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Anne G. Quirk, B.S.N., M.P.H.(University of South Florida ’03), is the director ofnursing at Citrus Health Network in Miami, Fla. In 2000,she received the Professional Achievement Award forthe UCF – College of Health and Public Affairs. Shealso made the Orlando Business Journal’s “40 under40” list, is a certiÞed Lamaze instructor and an adjunctfaculty member for Miami-Dade Community College.She is now working toward her M.S.N. at FloridaAtlantic University.1990Jeanine Johnston (Barna), B.A. in Legal Studies(’85), B.S.N., has been a certiÞed diabetes educatorfor the past 10 years and currently works at OrlandoRegional Healthcare System (ORHS). In 1991, she wasa nominee for the Clinical Nursing Excellence Award.In 2000, she appeared as a guest on “9 Months andCounting” on the Health Network. In 2002, she was aspeaker on the ORHS Diabetes Cruise. She isalso an advanced wound clinician.1991Kimberly M. Speak (Ahearn), B.S.N.,is a call center RN for Children’s Healthcare of Atlantain Georgia. She is married and has three children– Lauren, 10; Alyssa, 8; and Austin, 4.Marybeth Wash, B.S.N., M.P.H.(University of South Florida ‘00), is the clinical trialsmanager at Berlex Laboratories in Montville, N.J.,where she manages multiple sclerosis trials for clinicalresearch with a pharmaceutical company.1992Jill C. Bradford (Zembower), B.S.N., is aparent educator (lactation consultant) at FloridaHospital in Orlando.Heather Shadrix (Harris), B.S.N., is an RN at ArnoldPalmer Hospital in Orlando, Fla. She hasbeen married to her husband, Craig, since 1996, andthey have two sons – Hunter, 4; and Preston, 2.1993Stacey E. Bednar, B.S.N., is a nurse in the Universityof California, San Francisco’s Catheterization Lab.Heather C. Doerr, B.S.N., is an obstetrics RN atMassachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. Sheis also a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve CombatSupport Hospital 309th ICU (Intensive Care Unit), acertiÞed legal nurse consultant and RN-C (registerednurse-clinician) in obstetrics.Erica Edgar Hoyt, B.S.N., is a lab coordinator/instructor at UCF. She worked as a ßight nursebefore teaching. She earned her M.S.N. in 2000.Sonya R. Mead (Jenkins), B.S.N., is a labor anddelivery RN at Phelps County Regional Medical Centerin Rolla, Mo. “I really enjoy raising my two children,”she writes.Nancy Mooney (Brown), B.S.N., currently lives inWinter Park, Fla.Dawn Marie Nemerovsky, B.S.N., has been anoncology RN for 10 years and currently worksat Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center in FortMyers. She also has eight years of experience as achemotherapy-certiÞed hospice nurse.Lisa Ninnis (Durfee), B.S.N., is an ER(emergency room) pool nurse at Florida HospitalDeLand. She joined the U.S. Air Force when she graduatedand, she writes, “had a wild, seven-year run,” whichincluded assignments in Ohio, Louisiana, South Carolina,California and Texas. She worked in areas includingmedical surgical units, same-day surgery, ERs, medicaloncology and precepting. She also took an in-residencemanagement course. She is now a full-time momand Þll-in nurse.Teresa Powshok, B.S.N., is a clinical systemseducator at Health First in Melbourne, Fla. She was a(cardiac) pediatric care unit nurse for more than eightyears. For the last two years, she has been teachingnurses, doctors and associates at Health First, whichincludes three hospitals, numerous doctors’ ofÞces,hospice, home-care many other services. She hasbeen married for 11 years and has two children –A.J., 8; and Jackie, 5.Rachel VanHoozier (Zwemer), B.S.N., has been apediatric RN at Florida Hospital East in Orlando foralmost six years. She also worked as a travelingnurse for three years. She is married with, “twobeautiful girls,” she writes.1994Anthony Wayne Winston, B.S.N., M.S. inNurse Anesthesia (Georgetown University ’01), isa CRNA for the U.S. Navy in Bethesda, Md. In 2003,his research piece, “Comparison of Inhaled IsopropylAlcohol and Intravenous Ondansetron for Treatment ofPost-Operative Nausea and Vomiting,” was publishedin the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists journal,and he got a faculty appointment to the UniformedServices University of the Health Sciences.Terri L. Woodruff, B.S.N., A.N.P.(Duke University ’00), worked at Duke Universityfrom 1995 to 2002. She is now an ANP (adultnurse practitioner) for Erwin Family Practice inErwin, Tenn., and writes a monthly article concerninghealth issues for her local paper. She is also amember of the National Medical Response Team andDisaster Medical Assistant Team, whichwas deployed to New York City on Sept. 11, 2001.1995Candace Campbell-McKnight, B.S.’93, B.S.N., isan RN at the Maternal Fetal Center in Winter Park, Fla.She has a 3-year-old child, Walker Gray.Jeffrey Craig Phillips, B.S.N., M.S.N.(Florida International University ’99), is a CRA(certiÞed research assistant) professor at FloridaInternational University (FIU) in Miami. In 1997, hebecame an AIDS certiÞed registered nurse. In 1999,he received the Douglas CofÞn Clinical ResearchExcellence Award from the FIU School of Nursing,and he earned his Florida ARNP license as an adultpsychiatric and mental health NP (nurse practitioner).In 2001, he earned his ANCC certiÞcation as clinicalspecialist in adult psychiatric and mental healthnursing. He has also done multiple poster and didacticpresentations at national and international meetings.Mary C. Sutton, B.S.N., is a staff RN and chargenurse in pediatric general surgery for the U.S.Navy in San Diego, Calif. She recently returnedfrom Kuwait, where she was supportingOperation Iraqi Freedom with the U.S. Marines.She is returning overseas to Yokosaka, Japan.Patricia Vitori, B.S.N., is an RN in Key Largo, Fla.She has worked in the ICU since graduation, dealingwith everything from trauma to post-open-heart surgery,helping neonatal up to adult patients. She recentlyÞnished a two-year contract in Saudi Arabia, and sheis looking forward to starting in Australia after a shorttravel assignment to Alaska. She writes: “I would loveto hear from friends from the class of ’98.Best wishes to all!”1996Pamela Abernathy, B.S.N., is an RN case manager atHospice of the Comforter in Altamonte Springs, Fla.April Ann Gillespie-Blackstone, B.S.N., is a chemotherapycertiÞed RN at the Visiting NursesAssociation in Vero Beach, Fla. She is married with twosons – Ryan, 4; and Jason, 15 months.18