Stephanie Ahmed is a nationally recognized nurse leader with expertise in Watson's Human Caring Theory and Levinasian Ethics. An innovator and entrepreneur, Ahmed is the president of APEX-Rx Nursing Excellence Solutions and an independent nursing excellence consultant. She has held a variety of clinical and leadership roles from the bedside to the board room, including Health System Associate Chief Nurse Executive, and Executive Director for Clinical Effectiveness. Employed for over two decades at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, her experiences, from academic medical centers to community hospitals, and health centers to prison infirmaries have fostered within her a profound concern for humanity and a depth of expertise that transcends practice settings, roles, and specialties.