Dr. Madeleine Leininger: Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory (2006) and Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research, & Practice (2002) and has co-authored the third edition of Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory with Dr. Hiba Wehbe-Alamah.

Hiba B. Wehbe-Alamah, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CTN-A is an Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint. She was inducted as a Transcultural Nursing Scholar in 2011 by the Transcultural Nursing Society and is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2014 National American Arab Nurses' Association Angel of Mercy Award; the 2015 University of Michigan-Flint Provost Innovative Teaching Prize; and the 2015 Transcultural Nursing Society Madeleine M. Leininger Award.