I have worked as a Nurse Practitioner for over 20 years in the Sacramento community. Although trained in the US as an RN, I spent my early career working as a nurse and midwife in England and Ireland. I travelled to Africa, Haiti, and Belize to work in disaster relief and in promoting safe maternal-child care in rural areas. I now work at UC Davis Medical Center as the Director of Wound Care and have led the interdisciplinary team initiatives to train NPs/ nurses/ and physicians in street medicine and wound care in a low resource setting. We here at UCDMC are training nurses and PTs from China, Thailand, and the US through the WTA.

I started the wound team here at UCDMC and am involved in public speaking on wound research, technology, and teaching wound care.

I am the current President for the California Association of Nurse Practitioners and have served on the policy committee for several terms. I have spoken at several international meetings on research and technology involving wounds.