Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, a member of the American Academy of Nursing, is professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola University, Chicago. She is founder and editor of Nursing Science Quarterly, and president of Discovery International, Inc., which sponsors international nursing theory conferences. Dr. Parse is also founder of the Institute of Human Becoming, where she teaches the ontological, epistemological, and methodological aspects of the human becoming school of thought. She consults throughout the world with doctoral programs in nursing and with healthcare settings that are utilizing her theory as a guide to research, practice, education, and regulation of standards for quality in practice and education.