Dr. Joyce Black is the Florence Niedfeldt (NEED felt) Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the on the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, having previously served as President and Secretary. Dr. Black has served in many positions on the Panel including co-chair of the task force to update the definitions of the stages of pressure injury including medical device pressure injury, chairman of the Public Policy committee and national program co-chairman. Dr. Black has received many awards for her work in pressure injury, most recently the Kosiak award from NPIAP for her work in rediscovering deep tissue pressure injury.