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President
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Deborah A. Cote, BSN, RN, CNN |
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Deborah A. Cote began her Nephrology Nursing Career in 1982; she is a Manager for the University of Virginia Medical Center Renal Services Department. She joined the Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission in 2002. She is currently serving as President of the Commission. She has also held the offices of Treasurer and Vice President and chaired both the CDN and CCHT test committees.
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President-Elect
Chairperson, Website Committee |
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Maureen Craig, MSN, RN, CNN, CCNS |
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Maureen Craig is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in nephrology at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. She has been an NNCC Commissioner since March 2004. Maureen has previously served as Treasurer and chair of the Recertification Committee. Maureen currently serves as President-Elect and chairs the Website Committee.
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Treasurer
Chairperson, CNN Committee |
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Barbara Prowant, MS, RN, CNN |
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Barbara F. Prowant is a Research Associate in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, served on the Nephrology Nursing Certification Board from 1994-2000 and on the NNCC from 2000-2002. From 2002-2004 Barbara was the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association Liaison to the NNCC. She was appointed to her current term as a Commissioner in 2004. Barbara has previously served in the offices of Secretary and Treasurer and has chaired the Certification and Recertification Review Committees. She is currently chair of the CNN Test Committee.
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Secretary
Chairperson, CDN Committee |
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Caroline S. Counts, MSN, RN, CNN |
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Caroline S. Counts began nephrology nursing in 1970. She took the first Certified Nephrology Nurse exam when it was offered in 1987. Caroline joined the Nephrology Nursing Certification Board in 1998 and continued when it became the Commission in 2000. She served as the Treasurer (1999 – 2000), was a Test Committee member, a Fundamental Nephrology Nursing Committee member, and was the CDN Test Committee Chair (2000 – 2002). She left NNCC in 2002 when she was elected to the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA) position of President-elect. From 2004 to 2005, Caroline was ANNA’s liaison to the NNCC. Caroline returned to the NNCC as a Commissioner in 2005 and is currently Secretary and chairs the CDN Test Committee.
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| Chairperson, CCHT Committee and Recertification Committee |
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Helen Currier, BSN, RN, CNN |
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Helen Currier is Assistant Director, Renal/Pheresis, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, chaired the ANNA Ad Hoc Committee to develop a certification examination for clinical hemodialysis technicians and served for many years on the CNN Test Committee before she joined the NNCC as a Commissioner in 2004. Helen has served as the NNCC Secretary and currently chairs the CCHT Test Committee and Recertification Committee.
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| Chairperson, CNN-NP Board and Certification Committee |
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Katherine Healy Houle, MSN, RN, CFNP |
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Katherine H. Houle is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner with the Upper Peninsula Internal Medicine practice at Marquette General Health System in Marquette, MI. She has been in nephrology nursing since 1982. Kathy currently chairs the Advanced Practice Test Board and the Certification Committee.
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Mary Greenwood Schaal, RN, EdD |
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Mary Greenwood Schaal is Dean and Professor, Jefferson School of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Schaal’s clinical practice has been in the perioperative and community/public health domains. Since 1982 she has been a nurse educator and clinical teacher at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and program and department administrator.She initiated graduate nursing programs at Rutgers, Camden Campus and Allegheny University of the Health Sciences. She is currently University Director of Distance Education. Dr. Schaal was nursing team leader of the University’s international health project with Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is currently a member of a public health team that is establishing programs in South Africa and Zimbabwe aimed at prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission between pregnant women and infants.
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