Though most professional conferences set to happen this spring were either canceled or turned virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, sharing information — especially within the healthcare community — is as important as ever.

That was the thinking of Rachel Walker, the Ph.D. program director at University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s College of Nursing. On March 11, they asked the Twitterverse who else in nursing and academia would be missing out on sharing information this year.

And the responses came pretty quickly, as Marion Leary, the director of innovation for the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing, told Technical.ly this week. Leary herself saw the tweet, reached out, and became one of about a dozen organizers who worked over the last month and a half on the Nursing Mutual Aid 2020 conference.

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