Jing Wang, PhD, RN

Dean & Professor, Florida State University College of Nursing

Jing Wang is dean and professor at the Florida State University College of Nursing, which launched the first AI-focused Master of Science in Nursing. She is nationally known for her innovative approach to nursing, digital health, and human-in-the-loop digital-twin AI. She’s an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a National Academy of Medicine’s Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine. She was a Josiah Jr. Macy Foundation Macy Faculty Scholar when she designed the first interprofessional education curriculum on mobile and connected health. She was the founding director of two digital health centers and founding editor of JMIR Aging.

She’s a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and HCA Florida Capital Hospital board member and serves on NIH’s National Advisory Council for Nursing Research and its AI and Data Science Workgroup. She also serves on the Health System Advisory Board and co-leads the Direct-to-Consumer Workgroup at the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI).

René Hamer

Director of Student Recruitment, University of South Carolina College of Nursing

René Hamer began her recruitment career in 2014 at her alma mater, Newberry College, where she dedicated five years to supporting prospective undergraduate students. She then relocated to Boca Raton, Florida, to join Florida Atlantic University as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Recruitment. In this role, she led the admission counselor team while earning her master’s degree in Higher Education Leadership.

Now back in her home state of South Carolina, René is excited to serve as the Director of Student Recruitment for the University of South Carolina's College of Nursing. She is passionate about guiding prospective students through their higher education journey and helping them discover the graduate program that best fits their goals. René enjoys networking and collaborating with fellow GNAP members and currently serves as the chair-elect on the steering committee.

Cody Hoffman

Assistant Director of Nursing Student Recruitment, Penn State University

Cody Hoffman has loved working with current and future nursing students at Penn State University for over nine years, first in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing’s Student Success Center and, for the past four years, as Assistant Director of Nursing Student Recruitment. Cody obtained his master’s degree in project management from Penn State in 2022 and has implemented various techniques and ideas from that program into his daily work in recruiting and admissions. He has been a member of GNAP for over three years and has enjoyed serving on the Steering Committee for the past year. Cody lives in State College, PA, but is usually on the road somewhere, either for work or fun.