Barbara Rosen is a long time member and leader of HPAE. A Nurse Educator and former Critical Care Nurse, in 1978, she worked to organize a union at the then Bergen Pines Hospital (now New Bridge Medical Center). She served as President of Local 5091, and led a very contentious, and successful, strike at Bergen Regional Medical Center in 2004. After being stuck with a bloody HIV, Hepatitis C needle, Barbara worked tirelessly with HPAE for the ‘Safe Needle’ legislation, which was enacted and later used as the model for federal legislation. Barbara served as HPAE Secretary-Treasurer for eight years from 2010 through 2018 before becoming Vice President.