Susan Chapman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Joanne Spetz, PhD,  and Laura Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN, were cited as "superheroes" in CalMatter's March 27 story

Even with the flexibility and power afforded the governor under California’s current state of emergency, tackling such a major “system redesign” is an unprecedented task.

And it requires expert understanding of the laws, regulations and funding streams that govern the education of health professionals, hospital administration and patient care.

That’s why Spetz and her colleagues – Sunita Mutha, Laura Wagner, Susan Chapman, Janet Coffman and Michelle Ko (now at UC Davis) – are superheroes. They have the knowledge, experience and judgement to help re-engineer bureaucracies into more nimble fighting machines.

Because we really do need to win this war.

- Excerpted from "In California’s Battle Against the Coronavirus, We Have a New Class of Superheroes."