Working Nights Advisory Board
We are proud to have several distinguished professionals on our Advisory Board. Each of our members has volunteered his or her time to assist Working Nights with content development, to provide access to new research and to be a sounding board for our new ideas. The Advisory Board meets periodically to hear about our activities and to provide input into our products and capabilities.
All of our Advisory Board members have relevant knowledge in the field either by their own work experience as 24/7 workers or managers or by virtue of their research. Meet our Advisory Board members by reading about them below.
Dr. Anneke Heitmann has twenty years of professional experience in research on sleep/alertness and chronobiology. She is currently working as an independent research contractor and consultant on projects related to human fatigue in the workplace and effects of shift work and long work hours. Recent projects include a review study on human impairment in the workplace, evaluation of fitness-for-duty testing technologies, and a shift work study on the effects of work hours on sleep, fatigue and health.
Dr. Heitmann holds a PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in Ethology/Chronobiology and a Masters Degree from Humboldt University in Biology.
David Mitchell is the Senior Manager of International Business Operations at Kronos Incorporated, the largest global provider of workforce management software. Prior to joining Kronos, he worked as the Director of Marketing and Publications at Circadian Technologies.
David graduated from Princeton University with a degree in East Asian Studies and speaks Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
Pamela Velez-Vega is a Monitoring and Evaluation consultant at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked at the the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ecuador.
Pam holds a Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she specialized in development economics. A native of Ecuador, she is fluent in Spanish, English and French. Pam has assisted with translating the Working Nights Calendar into Spanish.
Peter H. Viele, M.S., NREMT has 20 years of experience in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) including 10+ years of field experience as a paramedic working evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. Currently, he is the Director of Operations for Action Ambulance Service Inc. of Wilmington, MA where he oversees 150+ field providers 24/7 in 7 different locations.
Peter has a B.A from Colby College and a Masters in Allied Health from the University of Connecticut. In addition, he has done coursework in Emergency Health Services at University of Maryland-Baltimore County and has attended the American Ambulance Association-Management Training Institute.
Kathleen Wolf is the Program Coordinator for a local Senior Center for a town just outside of Boston, MA. In addition to developing a variety of programs for seniors, she has authored a comprehensive Guide to Senior Services in the Boston metro-west area, and produces the monthly Watertown Senior News.
Kathleen has a Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Masters in Management with a concentration in Elder Care Marketing from Lasell College.
