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Faculty Bio
I graduated from nursing school in 1981 with a BSN from San Francisco State University. I haved worked as a staff RN in the Emergency Department, Labor and Delivery, Intensive Care Nursery, and OB/GYN Surgery over the past twenty years. I graduated from Sonoma State University is 1985 with an MSN FNP. I have worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner in Methadone Treatment, primary HIV care and Dual Diagnosis. I currently work as the Health Center Director at The Ritter Center in San Rafael, providing primary care for low income and homeless individuals. I completed my EdD in 2006 at the University of San Francisco. My dissertation was an interpretive field study exploring the puzzle of progress through international development in Southeast Asia. I am president of the WindHorse Development Foundation. The Windhorse Foundation, in partnership with hilltribe communities, works in community based development projects. I am also committed to providing service and learning opportuites for students at Samuel Merritt University in Southeast Asia. I was awarded the Sigma Theta Tau Chapter Nu X Humanitarian award in January of 2007 for work in the Burma Project.
Program
Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner (MSN-FNP)
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University
Family Nursing
Advanced Health Assessment
Primary Health Care I
NP Seminar
Advanced Health Assessment
Primary Health Care I
NP Seminar
Research Interests
Interpretive research for a focus on the aporia of progress through international development and philosopical notions of care and identity in Southeast Asia.
Publications and Presentations
Primary Healthcare in Laos: Fragility and Responsibility,publication 2007.
Bridging the Gap in Healthcare: Nurse Practitioner Faculty, FNP Students, and Volunteers Provide Healthcare at the Ritter Center, CANP Connections winter, 2006.
Leadership-in-Common Works Toward Well-Being in a Lao Village: Nurse Practitioners and Educators Promote Project Development, CANP Connections spring, 2006, in collaboration with Dr. Ellen Herda.
Interpreting Healthcare in A Global World: A Project to Take Family Nurse Practitioner Students to Southeast Asia to Work in a Village Setting, presented as a bag lunch lecture at Samuel Merritt University Fall 2006.
International Development as Health Care in a Village Setting: a Particiaptory Medium for Service in Lao PDR. International Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Practice Nursing Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2006.
Using Cultural Understandings to Reduce the Incidence of Malaria: a Critiques of the International Policy to Rollback Malaria. A presentation at the International Conference for The Society of Applied Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, March 2006.
Development Practice in Primary Health Care: a Pariciaptory Service Model in Lao. The International Conference on Lao Studies, Dekalb Illinois, May 2005.
Village Health Care in Southeast Asian Village Settings in Burma and Lao. A brown bag presentation at Samuel Merritt University October, 2005.
Developing New Cultural Understandings. A presentation at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty Conference, April, 2004 in collaboration with Dr. Nancy Fitzmaurice.
Smoking Cessation: The Bonita House Experience. A seminar presentation at the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies Conference, Spring,2003 in collaboration with Dr. Leslie Taylor.
Intergrating Primary Care in a Dual Diagnosis Treatment Faciltiy. A presentation for the California Association of Social Rehabilition Agencies Conference, Spring, 2002.
Bridging the Gap in Healthcare: Nurse Practitioner Faculty, FNP Students, and Volunteers Provide Healthcare at the Ritter Center, CANP Connections winter, 2006.
Leadership-in-Common Works Toward Well-Being in a Lao Village: Nurse Practitioners and Educators Promote Project Development, CANP Connections spring, 2006, in collaboration with Dr. Ellen Herda.
Interpreting Healthcare in A Global World: A Project to Take Family Nurse Practitioner Students to Southeast Asia to Work in a Village Setting, presented as a bag lunch lecture at Samuel Merritt University Fall 2006.
International Development as Health Care in a Village Setting: a Particiaptory Medium for Service in Lao PDR. International Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Practice Nursing Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2006.
Using Cultural Understandings to Reduce the Incidence of Malaria: a Critiques of the International Policy to Rollback Malaria. A presentation at the International Conference for The Society of Applied Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, March 2006.
Development Practice in Primary Health Care: a Pariciaptory Service Model in Lao. The International Conference on Lao Studies, Dekalb Illinois, May 2005.
Village Health Care in Southeast Asian Village Settings in Burma and Lao. A brown bag presentation at Samuel Merritt University October, 2005.
Developing New Cultural Understandings. A presentation at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty Conference, April, 2004 in collaboration with Dr. Nancy Fitzmaurice.
Smoking Cessation: The Bonita House Experience. A seminar presentation at the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies Conference, Spring,2003 in collaboration with Dr. Leslie Taylor.
Intergrating Primary Care in a Dual Diagnosis Treatment Faciltiy. A presentation for the California Association of Social Rehabilition Agencies Conference, Spring, 2002.
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships
California Nurse Practitioner Association, regional representive, chapter vice president, CANP region 8 delegate 2007.
President of WindHorse Development Foundation
Memeber Signa Theta Tau Nu X
Liaison for CANP Region 8 for Samuel Merritt University
President of WindHorse Development Foundation
Memeber Signa Theta Tau Nu X
Liaison for CANP Region 8 for Samuel Merritt University
