NANAINA 2006-2008 Board

Pres | Past Pres | Treasurer | Secretary | Member-at-Large

Meet NANAINA's hard working board. We are always available to answer your questions, hear suggestions and tell you about our activities past and future!

President:

Beverly Patchell

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Past President:

Debra M. Smith, RN, PHN, MS

Deb Smith was born and raised on the Fond du Lac Reservation in northeastern Minnesota. She is enrolled through her father’s tribe, the Shoshone of Wind River Wyoming. Deb received her baccalaureate in Nursing from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN in 1977. She received her master’s in Public Health Nursing from the University of Minnesota in 1997. She is currently the Director of Public Health Nursing for the Fond du Lac Reservation.

Deb has nursing experience in hospital nursing, coronary intensive care, home care, nursing education and public health nursing. She was a Certified Diabetes Educator and Diabetes Nurse Clinician and was the Manager for the Duluth Diabetes Center in the early 1990’s. She taught in the first class of nursing students at the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and she is currently on the Nursing Advisory Committee for that institution. Deb is active with many state health committees and task forces. She is currently a board member and officer for the local hospital in Cloquet, MN.

Deb and her husband Ed have three children in post-graduate, college and high school. Deb and her family enjoy traveling and spending time at their cabin.

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Treasurer:

Audrey Koertvelyessy

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Secretary:

Martha Baker

Martha Baker RN, PhD is the Director of the BSN Program for the Southwest Baptist University in Springfield, MO. She can be reached at:

Voice: (417) 820-5058
Fax:(417) 887-4847
E-mail: [email protected]

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Member-at-Large:

Lee Ann Nichols
(2 year term)

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