Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue; NA-40
Cleveland OHUSA
44195
Biographical Sketch: *Graduated from St. John College of Cleveland with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1978
*Graduated from the R.B. Turnbull, Jr. School of Enterostomal Therapy, 2/1982
*Positions worked include: staff nurse on general sugical floor; patient education coordinator; staff ET Nurse at Cleveland Clinic and lecturer in the ET Nursing program; Assistand Director of the R.B. Turnbull, Jr. School of Enterostomal Therapy/Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nursing until 1999; Clinical Manager, ET/WOC Nursing at Cleveland Clinic, 1999-present.
*Maintained board certification in all 3 practice areas since 1983
*Authored or co-authored posters, articles in peer reveiwed journals; lecturer on wound, ostomy, and continence nursing topics
*Currently Ostomy Section Editor for the JWOCN